Dia & Miranda on The Voice

There were several key moments in the finale of “The Voice.”  One of the highlights was when Team Blake’s Dia Frampton sang “The House That Built Me” with Blake’s wife, Miranda Lambert.   Country Countdown USA host Lon Helton asked Blake about that very pivotal point:

Lon: When they cut to you on camera, when Miranda and Dia were singing “The House That Built Me,”  what were you thinking at that exact moment?

Blake: Well, there was a lot of things going through my mind. But mostly, I was just thinking about Dia, and putting myself in her place, and her position that she was in, where, you know, no more than two months ago she was probably about to give up on here dream of music and trying to figure out some way to make it work. She’d moved back home with her mom in Utah and all of her sisters, and I was just sitting there looking at her thinking, “I wonder what’s going through her mind.” I mean, there she is standing on stage with Miranda Lambert, I mean not just a country music star, a huge presence in all of music you know? And she’s standing there singing Miranda’s biggest hit with her on one of the biggest shows you know? And it’s just like, I was just so happy for her because, you get so emotionally invested, or I did you know, in Dia, and it was like, of course I don’t have kids, but I never wanted to see something happen for somebody so bad, you know I really did. And it was just, it became emotional for me, it really did.

Lon: I thought that your comment at the end, “I guess I should have had something planned for this moment”, was so honest and off the cuff, just realizing you had become family.

Blake: She has you know? And it’s funny because, you know a lot of people just… Miranda came and appeared on the show and was gone, but they don’t realize that she’s, you know, she’s watching this too, and she’s a part of, she’s in L.A., and she’s getting to meet these girls and guys that were on my team, and more and more you know, starting to care about them and sending them messages or whatever trying to stay in contact with them and let them know that she’s excited for them and stuff, till it gets down to that moment. And although that was the first time that the people at home saw Miranda and Dia together, Miranda was right there too. I mean Miranda wanted that really badly for Dia, and honestly I think that you’ll probably see, once Dia you know figures out what her plan is, I mean her and Miranda probably will write together and, now that’s kind of how these things happen naturally. Dia just has, you know, a head start on things again you know?

Lon: On that song, I was struck how similar in some ways Miranda’s voice was to Dia and vice versa.

Blake: Yeah it is. And I’ll tell you what probably happens is, and this is probably how I ended up as Dia as my finalist. There’s nobody else like Miranda Lambert anywhere. She’s just one of a kind. It’s hard to even put your finger on what she is, and I think Dia is that same way. And they both have the ability to be these unique things and people go, “Wow, what do they do? I don’t know but I gotta buy it.” And, but when they have a song like “The House That Built Me”, they’re also able to come down and become what that song needs them to be. And it’s pretty interesting that they both have the ability to do that, and when you hear them sing it together at first you think, “What’s that going to be like?”, and then you hear it and it makes total sense

Lon: I wonder if your being so close to Miranda, and really being close to her artistry through your relationship, helped you see something through Dia that you might not have seen.

Blake: Yeah probably so, because that’s probably what I mean when I say “I found out, you know, a lot about myself” besides that awakening of how lucky I am to be doing what I’m doing and seeing that passion in their eyes that they want this too you know? But the other thing is, I’ve been doing this long enough and I’ve seen enough artists come and go along the way that you start to learn maybe why that is, you know? Even though none of us can really control it, when a career comes and goes really quickly or never really took off it’s easier to look at it after the fact and go, “This right here’s probably why.” And after years and years of doing this, even though if you set out to do it you probably couldn’t, but if when you’re not thinking about it and you’re just going through the motions…I ended up with somebody like Dia, who to me is that person where you can go, “Well I can see why this will work because this, this and this”, you know?

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