I love Lady Antebellum and Miranda Lambert - they write from the heart. But it’s hard to find a country music lover in L.A. None of my friends really listen to it, and they hate getting in the car with me because I just blast Taylor Swift.

In this remark, Lucy Hale positions herself as a country-music fan living in a cultural environment (Los Angeles) where that taste can feel out of step with peers. By praising Lady Antebellum and Miranda Lambert for “writing from the heart,” she highlights a common valuation of country as emotionally direct and narrative-driven. The anecdote about friends “hating” riding with her because she “blasts Taylor Swift” adds humor while underscoring how music functions as identity and comfort—something she insists on even when it’s socially inconvenient. It also captures a moment when Swift still signified mainstream country-pop crossover, making Hale’s fandom both personal and broadly relatable.