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May 21, 2025He’s a superstar, but still in a kind of exile. That gives the loneliness on this album added dimension. It’s both the product of his own choices, and of those who would judge him for those choices. Occasionally, Wallen veers to another topic — say, the true-country literalism of “I’m a Little Crazy” — but what’s loudest by its absence is the sense of playfulness that defined his earliest releases.
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May 21, 2025Delete two-thirds of I’m the Problem, whose back-end filler tracks are not even worth noting (save for the bizarre “Miami,” which sounds like a The-Dream song for the Don’t Tread on Me set), and a more interesting album emerges.
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Jun 10, 2025I'm the Problem sees Morgan Wallen deliver another sprawling double-LP.
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May 22, 2025For all the melodic polish and concision of his songs, which rarely broach the three-minute mark, Wallen’s albums read like brain dumps—several, ever-less-succinct drafts of the same “I’m not sorry” text, bobbing aimlessly across a boilerplate backbeat. .... Sometimes, the overwhelming number of cooks in Morgan Wallen’s kitchen do land somewhere ingenious.
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May 21, 2025He has a bristly persona and history of not-great acts that can bleed into some listeners’ perceptions of him — and it isn’t helped by lines like “Baby I can’t wait to see the look on your pretty face, when I break your heart in two,” which appears on the blithely spiteful poison-pen letter “Kiss Her in Front of You.” But his polished (if slightly dour) country-rock is, as a representation of the form, well-crafted and hooky while not being immune to the occasional stylistic left turn.
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May 21, 2025There are nice nuggets aplenty here. .... But, my goodness, some songs leave a bad taste