Cowboy Carter [Parkwood/Columbia, 2024]Not a country album--without too much fuss we've gotten that straight. Just a confidently eclectic pop album with countryish flavorings and countryish provocations that claims and indeed establishes that our greatest female pop singer, who we know is also a pretty darn good songwriter, has a fair claim on that fiefdom. Her songwriting does peter out slightly for the last five or so of 25 (CD!) tracks, but for the most part the impressive variety of these songs only strengthens her not so audacious claim. She sings as a mother, a daughter, a sister, a descendant, an inheritor, and a sexpot. She enlists ever-obliging 90-year-old Willie Nelson, outclassed 28-year-old Post Malone, a sexy Miley Cyrus, a delighted Dolly Parton, and Paul McCartney's "Blackbird" in her quest and gives ample room to 81-year-old special guest Linda Martel, who became the first Black woman to (briefly) crack the Grand Old Opry half a century ago. Epochal? Maybe, maybe not. But a hell of a good record. A
>>129271307Literal cuckold. Quelle surprise.
>>129271307I don't get how this got a career and became the "dean" of rock critics. He writes like shit and has dull as fuck taste.
>>129271359not his drone but disagree with you>>129271318no need to intriduce yourself in the thread, just reply in regard to the thread topic
>>129271307hope she sees this bro
>>129271307>look how non-racist and non-sexist I am, sisters and brothers! Truly pathetic.
