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Morgan Wallen Has Hit a Wall of His Own Making
The country star’s fourth album, I’m the Problem, is the textbook performance of soul searching.
All the while his twangy, trap-infused pop-rock winks at an audience enthralled by the underlying vibe in thestories about him that make TMZ — like escaping the SNL end-of-show cast mingle to get back to “God’s country” — that the 32-year-old Tennessee singer-songwriter does not care for stuffy formalism and big-city ways. Its cover art resembles his real-life courtroom sketch: Last year in April, Wallen was arrested after drunkenly tossing a chair off the roof of a downtown Nashville bar; portraits of the artist at his disorderly conduct sentencing yield the same worried middle-distance stare and cream-colored walls. Joey Moi (who produced Nickelback’s “Photograph”) works with Charlie Handsome (from Post Malone’s “Go Flex” and Mac Miller’s “Weekend”) and southern country singer-songwriters ERNEST and HARDY to smudge boundaries between everyone’s respective fields, which Wallen approaches with the same Chad Kroeger–inspired yowl.
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