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Morgan Wallen Album Review: Dangerous

The American country music singer and songwriter Morgan Wallen released on January 8, 2021, his album, Dangerous: The Double Album.



Morgan Wallen released his second studio album via Big Loud Records and Republics Records on CDs, vinyl, and digital download. He first appeared on The Voice in 2014, being the first part of Usher's team and later Adam Levine's team. He was finally eliminated during the playoffs. His debut single in 2016, "The Way I Talk" was a fitting introduction to the former The Voice contestant from East Tennessee. Like many country artists, he used his small-town drawl, which was powerful enough in the country universe, to be considered as the focal point of his prideful rural identity.

In 2018, Morgan Wallen's mega-hit "Whiskey Glasses," made it seem like he was the first country singer to discover Jack Daniel's.



The album features 30 songs, two discs, and two modes: the "rowdy redneck" raising hell in the boondocks and the down-home romantic dreaming of his own piece of sky. With the song "865," Morgan Wallen is a poet laureate of boozy desperation, coming closer to drunk-dialing with each shot. With the song "Whiskey'd My Way," he has the pathos of a wounded pup, apologetically approaching a crush over pedal steel. With the dozens of songs in Dangerous: The Double Album, there is a large room for variety. He offers fingerpicking and soft-rock country with "Somebody's Problem" and "7 Summers," intricately layered Eagles-style country-rock with "More Surprised Than Me" and "Your Bartender."




We can observe Morgan Wallen staying in character as a hard-drinking, small-town guy. In the second half of the album, there is a heavy-handed stretch that grows with songs, "Somethin' Country," "Rednecks, Red Letters, Red Dirt" and "Whatcha

Think of Country Now." Before the album ends, we see Morgan Wallen singing "Livin' the Dream," a bitter debunking of pop success.

What makes Wallen's writing so magnetic is the easy, idiomatic shorthand that plunges you directly into his world.


You can now listen to Morgan Wallen, Dangerous: The Double album on YouTube and all major platforms as, Spotify, Napster, Apple Music, and Amazon music.


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