you people are hilarious. i resent that i happen to like the same music as an entire audience that takes itself so seriously that something like this causes legitimate outrage. i don’t care that this is the album of the week, nor do i plan on listening to it. because it’s the freaking stereogum album of the week, not anything remotely important enough to me to inspire such elitism and ignorance. half of you are so wrapped up in your silly little blogs, and so entrenched in your own personal little indieshere that this IS new, exciting music but you all have too much weird misplaced pride to even acknowledge it. or rather, you leave indignant comments saying the writer is stupid and uneducated simply because you have an aversion to anything labeled “country.” i’m not a fan of country music, but sometimes you people made me wish i lived in alabama and devoted my entire life to becoming a groupie for faith hill.