Well, she’s gone and done it again. With a perfect right turn from her previous work, Brandy Clark has released her latest effort with major label backing giving her everything investments like that affords an artist.

With point perfect production and up-tempo snark, this is a record country radio should embrace if they want to present themselves as a 21st-century format.

The writing is relatable enough for the masses to attach themselves to but clever and sophisticated enough for any highbrow intellectual to appreciate. It’s all due to such a driving, cogent hook. Her signature turn of phrase serves her well again here with lines like the surprisingly unexpected, but superbly integrated “Virgin Mary metaphor.” Only the most clever of writers can incorporate this kind of devilish verbiage into a song and not sound farcical.

Actually, this can be considered a pop record as well. It’s a song that transcends genres.

But who I’m I kidding, country radio probably won’t understand the nuance of a record that is so sublimely crafted.

And we don’t care.

Without any radio air play on her last release, she won’t need it here either. Clark’s ever-growing fan base will find her and buy this record with or without radio leading the way.

To say I’m a fan of Clark’s may be an understatement, but I’m a fan of great writing in any form or medium. Aaron Sorkin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Brandy Clark.

Because good is good, but this is great music making.

Check out an older interview I had with Brandy Clark here: