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Review: Miranda Lambert, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Lambert is a country music legend in the making, and the most vital artist Music Row has produced in a generation.5
The bulk of what's been written about Miranda Lambert's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend leading up to its hotly anticipated release has focused on how the tone of her marketing has changed of late, attempting to position her as country music's resident bad girl. That impulse to label is a fairly easy one to understand, as it perpetuates a straightforward image for Lambert, an artist of impossibly broad talent whose path to success (from a third-place finish on Nashville Star to a co-starring role in the failed Piper Perabo vehicle Slap Her…She's French to a platinum-selling debut album, 2005's Kerosene, that sold big with negligible support from country radio) hasn't made a whole of sense.
Particularly when considering the positive attention that Kerosene's incendiary title track received—it's her lone Top 20 hit, landed her a surprise Grammy nomination, and is one of the rare country singles to rank in the Top 40 of the Pazz & Jop poll—and the fact that most everyone, quite rightly, seems to have come to their senses regarding country music's prior resident bad girl, Gretchen Wilson, there's certainly a case to be made that Lambert's attitude and her timing are both right for her to adopt that role. And there's no denying that some of the personal details that she's discussed in interviews—she has a concealed-carry license, she spent her short break from touring on a hunting trip, and her parents were Pis involved in the investigation of the Bill Clinton/Paula Jones hoo-ha—lend an authenticity to her tales of firearms, infidelity, and hard living. Honestly, when so many country "artists" mistake audience pandering (i.e. putting Illinois native Wilson in a Confederate flag shirt on her homepage, or the current dead-end trend of using other artists' names as the titles of singles) for authenticity, it's more than a little bit refreshing that Lambert has a point of view that's bound to make some people uncomfortable.
That said, all of the focus on image ultimately does a disservice to Lambert and to what she's accomplished on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, because it makes it too easy to overlook or misinterpret the sophistication of her songwriting, the full range of intense emotional experiences that inform her writing, her ongoing development into a singer of remarkable depth of expression, and the extent to which she understands the critical difference between a marketing ploy and an aesthetic. Kerosene was country music's strongest major label debut since The Dixie Chicks' Wide Open Spaces, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend works in almost exactly the same way as did the Chicks' stellar sophomore album, Fly: She's made a dead-on accurate assessment of what worked best about her debut, and enhanced those elements with greater confidence and an artistic persona that's distinctive, and combined all of it into a record of thematic coherence and heft. Perhaps the most fully-realized mainstream country album released so far this decade, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is an album that alternately embraces and challenges genre conventions in ways that would be entirely lost on many of country's biggest radio acts.
The album opens with the literal bang of "Gunpowder And Lead," on which Lambert plans her revenge on an abusive man. The production on the track is structurally perfect, using little more than an ominous acoustic guitar figure in the verses (where Lambert, playing up the most girlish tones of her voice, refers to herself as "little ol' me") before the song explodes into the chorus as she goes home to wait by the door with a lit cigarette and a loaded shotgun. One of Lambert's many strengths as a songwriter, and something that draws a parallel to the writings of genre legends like Kris Kristofferson and Dolly Parton, is the way she varies her rhyme schemes to emphasize a point; in the last lines of the song's chorus, for instance ("Slapped my face and he shook me like a rag doll/Now don't that sound like a real man/I'm gonna show him what a little girl's made of/Gunpowder and lead"), the use of blank rhyme gives the song a real sense of finality. It's that degree of skill and attention to detail that elevates Lambert above her contemporaries, and most every song on the album has either a surprising trick or an unexpected turn-of-phrase that speaks to the unique brand of poetry in the best country songwriting.
But what makes Crazy Ex-Girlfriend such a step up from its predecessor is how Lambert has expanded that attention to detail to include an entire song cycle. This isn't a concept album in the vein of, say, Allison Moorer's The Duel, but it nonetheless impresses for its coherence. With the lone exception of the admittedly fun "Dry Town" (one of just three cover tunes on the record, and one written by no less than David Rawlings and Gillian Welch), the emotions conveyed in every song are clearly reflected elsewhere on the album. On "Gunpowder And Lead," for example, when Lambert snarls, "And he ain't seen me crazy yet," that's a promise she carries over into the title track (which is the country equivalent of Beyoncé's "Ring The Alarm" in most every possible way) and, later, the stirring admonition of "Down," when she warns any would-be suitor, "When the storm hits you won't have a prayer" before practically begging them to stay away altogether.
That's just another thing that the hellraiser image tends to overlook; there's a palpable rage to many of these songs, sure, but it's tempered by a keen self-awareness and a clear recognition of the difficult consequences of such fiery emotions. Perhaps the most telling line on the album comes on the devastating "More Like Her." Watching as her ex returns to the arms of a former lover, she sings, "She don't have too much to say when she gets mad/I guess I should've been more like that." The loss itself stings, but it's the reasons for it that cut, and Lambert sings it with a heady mix of regret, jealousy, and bruised pride.
In that regard, Lambert has developed into a singer of exceptional range. While she may not have the pure technical gifts of certain other beautiful, young, blond, former talent-show contestants, the two exceptionally well-chosen cover songs that close the album showcase what a superlative interpretive singer she's become. Rather than attempting to one-up Patty Griffin's furious version of "Getting Ready" from Children Running Through, and having already gone the angry route earlier in the record, Lambert sings the song with a smirk, transforming it from an anthem of self-empowerment into a kiss-off of vicious, bitter wit. Even better, though, is her version of "Easy From Now On," a song co-written by Susana Clark and the criminally underappreciated Carlene Carter and popularized by the incomparable Emmylou Harris. While Harris's version emphasizes the glimmer of optimism that comes from ending a bad relationship, Lambert sounds as though she's trying to convince herself of something she doesn't believe to be true. There's still a definite bitterness here (the key lines of the refrain are, "It's gonna be easy to fill/The heart of a thirsty woman/And harder to kill the ghost of a no-good man"), and an overwhelming sense that her past may have finally caught up with her. It's an extraordinary song on its own, made all the more effective because it gives the album a fascinating, loaded conclusion that speaks to what's come before and hints at a new direction.
Country music has traditionally been a singles-oriented genre. Among its legends, it's often difficult to find an entire proper studio album to recommend as an essential listen, and few of the current A-list stars have released full albums that are more than three surefire hit singles and a glut of soundalike filler. So an album like Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is exceedingly rare for its genre, even at a time when a small group of major label artists have released work (like Gary Allan's Tough All Over or Julie Roberts's Men & Mascara, or even Big & Rich's two deeply-flawed albums) that shows greater vision and ambition. The album's few flaws—the inclusion of "Dry Town," the gunshot sound effect at the end of "Gunpowder And Lead," and the not up-to-snuff chorus of "Down"—are of little consequence when compared to its real mettle. Hell, there's probably a good 5,000 words to be written just on the way these songs fly in the face of the genre's historically and presently conservative gender politics. Brash, insightful, wry, and, above all else, smart, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend confirms that Miranda Lambert is far more than just the latest in a long line of bad girls: She's a country music legend in the making, and the most vital artist Music Row has produced in a generation.
Label: Sony Nashville Release Date: May 7, 2007 Buy: Amazon
Review: Miley Cyrus's Plastic Hearts Is an Obvious but Unapologetic Genre Exercise
The album uses its glam-rock aspirations to underscore another blast of ne'er-do-well energy from the singer.3
Miley Cyrus's preoccupation with trying on different personas and exploring new musical subcultures continues on her seventh album, the arena rock-influenced Plastic Hearts. At first, Cyrus's latest genre exercise feels stiff, with obvious quotations like the iconic bongo drums and yelps from "Sympathy for the Devil" on the title track and nods to Bruce Springsteen on lead single "Midnight Sky." But even as it feels sometimes strained, Plastic Hearts succeeds on the resilience of Cyrus's skills as a vocalist.
Through Cyrus's flirtations with country, pop, hip-hop, and psych-rock, the singer's husky mezzo-soprano has anchored even her soppiest and most tepid of pastiches, but she falls prey to a number of unnecessary affectations here. The Pink-style opener "WTF Do I Know" introduces a forced yelp that thankfully only takes the lead in a handful of places on the rest of Plastic Hearts. Several tracks, including "Night Crawling," curiously bury her vocals, which should be a driving force. On spirited midtempo numbers "Angels Like You" and "Hate Me," however, she convincingly inhabits a Dylan-esque reptilian croak, and both "High" and "Never Be Me" provide unfussy platforms for her to belt.
With its canned guitar solos and production that mixes melancholy with menace, Plastic Hearts uses its glam-rock aspirations to underscore another blast of ne'er-do-well energy from Cyrus. "I've always picked a giver 'cuz I've always been the taker," she growls alongside guest Joan Jett on "Bad Karma," and implores a seeming stranger to "just give me what I want or I'll give it to myself" on "Give Me What I Want." It's not the first time she's asserted her status as a boundaries-averse badass, and she pulls it off well, as evidenced by the playful moans of satisfaction that punctuate the ends of the verses on "Bad Karma."
Cyrus makes hay of her recklessness on the album's slower songs, like "Angels Like You" and "Never Be Me," on which she movingly welcomes self-acceptance and acknowledgement of the parts of herself that won't change. "Angels like you can't fly down here with me," she sings on the former, positioning her narrator as the incorrigibly compromised soul to a former partner's saintliness, and the wide-open country arrangement invites Cyrus to sing with aplomb.
Would that the album's musical choices didn't insist on themselves quite so much. Cyrus's habit of enlisting high-profile artists from the upper echelon of a given genre continues here with appearances by Jett, Billy Idol, and Stevie Nicks, who all adequately do their thing. As usual, though, Cyrus is most indelible when her own voice takes center stage and the music mingles with and amplifies her messages of self-empowerment and emotional culpability. If nothing else, Plastic Hearts gives her license to unapologetically rock out.
Label: RCA Release Date: November 27, 2020 Buy: Amazon
Review: Smashing Pumpkins's Sprawling CYR Is Marred by Unchecked Ambition
The album vastly improves on its stagnant predecessor, but its 20-song tracklist is invariably bloated.3
On the heels of the 25th anniversary of their seminal Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, the Smashing Pumpkins offer up another ambitious album, CYR, crafted with the dystopian nature of the 21st century in mind. Founding members James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlain reassume their positions on guitar and drums, respectively, as Billy Corgan unburdens his anxieties with the modern age's spiritual drought. In a decisive pivot away from their signature aesthetic, the Pumpkins forgo massive multi-tracked guitar walls for synth experiments that flirt with darkwave. But while CYR vastly improves on its stagnant predecessor, Shiny and Oh So Bright Vol. 1/LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun., the album's 20-song tracklist is invariably bloated, a symptom of Corgan's unchecked ambition.
Though the Pumpkins have periodically incorporated synths into their music since 1998's Adore, CYR marks the first time they serve as the center of the band's sonic universe. On "Save Your Tears," latticed synth arpeggios replicate the overpowering sensation of layered guitar harmonies while maintaining the impossible lightness that the Pumpkins impart through distorted sound. Chamberlin's propulsive kick drum backs a M83-esque synth patch on "Adrennalynne," a pandemic-era paean to the thrill of performing that finds Corgan basking in the adoration of a crowd. Though typically relegated to second fiddle elsewhere on the album, a devilish guitar lick offsets the softer synth work on the darkly alluring "Wyttch."
Throughout, Corgan's foreboding images of the occult conjure a hazily apocalyptic portrait of the world. In the album's accompanying five-part animated series, In Ashes, three cyberpunk friends challenge the proverbial Man, a cloaked figure who forces the trio to sing and dance along with the masses. On "CYR," Corgan is defiant ("Stare down your masters"), but elsewhere his messaging is more murky and hopeless, as on "Haunted": "If this be life, our evening's prayer/Or death's denouement…Then father, I'm nowhere/I'm no closer to your throne." He refrains from providing answers for his vague warnings and calls to action, resulting in labyrinthine lyrics that ultimately lead to narrative dead ends.
By the album's midpoint, the songs become more sluggish and their elements increasingly familiar: drum-and-bass interplay that teeters on sinister and seductive; pillowy female vocals, courtesy of Katie Cole and Sierra Swan, to back Corgan's ageless whine; and those brooding analog '80s synths. As a result, CYR's last stretch of songs predictably bleed into one another. "The Hidden Sun" and "Schaudenfraude," for instance, echo each other with booming refrains that are more reminiscent of Simple Minds than Joy Division.
CYR is a sequel to Shiny and Oh So Bright, and Corgan has teased a separate 33-song rock opera to serve as a follow-up to Melon Collie and the Machina series. The singer's m.o. has long been to cram each project with every creative idea he has—an approach that, though effective during the Pumpkins's heyday, now largely results in diminishing returns. It would be time better spent fleshing out songs that are too often merely shadows of ideas.
Label: Sumerian Release Date: November 27, 2020 Buy: Amazon
Review: BTS's Be Vies for Simplicity but Proves Too Insular
The album trades overstimulating spectacle for low-key introspection, but it's therapeutic as a cup of tea.3
K-pop boy band BTS's fifth album, Be, represents a departure from their ostentatious, globalized blend of pop, trap, disco, and funk. Unlike on their previous efforts, which made cryptic, needlessly extensive allusions to Herman Hesse and Carl Jung, the group trims the psychoanalytic fat and adopts a message that's quite universal: 2020 has categorically sucked. As its title may suggest, Be vies for simplicity, even lucidity, during these chaotic times, trading in overstimulating spectacle for low-key introspection.
The album's ruminative lead single, "Life Goes On," dresses the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic's seemingly world-stopping force and the group's hopes for the future in acoustic guitar-based alt-hip-hop that nods to South Korean staples Verbal Jint and Geeks. After the aural adrenaline rushes of last year's "Boy with Luv" and "Idol," this stripping back feels palate-cleansing and brings to mind pre-"DNA" BTS's understated hip-hop explorations like "Just One Day." Still, the Covid-centered "Life Goes On" is as therapeutic as a cup of tea.
For better or worse, Be's sights are trained on BTS fans, meaning the album is too insular for broader appeal. The music video for "Life Goes On" captures the pajama-clad, quarantined Bangtan Boys lounging in bed, before transitioning to the seven members singing in an empty arena, with light sticks occupying the seats where the audience should be. It's a gesture fans will appreciate (BTS canceled their 2020 world tour, and light sticks are a requisite K-pop concert accessory), but artists risk diluting their impact when they rely too heavily on fan service, especially if a song's hook fails to completely stick, as it does on "Life Goes On."
Following the pretty balladry of "Blue & Grey," a skit discloses BTS's reaction to scoring their first Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper with "Dynamite" in August. You can sense the group's surprise and excitement in their impassioned words—the sort of behind-the-scenes transparency that earned them their diehard fanbase. At odds with the immaculate artificiality engrained in K-pop idols from years in the trainee system, BTS's candor when it comes to their struggles with depression, anxiety, and imposter syndrome is partly responsible for their international appeal. But whereas fans will relish the thrill of this intimate moment, for the casual listener, the skit is a skippable intermission before the album's short-lived final stretch.
These last songs play out like a testament to the K-pop industry's love affair with pastiche. Informed by the musical cornucopia extended by the internet age and globalization, K-pop songwriters survey the earworms of the past and present, mixing and matching trends to arrive at sui generis soundscapes that don't belong to a single time or place. The Bruno Mars-inspired "Telepathy" and the sedate, distinctly early-2010s-era club-pop of "Stay" don't leave lasting impressions, but the hip-hop-infused "Dis-ease" is a fine offering to this eccentric canon. The song unfolds with spare jazz guitar, before launching into a chopped-n'-screwed drum breakdown and culminating with grandiose trumpets.
"Dynamite," the album's bubbly nü-disco coda, is BTS's first English-language song, now well-known from steady radio play and the group's stateside TV performances of the song. In spite of their immense fanbase and record-breaking streaming numbers, BTS's prior Korean-language singles have received scant airplay in the U.S., so the success of "Dynamite" raises the question: If the group wishes to continue topping American charts—or getting Grammy nods—will they have to make the leap to English-language releases? BTS may follow in the footsteps of international artists with English-language crossover appeal like Shakira or Enrique Iglesias, but slight, self-referential releases like the pleasantly lukewarm Be won't be enough for them to maintain a lasting foothold stateside or outside of their devoted fanbase.
Label: Big Hit Release Date: November 20, 2020 Buy: Amazon
Review: With Good News, Megan Thee Stallion Boldly Authors Her Own Narrative
The album is a heavy-hitting rejoinder that rearticulates the headlines of a year fraught by global and personal trauma.3.5
From the petty gatekeeping of anime bros to the dismissive remarks that she only raps about sex, the vitriol leveled against Megan Thee Stallion since her recent rise to fame has been relentless, exposing the minefield of double standards that female rappers are forced to navigate. And that animus reached a nadir of some kind when rapper Torey Lanez shot Megan in the foot last July—an incident of domestic violence that was met with accusations of Meg having lied and snitched. She sets the record straight on Good News, a high-octane, heavy-hitting rejoinder that rearticulates the headlines of a year fraught by global and personal trauma for the Houston rapper.
Megan wastes no time going for the jugular on the album's opening track, "Shots Fired." Over a sample of the Notorious B.I.G.'s "Who Shot Ya?," she skewers Lanez for offering witnesses hush money about the shooting. Her use of the famous Biggie track turns a hip-hop script on its head: Whereas the late rap icon reveled in the aggression of pulling the trigger, Megan imbues defiance and dignity to her role as victim, proving that her morale is bulletproof and vowing not to take the higher ground next time. "Kick me while I'm down bad, I remember all that/Next nigga send a shot, I'ma send it right back," she warns.
Megan underpins her attack with commentary on the violence perpetrated against black women and the way hip-hop and the justice system condone that violence: "Now here we are, 2020, eight months later/And we still ain't got no fuckin' justice for Breonna Taylor." Here the diss track merges into a condemnation of the deep-seated prejudice and violence that black women face on all fronts, from white supremacy, systemic racism, and black men.
Once the smoke clears from "Shots Fired," Megan posits the album's thesis: that sex is power just as much as it is a source of pleasure. Within her framework, sexual prowess is the means of production and intercourse more often than not zeroes out to economic influence over a man. But Megan doesn't break a sweat over earning her own coin, as she puts it on "Movie": "I'm a boss, I could buy the same thing my man bought." She isn't flexing about getting money from men, but about the thrill of having that power over them.
To describe these sorts of obsequious men, she introduces a new archetype to her cast of characters: the crybaby, a needy, would-be suitor who'll get in his feelings over a read receipt and still dish out cash after. "Invest in this pussy, boy, support black business," Meg snarls on "Sugar Baby," before firing witty, withering one-liners like "He said, 'Let's make a movie,' and nutted so quick, we made a story." Megan subverts the misogynistic lyrics of Southern rap giants like Three 6 Mafia and UGK, aiming their objectifying language at men and venerating herself as is the gloriously self-aggrandizing custom of hip-hop.
Still, one would be remiss to make Good News out to be some grand consciously feminist manifesto. To emasculate men, Meg often likens them to women, reinforcing stereotypes and gender roles that belittle women in the process. Her Spotify Storyline annotation for "Sugar Baby" outright declares, "The worst type of man is one that's emotional like a woman." She encounters a conundrum other female rappers have tripped over time and time again: While subverting the baked-in misogyny of hip-hop, how do you avoid perpetuating the harmful beliefs that keep women down? What's more, how do you fully participate in a tradition that denigrates you without channeling that subjugation back on yourself and other women?
The solution to this complicated caveat is out there, but it's unfair to thrust the responsibility solely on Megan's shoulders, given that she's never postured at being a mouthpiece for the disparate, far-flung movement that is contemporary feminism. From day one, she's made clear that she makes music for women to feel like bad bitches. To that end, she masterfully succeeds with enthrallingly nasty anthems like "Body" and the SZA-assisted "Freaky Girls."
The latter entries of the album consist of a mixed bag of sensual, more melodic cuts. On the lewd dancehall escapade "Intercourse," Megan effortlessly falls in step with guest Popcaan, remaining grounded in the Dirty South ("Treat my body like some oxtails, lick your fingers") and proffering some particularly pearl-clutching innuendos ("Let you put your hook in my bumper like a repo"). On "Work That," which lifts the hook from Juvenile's "Rodeo," Megan's rap-singing radiates sweetness and Southern twang. But her heavily Auto-Tuned vocals on "Don't Rock Me to Sleep" come off as rudimentary, the track's sing-song refrain like something out of a nursery rhyme—"Blah, blah, blah, la-la-la/If you wanna leave, then bye, bye, bye"—and its saccharine synth-pop strays too far from her riveting club-ready beats.
But while Megan is still figuring herself out stylistically, she's undeniably in touch with herself. Throughout Good News, Megan doesn't spend all that much time referencing her beloved alter egos: the pimp persona of Tina Snow, the lustful Hot Girl, and the relatable Suga. Rather, she coalesces qualities of each in her lyricism and delivery, suggesting that the mask is off and she's being wholly, 100% herself. She's a bundle of apparent contradictions throughout: an advocate for black women and a sex-positive vamp, a college student and a chart-topping rapper. Sadly, women in hip-hop are subject to small-minded efforts that would limit and categorize them as either serious MCs or "strippers turned rappers." With Good News, Megan says to hell with all the scrutiny and authors her own narrative.
Label: 300 Entertainment Release Date: November 20, 2020 Buy: Amazon
Review: Dirty Projectors's 5EPs Highlights the Band's Strengths as a Collective
The collection is a satisfying showcase for the group's range while making plain their core appeal with refreshing directness.3.5
Dirty Projectors's latest project is a series of EPs that have been released over the course of 2020, now bundled together as an anthology, 5EPs. Fittingly, given the band's fondness for arpeggios, the collection breaks down their considerable breadth of genre variations into separate parts, providing a satisfying showcase for the group's range while also making plain their core appeal with refreshing directness.
The EPs Windows Open and Super João deal in straightforward folk, while Earth Crisis winds through solemn art rock and Ring Road, the culminating chapter, embraces Dirty Projectors's most popular register as progenitors of Talking Heads's brand of post-punk and funk. Most excitingly, Flight Tower employs hip-hop-influenced instrumentation, from the emphatic metronomic thump of "Empty Vessel" to the jangling low-end bass redolent of '90s acts like Mobb Deep and A Tribe Called Quest on "Self Design."
With a couple exceptions, the songs across all five chapters are pared-down distillations of the band's best ideas. This choice also connects to the lyrical content, which has a feeling throughout of wanting to get to the point of life's meaning even as it questions if one will ever truly figure it all out. In doing so, the lyrics focus on roads and journeys, often physicalizing emotional and existential processes. On "Search for Life," Maia Friedman sings, "She goes to other heights/She wades dunes, sands, and lime/In search for life." On "Self Design," there appears to be a clarity reached, but then Felicia Douglass's narrator doubles back in self-doubt: "What once was a mystery's visible/I finally feel I can see…closer, closer I come…burrowed into the endless night/And I'll never find." Past Dirty Projectors albums, especially 2009's Bitte Orca and 2018's Lamp Lit Prose were built upon ascensions to ecstatic epiphanies, and these songs feel simultaneously closer than ever to reaching such breakthroughs while also intelligently, movingly deflating such an idea in the first place.
"Switch up the perspective," Douglass declares on one of the anthology's standout tracks, "Lose Your Love," a telling moment because this project is the most egalitarian in terms of vocals that the band has released to date. Frontman Dave Longstreth, who produced each song and has been the one consistent member across the group's different permutations over the years, doesn't sing on three of the five EPs, lending his tremulous falsetto only to Super João and Ring Road. Instead, Douglass, Friedman, and Kristin Slipp are handed the reins for the other three installments. It's a move that parallels the National's decentering of Matt Berninger on their 2019 album I Am Easy to Find to make space for several guest vocalists. The approach mostly works on 5EPs, and Slipp in particular is allowed to shine, though there's a perhaps not coincidental similarity between the trio's vocals and the honey-like choral gushing of former band members Amber Coffman and Angel Deradoorian.
5EPs feels like the output of a true collective, borne out by group hallmarks like handclaps, vocal harmonies, indelible combinations of violin and hand-plucked acoustic guitar on songs like "Overlord," and new touches like interlocking drums and clarinet, each cleverly modulated in speed, on "Bird's Eye." There are also candid explorations of relationships that make room for the push and pull of opposing viewpoints: "I wanna eat all the ice cream/I don't wanna go to bed/let's stay up late, watch a movie/Or catch up on Billions instead," Longstreth pleads on "Porque No," to which one of the other bandmates counters a repeated "Wanna save the rest for later?" Taken together, the EPs function as a grab bag of Dirty Projectors's collaborative strengths and interests, affirming their indie bona fides in a new form.
Label: Domino Release Date: November 20, 2020 Buy: Amazon
Billie Eilish Playfully Torches Her Detractors on New Single "Therefore I Am"
The singer employs a conversational tone throughout the song to punctuate her ambivalence.
Pop phenom Billie Eilish's new single, "Therefore I Am," is a stark contrast to her two previous releases, February's dour "No Time to Die" and July's surprisingly spry "My Future." Sonically, the new track can be more directly traced to Eilish's breakthrough "Bad Guy," with its plodding kick drum and disaffected vocal performance.
"Stop. What the hell are you talkin' about?/Fuck. Get my pretty name outta your mouth," Eilish sneers at detractors, opportunists, and the media. She effortlessly slips in and out of her trademark sing-rapping and angelic, distorted harmonies, employing a conversational tone to punctuate her ambivalence: "Did you have fun?/I really couldn't care less." A playful synth hook repeats throughout, suggesting it's not all that serious.
Directed by Eilish, the music video for "Therefore I Am" finds the singer playing a pandemic-era mall rat, prancing around a deserted shopping center while dressed in shorts, a chunky sweater, and high-tops, helping herself to soft pretzels and lemonade before being ejected by a security guard.
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Review: Chris Stapleton's Starting Over Is a Heartfelt, If Derivative, Album
The album's unvarnished style generally works, but there's nowhere to hide when the singer drifts into the saccharine.3
Dave Cobb has become one of Nashville's most influential tastemakers, with more and more artists favoring his rootsy production style. This is due in large part to the wild success of Chris Stapleton's 2015 debut, Traveller, which Cobb co-produced. Stapleton is the most commercially palatable of Cobb's regular collaborators, and while there's no aspect of the Kentucky crooner's work that's especially challenging, his powerful, indelibly soulful rasp can make even the most shopworn turns of phrase sound like emotional revelation.
The singer's fourth album, Starting Over, plays to the strengths of both Stapleton and Cobb. The stripped-down, unfussy arrangements place the focus squarely where it should be—on the raw beauty of Stapleton's voice—and keeps his retro-revivalist tendencies somewhat in check. The opening title track is a lilting acoustic shuffle that locates the same bittersweet, golden-hour magic as Tom Petty's "Wildflowers," underscored by the presence of the Heartbreakers's Benmont Tench on Hammond B-3 organ. The album's most plaintive tracks, like "You Should Probably Leave" and the brooding "Hillbilly Blood," similarly stand out as highlights here.
While that unvarnished style generally works, though, it also means there's nowhere to hide when Stapleton drifts into the saccharine, as he does on "Maggie's Song," a eulogy for a beloved pup, and a cover of John Fogerty's "Joy of My Life." The presence of the singer's wife, Morgane Stapleton, who coos honey-sweet harmonies on many of the songs here, at least confirms the authenticity of his sentimentality, even as his lyrics frequently succumb to cliché: "And I can be your lucky penny/You can be my four-leaf clover," he sings on "Starting Over."
The album balances these syrupy moments with a batch of harder-edged tracks that showcase Stapleton's biting electric guitar riffing but don't do much to elevate his lyrics. Predictably, he just shifts his focus from love and tenderness to mild hedonism. Indeed, for Stapleton, the devil is real, but it seems his evil works are largely limited to making folks go a bit too hard at the bar every now and then. Except, that is, on "Watch You Burn," wherein Satan can be found roasting Stephen Paddock, the shooter who slaughtered 60 concertgoers in Las Vegas in 2017. Co-written with and featuring guitar by another legendary Tom Petty sideman, Mike Campbell, "Watch You Burn" is the album's only remotely topical song, and while Stapleton's invective may not be especially piercing, the howling anger in his voice is undeniable.
The track's call-and-response gospel choir and familiar bluesy melody highlights how one of Starting Over's strengths is also one of its limitations. Namely that Stapleton and his touring band's effortlessly authentic conjuring of retro styles renders even the album's best tunes clearly derivative. Stapleton is content to bellow out a bunch of banal woman-done-me-wrong lines on the mawkish "Cold," amid a preponderance of obvious Philly-soul tropes. On the opposite end of the spectrum is a second Campbell guitar duel, "Arkansas," a full-on boogie-down Skynyrdian Southern rock song that crackles with energy. Equally effective is "When I'm with You," which is reminiscent of Waylon Jennings's "Amanda," another wistful ballad about taking comfort in a steadfast partner while approaching middle age with trepidation. "But when I'm with you/I feel like a dreamer that's had all his dreams come true," Stapleton drawls. It ain't poetry, or very original, but it's nothing if not genuine.
Label: Mercury Nashville Release Date: November 13, 2020 Buy: Amazon
Every Kylie Minogue Album Ranked
To celebrate the release of Disco, we've ranked all 14 of the Aussie pop singer's albums.
In the three decades since Kylie Minogue's debut, the Australian soap actress turned international pop star has released 15 albums and racked up an impressive 34 Top 10 hits in the U.K., though her career trajectory wasn't always assured. After her initial breakout success on both sides of the Atlantic, with a cover of Little Eva's "The Loco-Motion," Minogue struggled to maintain interest among U.S. audiences. By the mid-1990s, she was eager to shake off her bubblegum-pop image, collaborating with the likes of Nick Cave and Towa Tei, and taking more creative control with the experimental Impossible Princess. The album flopped, but a turn-of-the-century renaissance found the singer embracing her dance-pop roots and cementing her status as a gay icon.
After a brief foray into country music with 2018's Golden, Minogue makes a triumph, perhaps preordained, return to the dance floor with the pointedly titled Disco. To celebrate, we've ranked all 14 of the artist's non-holiday albums.
Editor's Note: An earlier version of this article was published on April 5, 2018.
14. Kylie (1988)
Then famous in her native Australia as Charlene in the soap opera Neighbours, Minogue became an unlikely pop star when her cover of the 1962 hit "The Loco-Motion" became an unexpected international smash. The 19-year-old was plopped onto English production trio Stock Aitken Waterman's assembly line, where it sounds like she was forced to suck down a lungful of helium and sing along to their patented house blend of hi-NRG beats, Italo-disco synths, and Motown melodies. The resulting album, Kylie, is as lightweight and unsatisfying as cotton candy—and goes down just as easy.
13. Enjoy Yourself (1989)
There isn't a whole lot to differentiate Minogue's sophomore effort from its predecessor, right down to the oversized hat on the album's cover. Released just over a year after the singer's debut, Enjoy Yourself repeats the first album's sonic template almost verbatim, including a cover of a classic pop song (in this case, the 1958 doo-wop hit "Tears on My Pillow"). Slight but much-welcomed diversions include the string-laden torch song "Tell Tale Signs" and the baroque-pop "My Secret Heart." Notably, Minogue would later transform the album's tonally incongruent lead single, "Hand on Your Heart," into a poignant acoustic ballad on 2012's The Abbey Road Sessions.
12. Let's Get to It (1991)
On her final album for PWL Records, Minogue continued to peel herself away from the SAW hit factory that helped make her a star. New jack swing, hip-hop, and house are more prominently featured, though none particularly successfully. Produced by the first and last thirds of Stock Aitken Waterman, tracks like "Word Is Out," "Too Much of a Good Thing," and "I Guess I Like It Like That" feel like inferior facsimiles of the distinctly American sound being created by the likes of Clivillés and Cole, Jam and Lewis, Full Force, and others.
11. Kiss Me Once (2014)
Minogue's first album not to spawn a U.K. Top 10 hit since 1997's Impossible Princess, Kiss Me Once lacks a distinct sonic point of view, incorporating pop-rock, disco, dubstep, and R&B in equal measure. If there's an overarching theme to the album, it's sex and its various consequences: Minogue fantasizes about it on "Sexy Love," she sweats about it on "Sexercize," she struggles to define it on "Les Sex." The sleek bonus track "Sleeping with the Enemy" seems to pay homage to Massive Attack's sublime "Unfinished Sympathy," while the Pharrell-produced "I Was Gonna Cancel" makes one wonder what an entire Kylie album of disco-funk might have sounded like. As it stands, Kiss Me Once is the most scattershot of Minogue's latter-day efforts.
10. Rhythm of Love (1990)
From the disco-infused "Step Back in Time" to the techno-pop "Shocked," the potency of Rhythm of Love's singles alone makes it the strongest of Minogue's PWL albums. With "Better the Devil You Know," the singer had begun to shed her girl-next-door image, but the album also saw producers Stock Aitken Waterman developing their signature sound, which, by the end of the '80s, had reached peak saturation on both sides of the pond. The addition of outside producers, including frequent Madonna collaborator Stephen Bray, further expanded Minogue's repertoire to include new jack swing and hip-hop, putting the artist somewhere near, if not in, the same league as her female chart rivals for the first time.
9. Kylie Minogue (1994)
After churning out four albums in as many years with Stock Aitken Waterman, Minogue parted ways with the production team's label in 1993 and signed with Deconstruction Records. The pop star's first album with the label resulted in a creative rebirth that's reflected in the eponymous album's title and embrace of club music. (Perhaps emulating classic 12" house records, a handful of songs—"Where Is the Feeling," "Where Has the Love Gone," and "Falling"—all run about two minutes too long.) But Kylie Minogue's biggest surprise is its midtempo material. Minogue doesn't have the vocal prowess to carry some of these songs—"Surrender" is a less sultry rendition of a song recorded by Tia Carrere a year earlier—but she admirably pushes her voice to its limits on the string-laden "Dangerous Game" and "Automatic Love." The cautionary "Confide in Me," with its hypnotic hook, Middle Eastern strings, and ominous guitar riff, calls for a sensual and understated performance—and Minogue delivers.
8. Golden (2018)
The Nashville-inspired Golden, whose title commemorates Minogue's impending 50th birthday, is the singer's most personal album since Impossible Princess. Both her anxiety about and joyful resistance to her mortality is apparent in songs like "Dancing," "Live a Little," and the title track. "Sincerely Yours" is a "love letter" most likely directed at tour audiences—"This is not the end, I'll come back again/You'll still see me, you'll still hear me"—but it's hard not to imagine Minogue singing it as penance to fans eagerly awaiting her return to dance music. While country signifiers abound, from foot-stomping to fiddling, the songs on Golden also smartly juxtapose contemporary pop elements like soaring synth hooks and pitched-up vocals. If nothing else, Golden further bolsters Minogue's reputation for taking risks—and artfully sets the stage for her inevitable disco comeback.
Review: Kylie Minogue's Disco Is a Sugar Rush Worth the Hangover
The Aussie pop singer's 15th album is content to bask unapologetically in nostalgia.3.5
In my review of Kylie Minogue's 2018 album Golden, I not-so-boldly predicted that the country-influenced set would set the stage for the Aussie pop singer's inevitable disco comeback. It wouldn't be the first time she pirouetted away from the dance floor only to make a triumphant return to it. In fact, Minogue seems to have made a decennial tradition of it, having previously re-embraced dance music on 2000's Light Years and 2010's Aphrodite.
Not to put too fine a point on it, Minogue's follow-up to Golden is titled Disco. In a way, such genre-targeted albums free her from opting into current pop trends—though, it should be noted, 2020 has already seen its share of disco revivalism. But if Róisín Murphy's Róisín Machine and Jessie Ware's What's Your Pleasure? represent a deep dive into the admittedly diverse genre, Disco is content to mine its more superficial virtues.
The first song released from Disco, "Say Something," made for a deceptive introduction to the album: A midtempo synth-pop sleeper in the vein of past lead singles "All the Lovers" and "Into the Blue," the track, with its wobbly bassline and funk guitar licks, works better as a momentary respite among Disco's otherwise frenetic middle stretch. Dance anthems like the bass-driven "Supernova" and the unrelentingly catchy "Last Chance" are Minogue's most unabashedly aggressive in years.
Nothing here reaches the high camp of Minogue's 2001 single "Your Disco Needs You," but the infectious "Monday Blues," which boasts intertwining strands of disco DNA from both Chic and Kool & the Gang, makes a valiant attempt. Occasionally, Disco ventures into parody, with on-the-nose references to Studio 54, "I Will Survive," and Earth, Wind & Fire, among others, scattered throughout. But while the album might be a purely derivative work, its period arrangements—all sweeping disco strings, Nile Rodgers-esque guitar licks, and indiscriminately deployed cowbell—are executed with aplomb.
Disco's opening track, "Magic," sweetens its mix of squelchy bass synth and staccato horn stabs with just a dollop of schmaltz: "Do ya, do ya, do ya/Do ya believe in magic?" The album's lyrics are generic and vaguely uplifting enough to project onto any personal or global disaster: "Oh, we all got wanderlust in the darkest place," Minogue sings on "Say Something." Vocally, her voice sounds tinny throughout, a mixing deficiency that similarly plagued her last few albums, but the singer effortlessly slips into her head voice on "Magic," heightening the song's buoyancy, while talk-box effects and digital editing add some sonic interest to "Real Groove" and "Dance Floor Darling."
Minogue has made a version of this album before. The filter disco of "Miss a Thing" and "I Love It," co-written and co-produced by longtime collaborator Richard "Biff" Stannard, would fit comfortably on 2000's Light Years or 2001's Fever. For better or worse, though, Disco doesn't attempt to adapt the classic titular sound in a contemporary context like those albums did, instead content to bask in unapologetic homage. In the end, it's a sugar rush worth the hangover.
Label: Darenote Release Date: November 6, 2020 Buy: Amazon
Review: Ariana Grande's Positions Too Often Defaults to a Familiar Pose
It might be time for pop's reigning vocal acrobat to more fully commit to some new positions.3
If Ariana Grande's Sweetener found the singer exorcising her trauma through music, and Thank U, Next was a bolt of inspiration she couldn't wait to share with the world, her follow-up, Positions, feels more like an obligation or a product of pandemic fatigue. On the opening track, "Shut Up," Grande admits that "All the demons help me see shit differently," but Positions has less to say about the realities of life in 2020 than other albums written and recorded during Covid-19, such as Charli XCX's How I'm Feeling Now.
Sex is, notably, a recurring theme on Positions. "Just give me them babies," Grande quips on "34+35," while "Nasty" sounds like a Janet Jackson sex jam as sung by Mariah Carey—that is, a lot of empty pillow talk and plentiful dog whistles. Grande is known for her witty turns of phrase, and there's no shortage throughout Positions, the title of which is itself a cheeky double entendre. But clever lines like "Are you down like six thirty?" are too often wasted on wan, repetitive hooks.
"Shut Up" finds Grande venturing into chamber pop, her cascading vocal lines propped up by plucky strings and orchestral flourishes, but the song sputters out soon after it reaches its swirling, cinematic climax. Similarly, the full-bodied "My Hair" nudges Grande into neo-soul terrain only to quickly fade out. The songs are almost all exceedingly brief and seemingly half-realized, including the two-minute "West Side," which barely registers as a song at all. The sole exception is "Off the Table," which stretches out to four whole minutes thanks to its molasses-slow pace.
Given the dearth of uptempo tracks on Grande's last album, the microhouse "Motive," featuring Doja Cat, and the breathless, disco-inflected "Love Language" are a welcome change of pace. Too many of the songs on Positions, however, rely on the same midtempo trap-pop that populated Grande's previous two efforts, particularly Thank U, Next. What once seemed refreshing in its minimalism is quickly starting to feel insubstantial. It might be time for contemporary pop's reigning vocal acrobat to more fully commit to some new positions.
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Ugly Betty's Mark Indelicato, decked out in a tux with a candy-apple red vest, lead a Broadway-like performance of "One Singular Sensation," to open up ABC's Upfront presentation yesterday afternoon. America Ferrera and the rest of the cast joined him, kicking up their heels in a chorus line. (We see a very special musical episode of Ugly Betty on the horizon.)
Although the network is trailing behind Fox and CBS in the ratings, ABC seemed at least able to poke fun at themselves with their song and dance for advertisers and the media.
We weren't exactly at the extravaganza. ABC stuck reporters in the simulcast room in the network offices, just blocks from where the actual Upfront was happening at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall yesterday afternoon. But ABC's screening still managed to be more fun than NBC's glum-fest. Drumming up nostalgia, a DJ spun theme songs from sort-of old like The Wonder Years. Late-night frat boy Jimmy Kimmel made commentary during live camera shots of the audience displayed on the big screen. And instead of projecting silly, corporate-speak stats on the screen (like NBC's "Friday Night Lights is tied for the #2 median income among all primetime network series ($68,000) behind only The Office,") ABC had a screen that showed a jolly Mr. Kimmel and various jokey signs: "8% of you are going 'commando' right now."
Mr. Kimmel didn't hesitate to get in on the low-ratings blame game that CBS is playing right now, harping on Evening News anchor Katie Couric while making a quip about the bold move ABC's made in setting an end date for island-drama Lost (the 2009-2010 season will be its last): "I think CBS has a similar game plan for Katie Couric," he said. Oh snap!
Mr. Kimmel also did a little stand-up routine, doing some more inter-network dissing. He said ABC's new game show Bingo, "is a show for those viewers who are caught off guard by the complexity of Deal or No Deal."
Then came more jabs at the other networks.
ABC president Steve McPherson said, "I heard NBC cut [network president] Kevin Reilly's dance number. What's up with that?" He was referring to Mr. Reilly's assertion on Monday afternoon that they were cutting down on the "song and dance" at their Upfront, and had to cancel an Irish step dancing number. Sorry we missed that!
Mr. McPherson took another little jab at NBC's push on web-centered advertising with their concept of "webisodes," interactive online voting, and even an internet-based Fantasy Talent Agency in which participants get points when their assigned characters do their signature lines or moves in primetime (Steve Carell's character said "funtivities?" Score!).
"The bottom line is what do people want to watch? Because of that, I don't focus on technology," said the ABC president. "What I am passionate about is creating the best shows."
And so in a moment ABC had defused the bomb that Jerry Seinfeld had set at the previous evening's presentation by NBC.
ABC has a right to be slightly more light-hearted. They're attracting the wealthiest viewers and are No. 1 on Sunday and Thursday nights.
The new drama line-up looks promising. With mega-hits Lost, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy and Dancing with the Stars still holding strong, the network should have a strong season and crawl its way up the Neilson rankings.
Four seems to be ABC's lucky number this season.
Four new dramas and comedies feature four characters in each show. Big Shots, from Kids in the Hall's Bruce McCulloch, follows four executive types, two of whom are played by the always yummy Michael Vartan and old hand Dylan McDermott. Cashmere Mafia, predictably from Sex and the City creator Darren Star, centers on four career-oriented, sexy ladies. Carpoolers is about four guys commuting into work everyday to share stories about their wives and losing their respective virginities. Women's Murder Club satisfies the everlasting hunger for cop/death shows and features four San Francisco women who solve murder cases.
Perhaps the network is weary of those numerous ensemble casts, what with all of the hubbub on the set of Grey's Anatomy after Isaiah Washington spewed anti-gay remarks and upset the entire cast last fall.
Or maybe it's the fact that Lost has lost close to ten million viewers since its peak, folks tired of watching repeats of the show's bazillion characters chase and escape from the Others. Can you blame them? Seriously, it was like getting trapped in Groundhog Day for a while there.
But of course the all-star cast will return mid-season with back-to-back episodes; in the meantime, Dirty Sexy Money will take its place on Wednesday nights. Six Feet Under's Peter Krause, looking a lot less dreamy and bad boy-ish than he did in HBO's hit, leads this promising new drama about a lawyer who works for – and is manipulated by — a moneyed Hilton-like boss.
"Pushing Daises," from Heroes' executive producer Bryan Fuller, looks like the most daring show to come so far. Think Edward Scissorhands meets the modern-day How the Grinch Stole Christmas. It's bright and whimsical and ooh shiny! Not to mention that it features a neat storyline about a guy named Ned who can bring people back to life with his touch, but can't caress or kiss his childhood sweetheart ever again, or else she'll be dead forever. The much-buzzed about Private Practice, the Grey's Anatomy spinoff, looks interesting, too. But even network execs said it needs more work.
For comedies, the crappy preg-fest Notes from the Underbelly should've been canned along with the George Lopez show. But the network is keeping their baby drama and adding four new comedies.
Cavemen, starring those oafs from the Geico commercials, looks like a flop full of bad jokes and terrible make-up jobs. There's also Miss Guided, about Judy Greer's character returning to high school to redeem her nerdy past as a guidance counselor.
What about Brian also got the axe, although "Brian," or Barry Watson (originally of 7th Heaven!), will appear in Sam I Am as the boyfriend of Christina Applegate's character. She comes out of a coma, having forgotten her life as a raging bitch and sets out to learn how to amend her beastly past.
And now we know the next trend in TV: redemption stories. Is it just us, or does Sam I Am sound an awful lot like a certain NBC show about a shaggy dude who does good deeds to make up for his past?

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Connecticut Senate passes additional Newtown-related bills
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Connecticut lawmakers on Thursday began building on a package of reforms the General Assembly passed in April that addressed the Newtown school shooting, requiring annual firearms safety training for armed security in local schools and improvements in mental health services for children.
Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R-Fairfield, whose district includes Newtown, said the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School helped bring to light gaps and shortcomings in the state's mental health system affecting young people.
"We all made a pledge and vow to work on that," he said. "And this is part of that work."
One bipartisan bill that passed the Senate unanimously Thursday requires the Department of Children and Families to develop a comprehensive plan to meet the mental, emotional and behavioral health needs of children, with an emphasis on early identification and intervention.
Among other things, the bill requires DCF and a new Office of Early Childhood to provide professional development training to pediatricians and child care workers to help them identify mental, emotional and behavioral health issues. That same Office of Early Childhood will be required to find private funding to design a public information and education campaign on those issues.
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"I think the political climate in the wake of the Newtown tragedy made this bipartisan, unanimous Senate vote possible tonight," said Sen. Dante Bartolomeo, D-Meriden, a key proponent of the bill. "But I've long felt that Connecticut should treat mental health with the same importance as general health. This bill moves that conversation forward."
Senators also passed a second bill requiring school districts to hire only police officers and troopers or retired officers and troopers to provide school security if they will using a firearm as part of their duties. Those officers would have to obtain annual training in firearms safety by certified trainers from the Police Officer Standards and Training Council, an organization that sets standards for being a police officer in Connecticut.
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Enfield and North Branford are planning to hire armed security for their schools. A legislative task force that examined school security in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting did not recommend that districts be required to hire armed guards, but state Sen. Andrea Stillman, D-Waterford, said if more districts decide to hire guards, this bill ensures they'll be properly trained.
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Despite losing a 43-37 overtime thriller to the Texans, Jacksonville Jaguars fans can find solace in a few positives from Sunday's game. First, they were part of the first overtime in NFL history to feature three separate scores, but more importantly linebacker Paul Posluszny emerged from a fumble scrum looking like the defensive version of Y.A. Tittle.
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You know the NBA season is just around the corner when Jason Kidd is in the gossip pages again. The Nets point guard is accused of groping a woman (twice!) and then informing her of his rather imposing physical advantage.
"If we got into a fight, who do you think would win?" the 6-foot, 4-inch superstar allegedly said to the plus-sized brunette, the sources claimed.
Kidd supposedly grabbed the woman's crotch at 2:30 in the morning on October 10. The woman keeps being referred to as "plus-sized," which is a nice touch. When you file a police report about a man trying to take hold of your unmentionables and then threatening to punch you, it's nice when you're repeatedly referred to as "tubby."
We think we know who might be able to help her in this regard.
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update 10/25/20
I want to thank everyone for the well wishes and support we have received. I have talked to so many people offering help and support wishing us well and listening to how pat and donalds pups has touched there lives has amazed me.
It is hard for me to keep up with this and do my normal job at home so i do fall behind. I just want to thank everyone again for understanding . plese keep the puppy stories coming i do love reading them. thank you
Hello, we are sad to announce that pat passed away yesterday. She has been fighting cancer for a while and it finaly got the best of her. She was hoping to finish out the last two litters of puppies and oversee the adoption of the older dogs but it did not turn out that way. I am her son in law Nathan. My wife Stephanie and i will be helping her husband Donald finish with the puppies and the adoption of the older dogs. Pat turned worse so suddenly she did not have every thing prepared for me to take this over. I have a list of people who i think was the waiting list for puppys. I have spoken with a few from the list and some are and some have already received dogs. If you paid a deposit and heve not spoken to me please get in contact with me. unfortionatly i have no way of knowing the order of the waiting list. I will be posting picures of the pups we have from coco's litter and we are expecting another litter within a few weeks. I will also be posting pictures of the dogs we will be adopting out. you can email me at firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com.
I encourage you send your email to both. or call us at 903-401-6972
We will get everyone who paid a a deposit taken care of . It is gonna be hard going forward without pat but we will get this done for her and find good homes for her beloved boxers. And i ask that if you know anyone who may be interested in adopting please let them know about us.
Please read the Frequently Asked Questions page about getting your new Boxer from us, this FAQ page will answer most of your questions.. Hover over MORE above to access the FAQ page and many other pages . Please read the FAQ page first. Then if you are serious about taking home a nice boxer pup for your family pet contact me. Please include the color/ gender/ markings of the puppy you are interested in. . If a pup is posted on my Available puppies page please read the captions with each photo, some will be available others may have already been spoken for. Please pay attention to the dates posted I try to keep the dates updated. Thank you..
- Please check out our Adoptable Dogs page . Please email for details with subject line "Adoptable Adults" . All of our adoptable older boxers are house trained, crate trained, will be up to date on vaccinations and on monthly heart worm protection.
K and J's Country Pups is a small family owned breeding kennel operation in the countryside of Honey Grove Texas. Honey Grove is located about an hour and a half North of Dallas TX. Very conveniently located close to Dallas, or Southern Oklahoma and a reasonable driving distance from northwest Louisiana or southern Arkansas. Our small facility is licensed and inspected by the state of Texas and is also AKC inspected on a regular basis. We only raise boxers .
We stand beside our boxer families thru the life of their new Boxer with email support and also honor our 1 yr genetically healthy guarantee for our boxer puppies. We do not raise multiple breeds of dogs, just Boxers. We will not sell to brokers or pet stores, we only deal one on one with our puppy families. .
We are located on 20 acres just north of our small town. All of our Boxers are raised with love and lots of daily attention. Some of our Boxers are in the house with access to the large exercise yard outside. We also have small air conditioned kennel buildings with separate dog runs and doggy door for each dog. We rotate time in the house and time in the building so all of our dogs have specialized attention and don't forget their house manners.
The Boxer puppies are born in our spare bedroom which has been outfitted and altered into a whelping room which can accommodate 2 mother boxers with their babies . All puppies are handled by us from day one and have daily cuddle time. They are raised around 2 inside cats and other boxers . This will help them fit right in with a new family and the activities of their new home. They will be exposed to the noises (T.V. , music, cats , grandchildren playing, doors slamming,, dishes rattling ...etc..) of a normal house , so they will be acclimated to all the normal household noises and not be overly anxious when exposed to these noises in your home.
The previous paragraph was included because I have been the recipient of a pup raised in a "kennel" environment without daily human contact/attention during the first few crucial weeks. She is afraid of her own shadow. This is not meant to imply that all pups raised in a "kennel" "unsocialized?" environment will be the jumpy, frightened types but this has just been my own personal experience. Some puppies may just be predisposed to be this way. If a pup is exposed to "normal household noises" and has had hours each day of interaction with humans the likelihood of being a frightened , skittish dog will be minimal ..
Puppies born here will have been given every opportunity to be a happy , healthy, good natured, out-going friendly puppy.. Good Puppies with proper training and socialization will be an almost perfect dog.... it is a work in progress... I will have done everything in my power to provide you with a healthy , trainable, alert, happy puppy.. it is up to you as the new caretaker to continue this effort with lots of love, training , attention and regular/routine vet visits.
Please email any questions or to be placed on a waiting list for the upcoming litters (2020) . I require a Wait List Deposit of $100. This deposit is non-refundable under any circumstances and is applied to the overall cost of your chosen puppy. I answer emails daily. When new pups arrive I will email everyone on the waiting list in the order I received their request and payment to be placed on the wait list. The families that have been placed on the waiting list for a pup from a specific pairing will be allowed first choices based on wait time (the wait list deposit date determines this)..I ask that if you have found your suitable puppy beforehand to let me know so I can remove you from our list and move the next family UP in wait-list order. Please remember you forfeit your wait list deposit. A non-refundable partial payment/deposit paid in cash at your first viewing of the pups will hold your chosen puppy until they are ready to go. Please ask me for a receipt. If you place a deposit I will email a new picture of your new Boxer pup every week so you can watch her/him grow right along with us. We can also accept deposits & payments paid thru PayPal , please see the Pay Now button below, this will take you to an invoice page where you can use your debit or credit card safely & securely through PayPal.
Your new puppy will come with a puppy pack which includes : starter sample of food they are eating, vaccination and deworming records and of course their puppy paperwork (AKC , UKC, CKC puppy application). They will be up to date on dewormings and vaccinations, but will need booster vaccinations from your vet for full immunities.. They will have their tails docked and their dew claws removed at our vets office, we do not do them ourselves.. If you want their ears done this will be up to you. Most vets like to do the boxer pups ears between the age of 10-15 weeks. Most of our dogs ears are natural and I love the floppy-eared look. This is our personal preference and I have noticed no cleanliness issue with flop-eared versus cropped ears. It is just a personal preference and the look you want for your new boxer. . I do not recommend having this procedure performed on your new pup unless you are going to show your dog in AKC conformation shows. The actual cropping process may not be painful for your puppy since the pup is under anesthesia but the aftercare : stitch removal, taping/ posting etc is and healing time most definitely is painful.
I will be available via email for any questions or concerns you may have in the feeding or care of your new puppy anytime..this will include house/crate training tips, feeding suggestions, exercise requirements or grooming for your new puppy. Don't be embarrassed just ask , I will try to help. If your question is out of my realm, I will suggest you address your concerns to your local veterinarian. I am not a vet .
Please use the yellow Pay Now Button below to either pay your Waiting List Deposit $100 or the Holding Deposit on your chosen puppy. Please keep in mind these payments are non-refundable under any circumstances so please be certain you are willing to wait for that perfect puppy before you sign up for our waiting list.
Please type in 3% extra on your holding deposit to cover the PayPal fees, I do not collect this 3% , Paypal receives that for the privilege of using their service.. We will be adding 6.75% Texas sales tax to the cost of your puppy, so add that to the full cost quoted for your puppy, this tax amount will be added to the final cash balance of your puppy due on pick-up day, do not add that sales tax to the PayPal holding deposit payment because you will end up also paying more for the paypal fee..
We also reserve the right to refuse service to anyone that we feel is unfit for new puppy ownership, or is in any way unable to care for a puppy properly. You may be asked questions to determine your level of responsibility. We will not knowingly sell to brokers, puppy mills, backyard breeders or pet stores. Thanks
Please type in 3% extra on your holding deposit to cover the PayPal fees, I do not collect this 3% , Paypal receives that for the privilege of using their service.. We will be adding 6.75% Texas sales tax to the cost of your puppy, so add that to the full cost quoted for your puppy, this tax amount will be added to the final cash balance of your puppy due on pick-up day, do not add that sales tax to the PayPal holding deposit payment because you will end up also paying more for the paypal fee..
We also reserve the right to refuse service to anyone that we feel is unfit for new puppy ownership, or is in any way unable to care for a puppy properly. You may be asked questions to determine your level of responsibility. We will not knowingly sell to brokers, puppy mills, backyard breeders or pet stores. Thanks