CD Give-away:
Kiwibox is giving away 5 copies of Miranda Lambert's new album, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
How to enter:
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Kiwibox is giving away 5 copies of Miranda Lambert's new album, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
How to enter:
All you have to do is post something cool/ constructive/ interesting/ about the album
and you are entered. In two weeks on May 21st, we will pick 5 usernames randomly and post the winners below.
Miranda Lambert
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Winners: Congratulations to the following Kiwibox users, who will each receive a copy of Miranda Lambert's new album, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend:
NoBlonde05
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JawbreakerChic
pixiestick1524
Jennbdq
It's been a minute since Country young'un Miranda Lambert lit up the stage on USA Network's Nashville Star in 2003 and continued to dazzle with her 2005 debut Kerosene. Since her meteoric rise to fame Lambert has tightened up her songcraft by loosening up a bit, resulting in her most recent collection of vengeance and vice, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
Kerosene's success was based upon Lambert's gift for emotional balance--no song was too overwrought with heavy-handed dramatics. For every finger-pointing warning was a winking eye, a self-referential lyric that pushed her away from "holier-than thou" criticisms. The feisty blonde is all-claws-out on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, but not without some reason to her rhyme.
The scuzzed-up and southern-fried title track is the overall winner here, as its kick-to-the-curb mentality is well understood considering the subject (a jealous ex-turned-psychotic). Taking a jarring turn for the better is the Gospel-tinged "Love Letters," where Lambert slows down the pace and gets all serious without any warning. The emotional bend continues with "Desperation" and its light-as-a-feather delivery; its open-range melody instills some warmth amongst the blunt lyricism.
From the gun-toting, six-pack downing rabble-rouser from "Gunpowder & Lead" to the "Lovin' him was a one way street/But I'm gettin' off where the crossroads meet" epitaph to love in "Easy From Now On" Lambert loves to play femme fatale, and she does it in such a theatrical manner that one can't fault her penchant for going a bit overboard at times.
Playing femme fatale allows Lambert to be playful, and no harm is actually done in her "woulda, coulda, shoulda" world. When violent fiction is this invigorating and therapeutic, one would be crazier than an ex to miss out on its charm.
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