Elamin Abdelmahmoud: No, not at all. But here I am listening to it and repeatedly crying because that's just the way that we're living these days. It's a beautiful record. It is a divorce record, which is not what a lot of people expected from Kacey, but that's where her personal life has been for the past couple of years. And she made a gorgeous record about that. But that's a significant relationship ending. And now we get listen to it and cry through some of it.
The whole record doesn't work. Some parts do, really effectively. Songs like "Justified," songs like the opener "Star-Crossed" just set the tone for you being in this emotional landscape that's just barren and hard and you're going to cry a lot. And then you hear songs like "Good Wife," and she's struggling with the idea of what it means for her to be a good wife. And then we move on to songs like "Breadwinner" when she's like — it's actually kind of a sneaky song that says ,"You might run into guys who say they're kind of comfortable with you being the breadwinner. But at the end of the day, they might not be so comfortable" — like there's a lot going on this record. And she kind of laid it out all out there, which is just stunning.