Platinum

"On "Priscilla," Miranda Lambert compares herself to Elvis Presley's long-suffering wife back in the day, "married to a man who's married to attention." As elsewhere on her fifth LP, it takes a cheeky view of her ascent to country music Queen Bee - here as partner to would-be king Blake Shelton. But mostly it shows how Lambert earned her throne: by singing top-shelf songs in the voice of a woman getting real".

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"Perhaps Platinum would've benefitted from a tighter construction, but its mess and lopsided sequencing wind up appealing: at its heart, this is a classic double-album where the misses enhance the home runs and, eventually, are endearing on their own terms".

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