Morgan Wallen presents himself like some guy you ran into at Home Depot. But he may be the most commercially successful musician of his era: each of his past two albums spent at least a 100 weeks hovering near the top of the Billboard chart.

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Morgan Wallen presents himself like some guy you ran into at Home Depot. But he may be the most commercially successful musician of his era: each of his past two albums spent at least a 100 weeks hovering near the top of the Billboard chart. This week, he released his fourth album, “I’m the Problem,” which features 37 songs and 50 songwriters. “His connection to his audience may be broad, but it is not anonymous,” Amanda Petrusich writes. “His point of view is precisely defined: God, Chevy, girls, booze.”
Wallen has been releasing music for nine years, and most of it is “alarmingly interchangeable,” Petrusich notes. “There are no major stylistic shifts in his catalogue, merely a statement (and restatement) of purpose: love hurts, whiskey helps.” On “I’m the Problem,” Wallen holds true to his calling: singing about the ways love can sour. “The music here is capably performed but utterly faceless; Wallen is focussed on storytelling, and his milieu is catastrophic heartache,” Petrusich writes.

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