Abby Scott
ams024@marietta.edu
In the world of music, there has been a lot of action. With Taylor Swift dropping and re-releasing an album to country artists like Chris Stapleton and newer artists to the scene like Luke Grime’s dropping new songs and albums. Here is a breakdown of each artist’s albums and some new songs that were released over the last couple of weeks.
Chris Stapleton famous for popular songs such as “Tennesse Whiskey” as well as songwriting many other popular songs from the country genre as a whole. He recently released “It Takes a Woman” and his vocals are so soft and wholesome. If you were a fan of “Tennesse Whiskey” or any other soul country artist, you will be sure to like this song of his as well as his other songs.
Luke Grimes, besides being from Ohio and making it big, has taken a step away from Hollywood to start a country music career. With a couple of singles behind his name, he released an album Pain Pills or Pews on October 20th. The album contains eight songs and is thirty minutes long. If you are a fan of Jellyroll, Luke Combs, Chris Stapleton, or any soul country kind of artist you will more than likely enjoy the album.
Alec Benjamin popular for his songs like “Let Me Down Slowly,” and “Devil Doesn’t Bargain,” among many other songs has released an album. The album titled Different Kind of Beautiful containing the titular song “Different Kind of Beautiful.” The album came out recently on October 27th. If you like pop, confident, and boppy kind of songs, you will enjoy “Different Kind of Beautiful.”
Finally, for Swifties, Taylor Swift re-released her 1989 album with five tracks From the Vault. This re-released 1989 (Taylor’s Version) has twenty-one songs and is over an hour long. Hosting the same songs from the original 1989 album, listeners are transported and remember their teenage years through the album. The last five songs having similar tastes to going through the first five stages of grief. It is a nostalgic trip through memory lane and has some great songs such as “Blank Space” and “Shake it Off” as well as many others.
Those are just a few of the recent releases from music artists as music is released every day. It’s important to keep up to date and follow all of your favorite artists to be alerted of their new releases.
