Draft:Mid-Twenties Crisis

Mid- Twenties Crisis is the debut studio album by American country singer Dylan Marlowe released on September 27, 2024, through Sony Music Nashville and Play It Again Records. The album is produced by Marlowe and Joe Fox.

Mid- Twenties Crisis
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 27, 2024 (2024-09-27)
Genre
Length48:04
LabelSony Music Nashville
ProducerJoe Fox

Content

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Marlowe first wrote the song amid of ongoing challenges in his twenties. Marlowe has described the album as a message to those in their twenties struggling. The album has been reflections off of Marlowe's new marriage, mental health challenges, as well as his career and missing of friends and family back in his hometown. Marlowe a Statesboro, Georgia native has described that ''many of his friends back in his hometown are already getting married and having children''. This is described in Marlowe's #1 single Boys Back Home which he wrote with Dylan Scott. Marlowe in an Instagram post describes how the album is a " blessing and that he has put years of hard work into creating this album". But not just Boys Back Home is a major hit for the country singer. Some songs in the album talk about relationships, breakups, and other types of love.

Heaven's Sake is the first track in the album. The song is the only one the album to be of a totally different genre. Heaven's Sake is influenced heavily by Punk rock and sounds a lot like 90s punk rock songs produced by Blink-182. Stick To My Guns (Featuring Riley Green) is a country song that is politically conservative and describes anti-government themes and support for Gun rights. The song Hang It Up is a Folk Country song that describes the narrator going through a breakup. Other songs such as Heart Brakes, Devil on My Shoulder, and Bat Outta Hell (With a Boat on The Back) describes also talk about breakups but are all pre released. Other songs talk about more nostalgic feeling and love such as Shop Radio and There Goes That.

Reception

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Entertainment Focus has described the album as "A great influence of pop and rock music into the album" and that Marlowe has potential to become the next big country singer. Entertainment Focus has said that album also has influences of R&B which have been prevalent in many country songs in 2024. In an interview with Holler Country the album has the "potential #1 on the Billboard Country Albums'' and a great success for Marlowe. However, in the past other of Marlowe's songs have been under scrutiny for not being actual country. Marlowe's number one hit Boys Back Home has been described as a Bro-country song by Whiskey Riff. Whiskey Riff has described it as ''one of the worst country songs of 2023'' and a ''dollar store version of Cruise by Florida Georgia Line''

Sources

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Rising Country Artist Dylan Marlowe’s ‘Mid-Twenties Crisis’ and Country Roots (countryliving.com)

‘Mid-Twenties Crisis’ by Dylan Marlowe - Lyrics & Meaning | Holler