Morgan Wallen is an asshole.

This is not a criticism; it’s his brand. He knows it clearly enough to title a single, an album, and a tour “I’m The Problem. He foregrounded it on Friday (his first of two nights at Gillette Stadium), when he sang the song in question directly underneath a video montage cataloguing his many public bouts of assholedom: flipping the metaphorical finger to Saturday Night Live , violating COVID protocols during the heart of the pandemic, that sort of thing.

And it was the subject, both explicit and implied, of a great many of his hits. For Wallen, being an unrepentant pain in the ass isn’t a liability; it’s just good business.

But as good as he is at being an asshole, he’s less deft at turning that into compelling art. Unlike his country-asshole forebears li

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