Review: 36 songs, no apologies: Morgan Wallen delivers more (much more) of what made him country's king

The song "Outlook" arrives 35 tracks into Morgan Wallen's 36-track behemoth of a new album, which means that by the time you finally get to it, you're pretty well primed for whatever hard-won knowledge he's got to drop. And for the song's first few lines about "20/20 hindsight vision," it seems clear where the country star is going: Two years after he was caught on video drunkenly using the N-word to refer to a friend — an incident that sparked widespread debate about country music's historical relationship with race — the beginning of "Outlook" suggests that Wallen has done some serious thinking about the way he views the world and his place in it.

Then the chorus