"Don't We" is the kind of title that lives in the uncertain space between a question and an answer. Morgan Wallen's best writing has always worked in that register: the country tradition of the song that asks the hard thing without being certain it wants to hear the reply. I'm the Problem carries a lot of that uncertainty through its track listing, and this one represents the more reflective end of the record. Wallen grew up in a musical household in Sneedville, Tennessee, played guitar and piano from an early age, and came up through the American Idol path before finding his footing in Nashville. That background shapes how he writes: the melody-first instinct, the directness of the lyric, the vocal performance that earns the feeling rather than decorating it. He has eleven number-ones on the Hot 100. The numbers are not the argument. The argument is that the songs consistently do what they set out to do. "Don't We" is a clean example.
Morgan Wallen