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 hits.
"Now my outlook on life is different than it used to be," he sings over fingerpicked acoustic guitar, "My outlook is: Someone's up there looking down and looking out for me."
