Ken Tucker’s Pop Culture

Adam and Miranda Lambert

Revolution For Your Entertainment (bootleg/streaming on adamandmiranda.com)

4 stars

The husband-and-wife team has had quite a year. Having topped the country and pop charts with their respective solo albums (Miranda’s Revolution and Adam’s For Your Entertainment), they’ve rush-released a website stream, for the close of what the drawling Miranda has called “an Obama-lama-ding-dang year,” of a new album: Revolution For Your Entertainment, a gleefully bitter mash-up of their public and private concerns over the past 12 months.

The album leads off with “Poor Ol’ Simon Cowell,” in which Miranda playfully castigates Cowell as “The man who turned my lover-boy gay”:

“Well you said you liked your t-shirts tight

That you were straight and I was right

To stay in Nashville while you had your way

With my eye-liner honey, so horny, so fey…”

Of Miranda’s very public affair with her opening act, Blake Shelton (detailed with uncommon explicitness in her contribution here. “Shelton From The Storm”), Adam has written new lyrics to one of the songs he covered on American Idol, Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”:

“I see a little silhouette of a man

Shelton-douche, Shelton-douche, will you do the fandango

Thunderbolts and Sugarland very, very frightening to me

Taylor Hicks-o (Taylor Hicks-o)

Taylor Hicks-o (Taylor Hicks-o)

Taylor Hicks-o Figaro… “

In addition to the passion and quality of the music, Revolution For Your Entertainment has had the added pop-cultural frisson of confounding country and Idol fans alike. Typical of the response within the industry is Carrie Underwood, ambushed last week by TMZ and asked about the new album, said, “Frankly, I don’t get it, but I love them both and they’re very fine artists and I hope to collaborate with them together and separately as soon as possible to help promote my new concept album, Carrie Underworld.”

Revolution For Your Entertainment (bootleg/streaming on adamandmiranda.com)