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...really being lost. “It’s a very nice tension between saying go forward into the future…and also looking back, the tension of what’s lovely and needs to be preserved,” Streep says.“Prairie?? addresses that tension on several levels, notably by casting the budding multi-media sensation Lindsay Lohan as Streep’s angst-ridden daughter. The 19-year-old drama queen earned the respect of the veteran cast, in spite of recent negative press attention for her eating habits...
...Prairie?? bears little resemblance to Young’s “Doom Trilogy” of records—“On the Beach,” “Time Fades Away,” and “Tonight’s the Night,”—in which remorse and a sense of loss foreground every track. Not that “Prairie?? lacks substance or depth...
...Prairie??’s only real misstep is the cloying and sentimental Elvis tribute “He Was the King.” The track is book-ended by superfluous studio banter, and what transpires between is uniformly bad: platitudinous lyrics, uninspired honky-tonk jamming, and a piss-poor Elvis impersonation, adding insult to injury...
Nothing on “Prairie?? cuts as deeply as career highlights like “Heart of Gold” and “Thrasher.” The album suffers, ironically, from a lack of ambition: typically, Young records are burdened by an excess of stylistic and thematic invention. This album captures him doing what he does best, but not breaking any new ground in the process...
...that reason, “Prairie?? seems stuck between times—neither belonging fully to the present nor the past—just like a photograph...