Looking for a musical update of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis? Janelle Monáe has been describing the adventures of her alter ego, the android Cindi Mayweather, since her debut EP, Metropolis, Suite I: The Chase. New release (Wondaland Arts Society/Bad Boy/Atlantic tour dates) In other words, whereas Taylor-made music these days pushes the pop into the Red, Crow’s idea of Home - whether “Stay at Home Mother,” “Homecoming Queen,” or “Homesick” - still feels like country. It’s telling, too, that “Crazy Ain’t Original” dismisses our reality-TV culture not with an over-the-top rocker but with a cozy hand-clapper. They include “We Oughta Be Drinkin’,” sly instead of sloshed, and “Stay at Home Mother,” almost a prayer. There’s also plenty of power in the ballad “Give It to Me.” Still, some of the finest moments here aren’t the biggest gestures but the ones that stay within themselves.

Often, the results are truly divine, as in the crisp electric-guitar riffs on “Shotgun” and the breezy chorus hook of “Easy” - not to mention “Best of Times,” which takes those guitars and that kind of chorus and puts them together in the same song. When I moved here, pretty early on Vince Gill started calling me to do guitar pulls, and I thought, ‘Gosh, this is just like heaven on earth down here.’ ” It’s the thing I’ve been missing my whole career - the feeling of being able to sit around with a guitar and have people know each other’s songs and know songs from people who’ve influenced all of us. In her press materials, Crow explains the benefit of both living and working in Nashville: Before she moved there, she hadn’t realized “what an amazing community it is. She enlisted Justin Niebank as co-producer and got help throughout from various co-writers, led by Brad Paisley collaborator Chris DuBois (with Paisley himself credited on one track). But Crow did make her new album in Nashville, which is actually her current home.

Her last one for that label, the soul-inspired 100 Miles from Memphis, wasn’t recorded in the titular town. make that Warner Music Nashville - after seven studio efforts for A&M.

She can indeed, judging from the evidence on Feels Like Home, her first album for Warner Bros.

You can buy Janelle Monáe’s “The electric lady” below It’s conceivable that Sheryl Crow was listening to the likes of Lady Antebellum, The Band Perry, and even The Superstar Swift until she said to herself, “I can do that.” Which is to say, “I can make sharp, catchy country music.”

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