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BREAKING — Rolling Stone Music reports that Brad Paisley has come to the defense of William Shatner's new spoken-word album, pushing back against the easy assumption that a 95-year-old Star Trek veteran recording poetry over music must be some kind of novelty act. Paisley, who co-produced the record titled Love & Other Mysteries, insists the project is not gimmicky at all and frames it instead as an amazing lesson. The collaboration between a country mainstream staple and an actor whose musical ambitions have long been treated as punchline fodder raises the question of what we dismiss too quickly when the packaging does not match our expectations.
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