Cowriting and producing this album with folks like Jerrod Bettis (Adele), Jon Levine (Serena Ryder), Roccstar (Chris Brown), and Jerry Wonda (Fugees) gives Melissa Etheridge her most modern-sounding hard rock album to date. Throughout the album, her producers add touches of 21st-century R&B (“All the Way Home,” “Ain’t That Bad”) or modernize her Midwestern hard rock (“Stranger Road”). Sing-along choruses sprout up consistently, but she’s mostly pushing her tough-girl roots into new territory. The first single, “Take My Number,” would be the album's most heartfelt tune if not for the piano closer, the lone solo Etheridge composition.