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\n\tCherry Valley might be a real town in Tennessee, but for Carter Faith<\/a>, her Cherry Valley<\/a><\/em> exists in her imagination. And now, on her debut album. Out Friday, the rising country star\u2019s excellent first record finds her navigating the turbulence of early adulthood, lost love, and the kind of over-the-top emotions (and irony) that come with life changes with an unmistakable country twang.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI would write songs, and some of them would live in Cherry Valley and some of them didn\u2019t,\u201d Faith tells Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cIt was just this fantastical dreamland that I created in my head, and I wanted my songs to live in that world too. I love the drama. I wanted them all to feel like they could fit in that very weird, Alice in Wonderland <\/em>world.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tFor Faith, Cherry Valley became an escape \u2014 a world where she could unload emotions she often sidestepped in real life, spinning them into hyper-emotional lyrics and tongue-in-cheek lines about breakups, boys, and a chihuahua named Betty. She credits Lana Del Rey (\u201cqueen of drama\u201d), Kacey Musgraves (\u201cqueen of simplifying a complex emotion but adding color\u201d), and Taylor Swift (\u201cqueen of doing everything all at once\u201d) as the blueprints for her songwriting style.<\/p>\n