Overall, One Of The Boys is as strong and authentic a musical statement as Gretchen has ever made. "I didn't put a song on this record--didn't even record one--that I didn't think was a great song," she says, "and I believe that lyrically and emotionally they're as true as anything I've ever done. It's just like pages out of a diary--they're really true stories and emotions and feelings and things that happened."