As bewildered as any emo kid, Chittlin' the writer is more articulate than most aspiring singers twice her age; she has more to say, and instead of overly earnest emotional reactions, she deals in details: "I was walking/With your left hand in my back pocket/And I stared at the sky while you kissed me," she sings in "For Today," her voice melting over a lap steel guitar. It's not hard to imagine her eclipsing even the best of her mentors.