sentences:  Tamarkin criticized producer Nathan Chapman for applying "a gloss that not all [songs] really require and in some cases would do better to shed".Rick Bell of "Country Standard Time" gave a positive review, saying that Swift had "smart songwriting" and that "her deeply personal, self-penned songs, particularly 'The Outside' and 'Our Song'" were "stirring".He compared her sound to Cyndi Thomson and Hilary Duff.