Despite the ingratiating hook and peppiness of the title cut of this album, whose paint-splattered video is currently making the rounds on CMT, I found the hyperbole in this album's press material hard to swallow.

At 20 years old this woman is WRITING songs too? Powerhouse writers from Beth Nielsen Chapman to Diane Warren to Phil Vasser are writing for her saying she's a super star of tomorrow? Producers all over Nashville saying they had to find special microphones to handle her opera-worthy pipes?

All of this about a girl who so far just seems to be able to sing one peppy country-pop song?

Again, As DOES happen, believe it or not, was I EVER wrong. Wrong to not believe this hype. Wrong to think it just WAS hype.

This may be the most staggering country debut to come along since Leann Rimes. This woman's writing talent, delivery, presentation and shocking amount of professional presence WAY beyond her years are absolutely stunning.

This amazing CD opens with the aforementioned title track, a bubbly bit of irresistible fluff, followed by a cut just as addicting, the Phil Vasser (" Carlene") penned "Yeah Right."

As for "Tell me I am the One".. tell me she has to be CHANNELING to write AND sing a song as maturely powerful as this whopper of a cut. " Someday" comes dangerously close to being too cute but Ms. Day ends up pulling this Debbie Gibson-goes-to-Nashville ditty off. " Somebody Else's Guy" is a nice song that makes her into a female Bryan White without going so far into the cheeseball territory his songs often inhabit. " What If It's Me" is a heartbreaking together-but-alone song I am sure Trisha Yearwood is sorry she didn't get her hands on first. "Gone By Dawn " is a THRILLING screw-you song I can't wait to sing along with at the top of my lungs in my truck. " I Turn to You" is like all of Diane Warren's other torchy songs, a bit saccharine, but put together like a Swiss watch.

The final three songs on this astounding disc do not disappoint either, but finish this dynamite CD off with a flourish." Disappear" channels the same thrilling escapism of Jo Dee Messina's debut smash "Heads Carolina, Tails California." Faith Hill, I am sure, is kicking herself she didn't get hold of the torchy and wonderful "Fearless," but the concluding cut "Completely" is a wonderful paean in style and feel to Mrs. McGraw's current blockbuster, " Breathe."

The only other review I have read of this album so far was very wrong and VERY unfair. A writer claimed this whole CD is just too pop to be country AT ALL. What tin ears that idiot must have. Yes, pop hooks are plentiful but you can hear Patsy Cline here, as well as Trisha Yearwood and Faith Hill in this staggering debut from a mega-talented girl whose press material claims, " She is the bridge between today and tomorrow " ( re: female country artists).

That is a mighty dramatic statement. But from this aural evidence, It also may just be the God's honest truth. A new "Day " has dawned indeed.