Miss America is the second studio album by American rock band Saving Abel, released on June 8, 2010. The album title comes from the song of the same name, with lead singer Jared Weeks explaining the choice as the band wanting "to give something back" to the American soldiers who serve overseas. The first single from the album, Stupid Girl (Only In Hollywood) was released as a digital single on April 8, 2010 and released to radio on April 26, 2010. It contains the use of Auto-Tune.

The album debuted at No. 24 on the Billboard 200, making it their best charting album to date

This was their final release on Virgin Records before moving to eOne Music.

Saving Abel frontman Jared Weeks said fans will hear "a much more mature band" with the release of "Miss America," ."We've been out on the road for three years," Weeks told Billboard.com, "but what we did was any time we had a day off somewhere, we'd fly down to Nashville and write a song or two, then fly right out and do a show. So we're out on the road and experiencing things, so it was easy to have stuff to write about. I'm super-confident this album is gonna back up our first album," 2008's gold-certified "Saving Abel."

The singer described the 11-track album, produced again by Skidd Mills, as "versatile" but true to the character of its predecessor. "One of the strongest things that we're proud of here is our Southern heritage, man, and you can tell that in this album," Weeks said. "We do throw a little bit more rock 'n' roll in there, but we've got a little more in-depth than the Southern twang that made Saving Abel who it was when 'Addicted' (the ubiquitous radio hit from 'Saving Abel') came out."

Weeks said that several of the new album's songs—including "Bloody Sunday," "Hell of a Ride" and the ballad "Angel Without Wings" – have been around for the better part of a year and even road-tested. But like "Addicted," "Miss America's" first single, "Stupid Girl (Only in Hollywood)," was one of the last songs written for the album, shortly after the group's trip to this year's Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles.

"There was a little bit of pressure," he recalls, " 'cause we thought we were done and (the label) wanted another single, so we had to go back and write. I had just gotten back from the Grammys, and I read a quote from Marilyn Monroe where she said that a wise girl always kisses before she's kissed...So that's basically how the chorus of the song goes, 'You always kiss before you're kissed/You're not a stupid girl.' It's not really calling a girl stupid.' "

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