Carrie Underwood - "American Girl"

This video is SO CUTE! And the nod at the end to "Before He Cheats" was a nice touch. Check out Carrie Underwood's music video for "American Girl", her second single from the album Carnival Ride:

Carrie - A-AG [jonnyaliblog.blogspot.com]
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Carrie Underwood - Carnival Ride

Today, MSN Canada posted a full sneak peek of Carrie's new album, Carnival Ride which will hit the stores on Oct. 23. I have listened to the whole album once and have some initial thoughts. First, it's a good album but I don't think it's as good as Some Hearts. When I first heard Some Hearts I didn't think it was a very good album and was a little disappointed in it. However, after listening to a couple of times I grew to love it and it's one of my favorite Idol albums yet. I feel like Carnival Ride is trying to be a little more "serious" and the songs don't have the same fun feel to them that some of the songs on Some Hearts did.

The other big thing that I noticed about it is that they are really trying to show off Carrie's voice. We all know that she has a powerful voice but it seems like every song has a power note in it that she's always going for. After a while it gets really old and begins to sound as if she's yelling through every song (I Know You Won't is the worst offender of this. I almost just skipped the song because I got tired of the high note over and over again).

With that being said, I did hear about 4 songs that will probably make radio play and I am sure that those songs will only give Carrie many more awards in the next year or two. I am sure that this will be another huge album for her. Grade on the initial listen: B-. I am sure that will change after I've listened to it a couple of times.

To hear the album go to MSN Canada.

Carrie Hits A(nother) High Note

Carrie Underwood's new single, So Small, the lead track from her second album (due Oct. 23), makes its debut on the Radio & Records/Billboard country chart at No. 20. That's the highest debut position for a solo country female singer in Nielsen BDS history ... as well as the highest debut for any song this year.

GO CARRIE!

Carrie's New Single!! - So Small

Carrie released her new single (the first from her upcoming album) today to radio stations. It seems like a station in North Carolina was the first to play it. I was able to hear it, and I gotta say I think Carrie has a HUGE hit on her hands. This is a song very similar to Jesus, Take the Wheel in theme and her voice really soars all over it. I am sensing a ton more awards are going to be coming her way this next year. And if this song is any indication of what the rest of her album is going to sound like then I think Carrie will indeed be the best selling Idol of all time.

Thanks to Kevipodmusic.blogspot.com for ripping it and posting on their site. If you would like to hear the song click here.

Carrie Underwood, Queen of Country

Congratulations goes out to Carrie Underwood for winning 3 American Country Music (ACM) awards last night. She won for Best Video (Before He Cheats), Best Country Album, and Best Female Vocalist! I think it's safe to say that Carrie is firmly rooted in Nashville now and will be a huge country star once it's all said and done.

In other ACM news, Kellie Pickler was nominated for Best New Female Vocalist (but lost to Miranda Lambert, who has actually been nominated for ACM awards before so I'm not sure how she's suddenly a new vocalist). Chris Young (winner of Nashville Star 4) was nominated for Best New Male Vocalist but lost (very sad about that. He's great!) . And finally, Kelly Clarkson made an appearance to debut her new duet with Reba McIntire that will be on Reba's new duet album in Sept. Reba decided to remake "Because of You" with Kelly and I gotta say, it was AWESOME! Reba added a whole new dimension to the story aspect of the song and it sounded very heartfelt. And of course, hearing Reba and Kelly singing over, under and all around each other was just great. The crowd went crazy when the song was done. Listen for it on your country station as it went out to radio yesterday. I think it's going to be a huge hit.

Idol Updates

• The cast of Broadway's 'RENT' will be adding American Idol, Season 1 finalist Tamyra Gray to their family. She will start performing on May 29th in the role of Mimi.
• Carrie Underwood's charity single "I'll Stand By You" set a record this week as the first ever digitally-released track to debut in the Billboard Top 10 (#6, to be specific) and without any radio airplay!
• Elliott Yamin will return to the Idol stage on May 16th to perform.
  

Fans Love Her, They Really Love Her!

Carrie Underwood once again proved to be an unstoppable force in country music last night when she took on, and beat out, Kenny Chesney, Dixie Chicks, Rascal Flatts and other country superstars at the CMT Awards. Carrie went 3 for 3 winning Best Director of a Video, Best Female Video and Video of the Year for "Before He Cheats". This award show is all based on fan votes so it looks like the people really do love Carrie. Congratulations Carrie! But seriously, what is she wearing? Are those Flashdance socks/legwarmers making a comeback?

You can read the whole article here. [via E! Online]