Product Details
- Artist: Carrie Underwood
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- Binding: Audio CD
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- EAN: 0886971122121
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- Label: Arista
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- Manufacturer: Arista
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- Number of Discs: 1
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- Product Group: Music
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- Publisher: Arista
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- Release Date: 2007-10-23
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- Studio: Arista
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- Title: Carnival Ride
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- UPC: 886971122121
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Avg Customer Rating: 
Product Description: Carrie Underwood's Some Hearts, hastily made and released some five months after she won the 2005 American Idol crown, was surprisingly solid and tuneful. For her follow-up, producer Mark Bright steers her toward the big Martina McBride skies, with a plethora of strings and huge emotional crescendos. Underwood co-wrote four songs, mostly with the tried-and-true tunesmiths who made Some Hearts soar. On the torchy heartache ballad "I Know You Won't," she gives a beautifully nuanced and controlled performance, but if that song would suit any number of lush female pop stars from Celine Dion on down, "Flat on the Floor" rocks hard while preserving co-writer Ashley Monroe's Appalachian angst. Still, there are missteps: the easy tears of the unlikely war ballad "Just a Dream," a too-obvious attempt to repeat the sass of "Before He Cheats" ("The More Boys I Meet"), and the Shania-ish bad-girl-on-Cuervo stomp of "Last Name." The big payoff, then, is how much 24-year old Underwood has improved as a vocalist. How often listeners line up for this Carnival Ride depends on their attitude about country music's continual melding with pop, and how they feel about a princess upstart taking home the awards that used to go to her heroes. --Alanna Nash Carrie Underwood Photos More from Carrie Underwood 
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Customer Reviews
More Country - Less Pop Album
Wow, I never thought that Carrie can top her debut album. But she did - with flying colors.
I do not know why some people think she's over-rated. She's very talented. She has a great voice that somehow gives me goose-bumps whenever I listen to her. She's just awesome.
My fave tracks in the album are All-American Girl, Crazy Dreams, I Told You So (A cover of the Randy Travis original) and The More Boys I Meet. This album has much more country sounds than Some Hearts.
Even if they sell this CD for twice more the amount, it would still be very much worth it. This amazing CD makes the skip button on my CD player totally useless.
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Fantastic CD. I love every song!
Carrie did a excellent job on her second CD. This is a great gift for any country lover.
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Carrie Underwood
LOVE this CD.
If you like a combo of country and rock she is your girl.
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Continued success for miss underwood
I try to find cds I can listen to beginning to end and not have to skip bad songs. This album falls in that category. A very good cd.
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Buy CD, you have no idea...
If you have the slightest interest in hearing Carrie BUY THIS CD. You've seen her in American Idol, heard a radio song or two of hers. You have no idea what is in store for you when you listen to the full CD! Wow.
Some producer got every bit of vocal abilities recorded here. Purchase now and prepare to be blown away...
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