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Celeb News: Carrie Underwood is the most significant country artist...
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Carrie Underwood is the most significant country artist...
"Carrie Underwood just might be the most significant country artist of her time, in addition to being the flat-out best singer"
Do you agree?
http://www.countryuniverse.net/2012/...-hunter-hayes/
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There’s a desirable sweet spot in every big performer’s career where they finally have a large number of hits to fill out a two-hour show, a compelling enough current album to sustain audience interest between the hits, and the appropriate level of earned confidence to take some bold risks in staging and presentation.
Carrie Underwood just hit that sweet spot. Her Blown Away Tour hit Newark on Saturday, playing to an arena packed with fans of all ages. It’s an arena show, too, filled with pyrotechnics and special effects and a backing band that shook the cheap seats on the more rocking numbers. Opening with “Good Girl”, Underwood tore through an opening section which included a healthy mix of hits from all four of her studio albums.
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Vocally, Underwood was nearly flawless, never missing a note but occasionally losing her breath while she enthusiastically engaged the audience. At times, she seemed a little overwhelmed by her band, most notably during a painfully loud cover of Aerosmith’s “Sweet Emotion.” When the arrangements were slower or simpler, with her voice accompanied by only a handful of instruments, she sounded better than I’ve ever heard a powerhouse vocalist sound in concert When you combine her precision with the very few liberties the band took with the studio arrangements, and you could be forgiven for thinking you were listening to an actual studio recording. She really is that good. She somehow elevated the fan favorite “I Know You Won’t” to staggering new heights, and that’s a song that seemed superhuman even as a studio recording. I repeat, she really is that good. But most impressive was when she revisited older tracks like “Jesus, Take the Wheel” and “Wasted”, and actually improved on them, showing how much she has grown in interpretive skill and vocal nuance since the beginning of her career..
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Underwood was classy and thoroughly charming throughout. That light shines through even when her material’s at its darkest. It was a minor annoyance for me that I was surrounded by tweens, teens, and twenty-somethings that stood for the whole show and sang along with far too many songs. But seeing a whole row of those tweens in Carrie Underwood t-shirts, clearly at their first big concert and hanging on every word that their idol sang, I was struck with a deep appreciation for this artist. I’ve always been grateful that she respected the genre’s traditions and institutions, but I’m always worried about preserving the genre’s past. She’s also securing its future, as perhaps the only artist in country music history who can pack an arena that is equal parts tween, young adult, and the rest of us. In that sense, she just might be the most significant country artist of her time, in addition to being the flat-out best singer.
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yes.
shes amazing.
bringing country into the mainstream
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of her time? yes 
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"most significant country artist of her time" - No. That title belongs to the new outlaws.
"flat-out best singer" - Yes, she is.
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Lmao. No. Way. In. ****ing. Hell.
Not even the most significant female in an industry with bad bitches like Reba, Dolly, the Judd's, and Patsy Cline.
I find this very thread insulting to their legacys.
I think that Jason Aldean might be the most significant of this time tbh even though I ****ing hate him and even though she may not sell as much as Carrie Miranda definitely has the country music audience and e critics in the palm of her hands.
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Originally posted by Whatevaaaaa
Lmao. No. Way. In. ****ing. Hell.
Not even the most significant female in an industry with bad bitches like Reba, Dolly, the Judd's, and Patsy Cline.
I find this very thread insulting to their legacys.
I think that Jason Aldean might be the most significant of this time tbh even though I ****ing hate him and even though she may not sell as much as Carrie Miranda definitely has the country music audience and e critics in the palm of her hands.
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Holy ****. I forgot Miranda. Definitely her, if we're talking about 'most significant mainstream Country artist today,' personally I'd still go with Elizabeth Cooks tho. But totally disagree with Jason Aldean. Eric Church is, not him. 
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What? 
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Originally posted by Whatevaaaaa
Lmao. No. Way. In. ****ing. Hell.
Not even the most significant female in an industry with bad bitches like Reba, Dolly, the Judd's, and Patsy Cline.
I find this very thread insulting to their legacys.
I think that Jason Aldean might be the most significant of this time tbh even though I ****ing hate him and even though she may not sell as much as Carrie Miranda definitely has the country music audience and e critics in the palm of her hands.
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of her time
your ****ing hell reading skill
Jason Aldean is not even close to the word significant, he only got famous for My Kinda Party, he's probably a nobody before that. And his music is beyond horrible. Brad, Keith or Blake >>>>>>>>>>>>>
Miranda got the acclaim but she did not get the audience
let's not forget the most important part
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But seeing a whole row of those tweens in Carrie Underwood t-shirts, clearly at their first big concert and hanging on every word that their idol sang, I was struck with a deep appreciation for this artist. I’ve always been grateful that she respected the genre’s traditions and institutions, but I’m always worried about preserving the genre’s past. She’s also securing its future, as perhaps the only artist in country music history who can pack an arena that is equal parts tween, young adult, and the rest of us
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Who else could impact from baby, tween, teen, young adult, adult, housewives, pregnant women... to oldie?
and who else could both respect the genre's trandition and secure its future at the same time (probably not a certain one)
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Carrie stans need stop
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Originally posted by thediscomonkey
Holy ****. I forgot Miranda. Definitely her, if we're talking about 'most significant mainstream Country artist today,' personally I'd still go with Elizabeth Cooks tho. But totally disagree with Jason Aldean. Eric Church is, not him. |
But Jason has like 6 consecutive #1's.
Having one #1 song that was huge and a bug album doesn't make you more relevant.
I havre Jason and love Eric though.
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Originally posted by FelixMonster
yes.
shes amazing.
bringing country into the mainstream
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Also I believe we can thank Taylor for bringing country into the mainstream
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Originally posted by Whatevaaaaa
But Jason has like 6 consecutive #1's.
Having one #1 song that was huge and a bug album doesn't make you more relevant.
I havre Jason and love Eric though.
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Brad has 10 consecutive #1s
and i feel like Jason is a "one-hit-wonder" type, he's maybe one of the biggest country acts right now but in 2 or 3 more years, he'll be back to his places
we did not write this article, stop what? Mad?
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Sorry Carrie and her basic music weren't worth reading that entire thing.
I saw the title and READ HA DOWN.
And Miranda's music is 100000000000X better than Arries and her audience isn't that much smaller than Carries.
Obviously the CMAS and all country award shows like her more.
And don't come for my reading skills.
Being rude for no ****ing reason peon.
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that's why your post is invalid
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that's why your post is invalid
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You know what I take that back I stan for Just a Holy Dream. But that's it.
I don't think anyone honestly considers her the biggest person in country music.
I mean like her or not (even if her music is ore pop infused) Taylor is 10000% that without a doubt.
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Country Universe hasn't historically been kind to Carrie, so this review is surprising.
Carrie burst out of "American Idol" with an album that went 7x platinum and subsequently introduced a new generation of fans to the country genre. If it wasn't for Carrie I would still be listening to the generic tripe heard on Top 40 radio; instead I've discovered a genre of music where the lyrics have meaning.
The most significant country artist of her time? I'm not qualified to answer that question. However, I would take the word of someone writing for a country publication over a certain Rhianna fan who labels Carrie's music as "basic" (oh, the irony!) any day of the week.
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She's the most significant to me. Does that count? 
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Taylor Swift, duh. She may have gone over to pop, but she started as a country artist, and experience major success as one.
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Originally posted by teddies
Country Universe hasn't historically been kind to Carrie, so this review is surprising.
Carrie burst out of "American Idol" with an album that went 7x platinum and subsequently introduced a new generation of fans to the country genre. If it wasn't for Carrie I would still be listening to the generic tripe heard on Top 40 radio; instead I've discovered a genre of music where the lyrics have meaning.
The most significant country artist of her time? I'm not qualified to answer that question. However, I would take the word of someone writing for a country publication over a certain Rhianna fan who labels Carrie's music as "basic" (oh, the irony!) any day of the week.
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What does my liking of Rihanna have to do with this?
Why are you so ****ing pretentious?
Miranda is a million times better than Carrie when she is doing her "meaningful" music and Taylor slays her when Carrie is trying to do her "pop" music.
In the end she is just a watered down poor mans version of greater, past country divas.
I can't be mad at her, middle of the road country music is what's big... But she has the potential to be so much more.
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Originally posted by Austin
Taylor Swift, duh. She may have gone over to pop, but she started as a country artist, and experience major success as one.
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wait til all of the Taylor fans(because we all live in the US be ause our fave is so local I know) get out of school. This thread will look a whole lot different
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