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Two Black Cadillacs
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Written by Underwood with Hillary Lindsey and Josh Kear, this current single continues Underwood’s string of story songs with a dark edge. "Josh lives a few houses down from me," says Lindsey. "He’s like a mad scientist. He sits at home and comes up with ideas. He had the "two black Cadillacs" idea. It was a little more soulful so it was fun creating the story. Carrie took the video to another level."
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All American Girl
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Based on their success with "Don't Forget to Remember Me," Kelley Lovelace and Ashley Gorley were scheduled for a one-day writing session with Underwood. They completed one song and figured that was it. "Carrie said, 'That didn't take long. I guess we've got time to write another one,'" says Lovelace. He pitched a song fragment he had for a song called "All-American Girl." "Carrie said, 'It's not about me, is it?' I said, 'No, it's about this guy who wanted a boy but has a daughter.' She said it was like her dad when he had her. From there, it took two-and-a-half hours. I hate to say it was magical, but the chemistry was perfect. Ashley and I were really excited. We went out in the parking lot, looked at each other and said, 'What the hell just happened?'"
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So Small
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Luke Laird remembers the second day he got together with Hillary Lindsey and Carrie Underwood to write songs. "Hillary was playing mandolin and I was playing guitar." Lindsey explains, "I can't really play the mandolin but I can make a sound. I started playing a lick while Luke was on the phone and he pointed at me to keep playing so I wouldn't forget it. We had a melody but no idea. A friend's father had passed away and as we were talking, someone said, 'That's what matters. It makes everything else so small.'" Laird continues: "I woke up in the middle of the night, put on my headphones, listened to it and thought, 'This feels really special.'"
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Good Girl
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Underwood was in Los Angeles when she met with Ashley Gorley and Chris DeStefano for a writing session. Gorley came up with the title that morning. "We worked through two or three different grooves with that title," he remembers. "Then we started something else, but came back to it. We got the 'Good girl, no good for you.’ We kept coming up with cool sections of the song. Most songs are verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus. This is more verse, pre-chorus, chorus, post chorus and then something else and another part of the chorus. It was different, especially for country. We were writing over the electric guitar licks and drum patterns you hear on the record. Being in L.A. probably made us go a little more out of the box. But I’m not afraid to rock with her. She crushed the song."
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Like some of these make it seem Carrie just added song writing credits on it. 
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