And if the reviews were actually written in more than a 60 minute time period so they can understand the album as a whole instead of rushing to write the next album?
Like, is it too hard to learn to love and listen to each song individually than come to a consensus? It's ridiculous, I feel their should be a certain level of professionalism in the reviews but when there's spelling errors in the first damn paragraph its hard to take it seriously.
I didn't notice all of this, but now that you mention it
Jay Joyce and Carrie Underwood make strange bedfellows, and that’s the point.
So, why Joyce? Underwood is a firm believer that when you do the same things with the same people, you get the same results.
“I feel that’s my fear as an artist, is creating the same stuff over and over again,” she reveals. “And I see it happen to amazing artists. Eventually you can sing their old songs to their new songs. I don’t know, you just want to see them go somewhere.”
“I don’t ever want people to pigeonhole me into one specific thing. I want to do what people wouldn’t expect me to do,” she furthers.
Joyce, Underwood explains, doesn’t treat the album-making process as a routine. She brags on his creativity and ingenuity. At one point during the recording, she pointed to a group of strange instruments resting on a bench and asked what they were. “He’s like, ‘I don’t know, bought it at a garage sale,’” she says, impersonating him. “He would use something like that. He don’t know what it is, but it sounds cool and he can make it sound cool and put it through this filter thing and it’s gonna find its home on a song.”
Following the success of her debut single “Jesus Take the Wheel” — and after that, “Before He Cheats” — Underwood says she began to sense writers using a formula to create the “next Carrie Underwood hit.” She discouraged it, and the result has been surprising changes from album to album. “Heartbeat” (her collaboration with Sam Hunt) is as surprising as “Blown Away” was three years ago. The songs couldn’t be more different, but both leave one saying “Carrie Underwood is singing that?”
“I don’t want to spend my whole life chasing something from the beginning. I want to be able to make new awesome things and just keep ever-expanding and changing and growing,” she assures, “As a person and as an artist.”
“I don’t want to be pigeonholed,” she reiterates, this time as if she’s said it a thousand times over the last five years.