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Clock Don't Stop is amazing. You just need to get with the programme
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I do like the album but I feel like there are too many mediocre songs that I don't have much of an opinion on. "Relapse" is easily the best imo. I like "Heartbeat", "Like I'll Never Love You Again", "Dirty Laundry", "Church Bells" and "Smoke Break" too.
Also I think it's an unpopular opinion but I can't even listen to "Choctaw County Affair" it's just so terrible.
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Originally posted by Stacey.
I do like the album but I feel like there are too many mediocre songs that I don't have much of an opinion on. "Relapse" is easily the best imo. I like "Heartbeat", "Like I'll Never Love You Again", "Dirty Laundry", "Church Bells" and "Smoke Break" too.
Also I think it's an unpopular opinion but I can't even listen to "Choctaw County Affair" it's just so terrible.
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Don't go to CF, they'd kill you on there for saying that
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Clock Don't Stop is horrible lyrically and I can't get past that.
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Originally posted by Bentley
Clock Dont Stop is the best song on the album and will be it's saving grace if released next.
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SPILL THAT TEA BITCH
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^ no
apparently heartbeat is 70 on the hot 100
i didn't even know it debuted last week
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Originally posted by Tylerbv
Don't go to CF, they'd kill you on there for saying that
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Clock Don't Stop is horrible lyrically and I can't get past that.
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Yup
It's a shame, such an amazing production, wasted
ST is ha best album, and every song is enjoyable even the duds (Mexico, & Clock Don't Chart)
Oh, and CCA is a ****ing gem. And now they say she's lying DEAAAAAD somewhere. Woo
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Originally posted by BlueMoon77
Yup
It's a shame, such an amazing production, wasted
ST is ha best album, and every song is enjoyable even the duds (Mexico, & Clock Don't Chart)
Oh, and CCA is a ****ing gem. And now they say she's lying DEAAAAAD somewhere. Woo
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Your taste
Her best album is still Blown Away by a little bit I think.
I love the way she says Mississippi and DEAAAAAAAAAAD.
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Coming out of ATRL retirement to express my excitement for the Storyteller tour! March can't come soon enough!
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Originally posted by Tylerbv
Your taste
Her best album is still Blown Away by a little bit I think.
I love the way she says Mississippi and DEAAAAAAAAAAD.
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CCA is a gem because of the way she sings it. BA is still amazing, but ST as a whole is better imo.
DYTAM, WAW, and GIG though
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Originally posted by BlueMoon77
ST is ha best album, and every song is enjoyable even the duds (Mexico, & Clock Don't Chart) :
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What don't you like about Mexico?
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Originally posted by Tylerbv
Your taste
Her best album is still Blown Away by a little bit I think.
I love the way she says Mississippi and DEAAAAAAAAAAD.
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I prefer Blown Away as well. I love the rougher, twangier production on Storyteller, but I always had a soft spot for the clean, poppy production on Blown Away.
Mississippay
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Originally posted by Euphoria
What don't you like about Mexico?
I prefer Blown Away as well. I love the rougher, twangier production on Storyteller, but I always had a soft spot for the clean, poppy production on Blown Away.
Mississippay
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The song goes nowhere. It's alright, I still enjoy every song on the album, it's just the others are a lot better than it
You're spot on about the production of both albums. I love how ST expanded her diversity. EXACTLY what I wanted with this album. It leaves the door open for her to do basically whatever she wants to do from hear on out. I feel like she really had a big breakthrough this era.
Heartbeat will be me and my ( next ) future husband's song. I can feel it
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Coming out of ATRL retirement to express my excitement for the Storyteller tour! March can't come soon enough!
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Hey you're still alive
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Originally posted by BlueMoon77
CCA is a gem because of the way she sings it. BA is still amazing, but ST as a whole is better imo.
DYTAM, WAW, and GIG though
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CCA has great lyrics and I love her pronunciation and stuff, but it's just not a favourite. Top half of the album probably though.
BA has higher highs (Blown Away, See You Again, Two Black Cadillacs, Forever Changed, Do You Think About Me, Good in Goodbye etc.) and also came out during a weird time for me which helps. It remains unbothered as my #1 album on last.fm.
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Originally posted by Euphoria
What don't you like about Mexico?
I prefer Blown Away as well. I love the rougher, twangier production on Storyteller, but I always had a soft spot for the clean, poppy production on Blown Away.
Mississippay
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Storyteller has great productions sometimes (especially Chaser, but CCA, Church Bells, Dirty Laundry, Renegade Runaway, and Mexico are neat too), but something about Blown Away just sticks out to me.
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Blown Away is obviously the most superior.
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Blown Away is obviously the most superior.
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Wow you actually have taste. Who knew?
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Originally posted by Tylerbv
Wow you actually have taste. Who knew?
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Originally posted by Tylerbv
Don't go to CF, they'd kill you on there for saying that
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Oop what is CF?
Agreed with everyone saying Blown Away is the superior album. I do like a good amount of songs on Storyteller, but I feel like there are more gems on BA.
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Here's the billboard write up on Heartbeat. Pretty interesting
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New single from "Storyteller" album is a rare love song from the "American Idol" grad.
She has one of the most powerful voices in the business, so Carrie Underwood has a unique challenge with ballads: She admits that dialing back and capturing intimacy is difficult. That’s true not only in performances, but even when she’s creating new music.
“I do it to myself,” she confesses. “Even in writing I’m like, ‘Where’s the money note? Where’s the money note? We need something in there.’ But I started realizing I need songs to give myself a break. I have some really difficult songs, and I have way too much pride to drop the key. So if I want to stop killing myself, in the beginning of the tour at least, I need to stop trying to do [so much].”
Carrie Underwood, Demi Lovato, Luke Bryan and More Ring in 2016 in Times Square for 'New Year's Rockin' Eve'
Enter “Heartbeat,” a ballad that still has a dynamic arc but operates with comparative restraint. Released to radio via Play MPE on Nov. 23, 2015, the morning after she performed it publicly for the first time on ABC’s American Music Awards, the single is a change of pace in multiple ways. It’s relatively quiet, it’s the first Underwood single produced by Zach Crowell (Sam Hunt, Keith Urban), and it’s a love song with a lot of romantic sentiment. The bulk of Underwood’s relationship material has taken a more cynical view of love, such as the vengeful “Two Black Cadillacs,” the cautionary “Good Girl” and the blurry-eyed “Last Name.”
“My brain doesn’t even really think in terms of love songs,” she says. “Most are so fairy tale, unrealistic. Real life is imperfect. I refuse to sing unrealistic love songs.”
Carrie Underwood on Women In Music Honoree Loretta Lynn: 'Women Like Her Paved the Way for Women Like Me'
But Underwood is also willing to test the limits of her comfort zone. That’s a major tenet of Storyteller, as she expanded her production team with tracks overseen by Crowell and Jay Joyce (Eric Church, Little Big Town) in addition to her longtime producer Mark Bright (Sara Evans, Swon Brothers).
However, Crowell didn’t get tabbed for that role until he had already established a good working relationship with Underwood in the writing room. Co-writer Ashley Gorley (“All-American Girl,” “Young & Crazy”) got
Underwood’s consent to bring Crowell (“Hell of a Night,” “Break Up in a Small Town”) along to a writing appointment, and the three of them hit it off.
Crowell did his homework — “I definitely wanted to go out overprepared as opposed to underprepared, because you kind of get one shot at those things,” he reasons — and he found seven or eight different instrumental tracks that he had previously created on his laptop. One of them was a ProTools session that he had forgotten about from roughly two years before. He freshened it up a bit and played it along with the others for Gorley as they rode to the appointment at Underwood’s cabin in Leiper’s Fork, Tenn.
“I was really wanting to find stuff he played that didn’t sound like her, and so that was one that stood out,” says Gorley. “I didn’t know that was going to be the one that day.”
Actually, it was one of two. They also created a more aggressive song. The slow track, meanwhile, took a little coaxing because it seemed to go down that love-song road that Underwood typically avoids. Gorley had a one-word title, “Heartbeat,” that matched the sound of the kick drum in Crowell’s track. He acknowledged that it wasn’t the most original name for a song, but she liked the R&B undercurrent in the track, and they chased the idea a bit.
Underwood talked in general terms that day about how difficult it is for married couples to find time alone together. She and her husband, Nashville Predators hockey player Mike Fisher, haven’t had a vacation alone together since a five-day break for the NHL’s all-star game two years ago. So they set up the song with real-life circumstances as the couple in “Heartbeat” looks for time away from the party crowd.
“We are always dressing up and going places, but never for ourselves,” she says. “We have this charity event or fundraiser. Obviously those words don’t sing well in a song — ‘I love it when we’re at a fundraiser’ — but for us, that’s our life.”
Gorley suggested rhyming “Heartbeat” with “bare feet,” but Underwood was hesitant. She didn’t want anything that would imply barefoot in bed, and she was ultimately the one who came up with the signature image, “standing on your shoes in my bare feet,” which set up the chorus’ conclusion, “dancing to the rhythm of your heartbeat.” It’s sexy without being sexual.
“That’s not a song that you mind your kid listening to,” says Gorley. “It’s more of an in-love relationship thing where you love to be with this person. It’s not a random, pick-up-a-person-in-a-bar, hookup song at all.”
They did a work tape that day, with Underwood singing the melody in one take and Crowell adding background harmonies. He turned it into a more elaborate demo within 48 hours and heard back through Gorley that Underwood’s team liked it. Months later,
Underwood’s manager, The HQ owner/manager Ann Edelblute, engaged Crowell to produce two tracks, including “Heartbeat,” which needed very little work. He booked six hours of studio time for a tracking date and devoted just one of those hours to “Heartbeat,” adding some live musicians to the demo. Underwood sang her final vocal later with little or no direction from Crowell.
“We always joke that somebody’s getting paid too much to produce vocals on Carrie,” says Gorley. “You know, you push ‘record’ like two times and ‘Alright, there it is.’ ”
Everyone thought a male background singer was required, and both Underwood and Crowell had Hunt in mind, though neither wanted to mention it.
“We didn’t want to be like, ‘Hey, Zach, we know you know Sam really well’ — wink, wink, nudge, nudge, ‘Ask him please’ — and put him in a weird position,” says Underwood.
“I didn’t want it to come off like I get a cool gig and immediately try to bring my boys to the show,” notes Crowell.
But he asked if Hunt was open to it, and when Hunt called her “royalty,” Crowell brought the idea into the open. Instead of matching her phrasing verbatim, Crowell got Hunt to shade her a bit, his voice peeking out here and there just enough to make him identifiable in the mix.
“He’s very present in it but not dominating at all, which is kind of the guy’s role in the song,” observes Gorley.
“Heartbeat” was the highest-debuting single on Country Airplay when it entered the chart dated Dec. 12, 2015, at No. 41. It’s now at No. 14 in its eighth week on the list and at No. 12 in its 12th week at Hot Country Songs, where consumer streaming and downloads launched it onto the chart before its official release as a single.
The average person isn’t attending black-tie functions with a hockey player on their arm. But they’re clearly relating to the realism in “Heartbeat.”
“You can substitute a kid’s soccer game,” reasons Underwood. “You can substitute whatever it is in your life that is keeping you from being alone together. I feel like people get it.”
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Link to it
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Here's the billboard write up on Heartbeat. Pretty interesting
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Good article!
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Originally posted by gagacasanova
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Don't use the best character on Friends against me
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Originally posted by Stacey.
Oop what is CF?
Agreed with everyone saying Blown Away is the superior album. I do like a good amount of songs on Storyteller, but I feel like there are more gems on BA.
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Carriefans. A culty website with a few good members.
Blown Away has the best. Blown Away and See You Again alone are better than all of Storyteller
Blown Away > Storyteller > Carnival Ride > Play On > Some Hearts
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Originally posted by Tylerbv
Carriefans. A culty website with a few good members.
Blown Away has the best. Blown Away and See You Again alone are better than all of Storyteller
Blown Away > Storyteller > Carnival Ride > Play On > Some Hearts
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Ah I see.
Yeah completely agreed, "See You Again" is my fave Carrie song. I really need to listen to her other albums too, so many albums to get through right now
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Originally posted by Tylerbv
Good article!
Don't use the best character on Friends against me
Carriefans. A culty website with a few good members.
Blown Away has the best. Blown Away and See You Again alone are better than all of Storyteller
Blown Away > Storyteller > Carnival Ride > Play On > Some Hearts
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It is isn't it? So insightful! I've learnt so much from it.
Finally I agree with you on your album choices
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