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Fan Base: Carrie Underwood
Member Since: 7/15/2012
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When is the deadline for the rates? I'll try and send in by Wednesday.
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Member Since: 5/22/2011
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Originally posted by Right Now
When is the deadline for the rates? I'll try and send in by Wednesday.
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The nomination period is until Wednesday, December 12th. If you click the link in my signature it'll take you to all the categories, rules, etc. I want to try to have something nice for the Carrie fan base on here but it's hard when I only got three submissions so far. 
For everyone, please please please try to participate!
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Member Since: 7/15/2012
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Sent mine  I must win one 
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Member Since: 8/1/2012
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I will send mine in tomorrow, as I am suppose to be finishing up my Accounting homework but I am slacking
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Member Since: 8/25/2012
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I wish I was able to afford so many concert tickets like you, I was going to see her in Kingston on March 28th but I just don't have the funds to do so. 
She looks so hot, I mean she's absolutely gorgeous. Mike isn't bad either. 
The Toronto date for the first leg wasn't announced until halfway through, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's announced later on.
ALSO GUYS, Please send me in your submissions for the Carrie Underwood Stan Awards.  |
Carrie looks AMAZING!!! Love simplicity on her!!!! I always thought Carrie was too pretty for Mike, IMO. Anyway, any news on when the Video Of The Year will be out??
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Member Since: 8/5/2012
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I'm starting to poke around other parts of ATRL. I love Carrie a ton and just read about her playing Maria in the Sound of Music and just felt the need to come stan for her somewhere.
So hello, Carrie fan, country music fan, etc. I've seen her live at least 4 times (including various country awards shows and festivals). She's always fabulous.
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Oh right, Idk why but just when I'm in ATRL some TayTay stans immediately come in and "Oh hello, I love TayTay and now I love Carrie too. Be nice to me and I will consider whether Carrie is as good as Queen TayTay or not"  Am I a magnet or something?
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Member Since: 5/22/2011
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Originally posted by Skittles
I'm starting to poke around other parts of ATRL. I love Carrie a ton and just read about her playing Maria in the Sound of Music and just felt the need to come stan for her somewhere.
So hello, Carrie fan, country music fan, etc. I've seen her live at least 4 times (including various country awards shows and festivals). She's always fabulous.
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The more Carrie stans the merrier! 
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Member Since: 7/15/2012
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That's NOT even a stan...
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Member Since: 8/26/2011
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Originally posted by getback
Oh right, Idk why but just when I'm in ATRL some TayTay stans immediately come in and "Oh hello, I love TayTay and now I love Carrie too. Be nice to me and I will consider whether Carrie is as good as Queen TayTay or not" Am I a magnet or something? |
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Member Since: 8/5/2012
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The more Carrie stans the merrier! |
Party on. I missed the Blown Away tour when it was in my city and I hate myself, I just couldn't afford it. I saw the Carnival Ride and Play On tours though (The set from the Play On tour is my favorite set from any tour I've seen. It was magical) She's going to come back to this general area in February, time to start selling my belongings on ebay! Or a body part. Anyone want a nephew? He's cute. His parents might miss him though.
I've had Wasted on repeat all day. <3
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Member Since: 5/22/2011
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Party on. I missed the Blown Away tour when it was in my city and I hate myself, I just couldn't afford it. I saw the Carnival Ride and Play On tours though (The set from the Play On tour is my favorite set from any tour I've seen. It was magical) She's going to come back to this general area in February, time to start selling my belongings on ebay! Or a body part. Anyone want a nephew? He's cute. His parents might miss him though.
I've had Wasted on repeat all day. <3
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This is my first time seeing her so I'm beyond pumped, I was going to see her in March but I can't.
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Member Since: 5/4/2012
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another 26k of the album sold
bad bitch
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 With 2 more singles left, let's see if this masterpiece can reach 2xPlatinum 
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With 2 more singles left, let's see if this masterpiece can reach 2xPlatinum |
Can it outsell Play On? 
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I think if she does a lot of active promotion before her second leg, and gets a few huge slots like the PCAs and Grammys - 2x Platinum is certainly possible. I still think Blown Away should be discounted until the first week of January and really stack up on the sales, Even if it's only for $6.99 it's still better than no sale.
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Carrie Underwood with Hunter Hayes
The Blown Away Tour
Prudential Center
Newark, NJ
December 1, 2012
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.
But the show didn’t hit its stride until the second section, when she surprised the audience with the appearance of a choir from local elementary school P.S. 22. They supported her in a touching rendition of “So Small” that lived up to its name, stripping the bombast from the studio recording and letting the lyric shine over the sweet harmonies that only bewilderingly talented tots can produce in unison. The arena felt as intimate as a sitting room as she sang “Temporary Home”, which seemed to have her on the verge of tears by the third verse.
After a few more hits, the show peaked with an ingenious third act that had Underwood floating above the audience on a moving platform. Why was it ingenious? It solved a few arena show dilemmas at once, keeping the entire audience riveted while the artist sang unfamiliar album cuts. At the point of the set list usually designed for bathroom breaks, Underwood had the entire arena on their feet, cheekily waving to and interacting with the audience members all around her, and even those directly under her. These are the benefits of a clear plexiglass floor, you see.
At times, the staging was a bit too ambitious. The video screens that were used so effectively for visual songs like “Two Black Cadillacs” were a glaring distraction for much of the show, with random patterns that looked more like late nineties Windows screen savers than anything else. Transitional interludes featured some interesting animation, but it was interrupted by glamour shots of Underwood, as if they were afraid we’d forget about her while she was changing costumes backstage. But the opening and closing projections centered around “Blown Away” were executed brilliantly, among the best I’ve seen in an arena show.
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.
Those hits from the first album, along with the pre-encore closer “Before He Cheats”, where absolutely the biggest crowd-pleasers, giving anecdotal evidence to the theory that Underwood’s greatest competition has been herself. Those early hits have overshadowed everything she’s done since, successful as she’s been. But I discovered something when she closed the show with “Blown Away.” The audience roared at the opening notes, after having been teased mercilessly with clips from the video all night. There was more energy and excitement during that performance than at any other moment. It’s her first career record in years.
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.
I missed the first couple of songs by opening act Hunter Hayes, but judging by the piercing adolescent screams that permeated the arena, he won’t be an opening act for much longer. I must say that he’s remarkably talented. I expected the country arrangements and the solid vocals, but his prowess with both the guitar and the piano took me by surprise. He’s somewhere between Keith Urban without the gravitas and Gary LeVox without the nasal drip. Hopefully, he’ll keep honing his songwriting skills and his audience will stick around as he develops. He’s got more promise than most of his contemporaries.
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She's the country queen of are generation.
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She's the country queen of are generation. |
That was an amazing review! Oh my god! A true queen.
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Great review
They were so nice to Hunter too 
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