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Fan Base: Carrie Underwood
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Originally posted by Daraebe
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Mezik  snatch those tickets
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She is squeezing in a lot of Canada dates on the second leg in the smaller markets
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Member Since: 5/22/2011
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Originally posted by Daraebe
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I might be allowed to attend this date, I'm still trying to work some things out.. hopefully I can go. 
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Member Since: 5/22/2011
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Originally posted by getback
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Carrie Underwood triumphs at the ACC
By Ben Rayner Pop Music Critic
Well, that makes total sense.
There are pop stars whose popularity will forever remain a source of bafflement to their doubters, and then there are pop stars who — whether you’re personally on board with what they do or not — waltz across the stage with such undeniable ownership of their craft that it immediately becomes obvious why they’re there.
Carrie Underwood falls into the latter camp.
Yes, from the looks of the splashy touring production the 29-year-old Oklahoma native led into a packed-out and thoroughly “gone girly” Air Canada Centre on Sunday night, an enormous amount of money has been invested in solidifying Underwood’s burgeoning status as one of America’s most bankable A-list entertainers. And yes, by the expansive, arena-ready sound of it, an enormous amount of money also went into ensuring that her most recent album, this past May’s million-selling Blown Away, was stacked with tunes readymade to be played in expansive arenas such as the Air Canada Centre.
The deep degrees of delight and devotion Underwood inspires in her fans are pretty hard to wave off, however, when you’re plunked down in the middle of a 16,000-strong, multi-generational Ladies’ Night Out well versed and loudly reveling in every spunky, saucy reach of her Everygal songbook, from “Some Hearts” and “Before He Cheats” onto “All-American Girl” and “Cowboy Casanova” and more blustery (and violent-natured) newbies such as “Cupid’s Got a Shotgun” and “Two Black Cadillacs.” Were we to render the rise of Carrie Underwood as an equation, it would look a bit like American Idol victory + “Jesus, Take the Wheel” x “Sick of waiting for another Shania Twain album” + “Too tough of taste for Taylor Swift” = 15 million albums and 25 million singles sold worldwide. Something to that effect, anyway. You get what I’m saying: the market might be alien to most, but it is what it is and it’s definitely there. In droves.
Just as hard to wave off, too, is the natural poise and professionalism with which Underwood navigates the potentially dehumanizing, 21st-century-Nashville extravaganza, flickering, flashing, whirring to and fro on rails and occasionally popping out of trap doors around her. Chart-smashing contemporaries like Britney Spears and Katy Perry tend to get lost as interchangeable automatons within the expensive machinery furthering their causes, but this one seems fairly in charge.
In keeping with the elemental connotations of the title Blown Away, there was a loose Wizard of Oz/tornado theme anchored by a spinning windmill prop at stage right and occasionally traced across the multiple, mobile, morphing projection screens dotting the set-up on Sunday night. Generally speaking, though, the interstitial videos were less plot-point markers than they were excuses for comely Ms. Carrie to disappear into the wings for a minute and spring forth again from the bowels of the stage in another fabulous, leg-accentuating outfit.
A long-trained, blue half-gown/half-skirt piece, for instance, accompanied the nearly two-hour set’s introductory triple-shoutalong of “Good Girl,” “Undo It” and “Wasted,” three tunes that kicked rather harder in a heartland-rock direction than Underwood’s flowing eveningwear and fallback reputation as a “country” artist might have suggested. A Daisy Duke-esque, white-tee-and-cutoff-denims ensemble complemented a light-hearted trip back and forth across the arena bowl on a levitating, fenced-in stage crowned with balloons — think Jules Verne meets Louis L’Amour — for “Get Out of This Town” and a holiday-vibed, confetti-spewing “One Way Ticket.” A blue blazer and tight-fit, black sparklepants, meanwhile, were the perfect complement to a competently raucous cover of Aerosmith’s “Sweet Emotion” and an enthusiastically greeted duet with heartthrobbing kid-country opener Hunter Hayes on “Leave Love Alone” before a CGI tornado swept in to propel the night to an anthemic denouement with “Blown Away.”
All as clockwork-precise and coldly calculated as it gets, but it worked in context. And Underwood will always get a second look in Canada for marrying into ardent, late-adopted hockey fanhood after hooking up with ex-Ottawa Senator/now-Nashville Predator Mike Fisher a couple of years back.
Fashion! Romance! Sparkles! Cute boys! Hits! Strikes me, from my grossly uninformed perspective, that that’s what a Carrie Underwood show should deliver. So there you go. Another triumph.
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Member Since: 12/7/2010
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it's sad Cadillacs still hasnt made it to top100. such a great track.
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Member Since: 10/4/2009
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Originally posted by OnlyManInTheWorld
it's sad Cadillacs still hasnt made it to top100. such a great track.
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BA is still high both on airplay and sales, plus it's a proper 3rd country single not a pop crossover or a pop song, so of course it's going slow...anyway with increasing airplay and its music video in january it will do good 
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Originally posted by OnlyManInTheWorld
it's sad Cadillacs still hasnt made it to top100. such a great track.
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Oh well, it's rocketing up the Country Charts and will be #1 soon. She's finished the first leg of the tour in a few weeks so she should get some promotion slots in during the next few months. 
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Member Since: 9/4/2012
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Originally posted by getback
This is the floppest list ever |
It's not that floppy... We're each entitled to our own opinions in here anyway, girl.
Anyway, I approve of almost all of your top ten, Mezik. 
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Member Since: 5/22/2011
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Originally posted by Euphoria
It's not that floppy... We're each entitled to our own opinions in here anyway, girl.
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Yay.  
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I think this may be my top ten, in no order:
Wasted
Some Hearts
So Small
Get Out Of This Town
I Know You Won't
Quitter
Someday When I Stop Loving You
Blown Away
See You Again
Who Are You
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Member Since: 5/22/2011
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Originally posted by Euphoria
I think this may be my top ten, in no order:
Wasted
Some Hearts
So Small
Get Out Of This Town
I Know You Won't
Quitter
Someday When I Stop Loving You
Blown Away
See You Again
Who Are You
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Looking at yours made me realize its impossible for me to narrow it down to ten, I love all her songs so much.. and I just can't pick just 10. 
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Dang. The month of March is going to a busy time for Carrie
@ibmPulse
Carrie Underwood is coming to Pulse 2013! Monday night concert (3/4). Be there or regret it...forever. @ibmPulse
Looks like some private party
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/pulse/
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Member Since: 5/22/2011
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Originally posted by Daraebe
Dang. The month of March is going to a busy time for Carrie
@ibmPulse
Carrie Underwood is coming to Pulse 2013! Monday night concert (3/4). Be there or regret it...forever. @ibmPulse
Looks like some private party
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/pulse/ |
She really wants that Entertainer of the Year award next award season, she's working to hard.
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Member Since: 3/26/2012
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Windsor? Maybe I can go to that I'd basically die.
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Member Since: 8/24/2011
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My top 10 (in order)
Sometimes You Leave
Blown Away
What Can I Say
Before He Cheats
Cowboy Casanova
Do You Think About Me
I Know You Won't
Don't Forget to Remember Me
Undo It
Good Girl
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It would be your first concert, right? Did you receive my PM over at CF?
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Queen 
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Member Since: 8/24/2011
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And I should thank the one that started the Christmas song conversation. Now I can't stop listening to Do You Hear What I Hear  Her vocals, the emotion...
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Member Since: 3/26/2012
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Originally posted by Manchs
My top 10 (in order)
Sometimes You Leave
Blown Away
What Can I Say
Before He Cheats
Cowboy Casanova
Do You Think About Me
I Know You Won't
Don't Forget to Remember Me
Undo It
Good Girl
It would be your first concert, right? Did you receive my PM over at CF?
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Sometimes You Leave is good but it's far from her best 
It would be. I doubt I can go, but I'd love to I did get it, thanks!
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