Comments on: Carrie Underwood’s Charming New Video

By: Lynn

Lynn — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:46:01 +0000

I criticized this video. I did so as a female in her late 20s who should be in Carrie’s peer set. I know men think she’s hot, and young girls look up to her and want to copy her clothes and her hair, but from someone who should see her as more of an equal and respect her and look to her to speak for my generation, she fails miserably. I applaud her for going back and getting her degree after winning American Idol. For me, that’s her biggest plus. Other than that, there’s nothing about her personality or her songs that I love, or even relate to. Considering I generally love female artists, especially in the country genre, I find that strange. I think “fake” sums it up for me – just all of it.

I came back to this video today because I ran across Taylor Swift’s newest video. (I don’t know if I can put a link here, but I’ll try.) This video shows why Taylor has the #1 country album for the 6th week in a row. She’s likeable, she’s relatable. I’m out of her age group and I can still see her appeal. This is what a goofy, carefree video should, in my opinion, look like (not the one above):

It’s reminiscent of my favorite group, who was also, and is always, “real”…

Isn’t this what country is supposed to be? It’s not supposed to be pop or manufactured or fake. It’s supposed to be real people, showing real emotion, singing real songs. Just my two cents.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:50:43 +0000

I could not stop smiling throughout the entire video. This is now my favorite Carrie music video. It really looks like she had a lot of fun making this video. Oh, and she’s a total hottie!

By: Lynn

Lynn — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:45:12 +0000

You really should post Faith Hill’s “The Way You Love Me” next to Carrie’s. That’s interesting. I wonder what Faith thinks of this video.

By: reluctantl

reluctantl — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:03:52 +0000

Oh, please de-lurk more frequently, Jarheaddad! I thoroughly enjoyed your posts and found them very insightful. Now THOSE are the kinds of comments I look forward to reading in the wonderful world of the country music blogosphere. I know people have their own favored and disliked artists, but when a poster habitually comments just to get in as many blows as possible to an artist he/she dislikes, it just gets tiring. It’s the same points over and over again, and more often than not, uninformed opinions at that. Of course, I’m not gonna name names, but when one visits the different blogs regularly as I do, I can basically make a list of people and predict if and how they’re going to comment on a blog post. [/end rant]

On-topic, I surpringly loved this video myself! Surprising because I am way past my Roman-White-tolerance threshold. I’m all for Carrie Underwood experimenting with a different director next time around, but on this one, Roman is actually in my “Dude, you’re okay!” list.

Finally, thank you, Kevin, for Country Universe! I love it!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:48:45 +0000

Brady,

Good, now I have a membership card to go with my T-Shirt!

By: bobby

bobby — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:47:27 +0000

cute music video! i agree that she sometimes seems clueless as of waht to do, which makes her seem like she has no personality, but i’m sure she’s much deeper than that.
and is it just me or is she imitating hannah montana at 0:13??

By: Jarheaddad

Jarheaddad — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:37:43 +0000

Geez Brody, guess I blew any chance I might have had to get one now huh? :-o

Sorry for the intrusion on y’all’s sites. I’ll quietly go back to lurking now!

By: Stephen H.

Stephen H. — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:27:38 +0000

I have to give them credit for the news ticker …

“Truck vandalized in local city garage. Suspect wearing black leather jacket with sunglasses and carrying a Louisville Slugger bat.”

“Various UFO sightings reported during music video shoot outside of …”

“Boyfriend taken into custody for cheating. Woman …”

By: Brody

Brody — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:08:23 +0000

I guess image tags don’t work?

http://www.the9513.com/images/membership-card.jpg

By: Brody

Brody — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:07:57 +0000

Kevin, all you had to do was ask :P