Seriously. I can’t think of another artist who’s undergone such a bad artistic decline recently.

Craig confirmed in an interview he is indeed doing a duet with Carrie on his new album.

JoJo,

I don’t think there was ever any chance of SWISLY being released a single. As Tara mentioned, she said her favorite album tracks have never been released as singles.

It’s a shame, because I think SWISLY is head-and-shoulders above anything else on the album, and possibly the strongest song and most compelling vocal she’s done thus far.

I did see Carrie confirm she is starting work on a new album soon.

I agree with everything you said about the “Play On” era, too. I thought the album as a whole was solid, and show significant growth from Carrie as a songwriter and singer, despite the misteps in single choices.

I think neglecting WCIS & SWISLY were two of the biggest mistakes the label could’ve made, and it’s a shame. She could’ve had a huge smash off this album.

That said, I’m still surprised the label is already moving on. If we’re assuming the label is going by her usual release schedule, we wouldn’t get an album of new material untill fall 2011.

Even with the possiblity with a few duets and the Soul Surfer soundtrack, this doesn’t seem like enough material to fill the void untill her new album is released.

Carrie revealed to Ryan Seacrest at the Golden Globes red carpet that starting in February, the next album will be under way.

It’s such a shame. Carrie and PO itself were on such a high lately. It just got the 2x Platinum certification, “Undo It” crossed the million mark this week and will go Platinum soon, “Temporary Home” just had an enormous push from the American Idol hopeful’s spin on the song, the ACM nominations, the Golden Globe talk, the Oscar buzz (which didn’t turn out great, but she still got tons of buzz), Soul Surfer, the upcoming Grammys (still hoping she gets that performance slot), etc. I don’t know what Arista is thinking. Ending an era that had such high potential on a song that was arguably one of the weakest of Carrie’s entire musical catalog seems pretty stupid to me.

Carrie will NOT have a 5th single from “Play On”.
Crap. There goes “What Can I Say”, gettin’ thrown into the trash… That annoys the heck out of me! They really flubbed the single choices/order of the releases for this era…

Carrie’s next radio appearance will be off of “a different album”, he confirmed in another tweet. That means it’ll either be a duet or her 4th album, and with her 4th album not due to drop until the final quarter of the year, I’m expecting it to be a duet. Whether it’s one of the duets she’s already confirmed she’s done (Randy Travis, Craig Morgan), or if it’s one she’s been keeping under wraps (Brad Paisley, Miranda Lambert, and Kelly Clarkson are the two being rumored) is up in the air, but the PO era is over.

Purest song on the track… sounds just like King George. Great country music.

Maybe a new song from “Soul Surfer”, or another project she is working on? I would be shocked if she’s working a new album already, and we probably would’ve heard if she started it by now.