Carrie Underwood
Cry Pretty
Release Date: Sep 14, 2018
Genre(s): Country
Record label: Capitol Nashville
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Album Review: Cry Pretty by Carrie Underwood
Fairly Good, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating B
The Lowdown: With apologies to Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood is the only female superstar in country music today. There are some might-have-beens. Taylor Swift changed lanes. The Dixie Chicks went up in a patriotic bonfire. The generation of Reba, Faith, and Shania Twain are enjoying various ….
Based on rating 6/10
Carrie Underwood is one of country music's great criers. Her commitment to specific, overwhelming melodrama is a skill that seems slightly old fashioned — a lack of subtlety that is camp, and performatively feminine, like an ostrich fan or marabou pumps. At her best, it is barely contained fury; at her worst it is sloppy and overreaching. The new album has some of her best material, and some of her worst — it is a wildly uneven effort, with no consistency of form or content. It is sex-drenched, but often not very sexy; it is ….
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