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Track Listing

1. Flat on the Floor - Carrie Underwood, James, Brett
2. All-American Girl - Carrie Underwood, Underwood, Carrie
3. So Small - Carrie Underwood, Underwood, Carrie
4. Just a Dream - Carrie Underwood, McEwan, Steve
5. Get out of This Town - Carrie Underwood, McEwan, Steve
6. Crazy Dreams - Carrie Underwood, Underwood, Carrie
7. I Know You Won't - Carrie Underwood, McEwan, Steve
8. Last Name - Carrie Underwood, Underwood, Carrie
9. You Won't Find This - Carrie Underwood, Shapiro, Tom
10. I Told You So - Carrie Underwood, Travis, Randy
11. The More Boys I Meet - Carrie Underwood, McEwan, Steve
12. Twisted - Carrie Underwood, Lindsey, Hillary
13. Wheel of the World - Carrie Underwood, Lindsey, Hillary

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #59 in Music
• Brand: UNDERWOOD,CARRIE
• Released on: 2007-10-23
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
Carrie Underwood’s Some Hearts, hastily made and released some five months after she won the 2005 American Idol crown, was surprisingly solid and tuneful. For her follow-up, producer Mark Bright steers her toward the big Martina McBride skies, with a plethora of strings and huge emotional crescendos. Underwood co-wrote four songs, mostly with the tried-and-true tunesmiths who made Some Hearts soar. On the torchy heartache ballad "I Know You Won’t," she gives a beautifully nuanced and controlled performance, but if that song would suit any number of lush female pop stars from Celine Dion on down, "Flat on the Floor" rocks hard while preserving co-writer Ashley Monroe’s Appalachian angst. Still, there are missteps: the easy tears of the unlikely war ballad "Just a Dream," a too-obvious attempt to repeat the sass of "Before He Cheats" ("The More Boys I Meet"), and the Shania-ish bad-girl-on-Cuervo stomp of "Last Name." The big payoff, then, is how much 24-year old Underwood has improved as a vocalist. How often listeners line up for this Carnival Ride depends on their attitude about country music’s continual melding with pop, and how they feel about a princess upstart taking home the awards that used to go to her heroes. --Alanna Nash

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Customer Reviews

Carrie needs to switch to POP
Poor song choices with poor overdone pop production. Better luck next time Carrie. The 2nd album is always hard to get right. Someone has a little success. It goes their head and then they think people will buy whatever they record. Not country at all. To much shrill screaming.

Just a dream and Last name are GREAT!
Everything else is just very Carrie Boringwood and stiff as usual...I'll admit she has a nice voice and all but she isn't as great as people say she is. There are wayyyyyyyy better artists/singers then Carrie. She is just good eye candy if you ask me.

Great album
For most artists, putting out their sophomore album is one of the most trying times in their career. Many artists second albums pale in comparison to their first, both artistically and in sales figures. Carrie Underwood's second project, Carnival Ride, breaks through the stereotypes and is poised to eventually sell more and become more respected than the previous album, Some Hearts. Vocally, Carrie has become more talented on this record, if that is even possible. All of the songs on the album were hand selected, with Carrie even co-writing a few, and it is obvious that much thought was given to the tracks on the album. This is a stand out and one of my favorites in mainstream country music today!