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Post by Leo ✔ on Oct 4, 2020 20:46:27 GMT -5
glad this didn't overstay.
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Post by toomuchboy on Oct 4, 2020 20:47:00 GMT -5
At least "Somethin' Bad" is appropriately titled, lol.
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Post by bboat11 on Oct 4, 2020 20:47:42 GMT -5
She may not get her own verse, but she is waaaaaaaaay more prominent than a basic background vocalist. There is no room for debate on that, lol. She literally leads the chorus, with Keith only singing a call-and-response to her. She also sings the entire bridge. I've never made it that far into the song to find out edit: I'm being sarcastic of course...the production and vocal arrangement is a huge turnoff for me LMAO!! I can't argue with that 😂 (inb4 Tay starts arguing that Tim McGraw is actually more prominent in "Bring On The Rain" than Carrie is on "The Fighter"...)
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Post by lady𝓐fan on Oct 4, 2020 20:48:18 GMT -5
"Somethin' Bad" is a jam y'all.
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Post by schnetzka on Oct 4, 2020 20:48:34 GMT -5
So the general consensus so far seems that people think Carrie shouldn't do collabs lol.
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Post by Typo on Oct 4, 2020 20:49:04 GMT -5
“Somethin’ Bad” made me want to become a Coyote Ugly dancer. Love it.
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Oct 4, 2020 20:53:23 GMT -5
bboat11 where is Carrie's own second verse then if she's so prominent in "The Fighter"? Anyways, the second of our four collabs bows out next, one in which Carrie is actually prominent. Miranda Lambert's "Somethin' Bad" garnered yet another onslaught of bottom ranks and a couple of last places, while also seeing some Top 10 love. Sorry to wrip who has to say goodbye to his #4! I remember when this rocker of a duet was announced. All I'd been wanting since I was 8 was Carrie Underwood ft. Miranda Lambert or the other way around. Well, I finally got my wish when this song was released in May 2014! I jammed to it for months on end. I sadly couldn't find room in it for my Top 20 (and barely found room in my Top 25) but I do love this song. Oddly enough, I feel like I would have placed this much higher in a Miranda Lambert rankdown, where "Somethin' Bad" would have a better chance to shine in the context of Miranda's own career. On the Hot 100, this song reached #19 and on Hot Country Songs it peaked at #1, becoming Carrie's 13th #1 hit there and the first #1 by tag-teamed solo women in over two decades. It was nominated for Best Country Duo/Group Performance at the 2015 Grammy Awards.
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Post by tim on Oct 4, 2020 20:55:02 GMT -5
"Somethin' Bad" is another song that I don't quite dislike as much now as I did originally. In fact, I would even say I somewhat low-key find it to be a bit of a jam now. Still, it was never a good choice for a single (especially the second one from Miranda's album!) and considering the strength of everything else this still wound up in my bottom five.
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Oct 4, 2020 20:56:49 GMT -5
In before my argument with bboat11 about Carrie's role in "The Fighter" goes south...
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Post by tim on Oct 4, 2020 20:58:11 GMT -5
In before my argument with bboat11 about Carrie's role in "The Fighter" goes south... Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Oct 4, 2020 21:06:43 GMT -5
So let's get a little southbound, un-wound Tennessee honey kind of buzz Them south sounds up loud Summer dripping off of us From the river bank to the Party Cove 'Long as it floats we'll rock the boat It's all looking up when we get down
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Oct 4, 2020 21:12:50 GMT -5
Up next, if anybody caught my hint, is "Southbound." This uptempo party song, one of which is so rare in Carrie's catalog that there's only one other like it, sees a last place from bboat11 and another plethora of bottom half rankings. We also see a #3 loss from HeyHeyHey...sorry to you! This summer jam, the first song to leave from its parent album, is far from my favorite on Cry Pretty. In fact, it took awhile for me to even warm up to it. It was a skip on the album for the longest time. Then it became a single and revitalized the album era in a way that was needed, after "Love Wins" severely (by CU standards) underperformed. The song hit #1 on the Mediabase chart and #3 on the Country Airplay chart...the highest peaking song of the era on either chart. It wasn't until that release as a single that I began to appreciate it more. The more I listened to it on the radio, the more I started to love it. I still don't have too much of a leaning either way for it but I do appreciate it as a single and for what it did for the Cry Pretty era's momentum.
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Post by tim on Oct 4, 2020 21:13:04 GMT -5
Hmm, I may have overranked “Southbound” a bit as looking at it now top 15 seems a tad too high. It does get extra points, though, as the music video was filmed here in Austin last year over the Fourth of July weekend! Sadly I never got an invite to that lol.
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Oct 4, 2020 21:18:24 GMT -5
I'm gonna go ahead and call it a night there, as my plan for the most part is to do 5 reveals a night, which would leave us at Saturday night as the end date of this rankdown. I'll try to get some reveals in tomorrow, after I've (safely, of course) celebrated my 20th tomorrow! Stay tuned to see which songs miss out on the Top 20!
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Post by Leo ✔ on Oct 4, 2020 21:22:37 GMT -5
Lol how is cry pretty higher than this??
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Post by fireflies on Oct 4, 2020 21:25:19 GMT -5
A decent start. I only lost 2 songs in my top 20. Luckily, they were my #'s 18 & 19. I was surprised "Southbound" made bottom 5. It was a much needed single for the "Cry Pretty" era!
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Oct 4, 2020 21:26:14 GMT -5
Lol how is cry pretty higher than this?? Because it's a vastly superior song.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Oct 4, 2020 21:31:02 GMT -5
"Undo It" being below "Mama's Song" is a travesty, albeit a minor one because both are mediocre. "Somethin' Bad" is a jam and "Southbound" was a huge grower for me, but I expected both out early so not surprised really.
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Post by bboat11 on Oct 4, 2020 21:37:29 GMT -5
bboat11 where is Carrie's own second verse then if she's so prominent in "The Fighter"? There is nothing though that says "prominent" has to mean "they sing a verse on their own". Like I said on the previous page, she is the lead singer of the chorus (Keith is only doing a call-and-response off of what she is saying), and she is also the lead of the bridge. To say she is not "prominent" is just plain false, because if you removed her parts, the song would literally only be a shell of itself. To me, she is way more than just a background vocalist. Songs are not a shell of their former selves when you take out the background vocalists. Duets are. Also nothing will be "going south" thank you very much! We value and respect each other, and some silly healthy debate ain't gonna change that!
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Post by bboat11 on Oct 4, 2020 21:43:58 GMT -5
I have come to enjoy "Somethin' Bad" more and more over time, but I can definitely understand why it always has such a mixed reception. It is weird af in the production department (like what is that howling beast sound that keeps happening in the instrumental breaks??), and the vocal arrangement is not exactly typical of a duet. This song bucks all the trends, and probably proved to be a bit too much of a risk for what people were looking for from them at the time. It is still a jam though when one is in the right mood!! "Southbound" is absolute garbage. This song being the biggest hit from her worst album is VERY fitting.....
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Post by fearlessarrow on Oct 4, 2020 21:57:24 GMT -5
"Undo It" and "Mama's Song" being near the bottom as they should. They're not bad by any means but they're pretty subpar by Carrie's standards and why listen to "Undo It" when you can listen to "Before He Cheats"/"Last Name"/"Cowboy Casanova" (granted I know some people aren't too big on "Last Name" because of her "screaming")?
"Somethin' Bad" is also one that's subpar by both Miranda and Carrie's standards. I get what they were going for but I think the execution just fell flat for me.
I really enjoyed "Southbound" when it was a single but since then it's burned on me and I haven't recovered.
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Post by 14887fan on Oct 4, 2020 22:00:11 GMT -5
My biggest regret of the last several months of my life is not participating in this. Oops / sorry. "Southbound" is absolute garbage. This song being the biggest hit from her worst album is VERY fitting..... "Southbound" ain't cute, but neither is this opinion.
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Post by bboat11 on Oct 4, 2020 22:00:22 GMT -5
Wait was going south a hint for Southbound? I get it, I get it!!! 😂😂😂
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Post by bboat11 on Oct 4, 2020 23:07:37 GMT -5
My biggest regret of the last several months of my life is not participating in this. Oops / sorry. "Southbound" is absolute garbage. This song being the biggest hit from her worst album is VERY fitting..... "Southbound" ain't cute, but neither is this opinion. Doubling down on the opinion is probably the last thing you care to see, but I feel the need to explain my thoughts regarding the Cry Pretty album 😂 She dabbles with country, she dabbles with pop, she dabbles with smoky arena rock, soul, gospel, jazz, R&B, Rap, etc... The problem is that she doesn't commit to any of them long enough to stick the landing. The result is an album that has no cohesion to it whatsoever, where almost every song sounds out of place next to its neighbors. I also happen to think it has the worst song choices out of all of her albums, but I realize that is more subjective of an opinion. "That Song..." for example is hands-down my least favorite song of her entire career, because the melody is just so grating. The strong moments are strong, but the low moments go lower for me than any of her previous albums ever have. I realize you and a small handful of others have strong love for the album, but I just think it's the wrong direction for her. The casual country fans want her to go more in the direction of "Wasted" than they do "That Song..." or "Southbound". So anyway, that's how I feel about it. I do still consider stuff like "Spinning Bottles", "Low", "Ghosts", "Cry Pretty", etc. to be career highs, but the rest of her career is so strong that there's a pretty high bar to clear to end up among my all-time faves!
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Post by Kanenrá:ke on Oct 4, 2020 23:54:47 GMT -5
Lol how is cry pretty higher than this?? I'll forever wonder how "Cry Pretty" is ever considered good by anybody, I just truly hate the song. I think we need to be prepared for it to make the top 15 at minimum. "Southbound" is absolute garbage. This song being the biggest hit from her worst album is VERY fitting..... I fully second this opinion. Some really great tracks on the album unfortunately just get lost among some of the worst songs of her career. In your second post you pretty much summed up how I view the album, it just never feels cohesive. This is also why I consider Storyteller to be her best album. Also a controversial opinion, I still don't think she's ever released an album I'd consider amazing. She's always got something holding them back for me, with again Storyteller coming closest. Still I love her and she's delivered some amazing songs over the years so I can't wait to see what she brings with her next album!
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Post by born on Oct 5, 2020 0:50:11 GMT -5
“Mama’s Song” was robbed :’(
Btw I don’t see my ranking for “Southbound”!
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Post by SHOOTER on Oct 5, 2020 0:59:28 GMT -5
I see I'll be robbed of PRs throughout this but I'm happy the correct bottom-3 left (even if not in my preferred order). Somethin' Bad is a total jam though! Period and goodbye.
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Post by Sugar Rush on Oct 5, 2020 5:06:43 GMT -5
None of my preferred tracks have left yet. Okay with everything leaving so far, happy that Undo It is last - it’s garbage, and one of the worst songs shes ever recorded. How her fans like it, I can never understand.
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Post by Typo on Oct 5, 2020 10:02:12 GMT -5
I can’t believe “Love Wins” is still thriving....
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Post by schnetzka on Oct 5, 2020 10:25:22 GMT -5
I can’t believe “Love Wins” is still thriving.... You know the saying... love always wins 😂
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