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Carrie Underwood to play exclusive Amazon event to premiere new album

CMA Fest coincides with the release of "Denim & Rhinestones," her seventh studio album. The June 10 drop date will be celebrated on June 9 with an exclusive, live Amazon Music performance from downtown Nashville's Bell Tower at 8 p.m. CDT via the Amazon Music channel on Twitch, the Amazon Music mobile app via Twitch, and on Prime Video globally.

Via a press release, Underwood noted, "I'm so excited to celebrate the launch of my new album, "Denim & Rhinestones," with this special live event. This album is so much fun and I've been looking forward to playing these songs live and I love that we'll get to do it with a global audience from such a cool setting."

[14887fan]

:(

[Typo]

That’s so sad. They have always referred to Carrie as an honorary McCrary. She featured them on “Choctaw County Affair,” “The Champion” and My Gift.

RIP Deborah.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CeUK637FCnk

[Typo]

Good Morning America performance on June 10. 

[bigd79]

No Today show? That is shocking to me.

Probably pre-taped or live via zoom. I don’t see her (or her whole band) flying to NYC late thurs after her album show to be in person for that. She would have to immediately come right back to nashville for cma fest. Just not enough time to make it work.

Nonetheless, excited to watch all these things!

[14887fan]

A flight from Nashville to NYC is, like, 2 hours tops. I don’t see why it couldn’t/wouldn’t be in person.

[NeRD]

There are no other major releases next week, right?

[carrieidol1]

Jun 3, 2022 21:27:54 GMT -5 NeRD said:

There are no other major releases next week, right?

BTS. She will likely debut at #2 on the BB200. #1 Country is a lock, imo.

[zdm1998]

Jun 3, 2022 22:27:42 GMT -5 carrieidol1 said:

Jun 3, 2022 21:27:54 GMT -5 NeRD said:

There are no other major releases next week, right?

BTS. She will likely debut at #2 on the BB200. #1 Country is a lock, imo.

Post Malone dropped this week so unless he drops off in sales for week 2 there’s a chance he will be in front as well. Bad Bunny, dropped a month ago and is having a very slow decent (pulled in 139k this week) and might be in front as well so there’s a chance she debuts at 3 or 4. I’m hoping she somehow debuts at 2 though.

Edit: I just looked at Malones predicted #s and they are drastically lower than his previous effort. Hoping the Queen can in fact pull out a #2 debut as it’s looking promising, we do need to be cautious of that Bad Bunny album though.

[daddy]

Jun 4, 2022 15:53:41 GMT -5 zdm1998 said:

Jun 3, 2022 22:27:42 GMT -5 carrieidol1 said:

BTS. She will likely debut at #2 on the BB200. #1 Country is a lock, imo.

Post Malone dropped this week so unless he drops off in sales for week 2 there’s a chance he will be in front as well. Bad Bunny, dropped a month ago and is having a very slow decent (pulled in 139k this week) and might be in front as well so there’s a chance she debuts at 3 or 4. I’m hoping she somehow debuts at 2 though.

Edit: I just looked at Malones predicted #s and they are drastically lower than his previous effort. Hoping the Queen can in fact pull out a #2 debut as it’s looking promising, we do need to be cautious of that Bad Bunny album though.

I believe too 2 keeps her streak alive for her country releases?

[zdm1998]

Jun 4, 2022 17:04:42 GMT -5 daddy said:

Jun 4, 2022 15:53:41 GMT -5 zdm1998 said:

Post Malone dropped this week so unless he drops off in sales for week 2 there’s a chance he will be in front as well. Bad Bunny, dropped a month ago and is having a very slow decent (pulled in 139k this week) and might be in front as well so there’s a chance she debuts at 3 or 4. I’m hoping she somehow debuts at 2 though.

Edit: I just looked at Malones predicted #s and they are drastically lower than his previous effort. Hoping the Queen can in fact pull out a #2 debut as it’s looking promising, we do need to be cautious of that Bad Bunny album though.

I believe too 2 keeps her streak alive for her country releases?

It does indeed. She has a flawless chart history actually.

[carriefan15]

Daaaang we’ve got this countdown down to the minute! 🥳😆 Typo, you never disappoint

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I feel a seismic shift incoming. There will be pre-D&R and post-D&R.

CARRIE UNDERWOOD PREPS BRAND NEW ALBUM, DENIM & RHINESTONES

She wants fans who listen to the album to feel joyous and have a good time. “I hope when fans listen to the album, Denim & Rhinestones, that they just feel happy,” says Carrie. “When we set out to make this entire project, I walked in the writing room with my co-producer David (Garcia), and he’s like, ‘Well, what are we doing? What do you want to do?’ And I said, I just want to have fun. I feel like over the past couple of years, everybody’s been a little cooped up and just need some fun in their lives. You know, thinking about taking all of these songs on the road, I just wanted to think about as we were writing and as I was choosing songs, which ones would be great live. I love this album so much. It makes me happy. I hope they learn a little bit more about my musical influences and things that I like, because I feel like a lot of those just worked their way into this album. But, most of all, I just want them to feel happy, I want them to dance, I want them to sing and just have a good time with it.”

[taylor is terrified]

Yeah…Storyteller is OVER. This will be her greatest album.

[schnetzka]

I was hoping we would have gotten snippets by now but regardless I am so excited for Friday.

[zdm1998]

I’m gate keeping “Wanted Woman.” That one is all mine and I don’t intend on sharing.

[taylor is terrified]

“Burn” and “Wanted Woman” sound (based on the titles) like they’ll be the sexiest songs of her career tbh.

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Carrie Underwood (Velvet Heartbreak):

“’Velvet Heartbreak’ is one of the first songs that we wrote for this whole project, and it was kind of the first one I really got excited about. I wrote with Hillary Lindsey and David Garcia, and we just kind of started messing with it and started talking about this metaphor of comparing a relationship, a heartbreak, comparing a relationship to clothing. It’s a little bit cynical, but in a cool way, ‘cause it’s something so trivial as picking out a dress at the store that you’re comparing a relationship to it. It just had this super cool vibe about it. The words sound cool – velvet heartbreak – I feel like that’s the kind of thing that would make you say, ‘What is that song? What is that about?’ And it allowed us to just write some killer lines in it. I love, don’t cut the tags off if you take him home. That kind of thing. You’ve got to make sure you can return this guy. Don’t get too far into this relationship. Don’t put too much into it if you can’t get your money back. It’s like a dress at the store that you can’t afford, but you gotta have it. It’s gonna be a discount rack, can’t take it back waiting to happen. I just love that. I feel like it’s the kind of thing that so many women will be like, ‘Omigosh! I totally understand what you’re saying with that.’”

Carrie Underwood (Hate My Heart):

“’Hate My Heart’ is one of the more kind of rockin’ songs on the album. That is one I wrote with Hillary Lindsey, David Garcia and Michael Hardy. And Hardy, of course, is an artist-songwriter, and he definitely has just such a cool way of writing that I’ve respected since the first time I heard some of his stuff that he had written for other people and even some of his own things as an artist that he does. You can immediately tell that he has a special way of saying things. He definitely was a super strong presence in the room that day. We just had a blast writing this song. I feel like it came out very easily, and it was fun getting to make the demo and go into the recording booth and kind of put myself down in it, and fun fact – on the demo, he actually got in there, Michael (HARDY) got in there and did the BGVs (background vocals), so that was a fun experience to kind of get to hear us sing together.”

Carrie Underwood (Burn):

“’Burn’ was one of the later songs to make the cut of this album. That one was one that was just really cool. We wanted to make it just very relatable, kind of paint images in the listeners’ mind about different scenarios. We went from like being kind of in the woods to like being at the beach and kind of have these juxtaposition kind of places where this relationship has been. Obviously saying that like in some of the lyrics it’s like your memory is what is keeping me alive, but it also wrecks me, it kills me. So, we got to use a lot of fire metaphors or like whiskey burning kind of metaphors like that, but it’s also a way to create cool visuals. But it’s always a great time working with Hillary (Lindsey) and David (Garcia) and Ashley (Gorley), and we laugh a lot. I feel like this one might have taken a little longer to write, and when I say that, we still wrote it in a day. It’s not like it took us weeks or anything, but it was just really great. I feel like it’s something that’s very relatable. It's got some special moments in it for sure.”

Carrie Underwood (Faster):

“Faster is an unapologetically like 80s slow skate, couples skate, slow jam song. I wrote this one with Hillary Lindsey and David Garcia, and I had this title but it kinda had a different meaning in my head. I don’t want to say too much of what I wanted it to be because I may still end up writing it at some point, but it’s like the vibe and the feeling I have is very serious and very poignant and it’s kinda about time, and we kinda tried to write that song but that’s just not where the day was taking us at all. It’s not where the vibe or the energy or the ideas or any of it was taking us. And Hillary was like well, what if we took that title and said it like this and I was like well that makes a lot more sense and that feels really good for where we’re headed for the day, and sometimes you just can’t get in the way of the vibe or the energy or just where the flow of the day is taking you. And it’s just one that we didn’t fight, and I’m really glad we didn’t fight it.”

I love all of the vintage-ness of it, because I feel like it’s just so sweet, so authentic, and I don’t do love songs, that’s kinda one thing. I won’t say I don’t do them, but I really rarely do them because I feel like so much of them is, I’m just not mushy gushy like that, but this one I feel like there’s something so sweet about it but I would jam this just for myself you know? So, I love the song. It’s really sweet. There’s something just super nostalgic about it that makes me smile and makes me happy, and I definitely hope people get that when they listen to it. I hope they get the warm fuzzies and imagine themselves being back in seventh grade and seeing their crush in the hallway, and you know it’s like this could be in some ‘80s movie or something where you’d have some sweet montage of a couple. That’s what I want, is people to make their own montages of themselves and their love in their head to this song.”

Carrie Underwood (Pink Champagne):

“’Pink Champagne’ is definitely one of my favorite songs on the album. It makes me so happy, so happy to listen to, so happy to sing. It makes me want to dance, makes me want to sing into my hairbrush, it makes me want to turn it up and just have a blast with it. That song the day we wrote it, it was me, Hillary, Lindsey, David Garcia, Ashley Gorley. We had this title, and it kinda wasn’t, well it wasn’t originally the title. It was originally part of the song, but then I think Ashley was the one who was like well what if that’s the title of the song and it was like that’s a fun title, I would want to hear that song. But yeah, it’s like saying that you know, your love gets me more buzz than pink champagne. It’s all about just the fun of the song. It’s all sweet and happy, and we got to just kinda be silly and it’s one of my favorite songs.”

Carrie Underwood (Wanted Woman):

“’Wanted Woman’ is kind of one of the earlier songs that I feel like everybody was feeling really great about it making it onto the album. That day it was me, David Garcia and Josh Miller. I’ve written with Josh before, not a super ton, but I’ve definitely been around him quite a bit. He was one of the writers on ‘Southbound.’ I’ve always just liked the way he said things and he’s just a super nice guy. I feel like we always have fun when we do write together. But that one had just such super awesome retro vibes to it. There’s something about it. We had this twangy, 80s country guitar thing going on, but then it somehow sounded kind of like a fun, disco type song. But it is something different than I feel like I’ve heard in a really long time, but it’s just kind of this fun 80s country disco song.”

Carrie Underwood (Poor Everybody Else):

“This is one that I wrote with Chris DeStefano and Josh Miller. we’re always thumbing through titles, and Chris is such a great track guy, he always puts together incredible tracks, and he had a little bit going that day and had the guitar part (da da, da, da) and I was like okay I have this title and it’s inspired by my friend, and hair and makeup artist, Melissa Schleicher. Way back in the day when Miranda Lambert and I had the song ‘Something Bad,’ we were on the music video set and there was a lot of blonde, a lot of hair, we’re dressed in kinda leather outfits and kind of crawling around on motorcycles and singing, trying to be hot, and in the video. At one point Melissa looked in the monitor and said, ‘poor everybody else’ and she meant that obviously as a super compliment to us, because it was just a hot video. So, ever since then that’s kinda been a catchphrase that we hear now and again from her, and I wrote it down and was like someday I’m gonna write a song called ‘Poor Everybody Else’ and that was the day I knew it was the time and with that track I suggested that title and they were like what does that mean and I told them and was like well how do we write this without it being a totally narcissistic song, ‘cause I don’t think like that about myself, so I knew I didn’t want to write it like that. We definitely wanted this song to be about this girl that’s like, she is just so awesome that everyone else kinda pales in comparison around her, like she’s the brightest light in the room, she’s just got this energy about her that is like undeniable. It’s not even necessarily like she’s trying too hard. It’s like she just knows and she’s just ready to walk in and blow the doors off the place and you can’t help but look at her. And all the guys want to be with her, all the girls want to be her. We say, ‘Better watch your man, better watch yourself,’ cause when she walks in, poor everybody else.’”


Carrie Underwood (Garden):

“We actually wrote this song - me, David Garcia, and Josh Miller, we wrote this song the same day we wrote Wanted Woman. So, we wrote ‘Wanted Woman,’ I laid down some vocals and stuff and David was kind of busy doing things with the arrangement and with the music and stuff like that. He was kind of over there tucked away being his mad scientist self at the board and at his computer and fiddling with that. Josh and I were sitting back talking. We had talked about gardening and stuff like that before I became a big gardener in 2020. I had a garden in 2019 but 2020 was really the first time that I got to be in it every day due to the state of the world. It was something that was very therapeutic and very amazing and something that I didn’t know I’d be any good at, didn’t know I’d enjoy, but definitely learned that there’s so many metaphorical life lessons when you’re in the garden and think about it every day. It gives you time and quiet and space to be alone with yourself and your thoughts. It’s also just this beautiful miracle when you put a seed in the ground. Just this little nothing, little piece of nothing, you put in the ground and in a couple weeks it’s something completely different and it’s changed and it’s beautiful and it provides a service and eventually you get to pick your fruit and you get to give it away or you get to keep it for yourself and there’s just so many beautiful metaphors and just really cool things that happen in the garden.”

Josh Miller and I had talked a lot about that (gardening) in other writing sessions. He was like I got to thinking about this idea of garden and he had a lot of the chorus ‘if your words were seeds going in the ground.’ It was beautiful everything he was saying so we took that and kind of ran with it. And then David turns around he’s like ‘What’s going on? What are you guys doing? Did you start another song; is this happening now?’ ‘Cause normally, it’s like we write one, we pat ourselves on the back, and then we go home. We wrote ‘Wanted Woman’ so fast that we were gonna get home in time for dinner, but we screwed it up and wrote this song. We finished it and then I put some vocals down to just David playing some guitar. When he sent it to me, I was in the garden, and I got my demo back. I had my headphones in ‘cause I think I had been talking to my mom. I was in my garden, listening to ‘Garden’ and I was just crying. So, it’s definitely one of my favorites. I feel like it’s just beautiful poignant. It’s one of my favorites.”

[Typo]

I can’t fucking wait!!!!!

[schnetzka]

So is she basically saying that she writes all of her songs in a day? I may be misreading but that's quite incredible to do for all/most of your songs.

[Typo]

Her analysis of "She Don't Know" is just spot on. This perfectly describes why it's already one of my favorite CU songs.

Carrie Underwood (She Don't Know):

It all started with Hillary and some movie she had playing in her head, and she would talk about you know, seeing this woman with bell bottoms, high-waisted jeans and platform shoes and feathered hair, you know, very Farrah Fawcett, pushing a cart down the aisles at the grocery store. It’s like we started writing from the top down from the very first line, ‘She smiles at me all pretty, walking up to me down aisle five’, where I feel like normally when we write a song we have some sort of story structure or concept or we start with the chorus or something and build around it. This one we were just writing a story line by line, which is kind of hard because the whole time it’s like ‘Well, what does she do? Where does she go? Where is she going? What’s happening? What’s the punchline? What’s the payoff?’“And I honestly feel like as a listener, you feel that too when you’re listening to it. It kind of sucks you in, you’re in the story, you’re walking down the aisle of the supermarket with this woman, you see this other woman across and the whole time, even when you get to the chorus, up until the very last line you’re like ‘well what happens? What happens?’ And it’s like well she can have him. So, it’s a cheating song, it’s a revenge song, but not really with the twist you would expect, and I feel like it’s kind of a lot cooler. It’s easier to pack somebody’s crap up and throw it out the second story window onto the lot down below, or to destroy somebody’s car, or whatever it is. It’s easier to get angry and you have that payoff and it’s like ‘Ah, that felt good’. It’s almost a little cooler to say ‘I don’t really care, she can have him, I’m gonna move on. The other woman’s gonna get hers because he’s gonna do it again’. So, I feel like there’s just something very nonchalant and very cool about it. This song is kind of one of those that will have you on the edge of your seat, but it’s so chill and so laidback and just swaggy. It’s got a lot of swag.”


Anyway, here's a link to the press kit, if you want to hear audio of Carrie describing all of the tracks: pressroom.umgnashville.com/news/carrie-underwood-denim-rhinestones-album-audio-toolkit/

[14887fan]

Beyond thrilled by how 80s-centric this record seems to be. After hearing the title track, I was really hoping that was how the bulk of this project was going to sound, and it seems like that’s true! Especially excited to hear “Faster” after reading that synopsis.

[zdm1998]

I really feel like this album is going to be special.

[desertfloods]

I am going to jump straight to "Faster" before all other tracks!

Also excited to hear Garden. I love that in her last 2 albums, she gave us 2 very personal tracks as album closers - I adore both Kingdom and WINKIAW, they have never left my favourites playlist. Also not forgetting the gems from earlier album closers like "I Ain't In Checotah Anymore" and "Wheel of the World". I am hoping Garden is another special one to add to the list too.

[Typo]

Carrie Underwood Announces 'The Denim & Rhinestones Experience'

Livestream Performance

Carrie Underwood: LIVE, a global, one-night-only live performance, will livestream June 9 from The Historic Bell Tower in Downtown Nashville, sponsored by Coca-Cola's new digital platform, Coke Studio. Fans will be able to tune in at 8:00 PM CT on June 9 via the Amazon Music channel on Twitch, the Amazon Music mobile app via Twitch, and on Prime Video globally.

The Denim & Rhinestones Experience

The Denim & Rhinestones Experience - A fun-filled, pop-up exhibition with interactive photo installations, wardrobe displays, and a retail boutique celebrating the music of Denim & Rhinestones. The Denim & Rhinestones Experience will be open to the public June 10-12 at The Historic Bell Tower in Downtown Nashville.

Broadcast TV Appearances

Broadcast TV appearances and performances will include ABC's Good Morning America and GMA3 on June 10, and NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on June 14. She will also make multiple appearances on Canadian and Australian television, including interviews on Sunrise, The Today Show, The Project, and others.

[misterscribbs]

I love that this week she’s going to be traveling around the globe and she’s currently trying to rescue some kind of armadillo or something and putting it on her Instagram. Down to earth queen.

[Typo]

Animal rights advocate & wildlife defender ❤️

[jamatthews83]

Official Final Pre-Release Ranking

1) She Don't Know (familiar, and yet fresh and new)
2) Ghost Story (see above)
3) Crazy Angels (stone cold smash, a lock for single #2 unless there is a GOAT smash we haven't heard yet)




4) Denim And Rhinestones (a very good album track, but not in the same league as the others)

[14887fan]

Glad she’s going back to do another Fallon stint. Feel like those have always been some of her best interviews/late night appearances.

Can’t believe we’re just a few days away!

[jamatthews83]