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Post by Admin on Sept 26, 2020 19:20:32 GMT
Talking to Today on Thursday (Sept. 24), Underwood shared her team's disbelief upon learning that she and Thomas Rhett had tied. Fans waited to the end of the show to hear Keith Urban laugh, then reveal to the camera, that there had been a tie. Rhett was announced first, and after his acceptance speech, Underwood was awarded her third prize in this category. “All the people around us afterwards were like, 'We kept asking the accounting firm (Deloitte), are you sure? Are you sure?'" Underwood tells the NBC News television show. "It's also the year of strange things happening, right?" Typically, nobody involved with the ACMs knows the winners ahead of time, but that was different in 2020. After the show, CEO Damon Whiteside told Billboard they wanted to guarantee as many winners as possible would be there, but not ask all of the nominees to show up due to the coronavirus pandemic. So he strongly encouraged some, but not all artists, to be there in person. Underwood and Rhett were both already signed up for two performances apiece. The "Cry Pretty" singer says that she's happy to share the award with Rhett. Her win makes history, as it makes her the first female country artist to win three ACM Entertainer of the Year trophies, having won in 2009 and 2010. She's never won the same prize at the CMA Awards, but is nominated for EOTY ahead of November's show in Nashville.  On Friday (Sept. 25), Underwood released her first Christmas album, My Gift. The 11-song project features a handful of originals, plus collaborations with John Legend and her 5-year-old son Isaiah. "When I heard the song back with his sweet little voice on it, I was laughing and crying. Just so many emotions. I'm so proud of him," she tells Today of his song "Little Drummer Boy." Listen below — and maybe even cry: |
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Post by Admin on Sept 27, 2020 5:46:39 GMT
Carrie Underwood leads the parade of new holiday music with “My Gift,” and this season’s crop of Christmas albums has more riding on it than those in past years, given the tumultuous and gloomy 2020 the world has endured.
It might be unrealistic to expect one holiday to erase the year’s bad mojo, but Underwood does her part for at least a few subsets of Christmas-music fans.
“My Gift” is reverential, poignant and heavily religious – calming music suitable for reflection and introspection.
"My Gift" by Carrie Underwood
Underwood sets the tone with the sober opener “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee,” a near-a-cappella song supported by drone and faint acoustic music. The subsequent “O Come All Ye Faithful” is likewise stripped down in the beginning … until a flurry of strings escalates the energy.
“The Gift” has showier turns, too. The rousing “Let There Be Peace” is hymnal-esque, with choir and rousing piano as an earnest Underwood dreams of an end to tears and war and hunger, and on “O Holy Night” she commandeers the ebb and flow of intensity with majestic grace.
The release also closes out with satisfyingly straightforward renditions of a trio of classics – “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” “Away in a Manger” and “Silent Night.”
However, a pair of problematic duets won’t go over so well with some: Underwood’s duet with John Legend for “Hallelujah” is disjointed and ultimately overcooked, and her duet with her 5-year-old son, Isaiah Fisher, on “Little Drummer Boy” will sound adorable to many, but cloying to others.
Still, Underwood’s “Gift” is a dignified offering for Christmas. And if you’re looking for something whimsical and more secular, Dolly Parton’s “A Holly Dolly Christmas” will be out Oct. 2.
Carrie Underwood
"My Gift"
Rating: 4 (out of 5)
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Post by Admin on Sept 30, 2020 5:14:53 GMT
Carrie Underwood dropped her first-ever full-length Christmas album, My Gift, on Friday (Sept. 25), and the singer recently explained that making the project was a much-needed creative escape for her after a demanding 2019 tour cycle and a challenging, unpredictable year in 2020.
In addition to giving her the chance to dive into a festive, creative space while she worked on new music, My Gift afforded Underwood the opportunity to duet with some new collaborators. For example, the album features an adorable version of "Little Drummer Boy" that the singer recorded with her 5-year-old son, Isaiah.
Underwood also joined forces with singer-songwriter John Legend for "Hallelujah," a song he wrote and sent to her while she was hard at work assembling the track list for My Gift.
"I was deep into making the album, and this one kind of came in. He sent it to us kind of at the end," the singer remembers during a recent episode of Today's Country Radio With Kelleigh Bannen on Apple Music Country. Even though she'd already assembled much of the track list, Underwood immediately knew she needed to make room for "Hallelujah."
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Post by Admin on Oct 1, 2020 5:25:51 GMT
Carrie Underwood fans were excited she posted a new song on her Instagram Monday but they quickly soured after seeing John Legend was featured on the track. Legend recently told Cosmopolitan UK that Americans may need to consider leaving the country if President Donald Trump wins re-election in November. http://instagram.com/p/CFp9ZJ3Jsdr “Every once in a while you think about it,” he told the magazine. “We were born and raised here, all of our families are here. It would be hard to leave. But I don’t know what one’s supposed to do when you have a leader who is trying to destroy democracy.” Legend went on to say that he and his wife Chrissy Teigen would wait until after the election before making any decisions. Though he hopes he won’t have to choose. “If America chooses to be that place then people will have to start thinking about going somewhere else,” Legend said. “It is truly disturbing and concerning.” Carrie Underwood fans split in the comments Carrie Underwood called Legend the “missing piece” for her most recent album “My Gift.” Underwood was putting the final pieces on the full-length Christmas album when Legend sent her the song “Hallelujah.” She said she knew right away she wanted it. “It was like, ‘Well, I love the song. I feel like this is a puzzle piece I didn’t know was missing, but now that I’ve heard it, I have to have it,'” she told “Today’s Country Radio With Kelleigh Bannen” on Apple Music Country. “And so we just put the ask back, ‘Thank you for sending, do you want to sing a part with me, too?'” But while Carrie is excited over the collaboration, fans are split. Many take issue with Legend’s outspoken stance against Trump. |
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Post by Admin on Oct 4, 2020 19:30:11 GMT
A romance fit for a love song. Carrie Underwood and husband Mike Fisher have been sweeping each other off of their feet since 2008 — and are still as in love as ever. The duo tied the knot in July 2010 after the Canadian hockey player popped the question in December 2009. Five years into their marriage, the couple welcomed their first child together, son Isaiah, and it didn’t take long for the pair to set their sights on expanding their family even further.  “Everyone around [Carrie] knows she wants a big family, and they’re always trying for another baby,” a source told Us Weekly exclusively in February 2018. “Carrie and Mike have a great life and a very strong marriage — one that their friends envy. They are completely committed to each other and in it for the long run.” Six months later, the “Two Black Cadillacs” singer announced via Instagram that she and Fisher were expecting another child. “Yay! Mike, Isaiah and I are absolutely over the moon and excited to be adding another little fish to our pond,” Underwood wrote at the time. “This has just been a dream come true.” Their second little boy, Jacob, arrived in January 2019. While the happy couple reveled in the gift of their two sons, the American Idol alum later revealed that her pregnancy journey wasn’t always easy. Before the birth of her second child, Underwood opened up about suffering three miscarriages in the span of two years. “I had always been afraid to be angry. Because we are so blessed,” she said on CBS Sunday Morning in September 2018. “I’m like, ‘If we can never have any other kids, that’s OK, because [Isaiah] is amazing.’ And I have this amazing life. Like, really, what can I complain about? I can’t. I have an incredible husband, incredible friends, an incredible job, an incredible kid. Can I be mad? No.” Throughout her frustrating road to motherhood, the “Cry Pretty” singer always had her husband by her side. As the pair celebrated the 10-year milestone in their marriage, Underwood thanked Fisher for giving her a “happily ever after.” |
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