Carrie Underwood Wants to 'Play On' in New Album
Grab yer git-boxes.
Carrie Underwood doesn't want you to call her music pop-country. She herself calls it "contemporary." But in her new album, Play On, which debuts this week, the young singer and American Idol winner is still the same old country girl.
In a recent interview, Underwood, 26, said she really dislikes it when people call her music pop-country. "I hate saying pop-country," she said. "I hate using that."
Ms. Underwood just wants to make good music, and she thinks it's great when someone can cross over and bring in new fans.
"I've had people tell me, 'I never listened to country music until I saw you on "American Idol," and now I've been to a Rascal Flatts concerts, and I went and saw so and so,'" she adds. "And it's wonderful that we all kind of have our place in country music and we all pull listeners in for different reasons, and because of that we can hear everything."
Whatever kind of music you decide to call it, Carrie's new album, Play On, is almost destined to be a success. After winning the fourth season of American Idol back in 2004, the singer's first album, Some Hearts, went seven times platinum. In 2007 she released her second album, Carnival Ride, which has sold almost 3 million copies. That gives her a total of almost 10 million albums sold in just 5 years.
Still, Underwood wants to keep trying new things, while maintaining her country sound. "I love all kinds of music and I think it's all kinds of fun when you take a slightly different element and you bring it to you and incorporate that into your music," she says.
She's even taking a stab at something something she's never done before: love songs.
"This has been kind of my first attempt at love songs," Underwood says. "And I think there's a reason for that. I think it's because I'm a private person anyway, and I'm not so great with emotions. I consider myself more boyish in that way, so I'm pretty closed off. But you know when you're happy in your life, you can just kind of tell."
