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Carnival Ride
by Carrie Underwood
The "American Idol" winner returns with her follow-up to her multiaward winning debut.
| LABEL: |
Arista Nashville |
| RELEASE DATE: |
23 October 2007 |
| DISCS: |
1 disc |
| GENRE(S): |
Country |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
83
Entertainment Weekly
Carnival Ride covers its bases impeccably, from the roof-raising opener 'Flat on the Floor' to the gorgeous, torchy ballad 'I Know You Won't' and the already-massive anthem 'So Small.'

80
Billboard
The Oklahoman delivers in spades on her sophomore effort, on which she was much more involved in the creative process.

80
Boston Globe
Carnival Dreams, a worthy successor to Underwood's 6-million-selling debut, will surely install the blond belter from Checotah, Okla., on the crossover throne once occupied by Faith Hill and Shania Twain.

80
All Music Guide
Sound and feel do mean a lot, but country records really survive on the strength of their songs, and the remarkable thing about Carnival Ride is that it's stronger song for song than Some Hearts, some of this due to Carrie herself, who bears four songwriting credits here, often in conjunction with some permutation of Steve McEwan and Hillary Lindsey, who pen a bunch of other tunes here.

70
The New York Times
It's a straight-up Carrie Underwood album, and a very good one, with a handful of romps and laments that exist mainly to set the stage for the big-voiced, '80s-influenced, Southern-accented power ballads she sings so well.

70
PopMatters
Carnival Ride doesn’t include anything as stand-alone stunning as the song she’ll still be singing at state fairs when she’s 64, but it’s a much better front-to-back collection than her debut.

70
Blender
Cheery and unassuming, Underwood is a pleasant oddity: a pop star whose central belief is her own powerlessness.

70
Rolling Stone
Carnival Ride is more country and therefore more confident.

40
Slant Magazine
Carnival Ride simply doesn't offer anything for the unconverted in terms of Underwood's growth either as a vocalist or as an artist.

40
Hartford Courant
A record with stronger songs that somehow manages to sound just as banal as her first.


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