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May 10, 2012This is easily Carrie's most well-rounded and confident work to date.
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May 8, 2012While previous efforts seemed a bit unfocused and disseminated, Blown Away is more thematic and unified, resulting in Underwood's strongest effort to date, which easily leaves her previous releases twisting in the wind.
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May 8, 2012Underwood's voice is as powerful as ever, but Blown Away tries too hard, ratcheting up melodrama with strings and effects.
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May 2, 2012When she's a good girl, she's very good--but Bad Carrie just sounds better.
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May 2, 2012She's meant to be be a superstar and she's never seemed as comfortable with her calling as she does on Blown Away.
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May 1, 2012In an already impressive, multi-platinum career, Blown Away is a landmark achievement.
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May 1, 2012This is nebulous pop music dressed up in country fringe, zoomed out so far that Underwood never nails anything in particular.
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May 1, 2012Mostly, though, Blown Away finds her using her remarkable voice to deliver feel-good bromides.
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Apr 30, 2012Although the album is still a far cry from being great on its own merits or from being a fully realized, well-calibrated statement of artistic identity, it's nonetheless a welcome surprise to hear Underwood finally making some substantive headway toward recording music that aspires to be more than merely pleasant and safe.
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Apr 30, 2012While the album starts bold and mechanically impressive, it gets progressively quieter over the course of its first half, as if she were taking a break from fire-breathing... [Yet] relaxation is not her milieu.
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Aug 30, 2012Everything else [besides "Good in Goodbye" and "One Way Ticket"] is worth hearing, learning, and trying to love.
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Jun 14, 2012However predictable the package, there's fun to be had in these tales of bad dads, cheating husbands and cold, cold hearts, and Underwood delivers them with sweet purposefulness.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 77 out of 122
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Mixed: 2 out of 122
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Negative: 43 out of 122
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Sep 22, 2017
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Aug 6, 2012
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Dec 23, 2016