샤니아 트웨인, 리앤 라임스를 잇는 컨템포러리 팝 스타 캐리 언더우드의 정규 2집 신작 현재 시즌 7번째를 앞두고 있는 『아메리칸 아이돌"AMERICAN IDOL"』은 2002년 ‘시즌 1’을 시작으로 신인가수를 발굴하는 대표적인 리얼리티 TV쇼로 군림하고 있다. 미국 전역에서의 오디션을 거친 아마추어 후보들이 프로듀서 겸 베이시시트 랜디 잭슨"RANDY JACKSON", 여성 팝 스타 폴라 압둘"PAULA ABDUL", 그리고 저명한 음반 제작자 겸 기획자인 사이몬 코웰"SIMON COWELL" 등 심사위원의 심사를 거쳐 스타로 탄생하는 과정을 그리고 있는 ‘아메리칸 아이돌’은 켈리 클락슨"KELLY CLARKSON", 판타지아"FANTASIA", 도트리"DAUGHTRY", 클레이 에이켄"CLAY AIKEN" 등 많은 스타를 배출해왔는데, 그 중 ‘시즌 4’의 우승자였던 캐리 언더우드"CARRIE UNDERWOOD"는 단 1장의 앨범으로 차세대 여성 팝 스타로의 위치에 올라 선 인물이다.다채로운 팝-컨트리 스타일의 두 번째 앨범왠지 지난 몇 년간 캐리 언더우드에게 겪었던 기적과 같은 일들을 떠올리는 듯한 [CARNIVAL RIDE]를 타이틀로 한 2집 앨범이 2년만에 발매됐다. 데뷔 앨범을 발매한 이후 싱글 히트곡도 많았고 오랫동안 인기를 얻은 탓에 공백이 없었던 것처럼 느껴지는데, 10월 23일 미국에서 발매된 이번 2집은 1집의 큰 성공에 이은 후속작이라 기대와 부담을 동시에 앉고 내놓았으리라 여겨진다. 일단 참여한 뮤지션들은 1집 때와 아주 큰 차이를 보이고 있진 않다. 1집 때 2곡을 작곡했던 여성 작곡가 다이앤 워렌"DIANE WARREN"이 참여하지 않았다는 점을 제외하고는 컨트리 전문 작곡가 브렛 제임스"BRETT JAMES" 등 1집 때 참여했던 작곡가의 이름들이 눈에 많이 띈다. 음악 스타일 면에서도 『아메리칸 아이돌』 오디션 도중에 ‘마티나 맥브라이드"MARTINA MCBRIDE"가 자신이 가장 좋아하는 가수’라고 캐리 언더우드가 밝힌 것처럼 기본적으로 컨트리 뮤직을 바탕으로 하고 있지만, 페이스 힐"FAITH HILL", 샤니아 트웨인"SHANIA TWAIN", 리앤 라임스"LEANN RIMES" 등의 계보로 지켜오고 있는 대중적이고 컨템포러리한 컨트리 팝 스타일을 지향하고 있다. 따라서 1집 때와 스타일 면에서는 크게 달라진 점 없이 무난하면서도 반면 다채로운 곡들로 채워져 있다. 첫 싱글로 발표된 ‘SO SMALL’은 10월 중순 현재 팝 싱글 차트 20위권, 컨트리 싱글 차트 10위권에 오르며 순항 중에 있는데, 데뷔 싱글 ‘INSIDE YOUR HEAVEN’에 버금갈 만한 캐리 언더우드의 가창력이 돋보이는 록 스타일의 발라드 곡이다. 또한 ‘JESUS, TAKE THE WHEEL’과 비견될 만한 호소력 짙은 발라드 ‘JUST A DREAM’, 경쾌한 팝 스타일의 ‘GET OUT OF THIS TOWN’, 다른 곡들과 조금은 다른 창법과 스타일이 느껴지는 발라드 ‘I KNOW YOU WON’T 등에서도 크로스오버된 팝 사운드를 느낄 수 있다. 반면, 명확한 구분이 어렵긴 하지만 오프닝 곡 ‘FLAT ON THE FLOOR’나 캐리 언더우드가 직접 작곡에 참여한 ‘ALL-AMERICAN GIRL’ 등은 오히려 정통 컨트리 뮤직 스타일에 조금 더 가까운 곡들이라고 할 수 있겠다.그 밖에 가볍게 통통거리는 벤조와 록 기타 사운드가 오묘하게 조화된 ‘LAST NAME이나 미국 컨트리 음악계의 제왕이었던 랜드 트래비스"RANDY TRAVIS"가 1988년에 발표해 컨트리 싱글 차트 1위에 올려놓았던 히트곡을 달콤하게 리메이크 한 ‘I TOLD YOU SO’ 등도 캐리 언더우드의 매력을 만끽할 만한 곡들로 추천드린다. 『아메리칸 아이돌』의 상업성에 대한 비판을 떠나서 그간 배출된 우승자들의 면면을 살펴보면 ‘POP’"KELLY CLARKSON", ‘R&B’"RUBEN STUDDARD", ‘ROCK’"DAUGHTRY" 등에서 다양한 장르의 스타들이 잘 포지셔닝된 느낌이 든다. 캐리 언더우드 또한 샤니아 트웨인이나 리앤 라임스의 부재 속에 목말랐던 여성 팝 컨트리 스타의 뒤를 이을 재목으로 평가받고 있기에 앞으로도 더욱 성장할 가능성이 크지 않나 싶다. 데뷔 때부터 엄청난 성공을 거둔 캐리 언더우드에게는 소포모어 징크스를 넘기 위해 넘어야 할 산등성이가 더욱 높긴 하겠지만, 전체적인 면에서 이번 두 번째 앨범 [CARNIVAL RIDE]의 무난한 성공을 예상해 본다. 데뷔앨범의 성공만으로 최고의 스타 대열에 선 캐리 언더우드의 앞으로의 행보를 지켜보도록 하자. .... ....
I'm flat on the floor with my head down low Where the sky can't rain on me anymore Don't knock on my door 'cause I won't come I'm hidin' from the storm 'til the damage is done Baby baby baby baby Tell me why You gotta make me make me make me make me make me cry Oh lord If I told you once I told you a thousand times You can't knock me off my feet When I'm already on my knees I'm flat on the floor with my head down low Where the sky can't rain on me anymore Don't knock on my door 'cause I won't come I'm hidin' from the storm 'til the damage is done
Baby baby baby baby Tell me how You think you're gonna live without my love now I don't know why you gotta keep comin' around Creepin' up my street But boy you can't bother me Now I'm flat on the floor with my head down low Where the sky can't rain on me anymore Don't knock on my door 'cause I won't come I'm hidin' from the storm 'til the damage is done You ain't gonna get to me tonight aliber hear to the over through I'm gonna liphob body to the ain't know sun to believe ain't know sun to believe ain't know sun and you I'm flat on the floor with my head down low Where the sky can't rain on me anymore Don't knock on my door 'cause I won't come I'm hidin' from the storm 'til the damage is done I'm flat on the floor with my head down low Where the sky can't rain on me anymore Don't knock on my door 'cause I won't come I'm hidin' from the storm 'til the damage is done Now I'm flat on the floor with my head down low Where the sky can't rain on me anymore Don't knock on my door 'cause I won't come I'm hidin' from the storm 'til the damage is done oh oh oh oh oh Don't knock on my door oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh I'm hidin' from the storm 'til the damage is done
Since the day they got married He'd been playing for a little baby boy Someone he could take fishing Throw the football and be his pride and joy He could already see him holding that trophy Taking his team to state But when the nurse came in with a little pink blanket All those big dreams changed And now he's wrapped around her finger She's the center of his whole world And his heart belongs to that sweet little beautiful wonderful perfect All American Girl Sixteen short years later She was falling for the senior football star Before you knew it he was dropping passes Skipping practice just to spend more time with her The coach said Hey son a what's you're problem Tell me have you lost your mind Daddy said You'll lose your free ride to college Boy you better tell her goodbye But now he's wrapped around her finger She's the center of his whole world And his heart belongs to that sweet little beautiful wonderful perfect All American And when they got married and decided to have one of their own She said Be honest tell me what you want And he said Honey you oughta know Sweet little beautiful one just the like you Oh a beautiful wonderful perfect All American Now he's wrapped around her finger She's the center of his whole world And his heart belongs to that sweet little beautiful wonderful perfect All American Girl Oh American Girl
Yeah Yeah What you got if you ain't got love The kind that you just want to give away It's ok to open up Go ahead and let the light shine through I know it's hard on a rainy day You wanna shut the world out and just be left alone But don't run out on your faith Cause sometimes that mountain you've been climbing Is just a grain of sand And what you've been out there searching for forever Is in your hands And when you figure out love is all that matters after all It sure makes everything else seem so small It's so easy to get lost inside A problem that seems so big at the time It's like a river that's so wide it swallows you whole While you're sitting around thinking about what you can't change And worrying about all the wrong things Time's flying by moving so fast You better make it count cause you can't get it back Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing Is just a grain of sand And what you've been out there searching for forever Is in your hands Oh and when you figure out love is all that matters after all It sure makes everything else seem so small yeah yeah yeah yeah
Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing Is just a grain of sand And what you've out there searching for forever Is in your hands oh oh oh And then you figure out love is all that matters after all It sure makes everything else Oh it sure makes everything else seem so small Yeah yeah
It was two weeks after the day she turned eight teen All dressed in white going to the church that night She had his box of letter in the passenger seat Six pins and a shoe Somthing borrowed something blue And when the church doors opened up wide She put her veil down trying to hide the tears Oh she just couldn't believe it She heard the trumpets from the military band And the flowers fell out of her hands Baby why'd you leave me why'd you have to go I was counting on forever now I'll never know I can't even breathe It's like I'm looking from a distance standing in the background Everybody's saying he's not coming home now This can't be happening to me This is just a dream The preacher man said let us bow our head and pray Lord pleas lift his soul and heal this hurt Then the congregation all stood up and same the saddest song that she ever heard Then they handed her a folded up flag And she held on to all she had left of him Oh and what could've been And then guns rang one last shot And it felt like a bullet in her heart Baby why'd you leave me why'd you have to go I was counting on forever now I'll never know I can't even breathe It's like I'm looking from a distance standing in the background Everybody's saying he's not coming home now This can't be happening to me This is just a dream Oh oh baby why'd you leave me why'd you have to go I was counting on forever now I'll never know Oh I'll never know It's like I'm looking from a distance standing in the background Everybody's saying he's not coming home now This can't be happening to me This is just a dream Oh this is just a dream Just a dream yeah eh eh yeah eh eh eh eh
Got it all figured out inside of my head There's a bag packed up at the foot of my bed You say the word baby I'm all set Cover our tracks tell a couple white lies Make sure we got a good alibi and by the time they catch on we'll be outa their sight Long gone baby Let's get out of this town tonight Nothing but dust in the shadows Gone go morning light Somewhere we wont ever get caught never be found Baby let's just get out of this town Don't need directions don't need a map If we get lost I'll be good with that Yeah we'll find a way to make the time pass Windows rolled down with the heat on high Stars all aligned in a runaway sky Holding my hand as miles roll by Long gone baby Let's get out of this town tonight Nothing but dust in the shadows Gone by morning light Somewhere we wont ever get caught never be found Baby lets just get out of this town
If we leave tonight and drive fast enough all our troubles will be just like us Long gone baby Let's get out of this town tonight Nothing but dust in the shadows Gone go morning light Somewhere we wont ever get caught never be found let's get out of this town tonight let's get out of this town tonight ever get caught never be found Baby lets just get out of this town
Hello you long shots you dark horse runners Hairbrush singers dashboard drummers Hello you wild magnolias just waiting to bloom There's a little bit of all that inside of me and you Thank God even crazy dreams come true I've stood at the bottom of some walls I thought I couldn't climb I felt like Cinderella at the ball Just running out of time So I know how it feels to be afraid And think that it's all gone and slip away Hold on Hold on Here's to you free souls you firefly chasers Street climbers porch swingers air guitar players Heres to you fearless dancers shaking walls in your bedrooms There's a lot of wonder left inside of me and you Thank God even crazy dreams come true Never let a bad day be enough To go and talk you in to giving up Sometimes everybody feels like you Oh feels like you Just like you
I've met some go getters some difference makers Small town he roes and big chance takers I've met some young hearts with something to prove Oh yeah Here's to you long shots you dark horse runners Hairbrush singers dashboard drummers Here's to you wild magnolias just waiting to bloom There's a little bit of all that inside of me and you Thank God even crazy dreams come true Thank God even crazy dreams come true
I know you don't mean to be mean to me Cuz when you want to you can make me feel like we belong We belong Lately you make me feel all I am is a back up plan I say I'm Done and then you smile at me and I forget everything I said I buy into those eyes and into your lies You say you'll call but I know you You say you're coming home but I know you You say you'll call but I know you won't You say you'll call but I know you won't I wish you were where you're supposed to be close to me But here I am just staring at this candle burning out A stumbled sound of foot steps on my stairs Your voice anywhere You say you'll call but I know you You say you're coming home but I know you You say you'll call but I know you won't You say you'll call but I know you won't
You say you'll call but I know you You say you're coming home but I know you You say you'll call but I know you won't You say you'll call but I know you won't
last night I got served a little bit too much of that poison baby last night I did things I'm not proud of and I got a little crazy last night I met a guy on the dance floor and I let him call me baby and I don't even know his last name my momma would be so ashamed it started off hey cutie where you from then it turned into oh no What have I done and I don't even know his last name he left the club about around 3 o'clock in the morning his Pinto is sitting there in the parking lot when it should of been a warning I had no clue what I was getting into so I blame it on the Cuervo oh where did my manners go and I don't even know his last name my momma would be so ashamed it started off hey cutie where you from then it turned into oh no What have I done and I don't even know his last name oh here we go
today I woke up thinkin about Elvis somewhere in Vegas I'm not sure how I got here or how this ring on my left hand just appeared outta nowhere I gotta go take the chips and the Pinto and hit the road they say what happens here stays here all of this will disappear but there's just one little problem I don't even know my last name my momma would be so ashamed it started off hey cutie where you from then it turned into oh no What have I done and I don't even know my last name what have I done what have I done what have I done oh what have I done I don't even know my last name and it turned into oh no What have I done and I don't even know my last name
it started off hey cutie where you from then it turned into oh no What have I done and I don't even know my last name
Did you check the tires put gas in the car I don't think you'll need too much 'Cause you ain't gonna get that far Did you pack the good times Don't forget a map Just incase the route you take isn't there to take you back You can hold any girl that you like Fall in love when it's easy at night But you wake up wondering why She ain't ever something better When you're lost and you've run out of road Find what I already know In the end close is all there is But you won't find this no you won't find this There's once in a lifetime And there's once in a while And the difference between the two Is about a million miles Oh you might get lucky While the moon is looking on But in the truth of the morning The stars will be long gone You can hold any girl that you like Fall in love when it's easy at night But you wake up wondering why She ain't ever something better When you're lost and you've run out of road Find what I already know In the end close is all there is But you won't find this
You can hold any girl that you like Fall in love when it's easy at night But you wake up wondering why She ain't ever something better When you're lost and you've run out of road Find what I already know In the end close is all there is oh in the end it's me you're gonna miss 'cause you won't find this oh you won't find this
Suppose I called you up tonight and told you that I loved you And suppose I said I wanna come back home And suppose I cried and said I think I finally learned my lesson' And I'm tired a spendin' all my time alone If I told you that I realised you're all I ever wanted And it's killin' me to be so far away Would you tell me that you loved me too and would we cry together Or would you simply laugh at me and say I told you so oh I told you so I told you some day you come crawling back and asking me to take you in I told you so but you had to go Now I found somebody new and you will never break my heart in two again
If I got down on my knees and told you I was yours forever Would you get down on yours to and take my hand Would we get that old time feelin' would we laugh and talk for hours The way we did when our love first began Would you tell me that you'd missed me too and that you'd been so lonely And you waited for the day that I return And we'd live in love forever and that I'm your one and only Or would you say the tables finally turned Would you say I told you so oh I told you so I told you some day you come crawling back and asking me to take you in I told you so but you had to go Now I found somebody new and you will never break my heart in two again' Now I found somebody new and you will never break my heart in two again'
Baby you're a wrecking ball Crashing into me Nothing I can do but fall Piece by piece You broke down every part of me That ever thought I would never need you, baby
It's twisted Messed up And the more I think about it It's crazy, but so what I might never understand it I'm caught up and I'm hanging on I'm gonna love you, even if it's wrong
Everybody's telling me I'm over my head But they don't feel you loving me They all say I've gone crazy Maybe, but its too late to save me I'm too tangled
It's twisted Messed up And the more I think about it It's crazy but so what I may never understand it I'm caught up and I'm hanging on
I'm gonna love you even if its wrong
Even if its twisted, yeah
Maybe its not right But that's alright Yeah, its alright tonight
It's twisted Messed up And the more I think about it It's crazy but so what I may never understand it
It's twisted Messed up And the more I think about it It's crazy but so what I may never understand it I'm caught up and I'm hanging on I'm gonna love you even if its wrong
Even if its twisted Even if its just a little bit Just a little bit Just a little twisted yeah It's twisted Yeah
Love goes out out like a light Out like a flame and you cant find it anymore Just when you think it's lost in the rain it comes back knockin' at your door It's the wheel It's the wheel of the world turning around It's the wheel It's the wheel of the world turning around and around God put us here on this carnival ride We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next Babies are born and at the same time someone's taking their last breath Its the wheel of the world Its the wheel of the world turning around In the blink of an eye it can change your life And it never even slows down Its the wheel of the world I dont know what it is Im flying high but Im wondering why Im sinking on this ship going down Life keeps on moving anyway Its the wheel of the world Its the wheel of the world turning around Its the wheel of the world Its the wheel of the world turning around Its the wheel of the world turning around and around and around Its the wheel of the world turning around It can open your heart it can break you apart And it never even slows down Its the wheel of the world turning around Its the wheel of the world turning around Its the wheel of the world turning around Its the wheel of the world turning around and around