she’s still not the best country singer to come out of AI

Sorry, but I just LMAO-ed. Kristy Lee Cook a better singer? Double LMAO. Try to listen to Look At Me or Temporary Home from her new album, the tone of her voice is one of the best to come out from Idol….ever…..

By my reckoning, this Nov 2009, she is the biggest star in the Idol stable.

But no, Carrie is definitely no “diva” ~ to me, she’s the best “female” artist to come out of AI. I love just about EVERY song she comes out with ~ and she must be doing something right, because there are MILLIONS of people who AGREE with me! GO CARRIE! Love Cowboy Cassanova too!

Have you ever seen Carrie in concert? I have, twice! Carrie rocks and she’s no diva.

Miranda Lambert has more talent, better voice and country in her than Carrie will ever have…..ever…..

Today, went to the GMA Fall Concert Series today to see Carrie. I liked Carrie AI4, but was more of a Bo fan. However, when I saw her on the AI tour that year, she proved to me why she won and why Simon predicted that she would sell so well.

Checked GMA’s website late last night, & it said the venue would be in their studio, indoors, located at Times Square. It was difficult in general to find any information about her concert on the GMA site. I needed to google to find any additionl info.

Got to Times Square only to see nobody around in the GMA studio. Small sign on the door, which I’m not sure everyone would see, said to go to Lincoln Center and use “Columbus Ave.” entrance. Quickly boarded a subway, with two young girls in tow and another adult. Once off train at LC, still hard to find concert setup, without someone who knew exactly where it was, pointing out directions. There was a lot of street construction and temp. sidewalks and detours.

Once at stage, the crowd was much, much smaller than the one I saw at the Summer Concert Series with Cook, Allen and Lambert in Central Park. However, I remember GMA promoting their Summer Concerts a lot and there was almost nothing for this one. Changing the venue, the very last minute, with so little accessible information probably adversely affected the turnout.

Carrie looked very nice in person and thin! Her outfit was sophisticated, and she simply looked very attractive. Very sweet, polite young woman. Country is not my thing at all. However, Carrie can flat out sing! Even in the 45-50 degree weather, she sounded amazing! It’s refreshing to hear someone who can really sing. She put forth a good effort despite the low turnout. I felt bad for her but she was a trooper.

I think ABC/GMA screwed up. Here they had the singer with the #1 album on ITunes, with a poor turnout..maybe 100-200 people? The crowd was polite, clapped and GMA producers coming off breaks did the usual to encourage everyone to “make noise”. (Even though the producers asked the crowds to make noise at the Cook/Allen/Lambert concert, it was totally unnecessary as the crowds were large and very into the singers. Someone shouted out to Carrie something about her having a #1 something; either song or album and she seemed to take in the information matter of factly but seemed honored by it.

WHen the show was over, Carrie was escorted off inside Avery Fisher Hall to do a M&G (I assume with ABC/GMA badge holders). B/C we did not have the official badges, the GMA/ABC security would not let the two little girls with us get an autograph inside! They were the only two really standing there at the end and the security guards/execs told us that Carrie had no more time. However, side note: NYC Police officers who were supposed to be on duty, took time to get Carrie’s autograph and take pictures with her! I don’t blame Carrie at all, she knew nothing of what was going on. She seemed polite and kind to whoever asked her for photos/autographs

We waited around and finally someone nice told us to wait “over there” b/c Carrie would probably be leaving from that exit after the M&G. THere were some barricades set up, and maybe 30 people there. Carrie came out and took time to sign autographs and take pictures before leaving in her car! She was very sweet! SHe made the two little girls day and some other very dedicated fans!

It’s not that I don’t like the genre, I like some country music, and there are some very good artists in country music. Carrie is also probably the best technical singer to ever come out of Idol, but I don’t understand why she is so popular? Her eyes are blank when she sings and she lacks passion (imo). She even looks uncomfortable at times on stage. She’s just visually unremarkable onstage, apart from being beautiful. But even that is a non-descript beauty, she’s not uniquely beautiful; there’s nothing out of the ordinary about her beauty, you can see that in any fashion magazine.

Nope, don’t get it. Nice girl, though.

And the way she looks – love it. Her stylist deserves every penny. And whoever does her hair.

AND the album is awesome.

Life is good, huh Carrie!