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Originally Posted by TeamAyu

^ Carrie Underwood has a gorgeous voice. I didn't like her at first... but I never really gave her music a chance and once I did I was won over.

"Wasted" & "We're Young And Beautiful" = love.

See, I first caught her on American Idol (around when she butchered Independence Day) and HATED her for awhile. Then I dug up some of her older performances on the show (Alone is awesome) and saw her singing Bless the Broken Road and Elvis's Trouble and was won over (grudgingly). I was happy for her when she won, although I'd originally wanted her to lose to Bo Bice.

But yeah, her album is almost as perfect as.... not just an Idol debut album it's awesome by those standards - but for a country pop album at all, it's great. The only song I really don't like much on there is Inside Your Heaven *snicker. snicker.* - and while I'm not wild about We're Young and Beautiful, it's nice.

The rest are all stellar - even Jesus, Take the Wheel. It's downright corny, but it is pretty.

Her voice reminds me of Martina McBride's (which is a huge compliment coming from me), but... that doesn't mean I want her doing Martina's songs.

Still, her debut was one of the best albums of 2005, I think. Definitely the best Idol debuts. And the best country album of '05 (the only other ones i bought, to my memory, were Jo Dee Messina's Delicious Surprise, LeAnn Rimes's This Woman - both awesome albums - Faith Hill's Fireflies, and Martina's Timeless, which was kind of surprisingly boring).