Country music’s Carrie Underwood has a new single released yesterday and it’s called Smoke Break. It’s a drag in a good way that is.
Carrie Underwood took to Facebook to reveal Smoke Break
which will be featured on her new upcoming fifth album called Storyteller.
Smoke Break will be released to country radio yesterday and
available digitally on Apple Music and other digital outlets last night. The
song reached number 1 on the Billboard Trending 140.
Smoke Break is an uptempo song thematically that is a
makeshift ode to the often unsung working class, as Carrie Underwood opens the
track singing about a woman with multiple jobs, just trying to get by: “She’s a
small town hardworkin’ woman just tryin’ to make a livin’/Workin’ three jobs,
feedin’ four little mouths in a run down kitchen/When you’re never takin’
nothin’ and doin’ nothin’ but givin’/It’s hard to be good wife and a good mom
and a good Christian.”
Wow, the lyrics sounds like a Carrie Underwood version of
rap music with her singing vocals instead of rap vocals. It would be something
that rappers like Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj doesn’t. OK then, let’s continue.
The track with she co-wrote with longtime collaborators
Hillary Lindsey and Chris DeStefano, tell the story of two seriously
stressed-out people who are in need to a breather with a little bit of
nicotine. It is produced by Jay Joyce. If this song is pop rock instead of
country rock and co-wrote with Max Martin and Shellback instead of Hillary
Lindsey and Chris DeStefano and had the same stuff, then that song would be a
huge hit for Carrie Underwood. You know why Taylor Swift’s Shake It Off, Jessie
J’s Bang Bang and Demi Lovato’s Cool For The Summer exist.
As Smoke Break is “an anthem for every hard-working person,”
with lyrics about escaping life’s many stresses, she announce the track from
her Facebook video where she talks like Britney Spears in an Oklahoma accent
assuming that she’s from Oklahoma. In a Q&A following the announcement, she
told fans to expect more of that format on the seemingly aptly-titled
Storyteller. She also answers when asked by a fan via Facebook how the song
came about as she said, “It was so beautiful outside that we had a hard time
focusing, so we decided to write a song about taking breaks! ‘Smoke Break’
seemed like a great title, so we ran with it!”
“Sometimes I need a long/drag/Yeah I know it might sound
bad, but sometimes I need a smoke break,” she sings on a guitar-heavy chorus.
Now this is something that mainstream music needs to pay attention to. Forget
country music, mainstream music should play Carrie Underwood like this one even
if she is a country superstar. While I do enjoy this song, the chorus which is
powerful sounds more like a Carrie Underwood version of Jordin Sparks and Chris
Brown’s No Air with a touch of Avril Lavigne’s Losing Grip. Let’s move on.
The song itself is just kind of one of those story songs
that I feel like everybody can relate to about how life is so hectic and it’s
so nice if and when you get to step away for a second, and we all need that
time to ourselves, to get to take a break,” she says, “I feel like a lot of the
songs that I wrote and gravitated to ended up being more traditional and
“twangy” than anything I have done before. I just went with it! I love the
story telling aspect of country music… it’s one of the reasons I always wanted
to be a part of it.”
Wow, sound like why Carrie Underwood’s country music needs
to go worldwide like UK or Japan. It appears that Carrie Underwood adds that
while there are no duets on the album, “I have a few talented people who helped
out with their beautiful voices in a background kind of way!” That means, no
collaborating with other artists like Demi Lovato. Rats, if only Carrie Underwood should release
a single with Demi Lovato featured, that would be epic.
Storyteller will be her first full studio album since 2012’s
Blown Away and Storyteller will be available on October 23.
While I’m disappointing that it’s another country album
instead of a pop album with contemporary Christian influenced pop rock tunes,
I’m really exciting for the album. While I do like Smoke Break, that song
doesn’t feel like country at all. That song should be pop rock with a rock
twang. This is why I hate Carrie Underwood is a country star appearance. She’s
supposed to be a pop star too. Why can’t she have both? Not only that, I never
like country as the song’s genre. Never. Pop is a better genre for Smoke Break.
I’m sure MTV will air the Smoke Break music video when the music video will be
premiering on ET on August 24 with Vevo and CMT soon followed. Trust me, if
Carrie Underwood only makes country music, she’s gonna have a hard time
controlling her crossover career between both country and pop. Let’s hope she
needs a pop song for Storyteller or make a pop album as the first side project
album. So make it happen, Carrie Underwood.
What do you think? Are you exciting for Smoke Break? Are you
looking forward to buy Storyteller when it came out? Sound off below!
No comments:
Post a Comment