This Is Why Pop Radio Needs To Play Carrie Underwood Songs

It has come to my attention that the majority of the world will never accept Carrie Underwood again (except for country) because the only Carrie Underwood song is played on pop stations is Before He Cheats. That's all pop music stations does is to play Before He Cheats and never stops. Cowboy Casanova, Undo It, Good Girl, and Blown Away shouldn't really help much either.

At first, I thought it was only people on YouTube who were being stubborn about the whole thing, but turns out it's everyone. So people was talking to either people about music. We both agree that Lady Gaga is a creepy weirdo, and Kesha is trashy and annoying. Then somebody was talking about how Carrie Underwood doesn't like either of their attitudes, and this was coming from probably the most positive, optimistic person of course. The only music Carrie Underwood does is country music. Why didn't she make pop music for crossover appeals. Taylor Swift did that. So why won't Carrie Underwood do the same thing? I know why? Because she defends her country music last year. What the fart? Then I started ranting about how Lady Gaga tries way too hard to be unique, when all Carrie Underwood had to do was to make country music. Then a person said she doesn't like Carrie Underwood either because country music is awful, and how she shows how "trashy" she is with her country music. Then of course, I tried explaining how she wasn't serious with her songs and she even want to release her songs everywhere, but that didn't really go anywhere. This whole incident just showed me that, if someone as optimistic as her doesn't even like Carrie Underwood because of her songs, then no one else will, other than die-hard fans and mainstream addicts. (No offense to anyone who is...)

So, in case an anti-fan like that happens to come across this page, I want to clear a few things up. Carrie Underwood was not serious with her country hits. It was just country songs that she wrote for fun and didn't even plan on releasing it for country audiences. But of course, the music marketing department forced her to. They wanted Carrie Underwood albums to be just country albums because that's what sells these days. She did not want this, however, so she put her foot down, and that caused some conflicts with her and the music market. In the end, she had to compromise, and put only country songs on the record. I only wish she could've shown people that by releasing her pop songs...

That's another thing that frustrates me. The way the musical/mainstream industry works... they only play a single or two that's relatively new from an album, and they play it over and over and over again on the radio until it drives enough people mad. Because of this, most people either don't bother to look up Carrie Underwood because they get enough of her country songs on the radio, or they look her up only to listen to her songs since the only radio stations to play Carrie Underwood songs is country stations. It's such a shame that those people will never hear the brilliance of Carrie Underwood's awesome country songs like Don't Forget to Remember Me, Wasted, All-American Girl, Temporary Home, Mama's Song, Two Black Cadillacs, See You Again

Even though everyone complains about Before He Cheats being overplayed and whatnot, I've actually only heard Carrie Underwood songs on the country radio. Since something is obsessed with mainstream, I'm forced to listen to it quite frequently, but instead of hearing Carrie's songs, I hear Lady Gaga and Katy Perry and Taylor Swift crap that came out either before or around the same time Carrie Underwood makes country music non-stop since 2005. Carrie Underwood been around in 2005 before all of them, and her music is way better (IMO obviously) than theirs, and it's new. Shouldn't radio stations be playing her music (at least her country songs) like Mama's Song on mainstream radio stations other than country radio stations? Or at least on more than one station, so it's not like a scavenger hunt to try and find one that plays her. I've noticed the same thing with bands like Paramore. Their music is incredible as well, but when Brand New Eyes came out, I never heard their music on the radio.

Well, I can accept the fact that something like this went through a lot to get to hear Before He Cheats, but I'm just not too keen on all the hyperbole. "Before He Cheats is awesome and I don't like Carrie Underwood" Stop that already, please take the time to hear Carrie Underwood songs like Jesus, Take the Wheel, Don't Forget to Remember Me, Wasted, So Small, All-American Girl, Last Name, Just a Dream, Cowboy Casanova, Temporary Home, Undo It, Mama's Song, Good Girl, Blown Away, Two Black Cadillacs, See You Again. If you did and you consider that you prefer other Carrie Underwood songs, fine. At least you have seen her songs, but I get the feeling that a lot of people haven't, or only hear them once and they rejected them.

Anyways, kinda got off topic there. Sure, Carrie Underwood can be talented at times when it comes to her country music, sometimes more than others. But can't we all? I see people in their 30's-40's acting WAY less mature than her. She's an amazing singer and her country music is perfect to everyone beside her country audiences. She's a happy person who wants to have fun. Yeah, she was annoying on country radio and I much prefer hearing her songs, but that was just her being a special country singer. It's what her country song like So Small were made so special. So why doesn't Carrie Underwood move her country music to pop and make her pop music? Let's continue.

But the biggest thing that is preventing Carrie Underwood from having an identity outside of her music is the suits' paranoia over country audiences. You know how much I hate their fear of what country music listners want to hear her songs.

Music brass... Country music audiences aren't your target demographic for Carrie Underwood songs!

Who is your target demographic?

EVERYONE.

Play to everyone, families, kids, adults, fans, pop music listeners... You'll get a big success on your hands, it's not freakin' rocket science! By trying too hard to appeal to country music listeners, you alienate other musc listeners like pop music listeners who will make Carrie Underwood songs more successful than they are. You also come off as country music, and you also make pop music listeners feel left out. What is this? A country music-only treehouse? This is Carrie Underwood, something everyone deserves to experience.

Also, if you treat Carrie Underwood songs as a treehouse for country that doesn't allow pop... Then you're limiting your audience for appealing Carrie Underwood. Pop music listeners don't want to go into a country music's treehouse, because that's country music's stuff. Is Carrie Underwood country's stuff? No. Need I remind the suits about beloved Carrie Underwood songs like Jesus, Take the Wheel! and Good Girl??? Good thing those weren't made today, they probably would've done decent business at best.

This obsession with pleasing one minor chunk of their music audience all stems from Carrie Underwood. Music's newly-hired staff came on board when Carrie Underwood's music was released from 2005 onwards, and those "geniuses" failed to realize that Carrie Underwood's campaign was lame and that Carrie Underwood had other pre-release baggage for country music department. But in corporation fashion, the suits and marketing are never wrong... It's obviously Carrie Underwood's fault for not releasing her country music to pop stations. That's why MTV or Fuse don't want to play Carrie Underwood music videos like Last Name besides Before He Cheats. So if you want Carrie Underwood music videos on MTV or Fuse, tell MTV and Fuse and air a Carrie Underwood marathon with all Carrie Underwood music videos on the former and Carrie Underwood Takeover on the latter. That way, MTV, Fuse or even VH1 will have no problem airing Carrie Underwood music videos not named Before He Cheats like All-American Girl. Great for next year. See is that easy?

Well, I guess my point being is, people, get over that fact that Carrie Underwood isn't a pop singer. She is a country singer. I'll tell you what, Carrie Underwood has to retire her country music career and move her country music to pop and then make pop music. That way, her music will be shown on pop. Forget about Before He Cheats, because Carrie's country singles not named Before He Cheats is fantastic, and if you don't want Before He Cheats, skip over Before He Cheats and her country is just like pop music done by pop artists like Christina Aguilera and Katy Perry for the most part, so at least give it a shot before assuming it's just like pop music like Pink and Rihanna.

Thanks for reading my long, probably unnecessary rant.