Canada oh Canada , thanks for the marvelous review and 10,000 in attendance !!! There are vids up on you tube already of last night, Carrie really smacked them with some gorgeous vocals ! There's one where the crowd did the wave before the concert, you can see the huge audience!
SEE!! We love herrr!
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syracuse ny - 10/18/08: met carrie again, discussed 'monpoly' money, annddd
she gave us a 'woot woot' on stage! || blend by amazing nicole.
yah..but I didnt post the other toronto newspaper review that gave her a 3 out of 5..the reviewer which was a woman, spent the whole review basically trashing Carrie's wardrobe choices..
yah..but I didnt post the other toronto newspaper review that gave her a 3 out of 5..the reviewer which was a woman, spent the whole review basically trashing Carrie's wardrobe choices..
It definitely wasn't. Even though the reviewer was all caught up with questioning Carrie's fashion choices, she kept mentioning Carrie has great vocal shops. I was surprised it was "only" a 3 out of 5 star review considering most of what the woman said about the music was positive. She just wanted Carrie to have more stage presence.
The queen of new country has the chops -- all she's missing is the style
The ride is far from over for country music sweetheart Carrie Underwood.
The 25-year-old Season Four American Idol winner is still riding high on the success of her 2007 sophomore album, Carnival Ride, which brought her to the Air Canada Centre last night for the second Toronto-area show on the tour. (She played Copps Coliseum in Hamilton back in March.)
A five-minute countdown and audience screams heralded Underwood's arrival on stage from beneath her large, double staircase, dressed down in basic black and denim and holding a pink sequined microphone with her blond hair a bit shorter than she usually wears it.
Casual looks aside there was no mistaking that big, strong voice as she opened with Flat on the Floor from Carnival Ride before seguing into the title track from her debut Some Hearts and Wasted.
"We're going to have some fun tonight," said Underwood, who was backed by an eight-piece band. "Please sing along, dance along."
It took the fourth song, All-American Girl, also from Carnival Ride, before Underwood ventured out onto a large catwalk leading to a smaller stage, high-fiving audience members as she walked along it.
"I'm going to become a Canadian girl so I need help with this song," she said as she dragged a young red-headed little girl up on stage to help out on the lyrics.
But the experiment didn't quite work as the girl got stage struck and shy and didn't really sing along.
Still, she sure was cute with her arms crossed as she mouthed the words alongside Underwood, who bent down on her knees.
Underwood then belted out Crazy Dreams next before leaving the stage briefly for a costume change while a video montage showed her various accolades over the last four years, including her teary induction into the Grand Ole Opry earlier this year by Randy Travis, making her the youngest member of that institution, and her American Idol win which drew more big cheers from the audience.
Underwood most recently received two more Country Music Association nominations for the 2008 CMA Awards on Nov. 12, which she will co-host with Brad Paisley, for female vocalist of the year and album of the year.
Underwood's change into a more glamorous, if badly fitting, blue strapless evening gown, and diamond necklace and bracelet meant it was time for ballads like I Know You Won't, and a platform that raised her up as she hit the high notes, and her breakthrough hit, Jesus, Take the Wheel, which was co-written by Canadian Gordie Sampson, and saw the crowd join in on a major singalong.
But the bottom part of the gown was stripped away for the more upbeat I Ain't in Checotah Anymore, with some nice interactiion with her fiddle player, and the cheeky The More Boys I Meet (The More I Love My Dog) which saw two cowboy-hat-wearing children hand her bouquets of flowers on her smaller stage.
"Dating's hard," said Underwood, who has been linked to both Dallas Cowboy quarterback Tony Romo (now with Jessica Simpson) and Gossip Girl's Chace Crawford.
Another costume change into a strapless satin flowery top and jeans -- someone get this girl a stylist already! -- saw Underwood come out blazing vocally on the one-night-stand song, Last Name, bringing her two guitarists down the catwalk with her to the smaller stage where she strapped on an acoustic guitar to play alongside them for the ballads Don't Forget to Remember Me and I Told You So.
Underwood's clearly got the vocal chops -- as later songs like Twisted, So Small, and Get Out of This Town (which saw her strap on an electric guitar) clearly demonstrated. Now if she could just get the clothes and stage performance to go along with her current status as the queen of new country.
She finally started having fun by the very end of her 90-minute show with a surprisingly decent cover of Guns 'N, Roses' Paradise City while decked out in a Canada national hockey team jersey followed by her own "Louisville slugger" barnburner Before He Cheats, complete with pink confetti.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD
Air Canada Centre
Last night
Sun Rating: 3 out of 5
The Star review was better but this one isn't bad either.
canadian love carrie . I'm still waiting for her to do a vancouver show. I guess canadian economy is doing well despite what's going on here in the us..
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