Cry Pretty
| Carrie Underwood
Cry Pretty
Cry Pretty is the sixth studio album by American country music singer and songwriter Carrie Underwood. The album was released on September 14, 2018, as Underwood's first album with her new record label, Capitol Records Nashville after signing a global deal with Universal Music Group at the start of 2017. The album marked the first co-producing effort by Underwood, who partnered with David Garcia for the record. - Wikipedia
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Consequence of Sound
Sometimes familiar and comforting is exactly what you need.
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Sounds Like Nashville
Underwood’s most stirring album in years. Her voice alone will always move units, but it’s her heart that will keep things interesting.
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Taste of Country
This may be her finest album to date, but she still has room to learn the art of subtlety.
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Country Exclusive
This album so spectacularly fails to live up to expectations or to the talent and ability of Carrie Underwood.
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Paste Magazine
Underwood belts out rafters-reaching country anthems, incorporates dance and hip-hop beats into her radio-ready twang-pop.
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Plugged In
Underwood's achingly honest songs often explore love, loss, heartache and the reality of human emotion. Great stuff.
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Pop Matters
She takes some thick pop production, and she stuffs the album with ballads that build until she can release that big voice
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EW
Cry Pretty isn’t meant to please the purists
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Red and Black
A pop-country crossover album with little to complain about but also little to distinguish it from others.
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DBK News
Underwood is as strong as ever
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The Hoya
While Underwood continues to wow with her unbelievable voice, her newest album lacks authentic growth.
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The Musical Hype
Underwood balances out ‘tried-and-true’ country music and more contemporary pop.
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Refinery 29
An album full of radio-ready songs that are home runs for all the things modern country audiences are thought to love.
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The Post Athens
Fresh and promotes empowerment.
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Highway Queens
Carrie deserves the support of anyone who cares about country music.
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NPR
The fact that she's engaging an issue most of her industry peers have met with deafening silence, is one more reason to admire her.
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Telegram
Shows that she can be relatable when she lets her guard down.
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Your Life in a Song
This album is an attention-grabber. It’s daring and diverse at times, deep and meaningful at others; certainly one of her most intriguing releases to date.
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Sputnik Music
More involved than ever, Carrie Underwood continues to top herself with her best work to date.
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Yahoo Finance
Full of the kind of songs that made her one of the most popular artists in the world. It’s familiar music.
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The Breeze
Another successful album for the country singer even with the new changes.
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411 Mania
Undeniably powerful and pleasingly vulnerable reflections on heartbreak.
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The Times
Underwood stays true to pop-country convention.
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Newsday
Underwood at the peak of her powers and she’s determined to use them for good.
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Gulf News
Singer showcases new parts of her multi-faceted voice.
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Digital Journal
Carrie Underwood excels on this album as a singer, songwriter, and producer.
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Time
A winning experiment with vocal processing and a dancehall rhythm.
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Exclaim
The album is frustrating, with no middle ground, and the strengths don't quite make up for the weaknesses.
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Chicago Sun Times
She can be relatable — when she lets her guard down.
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Star 2
She can’t cry pretty but she sure can sing pretty.
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Affinity Magazine
This album is definitely one of Carrie’s best.
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Hollywood Life
Carrie has clearly grown immensely as an artist!
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Fierce Fabulous Revolution
This album is without doubt going to become a hit!
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US 92.7
It delivers the awesomeness of Carries vocal ranges.
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Spectrum Pulse
But as it is... 5/10, only a recommendation to the diehard fans, but if you're in that camp, I guarantee you're going back to older and better Carrie Underwood records.
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Immortal Reviews
Carrie Underwood lays it all out in Cry Pretty, an honest record that really digs into some real struggles.
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North Texas Daily
Takes sadness and turns it into strength by treating it as an inevitable companion.
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Amherst Wire
This album shows that she is a versatile artist, and I think we can expect more growth in the future.
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Omaha
Carrie Underwood has pivoted to pop.
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The Ringer
A little of that pathos goes a long way, but nobody in modern country delivers more of it more effectively.
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Thomas Bleach
An unfortunate collection of try-hard empowerment pop crossover with mis-represented emotion.
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The Banjo Brothers
Lyrically this is a fairly strong project, and considering her opening sales numbers were the best for a country album in three years, she’ll be just fine.
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WZND
I would not be surprised if she was a top contender for the Grammy’s in 2020.
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Reflector
Her voice has made magic once again, and she’s gone beyond just singing country love song.
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Independent
Carrie won’t be crying about this one, rather she’ll be laughing her way up all the music charts.
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Aus Pop
Continues to build her back catalogue with strong songs and share her storytelling abilities with fans across the globe.
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Wide Open Country
Cry Pretty isn't a full leap there, but it's a step in the right direction.
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Entertainment Focus
The strongest album Underwood has released in a while.
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Country Exclusive
This album so spectacularly fails to live up to expectations or to the talent and ability of Carrie Underwood.
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Rollingstone
Cry Pretty is the next step, a modern country album pivoting into pop and r&b without going full Taylor, while also showing the kind of character more mega-stars should aspire to.
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Sounds Like Nashville
Most stirring album in years.
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The Musical Divide
Lyrically this is a fairly strong project.
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