How is Carrie Underwood influential in the Musical World?
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Writing a one page paper on Carrie Underwood for my Musicproject on a musical performer and I almost finished it but my teacher wants to know how she is influential in the musical world. I don’t know how she is. Can you help me?
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She’s a great person she believes in God and is very strong in her faith! She’s a great role model she does a lot for charity she is currently the face of pedigree helping homeless dogs find homes her music is very inspiring and uplifting but also fun and honestly she has the best voice in country she is modern country but also has the traditional sound to her she’s the youngest member of the grand ole opry! She’s also a songwriter
good looking and people relate to what she sings
She ISN’T.
The influence people have on music (or any other form of entertainment) can rarely be seen instantaneously, regardless of the genre of music. Exceptions, of course, are people like Elvis or the Beatles. Neither Jimmie Rodgers nor RCA Victor knew Rodgers would make history the way he did when they signed him in Bristol in 1927. For that matter, no one new that Ralph Peer WAS making history when he went to Bristol in 1927, that he’d find Rodgers, the Carter Family, and Pop Stoneman, and that what happened would cause Bristol to be named "the birthplace of country music."
Let me give you some examples of why time is vitally necessary to accurately determine the influence of someone.
DEBBY BOONE. She had the #1 song of 1977 and won a Grammy. Never had another hit on the pop charts, and only two or three minor country hits.
C.W. MCCALL. He had a song in 1976 ("Convoy") that was so popular (#1 pop AND country) that it was credited with starting what was called "the C.B. [citizens band radio] craze" AND spawned a movie starring Kris Kristofferson based loosely on the movie. He, too, had one or two other minor hits and that was IT.
Carrie Underwood is no different than any other person who is popular. Only time will tell if she will enjoy longevity or will become a "where are they now" feature on "Entertainment Tonight."
I enjoy her music, but she’s not. She’ll be forgotten when this fad passes.
But since you’re already committed to furnishing an answer:
a) she inspires young people to sing,
b) she has pulled a large portion of mainsteam pop fans into country music,
c) she has placed religion solidly in her songs (Jesus Take the Wheel and Don’t Forget to Remember Me) and had hits anyway, inspiring others to infuse their songs with a generally taboo subject as well,
d) she has merged pop and country – she basically sings pop songs and gets them played on country radio regardless, just like Shania Twain and Faith Hill did. It’s going to take another Dixie Chicks to get us out of this mess. (Perhaps leave that last editorial grumble out of the paper.)
Good luck!