Blown Away

 

Steffany Lara

 

Get ready to get blown off your feet with this album.

 

 

 

 This album is Carrie Underwood’s fourth studio album. This album is called Blow Away, it was released in the Unites States and Canada on May 1, 2012.  It was so great it became the third largest opening of the year 2012. It is the seventh best-selling album in the United States as well. Due to her album “Blown Away,” she won the Grammy for best country Solo Performance. The Album also won best country songs. It was one of her greatest hit albums long with Carnival Ride and Pay On.

Carrie Underwood was born on March 10, 1983 in a city called Muskogee located in Oklahoma. She was raid in a country farm. Carrie Underwood’s life change after she won the fourth season of American Idol. After that she won many Grammy, Country Music Association and Academy of country music Awards.

The concept of this album is to fit many different situations. She likes to put actual situations people can relate to so that it can touch their hearts. This is what makes this album so great. She basically makes up the characters and makes up stories to sing about. Most of her songs are not personal to her.

Now let’s take a look at the meaning of each of her songs.

1)      NO GOOD GIRL(3:23)

This song is about warning a girl about her ex-boyfriend. She’s warning her to open her eyes that he is no good and that she can do a lot better without him.

 

2)      Blown Away(3:58)

The meaning behind this song is about a little girl that lives with her alcoholic father. And she wants all the memories she has in that home to go away. As she says she wants the tornado to blow everything away from her.  But it’s not strong enough to take all the bad memories away.

 

3)      Two Black Cadillac’s(4:56)

This song is about a man that was living a double life. He was cheating on his wife and another lady for a very long time. And the man dies and the two women go to his burial but they are not sad because he was a cheater and a liar.

 

4)      See You Again(4:05)

The meaning of this song is a loved one leaving. It is basically saying how she will she them again in this life or the next that she just has to hold on to them. That they will always be there not physically but emotionally.

5)      Do You Think About Me(3:37)

This song is about a girl moving to another town and missing the boy she loves. And she talks about old times and asking if he misses her as much as she misses him. Also if he ever thinks about her because she cannot stop thinking of him.

6)      Forever Changed(4:01)

This is a song about a lady watching herself get older and changing. Then the day she brings her daughter into this world is the day she brings love into her life. And her life changes when she gets Alzheimer’s her daughter is the one that’s there with her through it.

7)      Nobody Ever Told You(4:09)  

This song is about a girl that is insecure about herself.  That she is beautiful but she doesn’t know it. That she needs to realize how beautiful she is that she doesn’t need anyone to tell her, she has to realize it herself.

8)      One Way Ticket(3:56)

One way ticket is basically life is what you make it. And sometimes you need a break from all the things holding you back from being happy and having a great time. And the one way ticket is the ticket to happiness and do what you want to do.

 

9)      Thank God For Hometowns(4:02)

This song is saying how there is no place like your hometown. That you can never forget your hometown or the people in it. That your hometown will always be the place you can go back to for comfort.

10)   Good In Goodbye(4:17)

This song is basically saying how there is good things out of saying goodbye to people. And how sometimes you have to let go of certain people and you’ll realize it was for the best. Sometimes we tend to hold onto something that isn’t meant to be held on to and you’ll soon realize why.

 

11)   Leave Love Alone(3:18)

This song is saying how love can either make you or break you. And either way if it breaks you we can seem to stay away from it.

12)   Cupids Got A Shotgun(3:42)

This song is about how she keeps dodging love. That she is hiding from falling in love.

13)   Wine After Whiskey(3:50)

This song is about her missing someone but it was right to let him go because it was a good and healthy relationship. That it’s hard to find love when he hold up the whole meaning of it.

14)   Who Are You(3:53)

 

This is song is about her finally realizing the real him. She basically see who and what he really means to her.

 

 

Most of this album is about things people can actually relate to which makes the album so popular.  Album is mostly about love.