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Even So Small sounds more Pop than country!

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Hmmm, I don't hear POP at all with So Small. Maybe a little AC? If Inside Your Heaven and Jesus Take the Wheel had a baby, it would be So Small. So Small is your typical smaltzy country/AC ballad - Dripping with sugar and spice and preaching the message. It's the type of song that people who hate Country/AC would use to mock and justify why they can't stand that kind of music.Talk of mountains and rainy days and letting the sun shine in and faith and rivers and ... well you get the picture haha Songs like So Small are the reason I can only listen to country music radio for about an hour to an hour and a half. I prefer my country a little more fun - or less, um, barftastic if it is going to be a ballad.

Seriously - this could have easily have been an AI coronation song. All that's missing is talking about riding the rainbow to your dreams and finding the pot of gold.

Anywho, IMO if So Small had been on Some Hearts it would never have made the cut to be a single and it would have been one of the weakest tracks on the cd. Country is natorious for playing it safe with first singles so I have no doubt that Carrie has atleast one or two better songs on the upcoming cd.

Listener feedback is just now coming in on the song (it was on ratethemusic for the first time August 10th). It failed to chart in the top 10 for Ratethemusic. There are stations that are dropping spins from last week to this week (and it's only been out like a week and a half or so). It could turn around (maybe it's a grower) but I personally think country radio jumped all over it because it's Carrie and are now finding out that alot of listeners are on the fence -or flat out don't like the song. In so many ways it's like Never Again - starting out with a huge bullet and rocketing up the charts to around #20 and then the bullet slowly falling.

The good thing for Carrie is that it takes about half the spins of POP radio to make it to #1 on Country. By the time all the feedback comes in, it may be in the top 10. AND country tends to keep it's songs around forever (seriously - a 6 to 7 month trek to it's peak isn't abnormal on country) and most songs tend to lose their bullet at some point and then come back strong so if this song IS a grower it will have plenty of time to grow (unlike the chance Never Again never got! boo! hiss!).

Anywho, sorry, didn't really mean to 'compare' Kelly and Carrie but it's the best example songwise I could come up with.

I personally don't like the song at all - and I'd be willing to put money on the fact that if it wasn't Carrie's name attached to it, the song would be wallowing alot further down the chart - and would have a hard time hitting the top 15. The song itself, IMO, just isn't very good. And, well, to be honest I'm not much a fan of Carrie's voice on it either (too much glorynoting at the end and she is in froggy voice for a lot of the song). She's capable of better IMO. MUCH better. I do think that the cd will have some much better songs to offer. Like I said, I think it's just typical country playing it safe with the first single.