Country Superstars: Carrie Underwood vs. Taylor Swift
The two hottest and most popular women in country music are former American Idol winner Carrie Underwood and teen sensation Taylor Swift. Swift wrote or co-wrote all of the songs on her debut album Taylor Swift. Underwood on her second album, Carnival Ride, started co-writing some of her own tunes with the likes of Hillary Lindsey and Luke Laird.
Both women are extremely talented and will dominate the Billboard charts for the next thirty years. They will also continue to develop a rivalry as they will be competing with each other for awards and radio airplay.
Here is a quick look at Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift:
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| Age: 24 - March 10, 1983 Hometown: Checotah, Oklahoma |
Age: 18 - December 13, 1989 Hometown: Wyomissing, PA |
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| Discovered: American Idol |
Discovered: Bluebird Cafe (Nashville) |
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Carrie should not even be compared to teeniebopper Taylor Swift!
Both are gorgeous, but Carrie is a far more talented singer than Taylor will ever be!
False. Both are gorgeous, both are talented, but the fact that Taylor Swift writes her own music makes her a much better artist. It’s half of what being a singer/songwriter is all about. As far as singing goes, I’d say they’re equal, making Taylor Swift the victor.
ok carrie writes also. Carrie is undeniably the best. Her voice is much stronger and she performs live MUCH better. Taylor is pretty great on her album but when she sing live she isn’t as good. Carrie has won Entertainer of the Year! The top female artist has been given to her a bunch of times. Carrie is better
Taylor Swift is a disgrace to country music. Nothing about her -with the exception of her cowboy boots- is country. Her songs since her first album have all been overwhelmingly pop with minute country influences, if any. T-Pain and Def-Leppard are not country. Her overwhelming amount of TV appearances and radio station appearances -on non country stations- just proves that she has given into wide scale commercialism.
It is embarrassing for Carrie Underwood to even be placed in the same category as Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift has a terrible live voice and has meaningless songs that detail the wonderings of insignificant teenagers. Country is not about suburban America, it is about the men and women and their families from the towns deep-rooted in America’s soul. It is NOT materialistic and it is NOT about insignificant high-school drama.
Carrie Underwood’s voice is impeccable, flawless, and angelic. She sings straight from the heart and you can always take in and sense her emotion. She lives and breathes the music, is humble, and doesn’t care about any of the fame or money. She has her priorities straight. She will choose her religion and family over everything else- as any true country girl would. She is also a lot prettier than Swift.
I don’t care if Taylor Swift stays in the music industry but please, stop letting her call her music country! Take her off of country radio and take her off of CMT and GAC. She belongs on MTV with the rest of mainstream pop music. Hopefully, she will fade away from Nashville soon enough when people realize she lacks any talent except maybe song-writing for the Disney Channel.
How can you even compare Carrie to Taylor?
1. Taylor is not even country. She is pop. Compare Taylor’s music to actual country music like Carrie Underwood, Dolly Parton, and Kitty Wells. You can tell the difference.
2. Taylor Swift is just another teen writing and singing over-dramatic songs about boys. For example, “White Horse”, what kind of country is that? Carrie Underwood sings beautiful and flawless songs about the great things in life and life lessons (ex: Jesus Take the Wheel, Inside your Heaven, All-American Girl, So Small). She puts her heart and soul into her music and doesn’t care about the fame or the fortune. She comes from a small town, and had a dream. And she worked her hardest to achieve that dream, and she did. So now she sings breath-taking music to encourage other people to do the same. Now THAT is a TRUE country singer.
Carrie Underwood is more beautiful than Taylor Swift. Don’t get me wrong, both are very pretty, but Carrie has so much more inner beauty, and that’s what counts.
It is a DISGRACE you people are actually comparing a wonder country singer to a bad pop singer. Taylor Swift has no emotion in her music, and all her songs are about average teen drama. Ick.
Carrie Underwood is better inside and out. Period.
Carrie Underwood!
Respect from GREECE
all of you are wrong, Carrie Underwood used American Idol as a catalyst into the industry whereas Taylor Swift did it the traditional way which is very difficult, just ask any country artist. And the idea that her self written music isn’t country is ridiculous; I personally find it more moving.
They are both extremely talented and beautiful but I have to go with Carrie Underwood to be the winner!
Both are really good… But I have to choose… CARRIE UNDERWOOD!!! I really love her because of her songs and her voice… Rock on, CARRIE!!!
Ca$hville
At the Cool Springs mall music store in the back row
Is where you’ll find today’s “country” music if you go
Where have the ghosts of Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, and Goldie Hill gone?
You don’t hear their legacy watching CMT at home
A poser whose heart lies with rock on the side
Should not win over a person who lived the rural life
The Country Music Association has sold country music’s soul
by rewarding any “rock” and “pop star” willing to play the role
The day Nashville changed to Ca$hville was the day the music died
Viacom, Sony, and others plundered while artists true to their roots cried
Yes, I knew country music was out of luck
When I heard a small town man listening to RAP in his truck
Any child knows if you have no respect for your roots
And forget where you come from, become a “me too”
Soon you’ll begin to forget who you are
No matter what your heritage, you’ll not get far
There’s still a chance to bring the original art form that was once country music back
Doing to the soul sellers what they did to disco would be the right track
There should be no place for the “country rockers” and “poppers” of today
On the radios of small towns, if we wish the country founders legacy to repay
I’m sorry for the kind of shape the birth place of country music is in
The heart of country music has been gutted by big city businessmen
Why did we let monopolies in typical cut-throat fashion
Crush the Nashville Palace, Broken Spoke and other traditional music bastions
Where can someone true to the country roots of small towns go?
With the Nashville Palace, Broken Spoke and other venues closed
Long ago greed made sure “Lorettas” can’t walk up to radio stations anymore
and “Johnnys” can’t approach Sun Records and other studios and get through the door
What came of the music from the rural south and the Appalachian mountainside?
Johnny Cash and his Tennessee Two and the “Louisiana Hayride “
Chet Atkins, the country gentleman, and “The Nashville Sound”
If it wasn’t for them “Music City USA” wouldn’t be around
by Cherokee American
Carrie Underwood!
Respect from USA