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Cry Pretty is the sixth studio album by American singer and songwriter Carrie Underwood. It was released on September 14, 2018, as Underwood's first album with 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.
Cry Pretty was met with positive reviews from music critics, and debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, making Underwood the first woman to hit the top of the Billboard 200 chart with four country albums. It also achieved the biggest sales week for a country album in more than three years, as well as the biggest sales week for a female artist in 2018. It debuted at number one in Canada, number four in Australia and charted in several other markets.
Four singles supported Cry Pretty: "Cry Pretty", "Love Wins", "Southbound", and "Drinking Alone". To further promote the album, Underwood embarked on Cry Pretty Tour 360, which started on May 1 and ended on October 31, 2019.
In April 2018, Underwood released a statement on the album, stating that she felt "stronger and more creative than ever" at that point in her career, and that the record reflects this growth through its emotional, soulful, and authentic tone, while still allowing "some fun". Songwriter and producer David Garcia was selected to co-produce the album with Underwood, and Cry Pretty marks Underwood's first effort as producer, with her co-writing nine of the album's thirteen tracks. Although the making of the album had been going on for nearly a year before Underwood's fall and subsequent injuries in 2017, she wasn't able to record vocals for the songs until 2018, due to the damage to her mouth.
Underwood described Cry Pretty as her most personal project to date, explaining that she was more creatively involved than ever before and expressing pride in the result. She added that her hope was for listeners to "find something that makes them feel something".
Underwood had reserved the track "The Bullet" for several album cycles, finally deciding to release it on the Cry Pretty album. She explained that the song was intended to be "timely but not political", emphasizing that it focuses less on opinions or ideological positions and more on the human impact of real events, particularly the people affected by them. Underwood added that she felt the song ultimately "found its home" on the album. Underwood co-wrote the album's title track following three miscarriages over a two-year period, drawing on personal experiences in which she was privately enduring "horrible things" while continuing to present herself publicly through interviews and photoshoots. She further explained that, unlike much of her earlier work, the album's more personal material compelled her to write directly about herself, stating that amid the ups and downs of the previous year and early 2018, it was simply "what was on my mind and on my heart".
A country album, Cry Pretty spans pop and R&B, with Underwood sounding "better than ever" following her recovery period. In addition, the record's sound blends "rafters-reaching country anthems" while incorporating dance and hip-hop rhythms into a "radio-ready twang-pop" framework. Underwood employs a familiar structural approach; having "pinned down the formula" by nodding to country tradition, incorporating "thick pop production", and centering the album around ballads that "build until she can release that big voice", with "just enough bounce" used to maintain momentum across the record.
Lyrically, Cry Pretty foregrounds emotional openness as a central organizing principle, and this approach is established on the title track, which opens with the admission that Underwood is "not usually the kind to show my heart to the world", before the album proceeds to explore emotions she had previously kept "in reserve" across its runtime. Several songs address themes including broken relationships, substance abuse, gun violence, and equality. In particular, "The Bullet" is described as the album's main "statement" on gun violence, a song Underwood had "been considering for inclusion on several albums" before using it in response to the Las Vegas mass shooting. The album places this material within a polished, radio-oriented framework combining "uplift" and "melancholy".
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Cry Pretty
Cry Pretty is the sixth studio album by American singer and songwriter Carrie Underwood. It was released on September 14, 2018, as Underwood's first album with 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.
Cry Pretty was met with positive reviews from music critics, and debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, making Underwood the first woman to hit the top of the Billboard 200 chart with four country albums. It also achieved the biggest sales week for a country album in more than three years, as well as the biggest sales week for a female artist in 2018. It debuted at number one in Canada, number four in Australia and charted in several other markets.
Four singles supported Cry Pretty: "Cry Pretty", "Love Wins", "Southbound", and "Drinking Alone". To further promote the album, Underwood embarked on Cry Pretty Tour 360, which started on May 1 and ended on October 31, 2019.
In April 2018, Underwood released a statement on the album, stating that she felt "stronger and more creative than ever" at that point in her career, and that the record reflects this growth through its emotional, soulful, and authentic tone, while still allowing "some fun". Songwriter and producer David Garcia was selected to co-produce the album with Underwood, and Cry Pretty marks Underwood's first effort as producer, with her co-writing nine of the album's thirteen tracks. Although the making of the album had been going on for nearly a year before Underwood's fall and subsequent injuries in 2017, she wasn't able to record vocals for the songs until 2018, due to the damage to her mouth.
Underwood described Cry Pretty as her most personal project to date, explaining that she was more creatively involved than ever before and expressing pride in the result. She added that her hope was for listeners to "find something that makes them feel something".
Underwood had reserved the track "The Bullet" for several album cycles, finally deciding to release it on the Cry Pretty album. She explained that the song was intended to be "timely but not political", emphasizing that it focuses less on opinions or ideological positions and more on the human impact of real events, particularly the people affected by them. Underwood added that she felt the song ultimately "found its home" on the album. Underwood co-wrote the album's title track following three miscarriages over a two-year period, drawing on personal experiences in which she was privately enduring "horrible things" while continuing to present herself publicly through interviews and photoshoots. She further explained that, unlike much of her earlier work, the album's more personal material compelled her to write directly about herself, stating that amid the ups and downs of the previous year and early 2018, it was simply "what was on my mind and on my heart".
A country album, Cry Pretty spans pop and R&B, with Underwood sounding "better than ever" following her recovery period. In addition, the record's sound blends "rafters-reaching country anthems" while incorporating dance and hip-hop rhythms into a "radio-ready twang-pop" framework. Underwood employs a familiar structural approach; having "pinned down the formula" by nodding to country tradition, incorporating "thick pop production", and centering the album around ballads that "build until she can release that big voice", with "just enough bounce" used to maintain momentum across the record.
Lyrically, Cry Pretty foregrounds emotional openness as a central organizing principle, and this approach is established on the title track, which opens with the admission that Underwood is "not usually the kind to show my heart to the world", before the album proceeds to explore emotions she had previously kept "in reserve" across its runtime. Several songs address themes including broken relationships, substance abuse, gun violence, and equality. In particular, "The Bullet" is described as the album's main "statement" on gun violence, a song Underwood had "been considering for inclusion on several albums" before using it in response to the Las Vegas mass shooting. The album places this material within a polished, radio-oriented framework combining "uplift" and "melancholy".