Carrie Underwood – “Cowboy Casanova”
If this were 1992, and the release of this song came on the boot scootin’ heals of the “Achy Breaky Heart” line dance craze, it would be an understandable entry from a new country act trying to score some face-time on TNN’s Wildhorse Saloon Dance Show; thanks to its hard-pounding rhythm and infectious melody, “Cowboy Casanova” (written by Underwood, Brett James and Mike Elizondo), will lead suburban country bumpkins onto the dance floor in flocks.
Since this is 2009, however, and since Carrie Underwood is already near the apex of country music stardom, it’s a perplexing choice of material. Carrie Underwood could take a pop-country version of “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” to the top of the charts. After all, every song she’s ever released has gone to either #1 or #2. The fact that this, too, will be a hit says nothing about its quality.
Underwood is beautiful, personable and she has a clear, crystalline voice comparable to few in music. On this song, that voice is lucid, commanding, and demonstrates some of the vocal refinement missing from her sophomore disc Carnival Ride.
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