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sorry，还是从坏的说起。
第二篇来自Exclaim，三星60分。
全文：
One thing seems sure about Carrie Underwood: She doesn't do anything halfway. The 32-year-old's ascent to the height of the pop music pyramid was breathtaking, and her dominance up there has been nearly total since she ran away with the American Idol crown in 2005. She is, undeniably, one of the world's biggest pop stars; that she emerged from Nashville only underlines the effectiveness of her cross-genre mainstream appeal. She is a star in every way, and her arena-ready, radio-torqued, ultra-slick take on country/rock is designed for maximum crowd pleasure.
第一段夸卡丽多牛逼，世界级的pop star？？！！！
But, too often, it is more than halfway boring. It isn't uninspired or weakly performed. Rather, it is boring in spite of the overwhelming bombast, the booming bass and pounding drums, the huge vocals, the wailing guitars; it is boring because rather than electrifying you, it distances and anaesthetizes. I was on my third listen to this record before I found the energy to pierce the sheen, to get at the songs underneath.
问题是感觉上的distances and anaesthetizes。嗯哼，也就是说歌曲的距离感。我不知道这意在说卡丽唱的不是自己的故事，所以才有距离感。还是说这些故事不能让乐评人感同身受。
The good news is that those songs are, most of them anyway, pretty great. The leadoff single "Smoke Break" offers an incisive look at small town America a la Miranda Lambert or Kacey Musgraves, and rides a clever lyrical turn through a satisfying chorus. "Chaser," a gorgeous melody lifted even higher by an irresistible rush-drag vocal line (and a soulful performance), is destined to be sung into hairbrushes in front of mirrors for years to come. But the best track on the album is "Relapse," a tangle of ideas about addiction, love and sex that features a moving, tension-breaking chorus that you'll want to hear on repeat. But since it's sure to be a huge hit single one of these days, that'll be taken care of for you.
第三段就是大夸新专大多数歌曲都很好。我说吧，SB很ML和KM感。Chaser是充满情感的歌曲。最好的是Relapse，纠缠着沉醉、爱和性，而又富有感情和爆发力的旋律。这些都会是大Hit。
反正我木这辈子不唱自己的生活，就永远会被质疑：你个选秀歌手，我们乐评就是不待见你！！！
第二篇来自Exclaim，三星60分。
全文：
One thing seems sure about Carrie Underwood: She doesn't do anything halfway. The 32-year-old's ascent to the height of the pop music pyramid was breathtaking, and her dominance up there has been nearly total since she ran away with the American Idol crown in 2005. She is, undeniably, one of the world's biggest pop stars; that she emerged from Nashville only underlines the effectiveness of her cross-genre mainstream appeal. She is a star in every way, and her arena-ready, radio-torqued, ultra-slick take on country/rock is designed for maximum crowd pleasure.
第一段夸卡丽多牛逼，世界级的pop star？？！！！
But, too often, it is more than halfway boring. It isn't uninspired or weakly performed. Rather, it is boring in spite of the overwhelming bombast, the booming bass and pounding drums, the huge vocals, the wailing guitars; it is boring because rather than electrifying you, it distances and anaesthetizes. I was on my third listen to this record before I found the energy to pierce the sheen, to get at the songs underneath.
问题是感觉上的distances and anaesthetizes。嗯哼，也就是说歌曲的距离感。我不知道这意在说卡丽唱的不是自己的故事，所以才有距离感。还是说这些故事不能让乐评人感同身受。
The good news is that those songs are, most of them anyway, pretty great. The leadoff single "Smoke Break" offers an incisive look at small town America a la Miranda Lambert or Kacey Musgraves, and rides a clever lyrical turn through a satisfying chorus. "Chaser," a gorgeous melody lifted even higher by an irresistible rush-drag vocal line (and a soulful performance), is destined to be sung into hairbrushes in front of mirrors for years to come. But the best track on the album is "Relapse," a tangle of ideas about addiction, love and sex that features a moving, tension-breaking chorus that you'll want to hear on repeat. But since it's sure to be a huge hit single one of these days, that'll be taken care of for you.
第三段就是大夸新专大多数歌曲都很好。我说吧，SB很ML和KM感。Chaser是充满情感的歌曲。最好的是Relapse，纠缠着沉醉、爱和性，而又富有感情和爆发力的旋律。这些都会是大Hit。
反正我木这辈子不唱自己的生活，就永远会被质疑：你个选秀歌手，我们乐评就是不待见你！！！
其实前两个也不算特别差评，算是mixed。
现在来positive 第一个，来自allmusic，4/5，应该算是80分。
全文：
"Something in the Water," the new single tacked onto Carrie Underwood's 2014 compilation Greatest Hits: Decade #1, was an operatic blowout on par with her 2012 smash "Blown Away" -- something grand and melodramatic, suggesting Vegas as much as it suggested inspirational music. Storyteller, her fifth album and first since her career recap, certainly contains cinematic elements -- Underwood has been proud to be a diva ever since she prowled the stages of American Idol a decade prior -- but the title isn't a feint; she spends a good chunk of the album reiterating, singing about heartbreak, hair triggers, red wine, dirty laundry, and smoke breaks, the mundane details that turn life so joyous and tragic. Subtlety isn't Underwood's strong suit so the songs tend to be a bit on the nose, whether she's pledging devotion to her newborn son on the sweet closer "What I Never Knew I Always Wanted" or streamlining Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billy Joe" via the stomping "Choctaw County Affair," but that directness is key to her appeal: there are no greys in Carrie's music, only blazing primary colors.
夸奖模式，很好地融合了故事。也说了细腻不是卡丽的强项，但是好在卡丽的音乐都没有灰色地带，全是强烈的主色调。
Appropriately enough, Storyteller gleams with steely assurance, perhaps the toughest and boldest record yet but one that hardly soft-pedals her softer side. Carrie isn't an unapologetic spitfire like her "Something Bad" duet partner Miranda Lambert. She is, as she says in her album title, a Storyteller, and there's an unmistakable distance between her theatrics and the subjects of her tunes; she isn't living these songs, she's performing them. Like a skilled actor, Underwood chooses her roles wisely -- she's comfortable swaggering through the leadoff pair of "Renegade Runaway" and "Dirty Laundry," while she eases into the comforting melancholy of "The Girl You Think I Am" -- and she knows how to deliver the essence of each song, modulating her performances not only so they match the grand productions of Jay Joyce, Mark Bright, and Zach Crowell but so they always are the focal point. That's no small feat and Storyteller is no small album: it demands attention and it deserves it, too.
夸storyteller是强悍和勇敢的专辑，但是缺少柔软的一面。即便这些歌不是她的生活，但是她仍然是个好的表演者，他聪明地选择了适合自己的路径。
特比喜欢最一句：That's no small feat and Storyteller is no small album: it demands attention and it deserves it, too.
现在来positive 第一个，来自allmusic，4/5，应该算是80分。
全文：
"Something in the Water," the new single tacked onto Carrie Underwood's 2014 compilation Greatest Hits: Decade #1, was an operatic blowout on par with her 2012 smash "Blown Away" -- something grand and melodramatic, suggesting Vegas as much as it suggested inspirational music. Storyteller, her fifth album and first since her career recap, certainly contains cinematic elements -- Underwood has been proud to be a diva ever since she prowled the stages of American Idol a decade prior -- but the title isn't a feint; she spends a good chunk of the album reiterating, singing about heartbreak, hair triggers, red wine, dirty laundry, and smoke breaks, the mundane details that turn life so joyous and tragic. Subtlety isn't Underwood's strong suit so the songs tend to be a bit on the nose, whether she's pledging devotion to her newborn son on the sweet closer "What I Never Knew I Always Wanted" or streamlining Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billy Joe" via the stomping "Choctaw County Affair," but that directness is key to her appeal: there are no greys in Carrie's music, only blazing primary colors.
夸奖模式，很好地融合了故事。也说了细腻不是卡丽的强项，但是好在卡丽的音乐都没有灰色地带，全是强烈的主色调。
Appropriately enough, Storyteller gleams with steely assurance, perhaps the toughest and boldest record yet but one that hardly soft-pedals her softer side. Carrie isn't an unapologetic spitfire like her "Something Bad" duet partner Miranda Lambert. She is, as she says in her album title, a Storyteller, and there's an unmistakable distance between her theatrics and the subjects of her tunes; she isn't living these songs, she's performing them. Like a skilled actor, Underwood chooses her roles wisely -- she's comfortable swaggering through the leadoff pair of "Renegade Runaway" and "Dirty Laundry," while she eases into the comforting melancholy of "The Girl You Think I Am" -- and she knows how to deliver the essence of each song, modulating her performances not only so they match the grand productions of Jay Joyce, Mark Bright, and Zach Crowell but so they always are the focal point. That's no small feat and Storyteller is no small album: it demands attention and it deserves it, too.
夸storyteller是强悍和勇敢的专辑，但是缺少柔软的一面。即便这些歌不是她的生活，但是她仍然是个好的表演者，他聪明地选择了适合自己的路径。
特比喜欢最一句：That's no small feat and Storyteller is no small album: it demands attention and it deserves it, too.
Newsday这篇实际上有点mixted，但是乐评人给了B+，她上专给卡丽的BA貌似是B，她貌似也是不待见卡丽系列的。
country outfitter life那篇是Jason Scott写得，他算多半个木头粉吧，他第一时间就听了专辑，而且评价很好，认为这回是卡丽职业生涯的里程碑。
for the country record那篇没给评分，但态度相当积极。更是夸赞这是卡丽入行以来最统一流畅的专辑，融合流派，又保存村乐本真，值得她的同行学习。也提到 Brandy Clark（提名了格莱美最佳新人哦）在2013发行的备受好评的12 Stories，也是很好融合了每个故事。她认为storyteller也融合得很好。 夸赞木头即便是个big star，但从来都知道自己的根基在乡村音乐。
country outfitter life那篇是Jason Scott写得，他算多半个木头粉吧，他第一时间就听了专辑，而且评价很好，认为这回是卡丽职业生涯的里程碑。
for the country record那篇没给评分，但态度相当积极。更是夸赞这是卡丽入行以来最统一流畅的专辑，融合流派，又保存村乐本真，值得她的同行学习。也提到 Brandy Clark（提名了格莱美最佳新人哦）在2013发行的备受好评的12 Stories，也是很好融合了每个故事。她认为storyteller也融合得很好。 夸赞木头即便是个big star，但从来都知道自己的根基在乡村音乐。
时代TIME也评了，没看到分数，但是好评。
题目：Carrie Underwood Returns to Her Roots on Storyteller
全文：
A decade has passed since Carrie Underwood won American Idol with her brassy voice and Oklahoma-bred charm. Over that time, she’s become part of the Nashville firmament, spawning hits on both country and pop radio. With Storyteller, her fifth album (out Oct. 23), Underwood doubles down on country-music tradition, spinning yarns of richly realized characters awash in hard love and hard luck.
It’s a gutsy move, but it pays off: cohesive and catchy, Storyteller finds Underwood telling tales about big personalities. The album opener, “Renegade Runaway,” is about a comely heartbreaker who’s “tough as nails under that corset,” but sonically it brings to mind the slick, exacting rock of mid-’80s Fleetwood Mac. Elsewhere too Underwood engages both Nashville twang and amped-up bombast, a move that is particularly effective on the delicate goodbye kiss “Like I’ll Never Love You Again”; “Chaser,” meanwhile, splits the difference between shimmering, wounded verses and a defiant chorus that sounds airlifted from an arena-rock show circa 1985.
这一段第一句就是总评。新专是一个勇敢而冒险的尝试，但是它是值得的：流畅而上口。称赞了其中的rock成分。
As is country convention, the stories on Storyteller frequently detail the aftereffects of red wine and cheatin’ hearts. “Choctaw County Affair” is part honky-tonk confessional, part defiant boast, with Underwood amping up the vengeful vibes that made “Before He Cheats” a taillight smash. More sympathetic figures cross Underwood’s path too; there are familiar figures to be found in the overworked and underappreciated regular folk of “Smoke Break,” a “She Works Hard for the Money” for the post-Occupy era that celebrates the day’s little windows for reflection. But she’s most tender on the closing ballad, “What I Never Knew I Always Wanted,” a meditation on motherhood that puts the focus back on her own story–the one she’s best of all at telling.
这段总体是说传统乡村成分，特别说了CCA的不一样（有点说既接地气又有些自负），以及WINKIAW的母爱柔情。
总体上，通篇都是正面的评价。
题目：Carrie Underwood Returns to Her Roots on Storyteller
全文：
A decade has passed since Carrie Underwood won American Idol with her brassy voice and Oklahoma-bred charm. Over that time, she’s become part of the Nashville firmament, spawning hits on both country and pop radio. With Storyteller, her fifth album (out Oct. 23), Underwood doubles down on country-music tradition, spinning yarns of richly realized characters awash in hard love and hard luck.
It’s a gutsy move, but it pays off: cohesive and catchy, Storyteller finds Underwood telling tales about big personalities. The album opener, “Renegade Runaway,” is about a comely heartbreaker who’s “tough as nails under that corset,” but sonically it brings to mind the slick, exacting rock of mid-’80s Fleetwood Mac. Elsewhere too Underwood engages both Nashville twang and amped-up bombast, a move that is particularly effective on the delicate goodbye kiss “Like I’ll Never Love You Again”; “Chaser,” meanwhile, splits the difference between shimmering, wounded verses and a defiant chorus that sounds airlifted from an arena-rock show circa 1985.
这一段第一句就是总评。新专是一个勇敢而冒险的尝试，但是它是值得的：流畅而上口。称赞了其中的rock成分。
As is country convention, the stories on Storyteller frequently detail the aftereffects of red wine and cheatin’ hearts. “Choctaw County Affair” is part honky-tonk confessional, part defiant boast, with Underwood amping up the vengeful vibes that made “Before He Cheats” a taillight smash. More sympathetic figures cross Underwood’s path too; there are familiar figures to be found in the overworked and underappreciated regular folk of “Smoke Break,” a “She Works Hard for the Money” for the post-Occupy era that celebrates the day’s little windows for reflection. But she’s most tender on the closing ballad, “What I Never Knew I Always Wanted,” a meditation on motherhood that puts the focus back on her own story–the one she’s best of all at telling.
这段总体是说传统乡村成分，特别说了CCA的不一样（有点说既接地气又有些自负），以及WINKIAW的母爱柔情。
总体上，通篇都是正面的评价。
不过新专我还没听
