But it’s Underwood’s performances that elevate the album into something far more compelling than just the typical Sunday morning worship service. Purely from a songwriting perspective, it’s the finest album of Underwood’s career.
Underwood curated the tracklist from Southern gospel standards, and each of the hymns she’s chosen has attained its status because the quality of its composition and the power of its lyrics has endured across generations. My Savior - a full-on gospel album - corrects that.
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The one real outlier in this sense has been Underwood’s rendition of the traditional hymn “How Great Thou Art,” which she’s performed for a few notable TV appearances, and which showcases her at the full peak of her craft in a way never before captured on record. Meanwhile, and to her immense credit, every new Underwood album does show her becoming otherwise more adept at tackling lyrical complexity, to an extent that it becomes all the more glaring a discrepancy in her catalog that her faith-based songs are consistently among her least challenging. There’s certainly an audience for that particular flavor of CCM - both “Temporary Home” and “Jesus, Take the Wheel” were massive hits for Underwood, as was every single she released through the first decade of her career - but there’s just so little weight to any of those songs. Like so much of contemporary “praise music” that’s ready for K-LOVE radio playlists, there’s very little struggle or questioning to singles like “See You Again” and “Something in the Water” instead, they’re songs of religious expression wherein the faith is replaced by a complacent sense of certainty, less true gospel music than just very sincere, very passionately delivered cheerleader chants for modern Christianity. One of the common themes in Underwood’s religious music to date, though, has been the relative easiness of it all. My Savior is not just an impressive work of gospel, but is Carrie Underwood’s best record to date.Īt no point in her career has Carrie Underwood hidden her Christian faith after American Idol, and the coronation single that followed, both ran their course, her first proper single as a country artist was “Jesus, Take the Wheel,” and many of her long list of hit singles since have put similar focus on her religion.
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