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Whoever put together Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban for a tour certainly knew what they were doing from a marketing standpoint. The mix worked well, and — especially on Valentine's Day — the show had something for everyone. You've got the young mothers and 'tween girls covered with the American Idol and three-time Grammy winner Underwood, and Mr. Nicole Kidman brought his guitar talents and gentle machismo for the guys, as well as his slightly more sophisticated songs for the grown-ups. Starting off the night, Carrie Underwood was as polished, precise, and as prone to over-singing as one might expect from a manufactured pop star. Big production numbers, lots of dry ice and gravitas. Make no mistake, she's got powerful pipes and hit songs to let them shine, but nowhere near the believability needed to make the Gretchen Wilson-borrowed party anthems ("Last Name"), de riguer hometown odes ("I Ain't in Checotah Anymore") and sappy life-lesson songs ("Jesus, Take the Wheel") seem the slightest bit grounded in reality. But she was a hero to countless little girls and young women Thursday night, and to dismiss that on account of her inexperience and slickness — right down to her too-perfectly ragged looking band members (a fiddle player wearing a Guns and Roses t-shirt?) — would be too easy and too hurtful. Let them figure it out in their own time.
ופהIt surely was a nice combination to look at: attractive co-headliners Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban, who stopped by Hershey's Giant Center Thursday on their Love, Pain and the Whole Crazy Carnival Ride tour. And it was equally terrific to listen to: a real Valentine's Day treat for those in love and those hoping for love. "American Idol" winner Underwood was a tough act to follow. Entering up through the stage floor, which also boasted a long catwalk through the arena, in a white blouse, black pants and high black boots, Underwood powered through songs including "Flat on the Floor," a cinematic "Long Gone," a sassy "The More Boys I Meet" and a gorgeously haunting "Just a Dream." She vanished and reappeared in a big blue full-skirted gown for a low-key "Jesus, Take the Wheel," letting it fully rip on later choruses. Big choruses suit her equally big voice, as "I Know You Won't" certainly does, but that beautifully tragic song also showcased her mastery of dynamics — she sang it almost like a torch song, fully inhabiting it and giving it a world-weariness as well as power. Another costume change, into jeans and a pink tank, for the nicely varied end of her set -- the gutsy "Last Name," the punchy "Twisted" (which featured her effortless octave jumps), the appealing "All-American Girl," and thoughtful takes on "So Small" and the hypnotic "Wheel of the World." She closed with a wicked take on her Grammy-winning song "Before He Cheats," swaggering through the revenge tale with bravado.
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