Comments on: Carrie Underwood – “All American Girl”

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 07:02:37 +0000

This is a great song – one of her absolute best. It’s also her most popular song from Carnival Ride – achieving Platinum status! Carrie Underwood is so awesome, thumbs up to all of her songs!!

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:44:38 +0000

I Love The Song All American Girl.

By: Stormy

Stormy — Tue, 26 May 2009 01:26:41 +0000

That’s the problem with the song–the girl DOESN’T do anything a boy does. She does the most sterotypically 1950’s girl things. This is 2009, girls playing football themselves is hardly a rarity.

By: nobody

nobody — Tue, 26 May 2009 01:05:50 +0000

I think you missed the point of the song. The lyrics are a bit ambiguous because it doesn’t define what a perfect All-American girl is. The music video makes it more clear. The song is saying, even though the father had this stereotypical attitude, in the end he realizes that his little girl can do anything a boy can and loves her just as much as any son. It’s kind of an endearing song about how this perfect All-American girl can change her father’s stereotypical attitudes about women.

By: stormy

stormy — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:51:49 +0000

I prefer the story of the geeky shy girl or the cute perky and popular girl who actually goes out and accomplishes things on her own instead of living vicariously through whatever boy she can manage to pick up.

By: Anne

Anne — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:18:20 +0000

I do hate this song, not so much because of the whole “gender role” aspect, but because of the image of the “perfect” all-American girl, who’s pretty and probably perky and fairly so-called normal, and dating the star quarterback.

Me, I like the storylines where the geeky shy girl wins over the star quarterback and is eternally beloved by everyone she meets. Like that’s ever going to happen.

There have been lots of variations on that twist theme, in music and movies: geeky guy gets the girl who’s out of his league; girl finds out the star guy isn’t so great after all and he’s acutally vapid and shallow; geeky girl gets a personality makeover (and usually a beauty makeover to go with it) and THEN wins the star guy; you name it, but somehow I’m still left waiting for the one where the non-”all-American girl” gets the handsome prince.

Okay, I’ve seen a few that come close.

But with all the various twists I mentioned (and so many more I didn’t) that are available, it’s a miracle that the gag-inducing cliche of all-American girl gets all-American boy ever actually made it into a song nowadays.

By: eldric

eldric — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:37:30 +0000

but she is referring to an american girl..and an ordinary american girl wont love to fish to play football..etc..and an ordinary american boy will truly like that..she is talking in general..

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By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:48:51 +0000

just saying Peter the song by Shania Twain isnt called “She” its called “She’s Not Just A Pretty Face” and i agree the video would go along great with the song

By: pat

pat — Sun, 04 May 2008 05:40:16 +0000

I’m not sure how anyone could get past the first two lines as they are performed in the song to listen to the rest of the song. Possibly the worst written and/or performed song in the last year. Absolutely dreadful