Why was blown away written

With all the things that happened in her life recently and the time she took to make the album were perfect for her to release Blown Away. As the most successful American Idol winner, this album definitely shows how amazing Underwood is as an artist.

Evans-Price, Deborah. The Boot. Mansfield, Brian. USA Today. Country Music Project. Skip to content. Blown Away Written by Alina Monzon. De Stefano, A. Gorley, C. Kear, C. Kear, H. Lindsey, C. Hodges, H. Barlowe, H. Lindsey, S. Douglas, H. Lindsey, J. Laird, H. Kear, L. Laird, C. Gorley, L. Lindsey, R.

Tedder, C. Lindsey, G. Sampson, T. Tompkins, C. Berg, T. Shapiro, C. Search for:. Because it sure ended up there, guys! It was our first number one together and for either of us. So when she was working on the second album, Chris and I wrote a song called "Whirlwind" that came in so late in the project.

It was a ballad. They had all their ballads for the album. They moved on. Again, it was a song we had written about a tornado. JK: Yeah. We wrote "Whirlwind" about a couple in a basement during a tornado, rediscovering each other and falling back in love with each other. At the time, it was crushing and disappointing because we had really worked hard on that song.

In this particular case, a couple of Underwood albums later, Chris and I sat down and he starts playing this string patch on a keyboard and starts adding lightning strike sound effects on top of it with wind. BH: That could have gone a completely different way! JK: Chris and I had multiple conversations. Chris Tompkins: Yeah! So, it had to be perfect for her. JK: The first time we ended up sitting down to write with Carrie, the two of us, was right before the "Blown Away" album.

We head over to her writing cabin and sit down. Of course, that is not what you want to hear from an artist you are about to write with.

The minute I heard that song, I was ready to go back into the studio, because that song had to be mine. BH: Do you hear from the fans that the song has an emotional resonance with? It touches people. It feels good to have touched on that. JK: My personal favorite thing about the song is the revenge aspect of it.

In this particular case, you could let nature take its course and something larger than all of us is the karmic force that creates the revenge and the payoff. That is a pretty rare thing to pull off thematically. It was fun to land on that.