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For other uses, see All American Girl.
"All-American Girl" is a song composed by fourth-season American Idol winner turned Grammy-winning country pop singer Carrie Underwood, Ashley Gorley and Kelley Lovelace. It is the second single from Underwood's second studio album, Carnival Ride, released in the United States on December 17, 2007. (See 2007 in country music).
[edit] Background"All-American Girl" is the second single for which Underwood shares a writing credit, the first being "So Small", which preceded it. The song is a mid-tempo country-pop song, with a soaring chorus. Underwood stated in an issue of Entertainment Weekly that the high note during the bridge in the song is the highest note she has ever hit.[3] The song centers around a "beautiful, wonderful, perfect all-American girl." The first verse tells the story of a father hoping for a baby boy to continue his legacy, but "when the nurse came in with a little pink blanket, all those big dreams changed". The baby girl now has her father "wrapped around her finger", and his heart belongs to that "all-American girl." The second verse then shifts to 16 years later when the girl is now a teenager who falls for the "senior football star." Just like the girl's father, she becomes the center of the boy's world. The final bridge tells of when the girl and boy get married and are expecting "one of their own". When she asks the boy what he's hoping for he replies with "one just like you": an "all-American girl." Underwood said the song is in part her autobiography.[4] The song's current digital sales in the U.S. already passed the million mark selling over a million copies and certified Platinum by the RIAA. [edit] Music videoThe music video, which premiered January 23, 2008, was again directed by Roman White. The video features several different scenes of Carrie Underwood in different outfits portraying what an All-American girl could be behind different backgrounds through a green screen. Throughout the video she appeared as an American olympic swimmer, an artist/painter, a nurse, a photographer, a cowgirl, a waitress, a ballerina, a chef, a cheerleader, a veterinarian, a beauty queen, a mother, a football player, a police officer, a teacher, a graduate, a college student (wearing a sweatshirt from her sorority Sigma Sigma Sigma, a bride, a flight attendant, a news anchor, an astronaut, a firefighter, a soldier, a surgeon, and the President of the United States. In one scene, as a reference to Underwood's video for Before He Cheats, she wears the same black leather jacket and sunglasses while holding a baseball bat, with the same smashed red pickup truck in the background (whenever the newswoman is shown, along the bottom screen can be seen a scrolling news track, practically putting out an APB on Underwood for having destroyed the truck). [edit] Chart performanceThe following table lists the peak positions for "All-American Girl" on the major Billboard charts. The song reached #27 on the Hot 100, becoming Underwood's seventh career Hot 100 top forty single. 'All-American Girl' debuted at #58 on the country charts. It has also reached #1 on Hot Country Songs and spent 2 weeks at the top, making it Underwood's fourth consecutive Number One on that chart and fifth overall, her sixth consecutive Number One country single overall, and her seventh Number One single altogether. It is her first #1 to spend less than 3 weeks at the top of the chart. It spent 5 weeks at number 1 on Canada's Country Chart proving to be a big hit there. "All American Girl" also did well in Asia market, being her 2nd #1 hit there (The first was 'Don't Forget To Remember Me', which topped MTV Asia chart for 2 weeks), and her third top ten single there (after 'Don't Forget to Remember' Me and 'Ever Ever After'). The song has sold over 1,000,000 downloads.
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