Track review: Carrie's "Home Sweet Home"

In what some may consider to be a very surprising cover, country music’s queen, Carrie Underwood, records her version of Motley Crue’s classic “Home Sweet Home” for the send-off song of the eighth season of ‘American Idol.’

Although her unmistakable vocals carry with them an ever-present country twang no matter what kind of music she records, the production of “Home” is anything but the genre that has become her specialty. It is a midtempo that features more pop/rock elements than one would expect Underwood to lend her vocals to, but she makes it work for sure. Not to mention the fact that the lyrics carry with them the perfect message for the eliminated finalists to embrace their roots and return to the life they have known up till this point.

It’s nothing groundbreaking and it most likely will not light up the country charts, but everything Carrie Underwood seems to touch turns to gold, so “Home Sweet Home” may just turn out to be a surprise after all.

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