Yesterday, Carrie Underwood spent her afternoon at two Music Row parties celebrating the success of her latest No. 1 single, "So Small," a song she says is especially meaningful to her.
"It's very special to me," she tells Dial-Global. "Not just because it's my first No. 1 as a writer, but I loved how it turned out. I love to listen to the song. I love to sing the song. And I feel very blessed to have had a part in it, in something that's a message that I like to put on display for the world."
"So Small" is Carrie's fifth No. 1. She'll follow it up by releasing another song she co-wrote, "All-American Girl," to country radio.
Being new to songwriting, Carrie says she felt that was an important skill to add to her growing resume. "I think things just naturally end up being more personal and more believable if you had a hand in their creation," she explains. "If you can get in there and write things in a song the way you would say them or the way you would think about them, it's just much more believable. You're on stage and you're singing something that you believed in so much that you sat down and wrote it down on a piece of paper."
