(One interesting aside about the "So Small" video is that Christian Kane - who played the demonic lawyer, Lindsey, in the TV series "Angel" - acts in it. Christian also has a Country Music career of his own. You can hear him singing an updated version of the Outlaw classic "Luckenbach, Texas" here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNsweYBDsnY
I'm being nice to "So Small" because I can see it's running away with this round and must be a huge favourite - but I have to confess, try as I might, I just can't warm to it. I do think Carrie puts in a great performance in acoustic versions (such as the Songwriters session) - but we're voting on the album track, and I find the arrangement so over the top, that (despite some good writing from Carie, Hillary and Luke), I just can't get past that.
By contrast, I do like "The More Boys I Meet". This comes across to me as more firmly rooted in the modern Country genre, and is another example, for me, of how Steve McEwen can give Carrie some songs that suit her well. It contains some wry, witty lines:
"He sees my future as having a past"
"Thinks he's bad to the bone"
"Oversize pants, with an ego to match"
These are put-down lines, with a hint of innuendo, softened by the very apt (for Carrie and many of her fans) reference to her dog, Put down songs are popular - and most of the top female singers use them. Carrie's, for me comes across as one of the best of the type, delivered with a feisty sense of fun and humour, which includes an underlying believable sense of independence. This is one of the points where she reminds me of Tanya Tucker - a favourite singer of mine, who's known to like Carrie herself. This gets my vote.