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Carrie Underwood Loves Beyonce In Country Music

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

Carrie Underwood loves Beyonce, who is making a splash in country music with her new album, Cowboy Carter. Carrie talked with Yahoo recently and said the genre has been broadening its fanbase.

Something For Everyone

Carrie told Yahoo!, “There really is something for everybody now. One of the great things about country music, and this is true for music in general, is that every genre has really just broadened itself. If you like things that are more traditional, you can find those.” She added, “If you like things that seem more pop, you can find that. If you like things that can cross over into other genres, you can find something that you love.” She said that it’s “all part of the same family,” and she will “always welcome that.”

Carrie Underwood Loves Beyonce

Underwood also said that she loves people like Post Malone, Beyoncé, and Jelly Roll, who are “artists first and foremost.” She noted that they kind of “weave in and out of different genres of music,” and she thinks that’s “really cool.” In fact, Underwood recently played concerts opening for a non-country act — Guns ‘N Roses — and covered a few rock songs at those shows.

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American Idol

In the same interview, Carrie said that she actually watches American Idol when she can; it’s the show that made her a household name in 2005, when she won. She said, “I try to keep up as best I can.” She noted that she thinks “it’s all great,” adding that at the end of the day, it’s “giving people a shot at their dreams.”

Carrie Underwood Loves Beyonce—Carrie in 2005, the moment she learned she won American Idol. She is wearing an orange dress and is with Ryan Seacrest and Bo Bice.

Carrie in May of 2005, the moment she learned she won American Idol. She is with Ryan Seacrest and Bo Bice.
Kevin Winter/Getty Images 

Pinching Pennies

Underwood posted to her 13 million followers on Instagram Stories recently that even though she is pretty darn rich, she does pinch pennies and save money when she can.

In a series of posts on Insta Stories, Carrie shared her new chocolate-making process because buying truffles is “so expensive.”

Chocolate

In the first slide, Underwood posted a photo of chocolates she made. She wrote, “The TruFru addiction has gotten out of control at our house. It’s so expensive! So, I started making my own…” In the photo corner, she wrote, “Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate.”

In a second slide, she posted a photo of dark-covered chocolate blueberries. She captioned it, “I call it FibFru – Chocolate over everything.”

Making Her Own Yogurt

In the final slide, she posted a photo of a pitcher and wrote, “Also started making my own yogurt, and I will NEVER go back to store-bought!!!”

5 of Carrie Underwood's Outstanding Music Videos

  • "Before He Cheats" (2007)

    It’s such a fantastic music video for what is one of her greatest songs. In the award-winning video CMT (it won 2007 Video of The Year), Carrie is seen leaving a parking lot brandishing a Louisville Slugger, having just vandalized her boyfriend’s truck for cheating on her. As the video progresses, Underwood takes the stage to sing as various objects behind her, such as lamps, are seen exploding.

    At one point, a screenshot of the truck’s front seat is seen with Underwood’s name carved in it. Eventually, she catches up with her cheating boyfriend with the other woman. After looking shocked for a second, she scoffs and drops the keys to his now-demolished truck into his drink.

    In her Las Vegas reflections show, she sings the song as a silver Jeep is lowered to the stage and catches on fire. Dancers carrying baseball bats (Louisville Sluggers) dance around her.

  • "Blown Away" (2013)

    I’m not gonna lie; this song is one of my five favorite songs of all time. The music video won the CMT Music Video of the Year honor in 2013 and is just as powerful. Carrie said that when she first heard the song, she already had ideas for a possible video for it and wanted it to be a dark Wizard of Oz. She noted at the time (2012) that it was “a visual song.” She added, “It’s so dramatic. I’m not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it’s surreal.”

    When asked if her aim in the video was to generate controversy with the storyline, she said that it was not what she was aiming for at all. She said, “I try to avoid controversy in any form or fashion. It was just such a great story and such a mini-movie, listening to the song, and we really wanted to do it justice in the video.”

  • "Somethin' In The Water" (2014)

    Underwood is not afraid to show her religious side, and she does just that in “Somethin’ In The Water.” This music video was named Video of the Year by CMT in 2015.

    For the music video, Carrie performed with dancers from the Shaping Sound Dance Academy dancing in the background and required 16 choir members, 12 dancers, three costume changes, and a custom-built tank of recycled water to create the “dance spectacle.”

    She co-wrote the song and gave the song its title.

  • "Cry Pretty" (2019

    This song was the title cut from her album in 2019 and the name of her headlining tour that she did to promote the album. She co-wrote the song with Nashville power songwriters Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna, and Liz Rose. Fans know Rose because of her credits for her co-writing with Taylor Swift.

    The music video won the CMT Music Awards Video of the Year honor in 2019 and shows Underwood on stage and backstage. For the video and the tour, eye stickers were created under her eyes that show tears and glitter. Carrie wore them on stage, in the music video and of course the album’s cover.

    Carrie shows off her impressive acting skills in the music video as she weeps, sings, and tells the story of a woman in pain faking her happiness and noting that you can’t “Cry Pretty.”

  • "Cowboy Casanova" (2010)

    This was the CMT Music Awards Video of the Year in 2010. The music video features Underwood and her entourage, who are all wearing flapper party gowns. In the clip, she warns everyone about smooth-talking, attractive men and their true intentions.

    The man in the video has designs on Carrie’s character in the video. In the end, along with her empowered entourage, she has a showdown with the man in a back alley and defiantly spurns his advances, leading him to give up and walk away.

    The was Underwood’s first choreographed video.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.

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