Carrie wishes she was a bit more Dolly. Country starlet Carrie Underwood says legendary singer Dolly Parton is her style icon.
The American Idol winner – who had the best-selling solo female debut album in country music history with 2005’s Some Hearts - credits the busty blonde with often inspiring her country style.
Carrie, 26, reveals on the pages of the December issue of Lucky Magazine: “I like pairing cowboy boots with unexpected things, like cute dresses. You can be ‘country’ and still be stylish – I would wear them regardless of what kind of music I sang.”
However, Carrie isn’t quite brave enough to take on many of Dolly’s glittery outfits.
“I would never attempt to pull off Dolly’s wardrobe, but her confidence is enviable. She always makes it work!”
Country Music Hall of Famer George Jones isn’t fond of how pop-influenced the genre he loves has become in recent years.
The 78-year-old “Choices” crooner has some harsh words for some of country’s modern day big acts, like Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift, who Jones accuses of “stealing our identity.”
“They’re definitely not traditional country music. It’s good to know that we still do traditional country music. Alan Jackson still does it, so does George Strait. We still have it, and there’s quite a few of us that are going to hope that it comes back one of these days,” Jones remarked in an interview with The Associated Press Tuesday.
Carrie Underwood’s in love — and she doesn’t care who knows it! The charttopping former American Idol professes her love for hockey playing beau Mike Fisher in a special message tucked away in the linear notes of her third album, Play On, available now.
In the album’s pamphlet, Carrie passionately writes: “Thank you #12 (Mike’s jersey number for the Ottawa Senators). You are the most amazing addition to my life! You are such a wonderful person and have had such an amazing hand in the building of this album and in the growth of me as a person. I love you so much! You make my life better in every way! I thank God for you every day… xoxo, Carrie.”
Carrie sure is having a great season. After rocking Manhattan’s Bryant Park with a performance on Good Morning America Tuesday, her current single. “Cowboy Casanova.” has already peaked to #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #5 on Hot Country Songs.
Carrie Underwood is getting ready to release her third studio album Play On on Nov. 3, and her lead single, “Cowboy Casanova,” has already peaked to #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #6 on Hot Country Songs. But don’t expect to catch this successful country cutie pulling a Miley and “tweetin’ ’bout pimples.” The conservative Carrie is no fan of the web’s hottest micro-blogging media site. “It just sounds like organized stalking to me. I talk to my fan club members and I blog, and they know what’s going on,” the crooner scoffed when quizzed about her thoughts on Twitter in an interview with The Boot on Wednesday. “But as far as Twitter, I’ll be in a restaurant and I’ll get home and somebody tweeted and they talked about what I ordered and what I was wearing,” she added. “In some cases, that could be dangerous, because you don’t want everybody to know where you are every second of every day. It’s a wee bit of an invasion of privacy.”
American Idol-turned-country-star Carrie Underwood is returning the network that made her a star to host a variety special, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The two-hour special , tentatively titled Carrie Underwood: An All-Star Holiday Special, will air December 7 on FOX.
Carrie — the most commercially-successful artist to emerge from Idol — will perform a string of hits, holiday classics, songs from her upcoming third album Play On — available Nov. 3 — and participate in comedy skits.
Dolly Parton, Brad Paisley, and American Idol 7 champ David Cook will guest star.
On Sept. 17, four-time Grammy winner Carrie Underwood will return to her birthplace of Muskogee, Oklahoma to be inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.
The Academy of Country Music’s reigning Entertainer of the Year will join previous inductees Vince Gill, Toby Keith, and The All American Rejects in Hall of Fame.
Country star Carrie Underwood will release the follow-up to 2007’s platinum-selling smash Carnival Ride on November 3, reps for the star announced on Tuesday. The still-untitled LP is due out on 19 Recordings/Arista Nashville.
Country music superstars Carrie Underwood, Kenny Chesney, Sugarland and Darius Rucker will each give a performance on The Oprah Winfrey Show next Tuesday, April 14.
“It’s really strange. I mean, you’re under a microscope, and even if you start — you’re getting to know somebody, you just met them — they have you married off next week, you know what I mean? So it’s a little difficult and it’s a little difficult to know people’s intentions, I think,” Carrie said of dating in the public during her post-performance interview with Oprah.
Carrie Underwood has apologized to actor Matthew McConaughey after making a sexual joke about the dashing star during her acceptance speech at the Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas last Sunday night. Read the rest of this entry »
