{"id":1318366,"date":"2020-02-21T17:23:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T00:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1818138"},"modified":"2020-02-21T17:23:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T00:23:49","slug":"carrie-underwood-be-nice-work-hard-go-to-concerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/carrie-underwood-be-nice-work-hard-go-to-concerts\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Underwood: Be Nice, Work Hard, Go to Concerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n45m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>On the last afternoon of the annual Country Radio Seminar in Nashville on Friday (Feb. 21), Carrie Underwood had a lot to say about a lot of different things. And not just her life now, as a country superstar. But from her real life in her pre-<em>American Idol<\/em> days: growing up without a lot of luxuries, being an angsty teenager, and having zero faith in her ability to actual reach her neon dream. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy path to the music industry started the way a lot of other people\u2019s do. It just wasn\u2019t seen. I grew up always wanting to sing, and I\u2019d sing anywhere: we had a band when I was a teenager and we\u2019d go play bars in Oklahoma and Arkansas, I\u2019d do car shows and fairs, I did company Christmas parties,\u201d Underwood told the radio industry crowd. \u201cBut of course, my path took a major turn when I decided to try out for <em>American Idol<\/em>. I was about the graduate from the university. It was time to grow up and get a job, but I had no idea how to get here (to Nashville). It was one of those God moments where everything just lined up in an instant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Underwood maintains, adamantly, that her win in 2005 was above and beyond her very meager expectations. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say not an ounce of me thought that I would win, to be 1,000 percent honest,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m from the tiniest town in the world. I\u2019d never been on a plane before. I liked to sing, but lots of people like to sing. I wanted to be a famous country music singer, but a lot of people do. I think what I honestly thought would happen was I\u2019d go there, the door would shut, and I could move on with the rest of my life saying, \u2019Well, I tried.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\" id=\"6d1f2764\">\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;img&quot;}\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/02\/GettyImages-112497343-1582328609.jpg?quality=0.85&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/02\/GettyImages-112497343-1582328609.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=481 481w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/02\/GettyImages-112497343-1582328609.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=660 660w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/02\/GettyImages-112497343-1582328609.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=768 768w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/02\/GettyImages-112497343-1582328609.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=980 980w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/02\/GettyImages-112497343-1582328609.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1200 1200w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/02\/GettyImages-112497343-1582328609.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1500 1500w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/02\/GettyImages-112497343-1582328609.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1800 1800w\" title class=\" js-srcset-img shortcode-image \" alt><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"photocredit\"> Ray Mickshaw <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As she told stories \u2014 from her childhood, her singing career, her songwriting career, her lifestyle-brand building and her two best collaborations with her husband Mike Fisher: their sons Isaiah and Jacob \u2014 a few themes kept coming up in the conversation. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Be nice.<\/strong><br \/>\u201cIt\u2019s important to run your own race, and be aware of people around you, but don\u2019t look at anybody else too hard. It\u2019s important for a child to know that home is home, and it\u2019s these people, and we want to be that for them. We have a lot of work to do to make sure our children are humble and hard workers,\u201d she said, adding that she encourages people to: \u201cGo the extra mile. And be nice to people. That can go a really long way. Just be nice. It\u2019s important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Work hard. <\/strong><br \/>\u201cEverything is subject to change,\u201d she said of the perpetual craft of songwriting. \u201cIt\u2019s not done until it\u2019s on the album. But I like a challenge. I could devote myself fully to (<em>Cry Pretty<\/em>), because I will not put my name on something that I did not do. That\u2019s never gonna happen. So it was important to me that if I really wanted to take that step, I was all in. Whatever I do, I want to do it 1,000 percent. And I want to be the best at it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s just how Underwood feels about making music. When it comes to her passion for health and fitness and writing her new book, <em>Find Your Path<\/em>, she said she feels it\u2019s work but in a different way. \u201cYou can\u2019t sing a book. Things don\u2019t have to rhyme, so that\u2019s helpful. It took so much time. I really had no idea what I was getting into. It was so challenging and wonderful. And at the time, while I was writing, I was pregnant and I had the worst insomnia, which ended up being a blessing because that\u2019s when I wrote the majority of the book. Whatever I do, I\u2019m gonna do it with all I\u2019ve got. I bust my butt and we work stinkin\u2019 hard, and (the fans) deserve that from me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Go to concerts, and if possible, lose your mind while you\u2019re there. <\/strong><br \/>Near the end of the Q&amp;A session, Underwood told the best story about the best concert she\u2019d seen. \u201cWe recently went to a Guns N\u2019 Roses concert, and it was probably the best night of my life. I love concerts. I love them so much. Every time I go now, I\u2019m stuck in a box somewhere and I can\u2019t feel that energy. And it\u2019s great and I get to watch, but (at GNR) we were in the audience and I was losing my mind. And didn\u2019t give a crap what anyone else around me thought.\u201d Underwood has always admitted she is a loyal fan of all heavy metal. \u201cWhen I was getting ready today, I was listening to the new Ozzy Osbourne album (<em>Ordinary Man<\/em>). My first concert was an Alan Jackson concert, but I also saw Hole, Green Day and Slipknot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned for more from Underwood\u2019s CRS conversation on CMT.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\"> Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville. <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a> <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1818138\/carrie-underwood-be-nice-work-hard-go-to-concerts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 45m ago On the last afternoon of the annual Country Radio Seminar in Nashville on Friday (Feb. 21), Carrie Underwood had a lot to say about a lot of different things. And not just her life now, as a country superstar. But from her real life in her pre-American Idol days: growing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1318366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 07:17:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}