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Feburary 28, 2006

Carrie Underwood Re-Teams With 'Jesus' Collaborators, Others For New LP (Source: MTV.COM)

LOS ANGELES — Now that Carrie Underwood's won some Grammys as a country star, including Best New Artist, when can we expect to see her take on some of the other genres she conquered as the winner of the fourth season of "American Idol"?

(Come on — you know you want more songs like her big-haired rendition of Pat Benatar's "Love Is a Battlefield.")

"No, no," Underwood said. "I love country music and they've been so great to me, it's just been amazing. All the people in it are amazing, so that's definitely where I want to stay." In fact, Underwood is already at work on the follow-up to her five-times platinum Some Hearts.

"We started writing and putting songs together and mapping out what we want to do with it," the Oklahoma native said. "We're just gonna go in and hope it does just a teeny fraction of what this past one did."

Underwood has so far collaborated with the same team of writers behind her country smashes like "Jesus, Take the Wheel" (Brett James, Hillary Lindsay, Gordon Sampson and Jonathan Yudson) and "Before He Cheats" (Chris Thompson and Josh Kear).

"I'm starting out with them and I'm getting comfortable writing and stuff like that. And then I'm going to move on to people I don't know so well and see where it takes me," Underwood said.

In the meantime, she just released the fifth single from Some Hearts, "Wasted."

"It was one of the first ones that we ended up recording and I'm just very lucky to get my hands on it," Underwood said. "It's about a girl who's with a guy who has a problem and she's going to leave him. It's kind of a sad song, but it's kind of upbeat, so it's the best of both worlds."

Last week, Underwood became the first country artist to win Best New Artist since Shelby Lynne won in 2001.

"It feels really awesome just because there was so much talent in that category and it was an all-genre category, so for a country person to be recognized, it's amazing for me," she said. "It's amazing for country music."

In her acceptance speech, Underwood clearly thanked "American Idol," differentiating herself from other past contestants who have tried to distance themselves from the show.

" 'American Idol' is the reason that I'm here — period, end of story," Underwood said backstage. "There's no way I'd be doing anything like this if it weren't for 'American Idol.' And it's awesome for the new season of contestants to see that great things can happen, [like it has this year] for myself, Jennifer Hudson, Chris Daughtry."

Martina, Carrie And Kellie To Be "Idolized"

NASHVILLE, TN Tuesday Feb.27.2007 /netmusiccountdown.com/ -- Martina McBride , Carrie Underwood and Kellie Pickler have been tapped to appear on upcoming episodes of American Idol. Carrie and Kellie return as former contestants, while Martina returns because Idol hopefus worshipped her music enough to compete by singing songs she made famous. That includes Carrie who sang "Independence Day," during her competition.

No date has been announced for Martina's appearances. On Thursday night's show, it was said that Martina would play a bit of a "coaching" role for finalists as part of her visit to the FOX show.

Look for Kellie to stop by Thursday's (March 1) installment of American Idol - she plans to sing her current hit, "I Wonder," as she returns to the show for the first time since competing a year ago. Carrie will walk onto the Idol stage a week later (March 8). This will be her second return to the show since being crowned the winner in May 2004. Since then, she's gone on to sell more than five-million copies of her debut album while also racking up a string of awards that include the Best New Artist Grammy and the CMA's 2006 Female Vocalist of the Year and Horizon Award.

Feburary 24, 2006

AMERICAN IDOL SCANDAL

American Idol has another scandal on their hands. I thought this was news worthy for all of you American Idol Fans. American Idol Season 6 contestant Antonella Barba has nude photos up on the internet. The news is breaking, for more information visit AntonellaBarbaOnline.Net

Feburary 8, 2006
CARRIE'S VIDEO FOR "WASTED" NOW STREAMING AT CMT

Carrie Underwood's new video for Wasted is now being shown at cmt.com. You can see the video by clicking the link below.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH CARRIE UNDERWOOD'S VIDEO FOR WASTED.

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