Before his American idol Audition, said an executive producer Carrie Underwood this Simon Cowell He hates country music, but he knew it.
Then 21, Underwood advanced with his presentation of Bonnie Raitt“I can’t do -my love” while trying to sing the singing competition in 2005, and his heart sank as soon as Cowell cut it.
Underwood, who is now 41 years old, saw his audition again In a video Produced by American idolPosted on Wednesday, March 5, while preparing their role as a judge For season 23.
The video shows Underwood, and then with curly hair, working on their farm in Checotah, Oklahoma, before entering the car to walk during the hours at St. Louis with her mother to make an audition for the program. The singer of “Jesús Take the Wheel” could not help but have fun with his nerves and appearance as he was in front of the original judges of the program, Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson.
“I would not move my hands for nothing,” he said. “I think I was just trying to keep all my emotions. Literally. Like, take them in my body.”

Before Underwood even finished his heart, Cowell, now 65, cut her.
“I was like” Ah, I did a bad job. She stopped singing me, “she recalled.
But that didn’t happen. The actions (or even insulting) Cowell told him that he did a great job, emphasizing how he believes that the season finally found a good field singer. The most important thing, he told Underwood to continue to do what he did, although he is not an amateur to country music.
“It affected my choice of songs on my audition,” Underwood said about Cowell’s upset for the country. “I thought maybe if I sang” I can’t do -to love “, it would still be me and a song I knew and loved.”

Carrie Underwood in “American Idol”
Fox Collection/Cortesy EverettThe three judges approved Underwood to move to the next round, where he could first climb a plane in his life and fly to Hollywood. At the end of the video, he took a look at his magazine from that time on.
“I just have to keep in mind that it will be worth it and that the life I started will be fantastic,” he wrote at that time. “The most important thing, I must remember that everything has been my choice and it is something I wanted since I was little. I know I have great things ahead. Right now I just try to live the moment and I appreciate everything. I never dreamed that all this would happen to me. I love it. “
Underwood’s return to Idol was previously announced in August 2024 after Katy perrys Get out of the group of judges. She joins Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie. In a first glance next season, Underwood affected Idol “changed my life,” adding: “Now, I have the privilege of helping a new generation of artists change their.”
American idol Premiere at ABC Sunday, March 9, at 8 pm, et.



