Carrie Underwood re -watches her American Idol audition 20 years later

Before American Idol An audition, an executive producer told Carrie Underwood that Simon Cowell Casant country music – but she already knew.

Then 21, underwood went on with her contribution of Bonnie Raut“I can’t make you love me” while trying the singing competition in 2005, and her heart sank as soon as Cowell broke her away.

Underwood re -watched, now 41, her audition In a video produced by American Idolposted on Wednesday, March 5, as she prepares for his role as a judge for season 23.

The video shows Underwood, then with curly hair, working on his farm in Checotah, Oklahoma, before reaching the car to make the journey of Hours to St Louis with her mother to audition for the show. Singer “Jesus Take the Wheel” could not help but broke fun of her own nerves and appearance as she stood in front of the show’s original critics, Cowell, Paula abdul and Randy Jackson.

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“I wouldn’t move my hands for anything,” he said. “I think I’m just trying to hold in all my emotions. Literally. Like, hold them into my body. “

Before Underwood even finished the chorus, Cowell, now 65, broke her away.

“I was like, ‘Ah, I did a bad job. He stopped singing, ‘”He remembered.

But that’s not what happened. Instead, Cowell’s Oftentimes (or even offensive) told her doing a great job, noting how she thinks the season has finally found a good country singer. More importantly, he told Underwood for continuing to do what she was doing – although he, himself, is not a country fan.

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“He affected my song chosen in my audition,” said Underwood for Cowell’s disaste for a country. “I thought maybe if I sang ‘I can’t make you love me,’ it would be kind of being me and a song I knew and loved her.”

The three Judges approved Underwood to move on to the next round, where she would be able to get on a plane for the first time in her life and fly to Hollywood. At the end of the video, she looked back at her journal from that time.

“I have to remember that it will be worth it and that the life I have started will be great,” he wrote at the time. “Most importantly, I have to remember that this was all my choice and it’s something I want ever since I was a little girl. I know I have some great things ahead. At the moment I’m just trying to live in the moment and appreciate it all. I never dreamed that it would all happen to me. I love it. “

Underwood’s return to Idol previously published in August 2024 following Katy Perry‘S. exit from the judging panel. She joins Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie. In a recent first season on the coming season, Underwood stopped the idol “changing my life,” adding, “Now, I have the privilege of helping a new generation of artists to change their ones.”

American Idol Premieres on ABC Sunday, March 9, at 8 pm et.