Country music star
Carrie Underwood gave an in depth interview with
Entertainment Weekly about her career, love life, and her critics. Here are some highlights from the interview...
On her romance with Dallas Cowboy's quarterback Tony Romo:
''At one point it seemed like that's where it was headed,'' she says, ''but point blank, he is about football. I don't know if it's that I'm not quite his type or whatever, but I don't think he's at the point in his life where he would be willing to sacrifice football. He hated so much that people thought that he was paying more attention to me and that was causing him to not do well.'' (Could she be talking about the fumble last January that helped cost his team a playoff win?) For his part, Romo tells Sports Illustrated, ''I've been lucky to get to know her. We're friends.'' Either way, Underwood continues to be a Dallas cheerleader: ''The Cowboys are still my favorite team — no matter what happens with us."
How do you prepare for all the scrutiny that'll surely be placed on you as you release your follow-up?
It's already been placed on me and the album. It's more annoying than anything. I've learned this, that haters wanna hate. You could sing a song perfectly, you could write the songs perfectly, and some people are absolutely going to hate you. I heard, like, on live shows, people thought I was lip-synching. Which, I guess, hey, if they think it sounds that good that they think I'm lip-synching, I'll take it. Whatever. I know there's a certain point where I have to just be like, ''Forget it, I don't care.'' And I do care.
Have you ever had singing lessons?
Years ago I got together with a voice coach briefly and I hated it, because I felt like they tried to change things that, like, would make me me, you know? There's been a lot of growth over the past two years. I think I sound different now. I've gotten a lot more practice and everything's just gotten easier. Like, notes that I could barely hit for the first album — like, ''Oh my gosh, this is gonna kill me'' — are a piece of cake now. We're on to new notes now that are way in the stratosphere. On [Carnival's] ''All-American Girl,'' the high note is the highest I've ever hit.
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