{"id":31367,"date":"2025-03-11T05:45:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T09:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=31367"},"modified":"2025-03-10T10:05:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T14:05:27","slug":"carrie-underwood-was-told-simon-cowell-hates-country-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/03\/carrie-underwood-was-told-simon-cowell-hates-country-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Underwood Was Told Simon Cowell &#8220;Hates Country Music&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you remember Carrie Underwood&#8217;s run on &#8220;American Idol&#8221; 21 years ago, you&#8217;ll recall that she didn&#8217;t initially come across as a country singer.<\/p>\n<p>Her earliest song choices were &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Make You Love Me&#8221; by Bonnie Raitt and &#8220;Young Hearts Run Free&#8221; by Candi Staton, and there&#8217;s a reason for that.<\/p>\n<p>She was told that Simon Cowell HATED country music.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;One of the executive producers [said], &#8216;You know, Simon hates country music, right?&#8217; . . . I thought maybe if I sang &#8216;I Can&#8217;t Make You Love Me&#8217; [for the audition] it would kind of still be me and a song that I knew and loved.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To Simon&#8217;s credit, Carrie revealed that she was a country girl during her first audition, and he encouraged her to be herself.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aJZB9MqX9ns\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Carrie just made her debut as an &#8220;American Idol&#8221; judge on the 23rd season premiere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you remember Carrie Underwood&#8217;s run on &#8220;American Idol&#8221; 21 years ago, you&#8217;ll recall that she didn&#8217;t initially come across as a country singer.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":31369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[410,45,6124,6125,6126],"class_list":["post-31367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-american-idol","tag-carrie-underwood","tag-i-cant-make-you-love-me","tag-simon-cowell","tag-young-hearts-run-free"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 03:32:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/03\/carrie-underwood-was-told-simon-cowell-hates-country-music\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31368,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31367\/revisions\/31368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}