LEFT: Carrie Underwood attends the 57th Academy of Country Music Awards. (Photo by Denise Truscello/Getty Images for ACM) RIGHT: "American Idol" Season 4 - Winner, Carrie Underwood, 21, from Checotah, Oklahoma (Photo by SGranitz/WireImage)
Carrie Underwood Relives Her American Idol Hollywood Week Nerves & Mistakes
Carrie Underwood won the fourth season of American Idol when she was just 21 years old. She is now a judge on the popular show, reflecting on her winning season while filming her first season as a judge.
Currently, the show is in Hollywood Week, which is the second round of auditions following the initial auditions. Hollywood Week is known for being highly stressful, as many contestants are eliminated at once.
When discussing her experience at American Idol’s Hollywood Week, Underwood said,
“So nerve-wracking being in Hollywood. For Hollywood Week. Because there’s a lot being thrown at you. You know, you’ve traveled here. You had to go through all the initial kind of auditions and stuff to be able to get here in the first place. And it’s the first time you’re meeting all the other contestants and you’re kind of seeing what they have to offer. It’s very emotional. You know, you’re probably running off of adrenaline and not a lot of sleep. And you’re in a new place. You’re trying to make friends. I mean, just a lot of emotions.”
With the intensified pressure of the competition, many contestants made mistakes this week, and Carrie Underwood is no exception.
Carrie Underwood’s Hollywood Week Slip Up
In the video that Idol just released, Underwood shared what she was thinking and feeling during her first Idol experience. In the first sentence of this video, she said,
“Hollywood week where tensions fly high, and the idol stars emerge, or, as in my case, they totally mess up. Come revisit it with me.”
During her first week, the singer performed on stage with other young hopefuls but forgot her lyrics. The pressure overwhelmed the iconic singer, and while she sounded incredible, she made a mistake.
“I did forget the words, but I feel like in that moment it was more about how you jumped back in.”
The video showed that she was not eliminated but rather advanced. Underwood expressed her relief at this and said she thought she was done for sure.
“I was so thinking I was going to go home.“
