Season four American Idol winner Carrie Underwood is on the cover of the May 2008 issue of In Style magazine.

“I’ve been cheated on a time or two. It’s tough,” she tells InStyle in the May issue, on newsstands Friday. “I wouldn’t recommend doing any property damage, though,” she laughs, a reference to her Grammy-winning song “Before He Cheats” about a woman who trashes her boyfriend’s truck.

“Now I’m to the point where you get one shot. Life’s too short,” adds the Season 4 American Idol champ, who says that dessert is one way she heals from heartache.

Carrie trust the entire world when it says you are a lot better off without Tony Romo and Chace Crawford.

Carrie Underwood, in the Jan/Feb issue of Women’s Health, denies that she and Tony Romo were ever dating last year.  She had this to say to the women’s mag:

“He was not my boyfriend and we were never dating. The more I screamed ‘We’re not dating!’ the more headlines claimed that we were a couple or that I was crying because he was out with another girl. We’re really good friends, we hang out a lot, and we’re close…well, friends smooch occasionally.�

She also had these things to say in the article:

On being a vegetarian:
“There was a traumatic incident that made me stop eating beef…And it hit me that these cute little animals that were running around playing would become someone’s dinner.  Eating them made me feel guilty.â€?

On watching her diet and staying thin:
“The older I get, the harder it is to splurge without consequences.  I love food.  Chocolate and cheese and anything that’s bad for me.  I’ll be really good when I’m at home so I can eat what I want to when I’m out with friends.�

On what the gossip mags and message boards have to say:
“Occasionally I’ll be on the Internet and see something about me and give in to the urge to click on it.  It’s hard not to.  Usually I wish I didn’t.�

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The two hottest and most popular women in country music are former American Idol winner Carrie Underwood and teen sensation Taylor Swift. Swift wrote or co-wrote all of the songs on her debut album Taylor Swift. Underwood on her second album, Carnival Ride, started co-writing some of her own tunes with the likes of Hillary Lindsey and Luke Laird.

Both women are extremely talented and will dominate the Billboard charts for the next thirty years. They will also continue to develop a rivalry as they will be competing with each other for awards and radio airplay.

Here is a quick look at Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift:

Carrie Underwood	Taylor Swift
Age: 24 - March 10, 1983 Hometown: Checotah, Oklahoma	Age: 18 - December 13, 1989 Hometown: Wyomissing, PA
Hit Songs: ‘Jesus Take the Wheel’ ‘Because He Cheats’ ‘Don’t Forget to Remember Me’ ‘So Small’	Hit Songs: ‘Tim McGraw’ ‘Teardrops on My Guitar’ ‘Our Song’ ‘Invisible’
Albums: Some Hearts - 6x Platinum (#2) Carnival Ride - 2x Platinum (#1)	Albums: Taylor Swift - 2x Platinum (#8) Taylor Swift Holiday Collection
Awards: Grammy Awards: 2007 Best New Artist, Best Female Vocal Performance - ‘Jesus Take the Wheel’, Best Country Song - ‘Jesus Take the Wheel’ CMA Awards: 2007 Female Vocalist of the Year, Single of the Year - ‘Because He Cheats’, 2006 Female Vocalist of the Year, Horizon Award Complete List	Awards: CMT Music Awards: Breakthrough Video of the Year - ‘Tim Mcgraw’ CMA Awards: Horizon Award
Discovered: American Idol	Discovered: Bluebird Cafe (Nashville)

The American Music Awards took place last night in Los Angeles. The big winners were former American Idol stars Carrie Underwood and Chris Daughtry.

A look at some of the winners from last night (full list)

POP OR ROCK
Favorite Male Artist:
Justin Timberlake

Favorite Female Artist:
Fergie

Favorite Band, Duo or Group:
Nickleback

Favorite Album:
Daughtry/Daughtry

COUNTRY
Favorite Male Artist:
Tim McGraw

Favorite Female Artist:
Carrie Underwood

Favorite Album:
Carrie Underwood/Some Hearts

Favorite Band, Duo or Group:
Rascal Flatts
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The 41st CMA Awards for country music took place last night in Nashville, Tennessee.  The big winner was Carrie Underwood who won ‘Female Vocalist of the Year’ and ‘Single of the Year.’  Kenny Chesney also had a big night in winning the coveted ‘Entertainer of the Year’ award.

Brad Paisley won ‘Male Vocalist of the Year’ and ‘Music Video of the Year’ for his hit song “Online”.

The goofiest acceptance of the night easily went to Sugarland and their over-the-top giddy surprise at winning ‘Duo of the Year’ over such established acts as Brooks & Dunn and Montgomery Gentry.

Here is a look at the Winners from the 41st CMA Awards (complete list)

Entertainer of the Year - Kenny Chesney

Female Vocalist of the Year - Carrie Underwood

Male Vocalist of the Year - Brad Paisley

Horizon Award - Taylor Swift

Vocal Group of the Year - Rascal Flatts

Vocal Duo of the Year - Sugarland

Single of the Year - “Before He Cheats” by Carrie Underwood

Album of the Year - “It Just Comes Natural” by George Strait

Music Video of the Year - “Online” by Brad Paisley

Song of the Year - “Give It Away” by Bill Anderson, Buddy Cannon, Jamey Johnson

Britney Spears new album ‘Blackout‘ is the number one album in the country after its first week or release.  It sold 350,000 copies and was able to hold off the sophomore effort of country sensation Carrie Underwood.

“Blackout” remains the No. 1 downloaded album on iTunes and the fifth bestselling CD on Amazon.com. Spears could have a good second week as well, while she awaits the Nov. 13 release of Alicia Key’s anticipated blockbuster, “As I Am.” At that point, “Blackout” will likely be over unless a new single captivates radio listeners.

 The Blackout numbers, though, are severely down from Spears’s last release. When “In the Zone” was released in 2003, it sold 609,000 copies in its first week.

Look for Underwood’s album ‘Carnival Ride‘ to sell more albums overall than ‘Blackout’ when all is said and done.
You Can Order ‘Blackout’ Here

Country superstar Carrie Underwood was caught on tape at the Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville, Tennessee singing ‘Kickstart My Heart’ with Motley Crue lead singer Vince Neil.

The audio towards the end is horrible and the camera angle is equally as shoddy but you get the idea.

Carrie is one cool chick getting on stage and singing a metal song with the Motley front man. The first cassette single I owned was ‘Kickstart My Heart’. (Yeah cassette single…I know some of you remember them.)

Yesterday I posted about Bumpshacker Luke Laird’s new song ‘So Small’ that he has written with Carrie Underwood and fellow songwriter Hillary Lindsey for Underwood’s upcoming album. Luke still claims the song title is NOT autobiographical.

Check out the video here.

The lyrics to the song are below and you can listen to a radio rip of the song here.

SO SMALL Lyrics by Luke Laird, Hillary Lindsey and
Carrie Underwood

What you got if you ain’t got love?
The kind that you just wanna give away
It’s okay to open up
Go ahead and let the light shine through

I know it’s hard on a rainy day
You wanna shut the world out and just be let alone
But don’t run out on your faith

Coz sometimes that mountain you’ve been climbing is just a grain of sand
And what you’ve been out there searching forforever is in your hand
When you figure out love is all that matters after all
It sure makes everything else seem so small

It’s so easy to get lost inside
A problem that seems so big the other time
is like a river that’s so wide
It swallows you whole
Why you sitting around thinking about what you can’t change
and worrying about all the wrong things
And time’s flying by
Moving so fast
You’d better make it count
Coz you can’t get it back

Coz sometimes that mountain you’ve been climbing is just a grain of sand
And what you’ve been out there searching for forever is in your hand
When you figure out love is all that matters after all
It sure makes everything else seem so small

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Sometimes that mountain you’ve been climbing is just a grain of sand
And what you’ve been out there searching for forever is in your hand
Oh and when you figure out love is all that matters after all
It sure makes everything else
Oh, it sure makes everything else seem so small

Original Bumpshacker and long-time friend Luke Laird has written another country music hit. Carrie Underwood’s current single, ‘So Small’, that was just released to radio stations across the country was co-written by Luke, Hillary Lindsey (’Jesus Take the Wheel’, Sara Evans, Keith Urban, Bon Jovi, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Martina McBride, Trisha Yearwood, Leeanne Womack) and Underwood.

Be sure to request the song ‘So Small’ on CMT and country radio to help make it #1 on the country charts.

Check out the lyrics here and watch the video here.

Laird has written hit songs for several country artists that include Tim McGraw (’Put Your Lovin On Me’) and Carrie Underwood.

Check out Luke’s MySpage Page to listen to some of his work.

Check out Hillary’s MySpace Page to read about all of her successes.

Seventeen-year-old Jordin Sparks beat out beat-boxer Blake Lewis to win season six of American Idol.

I had never seen a season of Idol before this year and I didn’t miss but one or two episodes in the process.  Jordin deserved to win this competition.  Jordin was the best overall package on the show this year.  She will only be more and more packaged in the next few months as she works on her debut album.

Performers on last nights show included Gwen Stefani (via feed from her live concert), Kelly Clarkson, Smokey Robinson, top six male finalists, Doug E. Fresh (beat-boxing with Blake), top six female finalists, Gladys Knight, Tony Bennett, BeBe and CeCe Winans, Carrie Underwood, Sanjaya Malakar with Aerosmith’s Joe Perry, Green Day, Taylor Hicks, Ruben Studdard, Bette Middler (what the heck was that about….horrific), Kelly Clarkson (again…please, once was enough), Taylor Hicks (again….better than the first time), Carrie Underwood (again), and Ruben (again).

What a bunch of show filler at the end. So much that it ran over the alloted TIVO time schedule.  I had to get on the phone to find out.

Congratulations to Miss Jordin Sparks. You have a huge career ahead of you……and a birthday coming up where you will then be able to see R-rated movies.

Former American Idol sensation Carrie Underwood took control last night at the Country Music Television Awards (CMT Music Awards) both performing on stage and taking home three awards.

Underwood won for ‘Video of the Year‘, ‘Female Video‘, and ‘Best Video Director‘.

She performed her her hit single ‘Before He Cheats‘.

Other Winners Included:
Best Group Video: Rascal Flatts, ‘What Hurts The Most’
Best Male Video: Kenny Chesney, ‘You Save Me’
Johnny Cash Visionary Award: Kris Kristofferson
Duo Video of the Year: Sugarland, ‘Want To’
Breakthrough Video of the Year: Taylor Swift, ‘Tim McGraw’
Wide Open Country Video of the Year: Jack Ingram, ‘Love You’

Original Bumpshacker Luke Laird has been writing with Carrie Underwood and will have a couple of songs on her new album which will be released later this year.

photo: People

Carrie Underwood is super sexy as well as extremely talented don’t you think?  I use to doubt American Idol and if the winners could be true super stars but several have proved they can….with the exception of Clay Aiken.