Carrie Underwood ‘Lost Respect’ for Singers Who ‘Can’t Hit the Notes’: ‘That Stuff’s Important to Me’

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Maybe next time they’ll think before they sing. Carrie Underwood opened up about her experience going to live concerts – and how disappointed she is when a singer doesn’t sound like their album.“I love to sing, and I’ve always taken pride in the work I’ve put in on my vocals.

I do want to sound good,” Underwood, 39, told Rolling Stone in an interview published on Tuesday, October 18. “Growing up and going to concerts or seeing my favorite artists on TV, if they didn’t sound like they were supposed to sound, it was always so deflating.”The country crooner, who took home the trophy as the second winner of American Idol in 2005, explained that she would “lose respect” for singers who couldn’t deliver a strong live performance. “When I’d go to a concert and hear them drop keys, I was like, ‘You can’t hit the notes!

Why’d you record them if you can’t sing them?’” she said. “That stuff is important to me.”While the eight-time Grammy winner has high standards when it comes to fellow musicians, one singer who has served as an inspiration to Underwood throughout her own career is Guns N’ Roses’ Axl Rose. “The way I learned how to sing was I would pick really hard vocalists to try to emulate, and his voice always mesmerized me,” Underwood gushed of the rock legend, 60. “I was like, ‘How is he doing the things that he’s doing?'”The “Before He Cheats” songstress told Rolling Stone on Tuesday that she’s “been covering Guns N’ Roses my whole life” and has tried to share the stage with the band for years — a wish that was granted in April at the 2022 Stagecoach Festival where Rose joined Underwood on stage for a special performance of his song “Sweet Child O’ Mine.”This isn’t the first time Underwood has made headlines for her strong