Howard Stern launched SiriusXM’s new Miami Studios this week. On Wednesday during SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show live from Miami, Howard Stern was joined by Carrie Underwood. Carrie Underwood performing three songs live on the air including a cover of Ozzy Osbourne’s “Mama, I’m Coming Home.” Making her debut on The Howard Stern Show, the singer talked about her life and career, including the success of her first album, “Some Hearts,” which garnered her three Grammy Awards in 2007 and the distinction of having the best-selling debut of any “American Idol” contestant. The avowed hard rock fan who previously sang with Axl Rose, said she asked permission form Sharon Osbourne to do the cover and Sharon was sweet about it. Watch it now!
Howard Stern and Carrie Underwood at the SiriusXM Miami Studios – Photo Credit: Emma McIyntire
“We kind of had on this album things with a little more pop flare, and things with more country flare,” she said of the genre-bending record. “We were trying to ease me into the music industry and, you know, I definitely knew I needed to sing country music … but once the more country songs did as well as they did it was like any doubters in my universe were like, ‘Oh, okay.’”
“I just said I wanted to sell enough to be able to make a second album,” Underwood recalled of her thinking at the time. “We made a second album, and I was like, ‘I just want to do well enough to make another one,’ and it was like every step of the way was more than I ever could have deserved.”
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“This one was one I feel like everybody was a little nervous about, me, my label people, … because it’s aggressive,” the artist admitted. “I just sang ‘Jesus Take the Wheel’ and now ‘she’s getting violent.’”
“That’s the fun thing about music,” Carrie noted. “You do get to sing about things, or write things, or make music videos or whatever about things that you wouldn’t actually do in your life, but it is fun to get into character and act like you would.”
“I feel like immediately when it comes in, the whole audience just starts bumping,” Underwood revealed. “There’s this weird little like undulation thing that just starts happening and the crowd comes alive.”
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The love connection was made via bassist Mark Childers, who was protective of the star when the retired player asked for an introduction at arguably the biggest stage in country music. “He wanted to meet Carrie behind stage at the Opry and I didn’t allow it,” the band member recalled. “He kept trying.”
“Persistence,” Underwood added with a laugh.
“We met in October and then we talked on the phone for a few months before we went out on our first date,” she remembered. “It was good, it kind of laid some foundation.”
“He worked hard at what he did for 20 years and now our roles are different,” she said before remembering the days when both were juggling their careers with their family life. “He was playing, I was touring — it was craziness when we were both doing what we do.”
“Just YouTube ‘Mike Fisher hockey fights’ and then you’ll see why he’s secure in his masculinity,” she joked. “He’s not afraid to throw down.”
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“I’ve been a fan since almost birth,” she told Howard before singing the praises of frontman W. Axl Rose. “His voice is something that just cut through the air to me … he didn’t sound like everybody else and sometimes it wasn’t pretty [because] that’s not what the song was meant for. He was willing to, you know, get into the song and do what the song needed.”
“I was like, ‘I’m not worthy to breathe the oxygen,’” she remembered of meeting Axl. “They took me back to his dressing room and I just got to chat with him … we talked for a minute about the show, about touring, and stuff like that.”
“We have fun,” the star said after Howard admitted he loved watching her emulate Axl’s iconic dance moves when they collaborate. “When I’m onstage by myself that’s one thing, but then when there’s somebody else you get to play off of it’s just a different energy, it’s a different vibe.”
CARRIE’S COUNTRY, a new year-round channel from Carrie Underwood, launches in June 2023 on SiriusXM.
The Howard Stern Show is airing live from the SiriusXM Miami studios through Wednesday, May 3 with Howard joined live in the studio by special music and celebrity guests. The Howard Stern Show, which airs on SiriusXM channel Howard 100, is broadcast live Mondays through Wednesdays starting at 7:00 am ET. The full show is also available on the SiriusXM app.
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