Carrie Underwood is seemingly relishing within the boos she received on American Idol.
“Boo me. I don’t care. 😂😜🤪,” the Idol judge, 42, clapped back via X on Monday, March 2.
Underwood clashed with the live audience during each of American Idol’s “Hollywood Week: Music City Takeover” episodes during season 24. The Hollywood Week episodes — which were filmed in Nashville this season — made for awkward viewing at times since Underwood’s constructive criticism proved to be unpopular with the group.
“They identical to to boo me,” Underwood said in Tuesday’s final “Hollywood Week: Music City Takeover” episode.
Fellow American Idol judge Luke Bryan piped as much as defend the previous Idol winner during one stretch of booing.
“She only won this. She knows,” Bryan, 49, admonished the group.
His reference to Underwood’s American Idol season 4 victory did little to quiet the backlash, leading her to warn the booing fans about interfering within the judging process.
“You’re not included within the discussions,” she told them.
The booing was particularly heavy after Idol hopeful Mor performed an original song during his “Music City Takeover” audition. When it got here time for his evaluations, Underwood accurately predicted to Bryan that “they will boo me.”
“You guys are gonna boo me. You’re gonna boo me,” she told the group. “It’s coming. Bring it on. I like it! Your boos are feeding me.”
Carrie Underwood on “American Idol” season 24. Disney/Eric McCandless
In her feedback, she argued that Mor made a mistake by trying out original material during “Hollywood Week: Music City Takeover.”
“In a room like this so that you can bring an original song with that incredible band sitting behind you twiddling their thumbs, I feel prefer it was a missed opportunity,” she said.
Mor ultimately was still advanced to the following stage of American Idol by the judges despite Underwood’s lukewarm appraisal.
“Singing original music is SUCH a chance at this stage within the competition. Don’t. Waste. The. Band,” Underwood insisted via X on Monday. “Mor’s voice and former audition kept him in. I wanna hear his original music after he’s a giant star!”
Underwood previously hinted that she was going to have a hostile rapport with the “Hollywood Week: Music City Takeover” crowd before the episodes even aired.
“Spoiler alert…I get booed A LOT from our Hollywood Week audience @AmericanIdol,” Underwood tweeted on February 16.
Underwood joined the American Idol judging panel for season 23 alongside Bryan and Lionel Richie, following Katy Perry’s departure after seven seasons in 2024.
“I went from no person knowing my name to tens of million of individuals watching the show,” she said on the time. “I’m pleased with all the things that I used to be capable of accomplish on the show and I’m so pleased with all the things I’ve completed since.”
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Underwood received the backing of fellow American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson, who told E! News in September 2024 that the country star was the proper addition to the judging panel. (Clarkson has been a coach on rival competition show The Voice for 10 seasons.)
“What higher person to have — any person that’s won that show to return back,” Clarkson, 43, said on the time. “To have passed through all of it after which had such an enormous profession like her, that’s invaluable.”
Clarkson called Underwood an “awesome pick” for Idol, adding, “To have any person to have a look at and go, ‘OK, they’ve done it they usually’re sitting right there. So, which means I’m able to doing it. I can dream that big.’ … I feel she’s gonna do great.”
Underwood has sold greater than 22.5 million albums and 72.5 million singles, making her the largest selling female country music star of all time, in response to the Recording Industry Association of America.
American Idol season 24 airs Mondays on ABC at 8 p.m. ET.