New AMERICAN IDOL Judge Will Focus on This Kind of Feedback
By Movieguide® Contributor
As an AMERICAN IDOL winner herself, Carrie Underwood has her sympathetic judging strategy all planned out.
“I think I can be honest and constructive, but still kind,” she said. “I think that’s the whole point ’cause people are coming in, and you know…it’s dreams.”
Movieguide® recently reported on Underwood’s concern as a judge:
Country singing legend Carrie Underwood has a problem with her new role as an AMERICAN IDOL judge — she “can’t lie” to save her life.
“I do have a big problem…I can’t lie,” she said about being a judge on the singing show ahead of her first appearance. “I feel like I’ll be very honest but hopefully constructive and encouraging. Just ask my kids.”
“You’re a part of somebody’s story from that moment on. I think it’s important to be honest, but I think it’s also very important to be kind. Hopefully, I can marry all of those together,” the “Jesus Take the Wheel” singer said.
Underwood won AMERICAN IDOL in 2005. She has the honor of being the very first alum to ever become a judge on the show.
Underwood said, “Twenty years…since I auditioned, in August, ya, so here we are.”
Megan Wolflick, IDOL showrunner and executive producer, said the singer “embodies the true spirit of IDOL as she herself is the definition of the Cinderella story. Our future hopefuls will have the chance to receive advice from someone who has walked in their exact footsteps every step of the way. Carrie has always been a strong supporter of IDOL, and I’m thrilled for her to be reunited with our IDOL Family.”
Underwood will judge alongside fellow country crooner Luke Bryan and R&B/Soul singer Lionel Richie.
She says it’s “kind of a win” to have two country stars on the panel.
“I feel like I’ve been very blessed to obviously be so rooted in country music, but I’ve been able to be part of many other genres of music as well,” she said.
“I mean, I’ve got a song with Papa Roach right now,” she said. “It’s a lot of fun. I like to think that I’m versatile, and hopefully when I listen to people come in and audition I can have any lense I need to put on as far as what kind of music I’m thinking.”
The singer previously told Jimmy Kimmel she will only be around for seven seasons on the show.
This season began auditions on Aug. 12. The first episode will air next spring, and then every Sunday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
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