The country music scene is dominated by men, and the ‘Before He Cheats’ singer thinks it’s due for a change. Underwood has also had success…
The country music scene is dominated by men, and the ‘Before He Cheats’ singer thinks it’s due for a change.
Underwood has also had success in her personal life. She has been married to former NHL player Mike Fisher since 2010, and their son, 3-year-old Isaiah, will become a big brother next year as she is currently pregnant with her second child.
However, the 35-year-old thinks the country music world is still a man’s game.
“I feel like shutting that door on ‘women don’t want to hear women’ because that’s B. S.,” she told Elaina Smith in a brand-new interview for her podcast, Women Want to Hear Women .
“Even when I was growing up, I wished there were more women on the radio, and I had a lot more than there are today. You think about all of the little girls that are sitting at home saying, ‘I want to be a country music singer.’ What do you tell them? What do you do? How do you look at them and say, ‘Well just work hard, sweetie, and you can do it’ when that’s not the case right now?”
New Podcast! @carrieunderwood Is the Guest on the New Episode of @elainadsmith ‘s «Women Want to Hear Women» Podcast. Carrie Talks About Country Radio, Haters on Social Media, Women Being Pitted Against Each Other, How to Be the BOSS & so much more. https://t.co/esXqw7aJV3
— Nash Country Daily (@NashCntryDaily) September 3,2018
In total, in the Top 50 positions, there are only five female vocalists: Underwood, Taylor Swift (Nos. 31 and 37), Marren Morris (No. 32), Kelsea Ballerini (No. 40), and Kacey Musgraves (No. 43).
The September 1 Hot Country Songs chart is similar. While Bebe Rexha’s collaboration with Florida Georgia Line, “Meant to Be,” tops the chart, she is not traditionally known for being a country musician. Another collaboration is in the No. 3 slot, Jason Aldean and Miranda Lambert’s “Drowns the Whiskey,” but the first solo female artist on the list charts at No. 17, Underwood’s “Cry Pretty.”
“I see so many girls out there busting their rear ends,” Underwood continued to tell Smith. “These strong women, who are supertalented and totally deserve it, [are] not getting the same opportunities [as men]. How to change it? I don’t know.”
See you on the road! #CryPrettyTour360 https://t.co/5tKKad9GPc pic.twitter.com/RnpZVAGRp4
— Carrie Underwood (@carrieunderwood) August 8,2018
