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The singer, who was hit by technical glitches that forced her to perform an acapella, was allegedly not thrilled about the issue, as well as how she was forced to perform, after initially sparking backlash over the performance and allegedly not “caring” about the hate.

The 41-year-old allegedly felt slighted because past performers at inaugurations for Joe Biden and Barack Obama, like Beyonce and Lady Gaga, have been afforded such luxuries.

“Carrie was dissatisfied with her performance at the event, primarily due to the limited space she was given, which left her feeling cramped and uncomfortable,” the source told the publication.

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

This woman is such a "literally who?" that I geniunely got her mixed up with Carrie Fisher and wrote articles about her attendance at the inauguration off as fake news. Because well, she's dead.

[–] joenforcer@midwest.social 11 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Do you live under a rock? She's possibly the most popular female country singer (after Dolly Parton) and the 2nd most well-known American Idol winner (after Kelly Clarkson).

I mean, she's dead to me along with Snoop Dogg after all of this but by no means is she a nobody.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 11 hours ago

female country singer

That was your problem right there

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 9 points 16 hours ago

Ehhhh, American Idol winners are famous for falling off the face of the earth (do you know any other winners offhand besides Carrie and Kelly?), so I don't blame people for not knowing her from that.

I think it's also a stretch to say she's the most (or second most) popular female country singer. Country as a genre is becoming less and less popular, being replaced by pop/hip-hop/rap for young people. I feel like Carrie Underwood was most popular amongst the subset of elder millennials that still listened to country or who happened to catch her hits on pop radio, but Gen Xers and Boomers are probably more familiar with Reba McIntire, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, etc, and zoomers and Gen alpha are too busy listening to literally any other genre than country to know who any of those people are.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago

Maybe she's just a Chud and did it on her own, but the trump kompromat angle makes sense as well:

  1. She performs the Sunday night football song in a short dress and she's younger and blond - so there's a chance trump saw her and paid attention (because he's a rapist that likes girls with features similar to his daughter).

  2. He probably asked his sycophants to get her for the inauguration or a rally or some stop on the garbage parade, have to assume she said no at first realizing the career backlash, if anything.

  3. They scramble to find leverage, she was on American Idol, which is a former fox show (Murdoch) and a current ABC show (ABC being the complicit mainstream network to first bend the knee HARD recently, preemptively settling trump's defamation lawsuit against them with a huge multi million dollar payoff).

  4. So between all of that, someone has the leverage against one of those remaining producers to get them to offer underwood the replacement "judge" job on American Idol, with the condition that she support trump publicly.

  5. She was announced as a judge on American Idol.

  6. She performs at the inauguration.

  7. American Idol producers make public statements about fear of a backlash boycott, but say they won't do anything about her.

  8. The purposefully convoluted threat of a boycott fuels fox and others , along with the fully complicit social media networks, to push a counter boycott - meaning all of the Braindead maga folks without anymore rallys to attend should now go HARD for American Idol, buy merch, etc.

  9. Get now loyal viewers to send in their underpants as tribute. Collect all those underpants.

  10. ???

  11. Profit

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 43 points 22 hours ago (2 children)
[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 29 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It’s playing a bass or cello methinks

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Hard to tell. It doesn’t have the shoulder brace that many violins have, but it also doesn’t seem to have the floor spike that a cello or bass would. That spot near the “bottom” may be for a spike, but it’s hard to tell since there is a leg in the way. The neck length points more towards a double bass, (they tend to have a larger body and shorter neck) but that could also just be due to the perspective.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

That's a huge violin. Or a very tiny micro gnome

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[–] modus@lemmy.world 40 points 23 hours ago

“She felt like she was literally just in a room with people all around her and a microphone.”

Uhhh... Yeah, that's what she's paid to do.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 18 hours ago

lol until this very moment I had no idea this dollar general taylor swift was still making music

[–] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 9 points 19 hours ago

lol. Complete child.

[–] 5in1k@lemm.ee 33 points 1 day ago

Whatever bitch. This is what you asked for.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Eat a dick, Carrie. Also, your Sunday night football song is fucking trash.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 12 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Bring back Pink, was much more gritty...new shit with a country twang sucks ass...and underwood can go take a leap.

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[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 74 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

...why does she make me feel things?

[–] mPony@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

because that person is a professional actress with more talent in her little finger than most hacks have in their entire family .

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 244 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just ignore the leopard in the room.

[–] cybersin@lemm.ee 1 points 14 hours ago

Believe it or not, some people are capable of acknowledging more than one news story per week.

[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 157 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Selfish narcissist shocked at lack of consideration from bigger, even more selfish narcissists.

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 77 points 1 day ago

eat shit Carrie.

you play at shitty gigs, you get shitty gigs.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago

She went out of her way to be an extremely shitty person.

She got off easy.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (3 children)

KKKarrie is a traitor, both to the US and to humanity as a whole. I don't give a fuck what she's feeling. The world will become a slightly better place when she stops stealing its oxygen.

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[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

She felt like she was literally just in a room with people all around her and a microphone.

It's hard not to read this as a power play when she was being paid by someone known for memorably misogynist statements, and for needing to go to court against his own sex worker.

I'm inclined to infer that the worst creep factors of old rich American men may have poisoned the vibe in the room.

And yeah, all statements about leopards and faces and knowing better apply here.

I assume Carrie can afford to choose clients carefully. I hope this gives her pause to take stock, and that she moves on to wiser choices.

In the immortal words of Nelson Muntz: Ha Ha.

[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

Oh no, I have no empathy for this

[–] pubquiz@lemmy.world 96 points 1 day ago

Lie down with dogs; get up with fleas. Or brainworms. Or fuck her and her career for sinking to the Kidrock-level of skell. Hahahahaha.

[–] thagoat@lemmy.sdf.org 65 points 1 day ago

Welcome to the MAGA world, snowflake. Well deserved.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fuck her and Snoop Eat-A-Double-Dick Dogg.

[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some redditors are calling "Lap Dogg."

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 22 hours ago
[–] theedqueen@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago
[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 51 points 1 day ago

Get fucked. Sucks to suck, asshole.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I've just realised I have no idea who Carrie Underwood is.

I saw her name on the guestlist, but it's only seeing her described as a singer that I realised that it wasn't Sara Jean Underwood, Playmate of the month a good couple of years ago.

I just assumed he'd invited another porn star to his party and thought nothing more of it. Which says a lot about how surprising I find odd things about Trump...

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

American Idol winner, she did “Before He Cheats” which was on repeat on essentially every radio station in Texas and Oklahoma for two years. You could change the station and it would be on the next one. Obnoxious stupid song.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 3 points 17 hours ago

Ah, another ex-talent-show nonentity purveying dreck to those who can't tell slime from music.

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 51 points 1 day ago

Boohoo, dickhead

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago

Fucking worthless traitor cunt.

[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

There’s a metaphor here about how the way trump runs things is going to fuck over his base, but they’re too dumb to see it.

[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

whatever. the only source is "an insider" speaking to the daily fucking mail. this is trash.

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 3 points 19 hours ago

I don't know much about her, but people seem to believe it because I guess it's kinda in character for her.

But you bring up a good point.

[–] SouthFresh@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

Boo-fucking-hoo

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