Carrie Underwood Shares Her Entire Tour Workday On Insta
Carrie Underwood shared a day in her life on the road when she recently played a show in Atlanta on her “Denim and Rhinestones Tour.” In the multiple Insta story…
Carrie Underwood shared a day in her life on the road when she recently played a show in Atlanta on her "Denim and Rhinestones Tour." In the multiple Insta story post, she started her day in a "mobile gym" for a workout.
Her long day went as follows:
- She shared a photo of her in exercise gear, writing, "Workout = Crushed."
- Carrie then talked about her lunch which included two different kinds of beans and boiled eggs; she said, "It's lunchtime on the bus." She added, "I will get eggs from our chickens whenever we roll through town; I will bring them with me, put them in the fridge on our bus, and then boil them on our days off. I love eggs."
- In the next frame, she posted 12:30 PM = Shower.
- Next, she explained that she goes through a special book made by her designers to pick the outfits she will wear for the night's concert. She said, "Time to pick out what I am going to wear today."
- Her next frame was a video clip of herself going into hair and makeup - she wrote on the video, "2:15 PM head in for hair and makeup," revealing in the next frame that she snacks on coffee and an almond chocolate bar while in the makeup chair.
- 4:15 is soundcheck; she shared a video as she walked up to the stage and started to sing into the mic to make sure it all sounded great.
- At 5:00 PM, it is dinner, and she explained, along with a photo, that each show day, she eats a strict never, changing dinner of "2 eggs, half of an avocado, veggies, and hummus."
- She then gets ready to meet fans at the nightly meet and greet, and a video clip shows that a whole rack of clothes comes out, and she picks her outfit for the meet and greet, which she explains her crew decorates just right for the fans.
- After meet and greets are done, Carrie gets back into sweats and then stretches to get ready for the show, "Getting my body ready for the aero things that I do but also just being on stage." She showed the whole stretch workout in fast motion, writing over it, "OMG, I am laughing so hard watching this is supersonic speed."
- In the next frame, she shows all the rhinestones, writing, "We don't call it denim and RHINESTONES for nothing." With makeup and clothes on for the show, she said in a video clip, "Rhinestones are on, the outfit is on, and now it's time to hang out with the guys" as the band entered the room.
- Underwood then shows herself waiting to go on stage from below the stage, and then throughout the show, depicts her going up the lift after costume changes and re-entering the stage multiple times.
- As a video shows her coming down the lift back under the stage, she captioned it, "And... that's a wrap, thank you, Atlanta!"
- At 11:20, after the show, she is back on her bus enjoying some wine and cheese; she says, "I'm starving and this is my reward." After saying how much fun she had at the show, she noted, "Now I have to try to make myself sleepy because there is just a lot of stimuli out there, and all my senses are on alert."
- In the last frame, she shows herself in her bed on the bus with the caption, "Night, night..." She says, "It's about 1:15, and I'm trying to go to sleep. Hopefully, I get a good night's sleep, and we're gonna wake up and do it all again tomorrow in Charlotte. Hope you guys liked coming on tour with me today, yeah, that's what I do."
Carrie posted show photos on her Instagram after the show, writing, "Just when I think the crowds on the #DenimAndRhinestonesTour can't get any better, we play Atlanta! What a wonderful treat it was to be with you all and get ROWDY on a Tuesday night @statefarmarena !!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!"
Carrie Underwood turns the big 4-0 today (3/10) as she continues the 2023 leg of her "Denim & Rhinestones Tour." While she has a day off on her birthday, she is back on stage at a concert in Glendale, Arizona, tomorrow night (3/11).
Carrie has created her own music legacy already in country music in the last 15 years and is the most-awarded star in country music. She was most recently nominated for a 2023 CMT Music Award for Video of the Year for her video "Hate My Heart." She has won the CMT's top award (Video of the Year) a total of ten times through the years and is the show's top winner with a total of 23 wins.
As we celebrate all things Underwood on her big day, we take a look at 22 of what we believe are her best songs ranked.
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22. "I Told You So" (featuring Randy Travis) (2009)
SonyRandy Travis first recorded this song for his 1983 "Live at the Nashville Palace" under his stage name at the time, "Randy Ray." Travis re-recorded it for his Always & Forever album and released it as a single. It was a big hit. Carrie released a cover version of the song on her 2007 album, Carnival Rida and she later did this duet version with Randy.
21. "Drinking Alone" (2019)
UMGA powerful song that Underwood sings on stage, usually in a suit and hat. The song was written by Carrie and her co-producer David Garcia and Brett James. The song centers around a bar encounter between a woman and a man after their respective relationships have just ended.
20. "Little Toy Guns" (2015)
SonyThis song was nominated for Best Country Solo Performance at the 58th Grammy Awards. The video stars Grace Rundhaug, who starred alongside Underwood in “The Sound of Music Live!” television special, as a girl who escapes her parents' fighting by mentally transporting herself to a "storybook land" where she plays a mythical hero and reunites her captive parents.
19. "Ghost Story" (2022)
UMGThe first single from her "Denim & Rhinestones" album. She performed the song live for the first time at the 64th Grammy Awards, held in Las Vegas, on April 3, 2022. On her 2022/2023 Denim & Rhinestones Tour," and in the music video Carrie rides a swing high in the air while she sings.
18. “Temporary Home” (2009)
SonyCarrie was inspired by the book “The Purpose Driven Life” by Pastor Rick Warren, who wrote that this world is a "temporary home" and that when we leave here, it is not the end of existence. Underwood said, "I thought of a little boy in a foster situation, and he knows where he's going, and the place where he is isn't where he should be, but he'll get there someday." The song was nominated for Best Female Country Vocal Performance at the 53rd Grammy Awards.
17. "Hallelujah" (with John Legend) (2020)
UMGA beautiful blend of two amazing voices. Carrie said of the song, co-written by Legend, "I was deep into making the album, and this one kind of came in. He sent it to us kind of at the end. It was like, 'Well, I love the song. I feel like this is a puzzle piece I didn't know was missing, but now that I've heard it, I have to have it. And so, we just put the ask back, 'Thank you for sending, do you want to sing a part with me, too?'"
16. "All-American Girl" (2008)
SonyThe song centers around a "beautiful, wonderful, perfect all-American girl." The first verse tells the story of a father hoping for a baby boy to continue his legacy, but "when the nurse came in with a little pink blanket, all those big dreams changed." Throughout the video, Carrie appears as an American Olympic swimmer, an artist/painter, a nurse, a photographer, a cowgirl, a waitress, a ballerina, a clothing designer, a chef, a cheerleader, a veterinarian, a beauty queen, a mother, a football player, a police officer, a teacher, a graduate, a college student, a bride, a flight attendant, a news anchor, an astronaut, a firefighter, a soldier, a surgeon, a welder, a scientific chemist, a car thief and the President of the United States.
15. "Cowboy Casanova" (2009)
SonyA massive hit for Underwood that sold over 2 million digital downloads. In an interview with CMT, Carrie said of the song, "I think to every woman, this song would be telling a story about someone they know or met or has tried to pick them up in a bar. We're not trashing this guy; we’re just warning these other girls about him."
14. "Undo It" (2010)
SonyA super catchy song. Underwood performed the song at the 2010 “American Idol” finale and the 2010 “CMT Music Awards.” Carrie said of co-writing the song, "It was something that it didn't take that long to write, and it's so much fun to sing on stage, and people get into it."
13. "Hate My Heart" (2022)
UMGUnderwood co-wrote "Hate My Heart," which is told from the point of view of a character who is regretful over her breakup, wishing she could move on. She said in an interview about the song, "'Hate My Heart' was definitely part of my desire to have fun on this album. I wanted songs that would be exciting to perform live and would fill up an arena, and that's exactly what we're about to do with The Denim & Rhinestones Tour. This one is definitely going to get everyone up on their feet and having a good time."
12. "The Champion" (featuring Ludacris) (2018)
UMGA song that she showcased on her “Cry Pretty Tour” by bringing different people on stage from the audience to sing it each night. When she played her home state of Oklahoma, she got her own mother on stage to sing it with her. The song was recorded as an opening theme for NBC Sports' television broadcast of Super Bowl LII.
11. "Good Girl" (2012)
UMG"Good Girl" is about Underwood warning a good girl about her ex-boyfriend, saying that he is no good and that she is better off without him. The video features Underwood playing a "Good Girl" and another girl trying to persuade her character that the man she is with is no good. It won Video of the Year at the 2012 CMT Music Awards.
10. "Church Bells" (2016)
UMG"Church Bells," tells the story of Jenny, a poor girl who marries a wealthy oilman. However, she soon discovers that her new husband is an abusive alcoholic. Jenny slips an untraceable poison into his drink and kills him. Carrie said of the song's heroine, “She’s young, she’s pretty, she’s poor, doing what she can to survive. (She) meets a man that has a lot of wealth and is supposed to take care of her.”
9. "Last Name" (2008)
SonyAt the 51st Grammy Awards, the song won Underwood her third consecutive Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. Rolling Stone picked the track as their favorite in a review, saying the song was "the most fun," where she gets wasted and runs off to Vegas with a guy she doesn't know.
8. "If I Didn't Love You" (with Jason Aldean) (2021)
BBRCarrie made the song's debut performance along with Aldean at the 2021 CMA Awards in Nashville.
7. "Somethin' Bad" (2014)
SonyA song that showed the world that Underwood and Miranda Lambert sound great together. "Somethin' Bad" peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, becoming Carrie’s thirteenth number one and Lambert's fifth. The song is the first number one by teamed-up solo women in more than two decades on this chart.
6. "Something in the Water" (2014)
SonyDuring the performance of this song in Carrie’s 2021 / 2022 Las Vegas show, she stands and sings in front of a giant wall of falling water. The song won the Grammy Award for Best Country Solo Performance.
5. "The Fighter" (2017)
UMGThis duet with Keith Urban (from his ‘Ripchord’ album) won the ACM’s Vocal Event of The Year in 2018.
4. "Two Black Cadillacs" (2012)
SonyThe song’s video draws inspiration from Stephen King's novel “Christine” and shows how the wife and mistress kill the cheating husband with a black Cadillac. It was nominated for Video of the Year at the 2013 Academy of Country Music Awards. Underwood has performed "Two Black Cadillacs" at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards.
3. "Before He Cheats" (2006)
SonyAn early hit for Carrie, at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards, she won the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance, and the song's writers won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song.
2. "Jesus, Take the Wheel" (2005)
SonyThe song that brought Underwood to the dance, as they say. Her first number one song, "Jesus, Take the Wheel," won the Grammy Awards for Best Female Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Song, and it won Single of the Year at the 2005 Academy of Country Music Awards.
1."Blown Away" (2012)
SonyWhat a powerful story song “Blown Away” is. It won several awards, including two Grammy Awards, for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance. Carrie said upon hearing the song the first time, "I listened to it on my crappy computer speakers, and then I had to go find my headphones because as soon as I listened to a few bars, I had to listen more closely, and I got chills. I remember where I was when I heard it and called my manager, Ann, and I was like, 'Do not let anyone else have this song! It’s my song.'”
