Carrie Underwood never expected to win American Idol. When she did, she took the opportunities that had been set before her and became one of the biggest stars in all of music. While American Idol has been criticized for being a voting competition rather than a singing competition by people like Peter Noone from Herman’s Hermits, Carrie begs to differ.
“I certainly disagree with that statement,” Carrie told Billboard. “I guess it’s a little bit of both, but nowadays there aren’t too many avenues of real discovery, as far as if somebody like me who lives in Oklahoma just started playing in bars around Oklahoma. There’s no way I’m going to get discovered. It just doesn’t happen like that anymore. If you know the right people or you have enough money, then you can get your way into the industry, but American Idol is for people like me. It’s for people like Scotty [McCreery] and Lauren [Alaina] who were in small towns and didn’t know how to do it, but had a love for music and a great talent and did their thing.”
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