Carrie Underwood performs"Two Black Cadillacs" at the 40th Anniversary American Music Awards on Sunday in Los Angeles. MATT SAYLES/Invision/AP
Oklahoma country superstar Carrie Underwood took home "Album of the Year - Country" for "Blown Away" at last night's "American Music Awards" and, afterwards, she talked to toofab.com about "representing country music" on the show, collaborating with Aerosmith and having Thanksgiving with friends.
Performing for an audience of her peers is different than a regular concert, the Checotah native told PopSugar editor Lindsay Miller.
"I think I put a lot of pressure on myself because I want to represent country music well," she said. "…I feel like I got do this for the team."
She said collaborating with Aerosmith was a dream come true.
"I've known Steven (Tyler) for a while," she said. "We first sang together on the ACMs a couple of years ago... We have a really great relationship. I love his talent, I love his voice.
"I feel like he has been influencing me my whole life and I didn’t even know it.
"Being on that album is a bucket list thing. I can't believe I'm, me, I'm on an Aerosmith album!" she said.
While she's on the road on her "Blown Away" tour, she said she does several things to make it "homey." She has the same mattress topper as at home, her photos, her dogs, candles and she cooks on the bus.
"That keeps me a real person if somebody is not doing everything for me."
She said she will be cooking a lot of Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday in Nashville.
"We kind of got all of our friends together who don't have a lot of family in the area. Make food, cook, eat, drink wine and be thankful. It may be a new tradition of just getting all of us loners together."
Here's the interview with popsugar.com followed by her performance of her new single "Two Black Cadillacs" on the "40th Anniversary American Music Awards."
To read her interview with the Tulsa World, go online to
tulsaworld.com/carrie
