What Does Carrie Underwood Do About The Haters?
Carrie Underwood has been in the public eye since her early twenties when she won her season of American Idol. With over 13 million followers on Instagram alone, the singer had to learn how to deal with online hate.
Her strategy is commonly called a “post and ghost,” which basically means that she posts and then leaves the internet and continues to live her real life.
In an interview with E! News the singer said she stole her strategy from Joe Rogan,
“I stole that from Joe Rogan. It’s really important when you think about social media that you realize it’s not the real world.”
Underwood had not always thought this way. She also shared that feeling this way took her a long time.
“It took me a long time to realize that, and a long time to be secure enough in myself to be like, ‘Do I care if somebody doesn’t like my hair today, or this thing I sang or how I sang it? I don’t.'”
She shared that she is also simply too busy to worry about what people think, saying, “I got a lot going on in my life.”
Not only is she a touring artist and a judge on American Idol, but Underwood is also a mother and a wife. She is busy!
“I’m 42 years old. I’ve got two kids I’m trying to raise to be good humans. I’m just out there doing the best I can, so if I want to post something, I’m just going to do it and leave it there.”
She also encouraged everyone to remember that “everybody’s not saying that.” Even if some people share hate, that does not mean everyone feels that way. One performance that garnered her a lot of support and a lot of criticism was her inauguration performance.
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Carrie Underwood Talks Idol
Now that she is an Idol judge, Underwood shared how she feels about the competition now in comparison to how she felt when she was a contestant.
“Being on the show when I was 22 years old, every single week was like, ‘Do or die, now or never. I felt grateful that I even got the opportunity to get to be on the show, and I still feel like that now. I do get nervous for the hopefuls.”
Underwood added, “I do want everybody to win, but alas.”
Watch one of her most recent performances below.
