On January 20, the event that will mark the beginning of Donald Trump’s second term as President of the United States of America will take place. Carrie Underwood, a former winner of American Idol, is scheduled to perform at the ceremony.
In addition to the Armed Forces Choir and the United States Naval Academy Glee Club, the country singer, who is 41 years old, is scheduled to participate at the event, where she is slated to sing “America the Beautiful.”
According to a quotation, she was cited as saying, “I am humbled to answer the call at a time when we must all come together in the spirit of unity and looking to the future.”
The Presidential Inaugural Committee has confirmed to The Independent that Carrie Underwood will be performing at the ceremony. The plan is for her to sing after Vice President JD Vance takes his Oath of Office and before Trump takes the Oath of Office as President of the United States to take office.
The fact that she has been cited as saying to People that she “loves the United States and is “honored” to have been asked to sing at the Inauguration “and to be a little part of this historic event” is something that many people find surprising. This is due to the fact that she has continuously maintained that she does not want to be “pinned politically.”
While speaking to The Guardian in 2019, Underwood was quoted as saying, “I try to stay far out of politics, if possible, at least in public, because nobody wins.” I can’t believe it. Everyone is trying to summarize everything and put a ribbon on it, as if everything were either black and white or something else entirely. And things are not at all like that.”
Additionally, prior to the election in 2024, Underwood did not officially put her support behind any particular candidate.
In June of 2024, Carrie Underwood was a guest at the Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala, which took place in New York City (John Malone/Getty Images).()
That did not prevent the Grammy winner from expressing her thoughts on perceived political matters through songs such as “The Bullet,” which her critics claimed was a political statement about gun regulation. Despite the fact that she has claimed to be politically neutral, she has not refrained from doing so.
She sings in the first lyric, “You can blame it on hate or blame it on guns / But mamas ain’t supposed to bury their sons.” She claims that she is not supposed to lose her sons. There is still a hole in her heart, and it isn’t even close to being finished. The bullet keeps going.
However, Underwood claimed that the song “was more about the lives that were changed by something terrible happening”.
The fact that she chose to sing at Trump’s Inauguration Day around seven years after she and fellow country artist Brad Paisley made fun of Trump at the 2017 Country Music Association Awards gives rise to a number of questions. However, this decision does leave some questions unanswered.
In addition to Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley Image courtesy of Rick Diamond/Getty Images
A spoof of Carrie Underwood’s hit song “Before He Cheats” was sung by the cohosts during the broadcast. The typical chorus was replaced with the phrase “before he tweets.”
The most likely scenario is that he is currently wearing his pajamas and grabbing for his mobile phone… It is likely that he is asking Siri, “How in the hell do you spell Pocahontas?” during this conversation. was Paisley’s voice.
During their performance at the Country Music Awards, the duo sang, “And it’s fun to watch, yeah, that’s for sure ‘Til little Rocket Man leads a nuclear war.” It’s possible that the next time he tweets, he’ll give it some thought.
After winning the American Idol competition in 2005, Underwood became a household name.