Carrie Underwood recently revealed that she was unsure about recording one of her most popular hits. The singer was afraid that it would mess up that sweet farm girl image she garnered while on American Idol.
That song is "Before He Cheats."
"Because I was like a sweet farm girl on ['American Idol'] — and I hope that's who I still am — but it was almost, 'Maybe we don't do this song,'" she told People. "But everybody loved it so much, we went for it and it ... worked. But, yeah, 20 years later, we still see people perform it, and it's a lot of fun."
She was worried that the song may have been a bit too much.
Carrie Underwood Almost Didn't Record Song
When recording it, she thought, "I remember even when we were talking about recording that song, it was kind of like, 'Oh, is this too aggressive? Is this too...'"
Fortunately, she didn't let that stop her from recording the hit. It ultimately paid off with the song peaking at No.8 on the Hot 100 list.
"But everybody loved it so much, we went for it and it ... worked. But, yeah, 20 years later, we still see people perform it, and it's a lot of fun," Underwood shared.
Her son even loves the jam ironically. Underwood revealed a funny exchange. She was cleaning the house when she heard the music on.
"I recently was vacuuming my house, and when I turned the vacuum off [there was] a noise coming from my bedroom and I was like, 'It's music.' And I was like, 'That's "Before He Cheats." ' And I walk in there and my 6-year-old is lying on my bed watching my music video. And I was like, 'What are you doing?' And he's like, 'Nothing,' " Underwood jokingly recalled. "Watching him discover that ... he started going down the rabbit hole of my old music videos."
So there you go!
