Carrie Underwood Hosts 17th’ Care Bears’ Fan Club Party

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

June 7th 12:52 PM

Carrie Underwood is usually a staple of CMA Fest each year and often performs on the big Nissan Stadium stage, but not this year. Her absence from the CMA activities did not stop her from holding her 17th annual Fan Club party.

Every year since she started holding the Fan Club party, it has been at Nashville Grand Ole Opry House. That is where she gathered with her faithful following earlier this week for games, fun, and lots of Carrie’s music.

She posted several photos and video clips from the big party on Instagram. She captioned the post, Thank you again to all the Care Bears for coming out to celebrate year 17 of our Fan Club Party!”

Underwood added, “It was a lot of fun chatting with @barrylather and seeing all of you in your blinged-out #Nashvegas outfits!”

May fans reacted to the post, including several who were there. One fan commented, “Great time again! I will make the 2300-mile journey every time I’m invited.” Another fan wrote, “Always the best time!” One more fan gushed, “It was an absolute blast!!!!! You are our absolute queen!!! Thank you, @carrieunderwood, for all you do for your care-bears!!! I hope I get to be there next year, too! Core memories for LIFE!”

See that post here.

Underwood has wrapped up her latest Las Vegas stint. To celebrate, she took one of her sons out for a day of fun.

Carrie often posts about her two sons, Isaiah and Jake, when they have birthdays and big extravagant birthday cakes or when the boys help mom around the house and her beloved garden.

This post from the famous mom is about having pure fun with her youngest, Jake, out for a day with his mom at Six Flags.

She captioned the Instagram post of two images, one of Jake from behind and one of him playing a fishing game, “Took the little man to @sixflagsmagicmountain today for some Mom/Jake time! We rode rides, played games, got soaked, ate so much ice cream and candy, bought random souvenirs, and had the best day!”

She added, “This season of life flies by way too fast. I’m glad we got the chance to slow it down and just enjoy each other for the day!”

Many of Underwood’s 13 million fans responded to the sweet post. One fan said, “Great memories.” Another fan commented, “Aw!!! How precious!!! I truly love spending one on one time as well. They grow up so fast!! I always enjoyed taking them to Cedar Point!!!”

See that post here.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.

5 of Carrie Underwood's Outstanding Music Videos

"Before He Cheats" (2007)
It’s such a fantastic music video for what is one of her greatest songs. In the award-winning video CMT (it won 2007 Video of The Year), Carrie is seen leaving a parking lot brandishing a Louisville Slugger, having just vandalized her boyfriend’s truck for cheating on her. As the video progresses, Underwood takes the stage to sing as various objects behind her, such as lamps, are seen exploding.

At one point, a screenshot of the truck’s front seat is seen with Underwood’s name carved in it. Eventually, she catches up with her cheating boyfriend with the other woman. After looking shocked for a second, she scoffs and drops the keys to his now-demolished truck into his drink.

In her Las Vegas reflections show, she sings the song as a silver Jeep is lowered to the stage and catches on fire. Dancers carrying baseball bats (Louisville Sluggers) dance around her.
"Blown Away" (2013)
I’m not gonna lie; this song is one of my five favorite songs of all time. The music video won the CMT Music Video of the Year honor in 2013 and is just as powerful. Carrie said that when she first heard the song, she already had ideas for a possible video for it and wanted it to be a dark Wizard of Oz. She noted at the time (2012) that it was “a visual song.” She added, “It’s so dramatic. I’m not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it’s surreal.”

When asked if her aim in the video was to generate controversy with the storyline, she said that it was not what she was aiming for at all. She said, “I try to avoid controversy in any form or fashion. It was just such a great story and such a mini-movie, listening to the song, and we really wanted to do it justice in the video.”
"Somethin' In The Water" (2014)
Underwood is not afraid to show her religious side, and she does just that in “Somethin’ In The Water.” This music video was named Video of the Year by CMT in 2015.

For the music video, Carrie performed with dancers from the Shaping Sound Dance Academy dancing in the background and required 16 choir members, 12 dancers, three costume changes, and a custom-built tank of recycled water to create the “dance spectacle.”

She co-wrote the song and gave the song its title.
"Cry Pretty" (2019
This song was the title cut from her album in 2019 and the name of her headlining tour that she did to promote the album. She co-wrote the song with Nashville power songwriters Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna, and Liz Rose. Fans know Rose because of her credits for her co-writing with Taylor Swift.

The music video won the CMT Music Awards Video of the Year honor in 2019 and shows Underwood on stage and backstage. For the video and the tour, eye stickers were created under her eyes that show tears and glitter. Carrie wore them on stage, in the music video and of course the album’s cover.

Carrie shows off her impressive acting skills in the music video as she weeps, sings, and tells the story of a woman in pain faking her happiness and noting that you can’t “Cry Pretty.”
"Cowboy Casanova" (2010)
This was the CMT Music Awards Video of the Year in 2010. The music video features Underwood and her entourage, who are all wearing flapper party gowns. In the clip, she warns everyone about smooth-talking, attractive men and their true intentions.

The man in the video has designs on Carrie’s character in the video. In the end, along with her empowered entourage, she has a showdown with the man in a back alley and defiantly spurns his advances, leading him to give up and walk away.

The was Underwood’s first choreographed video.