According to American Songwriter, Carrie Underwood is experimenting with new sounds, and Axl Rose, frontman of Guns N' Roses, is said to be helping her. The report rests on unnamed sources at TMZ, and neither side has confirmed it so far, so for now only insiders are talking about Rose's role as a mentor. American Songwriter ↗
The pairing wouldn't be unexpected. Underwood has flirted with rock mainly on stage. Guns N' Roses welcomed her as an opening act on selected tour dates in 2023, and in 2022 she sang Sweet Child O' Mine with Rose at the Stagecoach festival. American Songwriter ↗
She told Rolling Stone back in 2022 that her own technique grew out of imitating difficult voices: "I learned to sing by picking really difficult singers and trying to imitate them, and his voice always fascinated me." American Songwriter ↗
For her, the shift toward a harder guitar sound isn't just talk. She recently added covers of Limp Bizkit, Papa Roach and Linkin Park to her country set.
On SuperMusic.cz you'll find Carrie Underwood with sixty songs. The chords and lyrics of Sweet Child O' Mine are listed there under the Guns N' Roses profile, and Axl Rose has a separate profile with no songs.
Underwood came to country through the TV competition American Idol, which she won in 2005, and she has been among the best-selling American female singers ever since. A more rock-oriented sound would be more than a change of genre for her. In country, a return to harder guitars is one of the few ways to avoid the sameness of format radio.
Illustrative photo: Guns N' Roses. Photo: AxeAdam20 / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
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