Before hitting the stage before the finale of American Idol 20 years ago, Carrie Underwood was ready to take the country scene by storm no matter if she won or lost.
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Alongside American Idol, Carrie Underwood has been reflecting on her own journey alongside this year's season. With the show wrapped up (congrats Jamal Roberts), the final episode of Idol to Icon has been released, which has Underwood reflecting on her winning the competition.
Underwood has shown us that she really wasn't expecting to get far in the show, let alone win the thing. But when it got down to the finale, she knew she was something special. Whether she won or not, which she still wasn't convinced about, she was ready to make it big in the music industry.
I suppose getting to the Top 2 in American Idol would give you confidence. She was finally taking herself seriously as a burgeoning country star.
As is the norm in every episode, Carrie Underwood reads from the journal she kept at the time to share her thoughts. And the latest episode is no different.
Before the finale, Carrie Underwood finally believed in herself, and wrote the following entry, "I can't believe I'll be in the finale. I am so totally excited. I honestly think I'll come in second, but that's fine by me."
"I'm ready to take over the country music scene."
Carrie Underwood Did End Up Taking Over The Country Music Scene
And that exactly came to pass. She ended up winning the competition, and the rest is history. I do think she'd still be as big as she has been even if she came in second.
Underwood also reflected on what it means to have won American Idol.
"I think about my journey on American Idol all the time, because it's so grand," she tearily said.
"It's unbelievable... if somebody were to explain to me my journey in their words, I would have been like 'That's impossible, what are you even saying?'" she continued. "To go from somebody who was going to school, trying to figure out what she wanted to do with the rest of her life, to then on a whim to go try out for American Idol and then to ... end up the last person standing, and everything that's happened since then, it sounds insane. And it sounds insane to me when I think about it."
"It's a blessed journey that I've been on."
