Posted by Richard Head

Monday November 2, 2009

CARRIE Underwood has been lined up to appear on David Letterman‘s TV chat show.

The American Idol winner will perform on Monday night’s show, playing songs from her new album, Play On, which hits stores Tuesday.

Although Underwood has added different musical textures to Play On, she insists she isn’t moving away from country music.

“I’m not trying to move anywhere away from country music,” she said. “I love what I do. And let’s say ‘Cowboy Casanova’ crosses over, it’s going to cross over as it is — fiddles, steel and all. Growing up I never liked it when people would have a country song and then change it for a different format.”

“This has been kind of my first attempt at love songs,” Underwood adds. “And I think there’s a reason for that. I think it’s because I’m a private person anyway, and I’m not so great with emotions. I consider myself more boyish in that way, so I’m pretty closed off. But you know when you’re happy in your life, you can just kind of tell.”

Underwood also admits some of her fans “freaked out” at her choice of collaborators on Play On.

“I think everybody kind of freaked out at first. And it was something that we did take into consideration, that people would be like, ‘What’s going on here?’” she recalls.

“Everybody kind of flipped out over Mike Elizondo, who I really like.

“They’re like, ‘He’s a rap producer.’ And it’s like, well, yes, he has done that, but he’s also worked with Nelly Furtado and Pink and Fiona Apple. I’m just another name he’s adding to his resume of all different kinds of music.”

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