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  • Carrie Underwood To Sing On Sunday Night Football

    Who is ready for the first night of Sunday night football? Tonight’s game will feature a special guest to sing the theme song that audiences have not seen before. Carrie Underwood, the well-known country singer from American Idol, has been scheduled to replace Faith Hill as the one who sings the theme, “Waiting All Day For Sunday Night.”

    The game will be played at 8:30 on NBC, in order to kick-off the season of Sunday night football. It will feature a match-up of NFC East rivals, with star power on both sides of the ball. The Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants will meet in Dallas in their first meeting of the year.

    Underwood will be singing tonight about how she has been waiting all day for Sunday night, but really she has been waiting months, before being able to see her performance aired on television. She recorded the segment in June, at a studio in Playa Vista, California. Each version of the song has been complimented by a mini-story or theme, which has always involved players from the NFL, and Underwood’s version will follow the same format, reports the LA Times. It is the same song that was originally sung by Pink in 2006 and has been done by Faith Hill ever since. Her version is intended to be more upbeat and energetic though, and is likely to feature the foot-stomping that she is known for.

    The singer also teased her fans a bit and hinted that she might be a part of the performance tonight through twitter. For those fans that did not know what she was planning to do tonight, they were able to make guesses throughout the day.

    Fred Gaudelli, the show’s producer describes the segment when saying that “The general story is Carrie is performing in a concert stadium, and in the crowd are these living cubes. Inside these cubes are NFL stars. They’re submerged in water, but then they rise out of the cubes and become themselves. It’s kind of a real world combined with a surreal world.” He worked with Underwood to visualize a very creative segment that is likely to get the attention of many fans. Some of the players that the show will feature are Peyton and Eli Manning, Andrew Luck, Aaron Rodgers, Calvin Johnson and more.

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  • Carrie Underwood Takes Over Sunday Night Football

    For the past five years, football fans have gotten used to seeing Faith Hill strut her long legs across the television screen on Sunday night as she belts out “Waiting All Day For Sunday Night”, the Sunday night football anthem based on a Joan Jett song. But the time has come for Hill to hand over the reins to a new country star, and Carrie Underwood says she’s up for the task.

    “We were definitely mindful — she had put her mark on it for so many years,” Underwood said. “We definitely wanted to go in and make sure we switched gears a little bit and made it sound more like me. And changed up the look and the feel just so it wasn’t, you know, the same song with a different blondie up there singing it.”

    Underwood says she didn’t go into it with the intention of making the song sound a little more country and a little less rock-and-roll, but because she used her own producer there are pieces of her injected into the music.

    “I used my producer so there are going to be some elements that sound like me, of course, that’s what we wanted. But we weren’t like, “Hey, let’s use some fiddle,” or, “Hey, let’s use some steel guitar.” … We just wanted to make it me and make it fit the situation,” she said.

    Underwood has a full plate for the rest of the year; besides the new theme song, she’s also set to star in a live, televised version of “The Sound Of Music” this Christmas on NBC and will be co-hosting the CMA awards on November 6 with Brad Paisley.

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