No Mushy Stuff For Carrie Underwood

Singer Says Real Guys Aren't Romantic And That's Fine With Her

(CBS)  No chick flicks and flowers for Carrie Underwood. She says she just wants to be one of the boys.

"I definitely have more guy friends -- I'm not a huge talker. And hanging out with guys, you don't really have to talk," she says in the November issue of Seventeen magazine. "I love football and I love guy movies. I hate getting flowers, and I hate chick flicks. That whole romance thing-that doesn't happen. Real guys aren't like that."

Underwood has been most recently linked to "Gossip Girls" star Chase Crawford, but before that there were rumors of a relationship with football player Tony Romo. She says that she has a good friendship with the Dallas Cowboys quarterback, but the timing was never right for them to date.

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Photos: 2007 ACM Awards

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"We're very good friends, and I talk to him pretty much every day, whether it's a text or whatever," she says. "But we were never, like, dating. We hang out. We like doing the same things, and we come from similar backgrounds, and we both stumbled into big fame real fast. So we understand where each other is coming from. It's just the wrong time for both of us. In a different world, we might have dated. But not in this one right now."

2Underwood has sold more than 6 million copies of her debut album "Some Hearts," had a string of hit singles, and has won numerous awards. She's rolling out her next disc, "Carnival Ride" on Oct. 23.

Despite her accomplishments, she still gets pegged as a "dumb blonde" and that gets on her nerves.

"It bugs me that because I'm a blonde from Oklahoma who sings country music, people think I'm stupid," she says. "People don't give us Oklahomans credit. We don't ride around in covered wagons! We have indoor plumbing. We're smart, good people. I won't say I'm business savvy, exactly, but I have common sense."

The November issue of Seventeen is on newsstands now.

[Janone11]

We still hope that Carrie will save her hometown movie theater. I don't know her personally, but I know that she is a wonderful person.
http://www.newsok.com/checotah-familys-theater-hopes-turn-sour-with-economy/article/3413557

[previn2]

Football AND Flowers? Oh yeah!

[rational_1]

Nothing is worse than cutesy pootsy girly girls
who chatter nonstop.
Posted by Keithle1 at 10:56 PM : Oct 16, 2007

Ya, there is - when they''re cutesy pootsy girly girl Sooner fans!

[keithle1]

Women do love to talk. About every little thing. 24-7. How did they survive before the invention of the cell phone?

Nothing is worse than cutesy pootsy girly girls
who chatter nonstop.

[frb01]

So far we don''t have to weed through her issues with alcohol or the police blotter. And if we are at the point where we are criticizing her responses in an interview, I guess we won''t have much to talk about... All that being said, all you have to do is hear her rendition of Heart''s song Alone and see that we will be hearing from her for a long time.

[TennMom1]

Carrie seems to be a wholesome, savvy girl but her comments about guys reveal she has some growing up to do. At 24, she is too inexperienced to realize that their are "real" guys who are romantic, and that there is nothing wrong with a girl loving football AND flowers. Further, I suspect she dismisses the notion of "real romance" because she hasn''t yet discovered it, and that she won''t be able to get enough of the "mushy stuff" once she does.

I''d hate for any teenage girl I know to read Carrie''s limited view on the reality of romance or to get the idea that, as Carrie implies, one cannot enjoy being a girl if one also enjoys sports and "guy movies." I don''t in any way consider Underwood a "dumb blonde." I just think she has a lot of growing up to do. Her admission that she and Romo "talk pretty much everyday" contradicts her claim that she likes hanging out with the guys because she isn''t "much of a talker." For me, that is evidence of her naivety.