OlderSun, 05 April 2009 at 11:19 pm
Carrie Underwood Wins ACM’s Entertainer of the Year
Carrie Underwood wins the night’s top honors at the 2009 Academy Of Country Music Awards held at the MGM Grand on Sunday (April 5) in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The 26-year-old American Idol champ picked up Top Female Vocalist and Entertainer of the Year (a fan-voted category this year), beating out Brad Paisley, Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban and George Strait. During her acceptance speech, Carrie twirled around and gushed, “Mike baby, I wish you were here,” shouting out her boyfriend, Ottawa Senators hockey player Mike Fisher.
During the ceremony, Carrie also performed her hit song “I Told You So” in a gorgeous merlot Rafael Cennamo gown, which overtook half of the stage. Check out her performance below!
Carrie Underwood - “I Told You So,” ACMs 2009
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Is she wearing a circus tent?
Actually Jared, she said Mike Baby, I wish you were here… not My baby.
Congrats to Carrie. OMG!!!!!!
Congrats Carrie!!!!
u always broke music industry Records!!!!
well deserved!
Did she?? Did everyone else hear Mike Baby, also??
Is she wearing Kelly Clarksons MY DECEMBER dress?
She has an incredible voice, but she is not a great entertainer. Not by a long shot. Stiff. Wooden. Boring. Yes, I’ve seen her in concert.
Awesome! This is great! Well deserved! And yes she did acknowledge her man by name. Great job Carrie!
Yes it sounded like “Mike baby I wish you were here”. I re-played it to make sure.
Ugh. I can’t believe she won. And her version of I Told You So just flat out sucks a s s. A dog could do better Randy Travis than Carrie Underwood.
YEAH CARRIE!!! I am so happy for her! She is a great person inside and out! She is also a great entertainer!
Im sorry but I think Kenny should’ve taken this one home!
Aww, yay, I’m glad she won. I like her music for the most part.
I LOVE that white dress she’s wearing. What an awesome outfit.
The dress she’s performing in on the other hand is quite possibly the biggest dress I’ve ever seen. The skirt just seems to continue to flow outward. What a beautiful color dress though. It fits beautifully and the color compliments her skin tone and features really well.
she said, Mike Fisher, I wish you were here. She is fantastic.
Yeah Jared, I heard “Mike, baby…” as well.
wat is under that tent of a dress UGLLY much
Who is Mike?
Shelby, I disagree! She’s come a LOOOONG way, and it an AWESOME live performer.. not just singer. I’ve seen her live 5 times, and each time she just gets better and better.
And yes, Jared. Everyone seems to think she said “Mike, baby.” =)
congrats to carrie! she has a great voice and she deserves this. i dont exactly like the huge dress….why did she want to wear something like that? the colour’s great though.
Jared from people.com. They have Mike, Baby too.
Carrie Underwood became the first woman since 2001 to be named ACM entertainer of the year – and only the seventh female to win the Academy of Country Music’s top honor since it was first handed out in 1970.
“I’ve had a lot of good moments in the last four years. This one takes the cake!” said a teary-eyed Underwood, her voice cracking onstage Sunday at the 44th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards. “I don’t know what to say! I got nothing.” But she did remember one important person: Raising her trophy, she yelled, “Mike, baby, I wish you were here!” in a shout-out to her boyfriend, Ottawa Senators hockey player Mike Fisher.
http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20267558_20270220,00.htm
She definitely said “Mike, baby.” Congratulations Carrie!!! Beautiful performance tonight and you totally deserved both your award wins!!
tell her to take kellys dress off and think of something original
yeah she said “Mike baby I wish you were here”
Yeah she for sure said Mike Baby…. Anyways good for her… It was well deserved! i Voted… ! and George Strait looked suprised he got beat by a girl..!! Wooo CARRIE UNDERWOOD!! Top Female and Entertainer of The Year!
Let’s meet the STAND-UP comedian of th decade, folks!!
Carrie if your stylist picked that dress out you performed in they should be fired. Way to much dress. I don’t even understand why someone would make it in the first place.
It’s sad that people think that being an entertainer automatically means that you have to be exciting and flashy ..
She’s an entertainer a lone enough with her amazing voice !
BEST PERFORMANCE OF THE NIGHT
!!
very well deserved!
&& she looks good in every dress she wears !
that white dress is gorgeous.
the pink dress she wore was beautiful
and that red dress is just WOW !
Congratulations! Well deserved! She’s amazing!
wow! she looks gorgeous, as usual!
and aw she was so cute when she was accepting her award
well mike will be readily available next week when he’ll be golfing instead of playing in the playoffs. this is the first time the sens won’t make the postseason in 11 years. haha
go leafs go!
go pens go!
OMGGG… Congrats carrie.. u totally deserved it… so proud of you…
luv u carrie….. <3
she has such an engaging voice. i always get pulled into her performance. and her voice is just amazing!!! its crazy to think that she came from idol. her talent is so above that.
that does look like kelly clarkson’s my december dress…. i like carrie HAD to bring up Idol cuz she knew ppl would bite her if she didn’t
no the dress looks awesome!
I think the red dress is a bit too much!
carrie !! you’re so beautiful and talented
yea carrie!!!!
good going your really good
and you deserved it!
Carrie winning is why EOY should not be fan voted. I like her in concert but her competition is so much better.
Congratulations Carrie!!!
Real talent won!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Am I the only one thinking Tony Roma missed the boat and stayed with the wrong girl. He got a dude instead of a real star.
To those that think she didnt deserve it, well, obviously more people thought she did, than didnt. It’s entertainer of THE YEAR, not a lifetime achievement award! Get over it, she’s a good person and does deserve it……we voted!!!!
Everyone seems to think Tony made all the choices when it came to NOT being with Carrie. Uh, think about it, why would she be with HIM???????????? Yeah he lost out getting Jessica after Carrie….but somethng tells me it wasnt all his choice to be where he is now. I watched newlyweds when jessica and nick had their reality show and thought she was the cutest thing! But…after the way she publicly talked about Carrie, etc., I lost all respect for her and cant stand to look at her now. Its as though she’s a different person than we used to see on TV. GO CARRIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You’re beautiful inside and out!
I know what you mean, Jessica is jealous. Carrie is a class act that nobody could possible match up to! In the words of Nick Lachey, “Poor Jess”.
Carrie, you’re absolutely beautiful inside and out. Your mother is positively glowing on TV. For you to feel the way you do about Mike, he must be a special guy for sure. Gorgeous couple.
Carrie rocks!!!!!!!!!!!! I think George Strait is “THE MAN” but I agree, the award wasnt lifetime achievement, it was for the year. She had a great one!!!! Any guy would be lucky to be with her. Tony lost out bigtime!!! You go Carrie…..you’re movin’ on up in more ways than one!
I love you Carrie!!! Good job!
This is where she says Mike Baby. It was in her acceptance speech.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsY9MRbiZ6E
she was really cute and funny with the boots comment to Matthew and out of nowhere she threw Mike a message.
CONGRATS TO CARRIE! she deserves every award she wins =)
What’s not to love about Carrie Underwood? She is beautiful, she has an amazing voice, but most of all she is genuine. Her personality is bubbly and awesome. I don’t like to hear people put her down because she certainly doesn’t deserve that. I think some people are just plain jealous. So all I am saying is that Carrie, don’t stop doing what you are doing. You are at the top.
Beautiful girl and very talented.
Congrats Carrie! You ROCKED last night and you looked amazing too! What a great night for a truly deserving person!
That dress is so over the top!
No way she should have ETOY!
haha what she said to Matthew McConoughey was the best part of the night!! haha
“I wanna see those boots, Matthew!” Wow carrie, naughty!
Congrats to carrie! She deserves it!
i have seen her in concert and keith urban and she defiantly doesn’t come close to the amazing performer keith urban is! Carrie Underwood is pretty and i like her songs but i was EXTREMELY shocked and disappointed that she won. Keith Urban should of won this!!!!!!
So happy for Carrie - she worked so hard for this. I would love to see Keith or Kenny or Brad prance around in 4 inch heels for almost 2 hours - that would be funny. Anyway - love all the guys but THIS year Carrie killed it and deserved it!
Carrie’s red lava dress was stunning. I saw her in concert 5 times between March and Dec and she improved from beginning to end by 100%. You have to remember it was her first headlining tour and once she got it down she brought it! She barely had a day off all year. She enjoyed a wk at the beach with family and was overrun by TMZ. Other than that time off, she was recording, making videos, interviews, sponsoring products, doing photo shoots, sifting thru new tunes, checking out writers, writing herself, appearing on specials, performing charity work, ect. The girl was working non-stop. She is beautiful inside and out. So humble. You heard her give all the glory, goodness, and praise to God. She is a work of art.
I love that Carrie won. She is so talented and beautiful. I agree she deserve this. I also agree Tony lost out big time. This Mike guy beat out Tony.
Carrie without question deserved her award. All you haters can hate all you want, but you can’t take this away from Carrie and her fans. This just proves, once and for all, that Carrie is here to stay.
Carrie does NOT hold a candle to Miranda.
She didn’t deserve to win anything.
Her performance was alright, she sounded WAY better on Idol though.
Now about that dress… Did she raid THALIA’s closet or something:
http://img.timeinc.net/pespanol/i/bellos/2008/thalia_400×300.jpg
Beautiful voice!
she looks amazing as usual…
She is one of the Very Best country singers we have had in a long time! And the dress was BREATH TAKING!
This dress is amazing!!!!
We all here love you, and your beautiful music! We followed you all the way from American Idol, till now, when you received the Entertainer of the Year-2009. We also the think the world of you when you were taken into The Grand Ole Oprey. We are all so very proud of you, and will always love the music you sing, and perform there at the Grand Ole Oprey.
Reba will be back to being the most dominated female again. Carrie Underwood, I’m sorry, did not deserve any of the success she’s getting. Why? Faith Hill and Shania Twain sold more records and were never really recognized for it. Yes, Faith won top female three times and Shania won EOY once, but that was the extent of it. The CMA and ACMs have become a popularity contest for the teenie boppers and Underwood is reaping the rewards. Country music is no longer about actual talent! Reba’s record with four consecutive top female wins was tied by Underwood? Seriously? Reba only won one EOY from the ACMs and Underwood has one now? Now Underwood has a chance to break Reba’s record? Lord, not that I want it to happend, but, please, allow it to be done by someone who has ACTUAL talent! Martina McBride came close but she wasn’t able to do it, and she is far more talented than Underwood. If Reba’s performance of “Strange” at the ACMs proves anything, it’s that she isn’t going anywhere! She will forever be the TRUE Queen of Country Music!!!
Where was Carrie Underwood at the 2009 CMT Awards?
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