Carrie Underwood responded with applause after being booed by “American Idol” viewers during Monday’s show.
The country singer clashed with the live audience after contestant Mo performed an original song during the second “Hollywood Week: Music City Takeover” episode filmed in Nashville.
“Boomy. I don’t care,” the country singer wrote to X during the episode’s broadcast.
During the episode itself, Underwood admitted during the judging that the audience would not like her criticism.
“You guys are going to boo me. You guys are going to boo me,” she told the audience. “It’s almost there. Play it. I love it! Your boos are feeding me.”
Underwood told Moe, “It feels like a missed opportunity to have that great band sitting in the back and twiddling their thumbs and bringing us original songs in a room like this.”
After Underwood received a series of boos from the audience, fellow judge Luke Bryan intervened and defended the Season 4 champion.
“She just won this. She knows it,” Bryan, 49, said as Underwood told the crowd, “You’re not in the discussion.”
The “Before He Cheats” singer then joked with Brian about the different reactions he got from the audience.
“Why aren’t they booing you?” she asked the “One Margarita” singer, to which the singer joked, “I don’t know, I’m about to get booed.”
Underwood then asked the crowd, “Aren’t you going to boo him?”, which they ultimately booed.
The American Idol Season 4 winner previously hinted that she received a hostile reaction while judging at Hollywood Week in Nashville.
“Spoiler Alert…Lots of boos from the Hollywood Week audience @AmericanIdol,” she tweeted on February 16.
In September, Underwood spoke candidly about fans’ reactions to her “American Idol” judging on SiriusXM’s “The Highway.”
“Sometimes you get in trouble with people who are like, ‘How dare you say it wasn’t perfect?'” she said. “And I want everyone to learn. That’s part of it. And no one wants to just hear that they’re great all the time.”
“We just want everyone to grow and get better and become the greatest versions of themselves,” Underwood continued.
The “Jesus Takes Back the Wheel” singer will replace Katy Perry as a judge on “American Idol” and will be a judge on Season 23, which will premiere in March 2025.
Two months earlier, Underwood drew backlash for singing “America the Beautiful” at President Trump’s second inauguration.
But “American Idol” showrunner Megan Michaels Wolfrick defended Underwood at the time, noting that “it was her decision” to perform for Trump.
