Carrie Underwood knows that a song doesn’t always end up like it sounded in the beginning. That’s the case again with her latest hit “Dirty Laundry.” There’s a lot of steps from when the song is first written to the point where fans get to hear it on the album and radio, and while Carrie says there was a great starting point when she got “Dirty Laundry,” the song did go through some changes. Carrie says that while it’s been a bit since she’s listened to the song’s demo, she says “I bet if I went back and listened to it now, I’d be like ‘oh, my gosh, so much is different.’”

  Carrie Underwood talks about the evolution of her current single “Dirty Laundry.” (:48)
“‘Dirty laundry’ did evolve a bit in the recording process from the demo. Nowadays, we’re so lucky because we get demos, it’s so easy to make great music on your computer at home, and some of these writers and stuff are so so so good at making demos. There’s a wonderful template to work of, but I feel like a lot of the background vocals especially changed, because Hillary and I just kinda got in there we were just playing around, Hillary Lindsey, one of the writers…sorry. (laugh) We just kind of got in the studio, and we’re playing around with background vocals and it ended up sounding really cool, and haunting. I haven’t listened to the demo version in a long time so I bet if I went back and listened to it now, I’d be like ‘oh, my gosh, so much is different.’ But we had a lot of great stuff to work off initially.”