Carrie Underwood’s Vegas Night Out With Ludacris

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

May 28th 7:29 AM

Carrie Underwood is back in Las Vegas playing her Residency at Resorts World, and she took some time to have some fun after she performed a show with her friend Ludacris.

Carrie posted some photos from their fun night out on her Instagram. She captioned the post, “Pretty sure @ludacris is the only person who could get me out to the club after my show @resortsworldlv . @zoukgrouplv was so much fun and we even got a fun surprise watching @tpain ! Thanks for a fun night out! #LasVegas #zouk.”

Fans reacted to the post in droves. One commented, “YOU DO YOU, CARRIE! What an experience I can only imagine!!” Another wrote, “I thought this was Britney Aldean at first! Love Carrie and Luda!”

Carrie’s next Reflection show in Vegas is tomorrow night (5/29). She told us of the show recently, “Reflection is just kind of all about, you know obviously we want to get there. We want to do our hits. We want to reflect upon all the things that we’ve been so blessed to be able to have accomplished over the past few years and that I’ve been lucky enough to do this, and then obviously, when you think about a staging standpoint, Reflection is, you can do a lot with that visually.”

She added, “It just seemed like a great concept as far as what we could do with it on stage and also having that kind of personal reflection, being able to look back on all of the things that we’ve been able to do. We’re just looking forward to playing, getting to be there. We’re looking forward to the crowds. We love to be on stage, so I think that’s what we always look forward to most whenever we are ever getting to play.”

Underwood was home in Nashville a few weeks ago and is doing what she loves to do best: working outside on her expansive property.

Carrie revealed on her Insta Stories that she did a little risky work over the weekend and moved something that most of us would not go near. She posted a photo of a big beehive in a box on a pole and wrote, “Moved a bee swarm into a box all by myself today!”

Underwood posted to her 13 million followers on Instagram, “We’ve got some big and exciting shows across the country coming up this year, and we hope you can join us for all the fun!”

Many fans reacted to the post, including one who wrote, “I’ll be at the Hawaii July 19th show for my birthday weekend!! That’s my birthday present!” Another fan said, “Amazing show in Vegas!”

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Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.

6 Of The Best Country Music Videos of All Time

Carrie Underwood –"Before He Cheats" (2006)
This is the song Carrie closed her shows with and is the song she is most recognized for. The music video of the song tells the story of revenge so well as Carrie’s character sashes tires and beats her former cheating boyfriend’s truck with a baseball bat (a Louisville slugger).

The video was filmed in downtown Nashville Printer’s Alley, a once popular spot in Nashville that now has bars and clubs where up-and-coming country singers can play their songs with hopes of being discovered.

Underwood passionately sings the song in the video, walking through the streets as people around her look and windows shatter. She carries the bat through much of this classic video.

“Before He Cheats” won Video of the Year at the ACMs in 2006. It won the CMT Music Award for Video of the Year in 2007.
The Chicks (formerly the Dixie Chicks) "Goodbye Earl" - (2000)
The Chicks made their exit from country music after some political controversy, but before that happened, they made this video, an absolute gem.

The video features Hollywood actresses Jane Krakowski and Lauren Holly as Wanda and Mary Ann, lifelong friends who got together and killed Wanda’s abuser. NYPD Blue actor Dennis Franz played the abuser and murder victim. The Chicks met the actor while appearing on The Rosie O’Donnell Show and asked him to be in a future video.

Say what you want about The Chicks; this video is epic and for sure one of the best country music videos of all time. The video came out before the CMT Music Awards began in 2002, or I believe it would have won the top honor for sure.

The video won a CMA Award in 2000 for Music Video of the Year. It was the same year the Dixie Chicks won the coveted Entertainer of the Year from the CMA.
Dierks Bentley - "Drunk On A Plane" (2015)
Dierks’s sense of humor shines in this fun video that features Bentley playing himself in the plane, signing autographs for some ladies at one point and playing guitar and singing as the song’s character gets drunk on a plane taking a honeymoon trip alone as his wife to be dumped him.

Dierks also plays the plane’s pilot (he is an actual pilot who flies himself to his own concert dates all over the country). As the pilot, he dons a pilot hat, jacket, and sunglasses.

During that time, I attended the number one party in Nashville for “Drunk On A Plane,” where everyone was given a pilot hat and sunglasses like in the video.

Bentley is a fun guy, and this music video was as entertaining as any in-country music. I believe it is one of the best country music videos of all time.
Shania Twain - "Man, I Feel Like A Woman!" (1997)
This music video is like no other in country music and this is the song that made Shania a household name. The video has been viewed more than 400 million times on YouTube.

Twain’s style and dressing in drag, then shedding her coat and tie to dance around and sing the women’s anthem to perfection, is what makes Shaina stand out even today. The song and video are just as popular today as they were when they first came out over 25 years ago!

Having eye candy men dressed in tight, shiny black pants and see-through shirts dancing and playing guitar behind her in the video set the stage for one of country music’s most recognized and best music videos ever.

Two years after releasing this song and music video in 1999, Twain was crowned the CMA’s Entertainer of the Year.
HARDY with Lainey Wilson - "Wait In The Truck" (2022)
This music video is like a movie telling the story of a character killing an abuser of his friend. Lainey’s performance as the abused woman “waiting in the truck” is worthy of an Emmy for sure. Wilson is also in scenes where her character testifies in court and visits HARDY in prison.

The video won Music Video Of The Year and Musical Event of the Year at the 2023 CMA Awards in Nashville. It also won an ACM Award in 2022 for Visual Media (Video) of the Year.

It was nominated for CMT Music Video of the Year but lost out to Kane and Katelyn Brown’s “Thank God” video.
Reba McEntire - "Fancy' (1992)
This is one of the best story videos of all time in any genre of music, in my opinion. Reba is near perfect in the role of Fancy, a now famous star who grew up pleasing men at the instruction of her mother to survive.

The video starts with Fancy Rae Baker coming home to the “Outskirts of New Orleans” to the shack she grew up in. A cab driver is starstruck as he drives Fancy, wearing a fur coat, hat, and sunglasses, looking like a movie star, to her old home.

The song starts, and Fancy flashes back to tell her tale as Reba sings the song in the old shack.

Surprisingly, the music video did not win any awards. Reba did win the Video of the Year award from the ACM for her 1991 video “Is Their Life Out There?” and in 1986 for her “Whoever’s In New England” music video.