Carrie Underwood has taken a look back at her American Idol audition as she makes her debut as a judge on the hit singing competition.

Back when she auditioned for American Idolin 2005, Carrie Underwood arrived at her Kansas City casting event every bit the homegrown Oklahoma farm girl. She was country through and through, and had grown up in the ’90s,

Before her American Idol audition, an executive producer told Carrie Underwood that Simon Cowell hated country music - but she already knew. Then 21, Underwood went ahead with her rendition of Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me" while trying out for the singing competition in 2005,