Please, if Carrie was a label puppet, we would have had pop record after pop record and she probably wouldn't have lasted as long. It was Carrie that had to put her foot down and said that she was a country act.
And Kelly and Carrie BOTH matter. That's why they are the Top 2 Idol winners.
Why would the producer force Carrie to do pop tho? She's fine on Country from the get go. The label will be an idiot to make her do pop.
she's the one who stopped the label from sending her songs to pop radio she would've been a much bigger star now if she let her label do what they wanna do with her career
she's a very strong woman and you don't mess with country girl