A collab featuring a pop icon and a country queen may be in our future, according to Katy Perry‘s Buzzfeed puppy interview!
The “Teenage Dream” singer was asked which past American Idol winner she’d like to collaborate with.
“Ooh, that’s cool – a cool question,” she said, considering. “Maybe Carrie Underwood!”
She explained, “I haven’t done a collab with any female country stars yet. I did a song with Thomas Rhett, which was really fun. But she’s like [the] queen of country, so that’s cool. And she’s glam!”
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The star was featured on Thomas Rhett‘s sixth studio album in 2022, where she lent her vocals to the titular track “Where We Started.”
She later joined Rhett to perform the collaboration at the 2022 CMA Awards.
However, her collab with Rhett wasn’t her first brush with country music, as one of her co-judges on American Idol is country superstar Luke Bryan.
According to Music Mayhem Magazine, Perry “always wanted” to do a country song, but she had to ask Bryan about Rhett first.
“I actually asked my friend Luke Bryan about Thomas Rhett. I go up to Luke, and I say, ‘Luke! What do you know about this Thomas Rhett guy? Is he a good guy?'” Perry revealed. “He said, ‘He’s a good one.’ He was also jealous. He was like, ‘I can’t believe it.'”
Rhett shared, “I was told [the song] was sent to Katy, and I was like, ‘There’s no way she’s going to respond. Second of all, she has probably never heard of me. Third of all, is she going to like it at all? Then the next day, she said she resonated with the lyric so much and the melody. I was just floored.”
On the other hand, Underwood has dipped her toes in the pop world in the past.
In 2018, she worked with rapper Ludacris on “The Champion,” which was recorded for Super Bowl LII and featured during the 2018 Winter Olympics. She has also duetted with jazz legend Tony Bennett and shared the song “Hallelujah” with John Legend on her 2020 Christmas album, My Gift.