CARRIE UNDERWOOD's Performance Of MÖTLEY CRÜE's 'Home Sweet Home' Available
May 21, 2009Oklahoma native Carrie Underwood returned to "American Idol" this past Tuesday (May 19) to perform this season's farewell song, her version of MÖTLEY CRÜE's bittersweet ballad "Home Sweet Home".
Watch the performance below.
Last month, New York Post reported that Carrie Underwood's version of "Home Sweet Home" was outselling the original — 211,000 digital copies to 181,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
"I remember like it was yesterday," said MÖTLEY CRÜE singer Vince Neil about writing the song, "sitting in the recording studio when Tommy [Lee, MÖTLEY's drummer] came up with the piano chords and I almost immediately started humming."
Meeting Underwood helped Neil cope with letting someone makeover MÖTLEY's signature song.
"Knowing that she was a fan made it a lot easier," said Neil.
"I've always loved this song," Underwood said in a statement. "And besides being very fitting for 'Idol', to me, the title is also very fitting with animal rescue and finding animals their own homes."
Carrie Underwood joined Vince Neil on stage on August 10, 2007 at the Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville, Tennessee for a rendition of the CRÜE classic "Kickstart My Heart". Watch fan-filmed video footage of the performance below.
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