Hey guys. Weekly. I'm Abby Carter and I just want
American Idol.
Oh, disbelief for sure. Disbelief.
I I remember when it got down to it and
he was like,
in the winner of American Idol season 22.
I was like, Will Mosley.
Will Mosley? Will Mosley. Like it was just ringing in
my head.
There was no possible outcome in this.
There was no scenario that I thought wherein it would
be my name called at the end.
I mean, the cool thing about Jon Bon Jovi,
I think is that whether you're on camera or off
camera,
he is always as kind as he is and
he
goodness, he's just, he would ask you questions about you
that were very relevant just from the get go.
And it didn't, you know,
it didn't matter to him whether it was being filmed
or not.
He was so humble, so kind.
Bishop Briggs is just amazing.
I just, she became like my best friend so fast.
I freaking just loved her.
Honestly, everybody, everybody has just been so kind.
People just keep saying to be myself and stay grounded
throughout this whole process,
and I think that that's great advice
because I've been wanting to do that.
It is really hard. It's really hard to kind of
be in this whirlwind of things and have new things
happen to you all the time.
And people are always touching up your hair and makeup
and you kind of just feel like a statue at
some point.
So normal,
but I'm I'm excited to kind of continue on and
remember who I am and continue just being me and
a person.
And yeah, I just, goodness,
I try really hard actually,
not to go through my DMS because it's super overwhelming,
I think. I mean, Bishop Briggs followed me yesterday,
which was really fun.
Jordan Sparks followed me. Evanescence shouted me out.
It was really crazy. It's it's all been really,
really crazy. But I still I try to like remove
myself from the like the likes and follows aspect of
social media and I just put out there what makes
me happy and what I want to share.
I think I've been really excited to kind of move
forward because I mean the show is just so amazing
and it really just kind of throws you into the
deep end of what of like what TV is like
and and and what you might experience on the outside.
But I'm really excited to experience what's on the outside
and I
hope that it's not a really harsh come down,
you know? I hope that from here I can just
build on it,
but I know that's really hard.
It's a lot of work that you have to put
into it.
But I hope from here I can just release music
and
make an album, hopefully tour someday.
I think I want to do all of the things
that an artist does.
I think I want to continue to pursue that.
I have not had the luxury of doing that yet.
I think that it's been just so go,
go, go with these like
really late releases and really early call times that you
just kind of you get home and you take a
shower and you take melatonin and you go to bed.
I think that yeah, I'll be
what's what's definitely helpful for me is just it's,
you know, calling my boyfriend or
calling my mom. I do like to talk to people.
I think it helps me wind down.
I like, I like calling my friends and just hearing
about their lives because it makes me feel a little
bit normal for a minute.
No, he's just so wonderful.
He's just the most wonderful.
I think I dedicated a lot to him in my
heart.
I mean, last night, even with Bed of Roses and
somewhere it was like
it was, it was just in my head for him
and I was able to see him in the crowd
and just
give that love to him.
Oh goodness. I mean, every time Katie cries,
I cry. I am a contagious crier for sure.
Honestly, just so honored to even be in Katie's last
season,
let alone
like, I can't even say when the show,
it hasn't stepped in for me.
Yeah, to win Katie's last season is just insane.
What do you even say to that?
She has been so wonderful throughout this whole process.
Honestly, all three of the judges have been so wonderful
and they kind of
pushed me
to step out of my box that I put myself
in.
They've pushed me to be better and greater and bigger
and yeah,
so to see them be emotional last night,
it was like,
like, I think I hide under the other eight pearls,
the other eight beautiful, talented women on that stage.
And I'm just like, I was lucky enough to just
start the song and then like disappear for the rest
of
it and then come back in the very end.
It was, it was very nice.
I think Lady Gaga would crush that role.
Katie of course as just she left such
she's like a monument to the show.
She's like she left such a legacy
but I do feel like Lady Gaga would be so
cool.
I think even Meghan Trader would be really cool.
I think she's just the sweetest who I will say
with the with the mentoring and seeing her backstage.
I remember the day that she performed,
she had a performance. She was feeling well.
She had the flu. So she had a mask on
and and her hair was blonde and blue and I
did not recognize her.
And she was like, hey queen and I was like,
hey. And it dawned on me like 5 seconds later
I was like,
Oh my God,
I was making trainer. I can't even think about that
moment without crying because
yeah, when I was a preteen,
like a preteen, I was listening to her
very first released Ocean eyes.
Like, I consider myself really early on,
that wave of people that started listening to her.
Yeah, when her music video Bellyache came out,
it was like me and my friends would sit in
our computer room
and and watch her music videos and fall in love
with her.
She was an inspiration to me 100%.
She has like
inadvertently developed me as as a singer,
as a songwriter, as an artist.
I think that she has been a very big
like marker for me. I mean,
and it was perfect timing to release this song.
I auditioned for the show.
And I think that even outside of Billie Eilish,
this song just means so much to so many people.
And it was so easy to connect with because
it said everything that everybody was feeling but has never
said
not one person specifically. I think
it yeah, mostly my mom.
Honestly, my mom loves to live vicariously through me.
And so she was like,
you, Abby. You have to do it like you just
have to.
And for the longest time,
I was very skeptical, but
I went in. My only goal was to make it
past the audition,
and I did that and I was like,
great. And later I got upgraded to the platinum ticket
and I was like,
holy crap. And then, like,
to just be here today
was just insane. I mean,
Luke, Bryan said. He came up to me last night
and he was like,
I think this is the first time the person that
we thought was going to be the winner actually was.
And I was like, I can't believe that just in
that first audition they had that
idea of me and just that that amount of
high hopes. I guess I remember after my Bishop Briggs
performance,
I went to the quick change room
to get into the next outfit and I the boots
that I've been wearing on this show are like skin
tight boots that don't have a zipper or anything.
And when Ladonna, part of the
part of the outfit team what why can't I think
of the name Wardrobe?
Wardrobe. Wardrobe. Yes, Ladonna. Part of wardrobe was trying to
help me take these shoes off and it got to
the point where I was laying like on the ground
holding the hands of two of the other wardrobe assistants
and she was just trying to yank it off of
me.
So I'll probably remember that for a long time with
just how the boot was stuck and it took us
forever to get those boots off.
Yes, absolutely. Super close. Super,
super, super close. Julia, I'm a bridesmaid in her wedding.
I'm. I'm like Jack. I just thought,
I think the world of Jack.
And so when it got to the top three and
people were being cut,
like it was really it was again,
just, I just thought he was going through and I
had so much love for him and wanted that to
happen.
I think in this whole experience,
you want these people to succeed and it doesn't really
matter how far you go,
you just you'd love them so much that you want
them to go on.