In a new American Idol promo for Season 24, Carrie Underwood hears a young contestant drop the viral slang “6-7” like it is the most normal thing in the world. She pauses, looks confused, and then does the most Carrie thing ever—she turns it into a joke, a melody, and a low-key culture lesson all at once.
In 2025 “6-7 exploded on TikTok, in NBA memes about LaMelo Ball (who is 6’7″), and then it became pure noise: a word people shout when they feel… anything. It got so big that Dictionary.com named it the 2025 Word of the Year.
Her fix is simple but brilliant: every time kids yell “6-7,” the adults should fire back with “5-3-0-9” in the tune of the 80s hit “867-5309/Jenny.” She hijacks the meme, pulls it into her generation’s songbook, and dares Gen Alpha to keep up.
Tired of hearing 6-7?! Carrie Underwood has the solution!
In 1981, a band called Tommy Tutone released a track with one of the most famous phone numbers in pop culture: “867-5309/Jenny.” The whole chorus is just that number, sung over and over in a super catchy way. It was so big that people all over America started prank-calling the number in different area codes, just because of the song.
When Gen Alpha shouts “6-7,” she finishes it with “5-3-0-9,” pulling the moment out of TikTok and straight into 80s pop history.
867-5309 / Jenny (No Resolve & Tommy Tutone) (Official Music Video)
To really feel the weight of that, it helps to remember where it all began: a 22-year-old “farm girl from Checotah” standing on the American Idol stage in 2005, crying as Ryan Seacrest called her name over Bo Bice and then singing “Inside Your Heaven” through tears. Put that shy winner side by side with today’s confident personality.