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Kelly Clarkson is almost as famous for her candor as she is for her powerhouse pipes. When the ‘American Idol‘ alum sat down on NPR’s ‘All Things Considered’ this week, Clarkson — who has gone on record saying she hates talking about herself — was in rare form, dishing on everything from eating disorders to guns to politics. She also revealed that maintaining her own identity may be the toughest part of pop stardom.
“It’s really hard, because I think people, you know, have a set idea of what a pop star should be,” Clarkson told NPR (via Idolator). “And my whole point is like, well, if I’m the pop star, then it should be whatever I am.”
Fair enough. So who is Kelly Clarkson? For one, she’s a gun enthusiast, revealing that she even sleeps with a Colt 45! “I live alone, so I’m not going out like that,” Clarkson said. “I got no chance if some man breaks into my house.”
Her stance on gun control may also explain, at least in part, why she’s drawn to Ron Paul. “You know, he was on Leno, and I was like, man, I like this dude,” she said of the Republican presidential hopeful. “I liked him the last time around. He believes in states having their rights, and I think that that’s very important. And I’ve always been about less government, and so I like him.” Unfortunately, as simple as Clarkson wishes that explanation was, it may not have been the one the media wanted. “That’s all I said,” Clarkson continued. “I was like, oh, man, I like Ron Paul. Too bad he’s probably not going to get the nomination, but I, you know, I like him. And then the whole freakin’ world, like, it went into a frenzy.”
Following her praise for Paul came more scrutiny on her record sales. Did they increase? Did they drop? Does she care? “I did enjoy the sales, I’ll tell you that,” Clarkson said. “I was like, hell, I’m going to start endorsing everybody… I was like I’m just going to start saying names about stuff to get people to buy my album.”
Based on her talent alone, Clarkson shouldn’t have to say anything about anyone to move copies — she should just be able to sing! However, she knows that visuals play a large role in record sales, a lesson she learned before ‘Idol’ when she turned down her first record deal. “The one contract that I was offered – this was my favorite thing ’cause I deal with it on the daily now – I literally weighed 124,” Clarkson said about her fluctuating size. “They told me if I lost 20 pounds that they’d sign me. And I was like, wow. And I had, like, an eating disorder in high school for a bit, so it’s like, I think God kind of put me through that to, you know, make me stronger for when situations like that kind of come up and still come up, obviously.”
Clarkson knows that being a pin up helps in her industry, but she’d rather be herself. And more power to her! “There’s, you know, room for Katy Perrys and Adeles and Rihannas and Lady Gagas and Keshas and me and Pinks,” she said. “I think what’s great about all of us is that we represent something different.”
Kelly Clarkson had quite the revealing interview with NPR’s All Things Considered earlier this week, and her in-depth sit-down — in which she frankly discusses having an eating disorder in high school, her love of booze and karaoke, and why she sleeps with a gun at night — proves once again that the Stronger singer always tries to be her authentic self while being thrust in the spotlight. (And yes, she comments on that Ron Paul controversy: “Something I tweet makes CNN. That says something about our world right there.”) We’ve rounded up the seven best quotes Clarkson gave up for NPR listeners — read them below.
:: On why she turned down her first record deal offer at the age of 18: “The one contract that I was offered – this was my favorite thing ’cause I deal with it on the daily now – I literally weighed 124. They told me if I lost 20 pounds that they’d sign me. And I was like, wow. And I had, like, an eating disorder in high school for a bit, so it’s like, I think God kind of put me through that to, you know, make me stronger for when situations like that kind of come up and still come up, obviously.”
:: On why she owns nine guns and even sleeps with a Colt 45: “I live alone, so I’m not going out like that. I got no chance if some man breaks into my house.”
:: She’s easily convinced to pair up for karaoke when she’s intoxicated: “And by that time, I’m so drunk, I’m like, yeah, let’s duet. Like, I’m like dueting with people.”
:: On the whole Ron Paul Twitter frenzy: “I was, like, sitting at home with my brother watching Leno. And, you know, he was on Leno, and I was like, man, I was like, I like this dude. I liked him the last time around. I like a lot, you know, he believes in states having their rights, and I think that that’s very important. And I’ve always been about less government, and so I like him. And that’s – it’s as simple as that, man. That’s all I said. I was like, oh, man, I like Ron Paul. Too bad he’s probably not going to get the nomination, but I, you know, I like him. And then the whole freakin’ world, like, it went into a frenzy.”
:: On the bump in digital sales after her endorsement: “I did enjoy the sales, I’ll tell you that… I was like, hell, I’m going to start endorsing everybody… I was like I’m just going to start saying names about stuff to get people to buy my album.”
:: On her humble beginnings: “Oh, my God. I lived, like, on a mattress, like, with this crazy girl. We lived in, like, a room with, like, these people’s house and, like, they didn’t allow us to use their kitchen. So we had, like, a little refrigerator. Like, it was really funny… I had, like, four jobs. I worked for like, coffee shops, waitressing. I did extra jobs. After that four or five months of living out there, we saved money to move into this apartment. And literally, the day that the crazy girl and I moved into the apartment, it burned down.”
:: On the hardest part of being a pop star: “Literally, the answer is probably real sad, but it’s to just to be me. Like, it’s really hard, because I think people, you know, have a set idea of what a pop star should be. And my whole point is like, well, if I’m the pop star, then it should be whatever I am. There’s, you know, room for Katy Perrys and Adeles and Rihannas and Lady Gagas and Ke$has and me and Pinks. I think what’s great about all of us is that we represent something different.”
Listen to the entire interview here, and head to ONTD for a transcript. And get ready for Kelly to take over your TV when sings the National Anthem at the Super Bowl on February 5 and performs at The Grammys on February 12.
(LOS ANGELES) — Taylor Swift and Kelly Clarkson are among the first performers announced for the 54th Annual Grammy Awards telecast. Taylor Swift is an old hand at the Grammys by now, and goes into the February ceremony with three nominations: Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song, both for “Mean,” and Best Country Album for Speak Now. As for Kelly Clarkson, who’s got two Grammys on her mantel, she’s nominated in the Best Country Duo/Group Performance category for Don’t You Wanna Stay, her duet with country star Jason Aldean.
The Grammys take place Sunday, Feb. 12 live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, broadcast on CBS.
Kelly Clarkson’s 2012 began with a nightmarish start, after her beloved dog, Joplin, went missing on New Year’s Day. The ‘Mr. Know It All’ singer, who was ringing in the new year at Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert’s home in Oklahoma, was left in tears after her sister called from Texas with news that her one-year-old miniature Labradoodle had run away.
“I lost it [like a little girl] and started bawling when she told me,” Kelly writes in a post on American Country Countdown’s web page. “Seriously, I was so dramatic, but I don’t have children and they are my babies that I sleep with every night … I literally walked around for hours looking for him.”
After rushing home, Kelly searched for Joplin with the help of her neighbor’s dogs, Buddy and Luna. “I started walking through this land across from us that’s like 400 acres and is undeveloped and rough terrain and home to many coyotes and God knows what else and I thought maybe he ran in there, so me and Luna and Buddy walked for another hour around this land and then I just started bawling and sat down on the ground giving up.”
Finally, Kel spotted her pup tangled in a mass of vines and branches. “I can’t believe I’m admitting this but I ran through the shallow part of the pond which was knee deep yelling for him as if he were the last living thing on the planet and he was stuck in all these vines with thorns and he was half in the water and stuck and I got my knife and cut him free and carried him home. I can’t believe that happened! It is like a movie!” remembers Kel of the ordeal.
But the drama didn’t end there. After finding Joplin, Kelly realized she was lost in unfamiliar Texas terrain. “My sister came climbing over one of the hills a bit later because I called her and told her I was lost but I had found Joplin,” said the singer. “And after we yelled for a while to find each other we cried so hard — like we were 10 years old — almost the entire walk home! Yes, I might be too attached to my dogs and highly sensitive, but I don’t care I love them!”
So what started as a nightmare had a happy ending … and one that Clarkson sees as a sign of good things to come in the new year. “I am so happy! 2012 is gonna rock because my year just started off with a freaking miracle!,” writes Kelly. “Seriously, if you lose a dog around here, they either get hit by a semi [truck] or eaten by coyotes. You don’t ever get them back!”
Kelly’s year certainly has rocked so far. Besides killing it on ‘Saturday Night Live’ this past weekend and just being announced as a new cast mentor on ‘The Voice,’ Clarkson also saw an outpouring of support after being bashed on Twitter because of her political beliefs.
The first — and best-selling — winner of “American Idol” will appear this season as a mentor on rival singing competition “The Voice.”
Clarkson, 29, will provide guidance to singers coached by country superstar Blake Shelton in an episode set to air in late March or April, sources close to the show tell The Post.
“The thing I love about ‘The Voice’ is that they’re more mentors — they’re not judges,” Clarkson said in an interview last September. “I would never really want to be a judge, just because I don’t want to break people’s hearts.
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“I so want to audition for ‘The Voice’ and see if I can get the chairs to turn around!”
Both Clarkson and Shelton are managed by Starstruck Entertainment, which is run by Reba McEntire’s husband, Narvel Blackstock.
Clarkson — whose latest CD “Stronger” was released in October — spent New Year’s Eve with Shelton and fellow “Voice” coach Adam Levine.
“Having the time of my life in Oklahoma,” she wrote on Twitter.
The defection of Clarkson — one of “Idol’s” most recognizable faces — is a low blow to the show that made her famous in 2002.
Both singing shows are preparing to go head-to-head for the first time this winter.
Last season, “The Voice” averaged about 12 million viewers, while “Idol” often topped 20 million.
As a devastating famine rips its way across eastern Africa and America continues its economic slump, the U.S. government’s development arm has teamed up with MTV this holiday season to try a new way to raise much-needed funds to help many of the world’s poorest people – auctioning off celebrity merchandise.
For the first time in its 50-year history, the United States Agency for International Development resorted to direct targeting of the American public to raise money; using an ad campaign and calling in the “big guns.”
The campaign, known as the FWD Campaign, featuring musicians (Kelly Clarkson, Nick Jonas, and Trey Songz), MTV reality stars (the cast of Jersey Shore and their merchandise) and Hollywood actors (Uma Thurman, Josh Hartnett). MTV says nearly $4,235 has been raised for such items as a pair of autographed sunglasses from Snooki and the opportunity to meet the cast of Jersey Shore.
The proceeds from donations and celebrity merchandise go to eight humanitarian agencies working to stem the ongoing famine in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia. The total can provide a month’s worth of food for over 140 children, according to the site.
“The FWD Campaign for the Horn of Africa is the first public awareness campaign USAID has ever run,” USAID spokesperson Matthew Johnson said. “While we’ve done a few things here and there with celebrities and MTV-type organizations, this is the first formal campaign which we’ve partner together.”
More than a dozen items were auctioned-off, from an autographed Kelly Clarkson CD to Beavis and Butt-Head bobblehead dolls. In an online video Ms. Thurman, Mr. Hartnett, and others plead to viewers to donate $10, or to simply forward the video in an email.
“There is hope,” Geena Davis says in the video, “saving lives doesn’t take a lot.”
On the auction site, which is being run under MTV ACT’s site, the cable channel’s activism and philanthropic hub, it says the organization is “where fist-pumping and lending a helping hand collide.”
Over the last six months, the worst famine in more than 60 years in eastern Africa has eaten away at the livelihoods of more than 13 million people. Farmlands have dried up; livestock have died, USAID says. Hundreds of thousands may be on the brink of starvation, humanitarian agencies have said.
For decades the United States has provided billions of dollars in public funds to humanitarian relief and development around the world, with bases in countries from Bangladesh to Burundi. But the global financial crisis has left many in America jobless, and the government scrambling for ways to cut spending. Some of the first expenditures to go in many western nations has been foreign development aid.
“The world is in an unparalleled time of economic crisis,” the Council on Foreign Relations said in a report in 2009 “As the global marketplace retrenches, there is great danger that the poorest billion people will be abandoned.”
Over the last decade A-list celebrities have helped fill that void, wielding their star power to bring attention to far-off conflicts: George Clooney in Sudan. Ben Affleck in Congo. Angelina Jolie virtually all over (she has toured Tunisia, Afghanistan, and Sudan as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador). But the FWD Campaign is the first time the American government formally locked arms with Hollywood.
There certainly is money to be made. Two tickets to MTV’s New Years celebration at Times Square sold for $1,300; enough money to feed a family of six for more than five months, according to the campaign. Passes to meet the cast of Jersey Shore went for over $750 and Snooki’s sunglasses went for $280.
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