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Kelly’s new album All I ever Wanted has topped the Billboards Charts as #1 this week with over 200,000 copies sold! Along with her 2003 debut album Thankful, she is the only Idol to have two #1 albums and also two #1 singles in the Billboards Top 100 with “A Moment Like This” and “My Life Would Suck Without You”. This is truly an achievement for her and something most Idols only dream about.
Congratz Kelly on all you’ve accomplished! We all love and support you and know that there’s still more fantastic things to come!
After battling with her label to save a record that wasn’t exactly embraced by the masses thanks to its all-around dark, hook-less vibe, Kelly Clarkson was in desperate need of a rebound. Luckily, she’s made an album so chockablock with giddy pop goodness that she’s poised to land on our iPods once again. Below, the original American Idol talks candidly about her dustup with Clive Davis, her love of Katy Perry, and why that’s not really her on the cover.
Your decision to take creative control of your last album, My December, prompted a public feud between you and label executive Clive Davis. How do you feel about that experience now?
The press blew the situation with Clive way out of proportion so that it looked like everyone was fighting, and that’s not what happened. I did butt heads with my label over that record, but that always happens. There was actually more head-butting over my first album. They wanted to rush an album out to capitalize on American Idol, but I was like, “I don’t want to make a shitty record I’m not proud of.” But it’s not like I’m some Joan of Arc of the music industry. Every artist I know battles with their label on a regular basis.
What’s the story behind the title of your new record, All I Ever Wanted?
Yeah, I named it that to get my point across that I don’t like people putting words in my mouth and all I’ve ever wanted is to make a great record I’m proud of. I’m that simple. You recorded a song written by Katy Perry, “I Do Not Hook Up.”
How did that come about?
I met her a couple years ago, and I’m a big fan of her music—I think it’s so different from everything else that’s on the radio. She had recorded “I Do Not Hook Up” for her album, but I guess it was too much of a funny contradiction with “I Kissed a Girl,” so I was lucky enough to get it. It’s a great pop song, and at the same time it has a cool message: It’s saying it’s okay to not be the girl who parties too much and sleeps around; it’s okay to be the girl who wants something solid. I believe in that. I love your ’70s roller-disco look on the album cover.
Was that your idea?
Yeah! Sometimes when I listen to a song, I see certain colors or start imagining what the video would be like, and when we recorded “All I Ever Wanted,” an oldschool rock kind of thing, really candylike colors, came to mind. But I also wanted my fans to know how airbrushed those photos were, so I wrote about it on my blog: “I hope you all know, no one really looks like this.” I think it’s awesome to point out the reality of what goes on, because I remember when I was a kid looking at images in magazines and being like, “How can I ever live up to this?” The truth is that it’s just makeup and lighting; this industry is not normal.
You’ve established yourself as the queen of the kissoff breakup song. will there be more on this album?
Yes, but they’re different types of breakup songs. Like “Cry” is about how you feel when you find out someone has betrayed you—it’s very intense and sad. And “Already Gone” is about a relationship I had where I just wasn’t as into the other person as they were into me, and realizing that it would hurt them less to let them go rather than carry on being with them. I hope someone would do the same for me. You parted ways with your management after My December and hired Reba McEntire’s husband, Narvel Blackstock.
How’s that going?
Killer! The first thing Narvel said to me was, “You should not be stressing. You’re 26 years old, your dreams are coming true—this should be fun.”
I’ve added new pictures of Kelly when she was rehearsing for SNL last Friday. I hope you all got to catch her performance last Saturday where she sang “My Life Would Suck Without You” and “I Do Not Hook Up”.
Hey all, I’ve actually found some rareish photos which I haven’t seen on any other Kelly site. Plus I’ve found two of the USA Magazine shoot of 2007 to replace the tagged versions. I’ll be adding these all to KellyHQ sometime tomorrow night, I’ll try to get them up as quick as I can, but I am having company tomorrow.
Oh and due to me being a little ill I did post on the Kelly Clarkson Express that Kelly was Made the March cover girl at Portrait Magazine but I never got a chance to get on and post it here, so visit Portrait Magazine to view the cover and read the article on Kelly!
JustJared.com has some interesting images of Kelly in “Hale and Hearty Soups” in midtown Manhattan on Tuesday of this week. She seemed to be enjoying her time with some friends and there’s even an image of her paying for her lunch with a $100 bill! Nice one Kelly!
The 26-year-old American Idol champ opened up to British Cosmopolitan about her romantic life. “I’ve never been in love,” she admits. “I want to be so badly – I’m a hopeless romantic, but I haven’t been there yet.”
Kelly will be performing in “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” ‘s Outdoor series concert on March 19th. It’s being held outside the NBC Studios midway in Burbank CA, so all you Californians better scramble on over there to check out this awesome performance. There will also be performances by Miley Cyrus, Fallout Boy, and Randy Travis. It should be an awesome concert!
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