Kelly Clarkson is at it again. This time, she joined her backup singers/ BF4eva Jill and Kate for their latest song on the 17th video. This month’s video is a mashup of Jill and Kate’s song “Illusion of You” with Jann Arden’s “Insensitive.” As always, the girls do their thing so there’s not much for me to hate on vocally, so we’re gonna go shallow on this one and pick on KC’s hair color. I mean really KC, really? Weak-sauce on our part, we know, but really got nothing bad to say about this video – check it out below.

Note to all indie singer-songwriters – buddy up to Kelly Clarkson, she will most definitely put you on… if you’re talented! Jill (with guitar) has a sick voice.

Reportage of anything Adam Lambert-related is a lot like an episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race: You can actually hear her highness’ voice echoing in your ears, “Start your engines! May the best woman win!” Lambert will do something infuriatingly asinine. Then he’ll wonder why everyone’s so quick to jump down his throat. It’s a study in comparisons of American Idol alumna.

Because for every Lambert, you have someone graceful like Kelly Clarkson–who, despite putting out album after album of solid pop gems–continues to stay humble in the face of the most intrusive media speculation. She shirks garish eyeliner and costumes, letting her music sing for itself.
But unlike her junior Idol peer, Clarkson doesn’t kick and scream whenever the media tries to rake her over coals. She’ll just find a smart way to say, “Oh, that’s nice, but I’ve already sold like 23 million albums worldwide so eff you very much.”

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IT’S almost midday in Texas, and Kelly Clarkson has already been awake for six hours. “The jetlag has really set in,” she says.

“I got back at midnight from a cruise holiday with my family around Spain and North Africa, and by 6am I was wide awake again.

“There were a lot of 80-year-olds on the ship – we played bingo with them all.”

The singer, who plays Bournemouth International Centre on Monday (Feb 15), says: “I’ve had a few weeks off work, including Christmas and New Year, so I’m raring to go again.”

Even her down time has been busy, though. “At New Year, I was a bridesmaid for my friend. It was the first New Year recently that I wasn’t able to drink, as I was designated driver, so I had to make sure my friend enjoyed her day.”

Kelly, 27, claim she’s still the same down-to-earth girl she has always been, and still lives at the family home in Burleson, Texas.

Home life for her consists of looking after her two aquariums (she wanted to be a marine biologist, until she saw Jaws), running errands and “catching up with normal life”.

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I found some amazing pics of Kelly performing in Glasgow on February 11th. Added them to the gallery.

Links:
- February 11th 2010: Glasgow

US singer Kelly Clarkson has kicked off the first date on her UK tour.

The 27-year-old star, who shot to fame in 2002 after winning the first season of American Idol, began the UK leg of her All I Ever Wanted tour at Liverpool Arena last night.

Wearing a blue Rolling Stones T-shirt and jeans, Clarkson belted out a number of her hits to screaming fans. The Because Of You singer will be performing in London until 19 February, before heading off to tour the rest of Europe.

After Europe, she is due to tour South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia and Indonesia, before finishing in the Philippines.

Kelly was out and about in Dublin two days ago, so i added a few candids to the gallery.

Links:
- February 5th: Kelly in Dublin

Kelly took to her blog to write an open letter to Big Machine Records CEO Scott Borchetta in response to what he said here.

Wow …..Dear Scott Borchetta,

I understand defending your artist obviously because I have done the same in the past for artists I like, including Taylor, so you might see why its upsetting to read you attacking American Idol  for producing simply vocalists that hit ‘the high notes’. Thank you for that ‘Captain Obvious’ sense of humor because you know what, we not only hit the high notes, you forgot to mention we generally hit the ‘right’ notes as well. Every artist has a bad performance or two and that is understandable, but throwing blame will not make the situation at hand any better. I have been criticized left and right for having shaky performances before (and they were shaky) and what my manager or label executives say to me and the public is “I’ll kick butt next time” or “every performance isn’t going to be perfect” ……I bring this up because you should take a lesson from these people and instead of lashing out at other artists (that in your ‘humble’ opinion lack true artistry), you should simply take a breath and realize that sometimes things won’t go according to plan or work out and that’s okay.

Sincerely,

One of those contestants from American Idol who only made it because of her high notes

Sources:
- Oh No They Didnt
- I am Kelly (Kelly’sBlog)
- Twitter

Kelly uploaded a twitpic at her Twitter of her and her friends backstage

First twitpic ….the girls and I hangin at rehearsals ….well, on a break

I uploaded the pic in the gallery, because it was too cute to let pass. If you aren’t following her yet, please do! Follow Kelly!

Links:
- Twitter Pics > Made by Kelly