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.”

Lambert’s latest crisis: He took a little time out to tell off an audience member who was blabbing away on the phone. Yes, that’s totally poor form. But prefacing a performance with a bleat like “You’re not watching TV, honey–it’s a live show!” because one jerk hasn’t the courtesy to put away his Hello Kitty Samsung? Not poor form, sure, but still too petty for someone who wants to be the David Bowie of bubblegum pop. When pressed for comment by JustJared, he offers, “Oh, it’s all out there already. I don’t need to bring it up again. Every media outlet out there already picked it up!” It’s here that you could insert a pithy quip about beggars, choosers, and the Warholian concept of 15 minutes.

Clarkson, on the other hand, not only has the distinction of being the first American Idol winner, but also the most successful performer to emerge from the series. She’s also no stranger to industry politics. It’s brilliant then, that she hasn’t devolved into an easily-boxed-in caricature who relies on stunts and shock-and-awe gimmicks to try to move a few records. If anything, Clarkson’s proved that in the intervening years, she’s grown up. For example: There was her well-worded defense of Taylor Swift.

And yesterday, for reasons that confound the rest of us, outlets decided to pick on her for her weight. This has been an issue for sometime now, with one fan even tweeting her back in January. Her response, culled from this tweet and this one:

@kelly_clarkson i miss when u had washboard abs! like in the walk away music video, u looked amazing! u always showed ur bellybutton live
@jess123b Yeah ….I traded those in for a life

@kelly_clarkson i miss when u had a smokin body! uve never been overly thin, youve always had a booty. but u used to be very fit with a but!
@jess123b The amount of times you have tweeted about my body makes me think you might be watching me right now outside my window….here’s a tip, stop being weird dude Brilliant.

No unnecessary shots fired. In fact, there’s something inherently great about Clarkson sternly telling off a fan to “stop being weird.” More inspiring is that Clarkson rarely in bitchy form–whether fielding questions about her record label or more needling queries about her weight. In fact, she’s almost always chipper. And should she defect to classic diva behavior, we’d be willing to give her a free pass. After all, she gave the world a string of hits from “Since U Been Gone” to “Never Again.” So until he gets a “Since U Been Gone” of his own, it’s probably not the best idea for Lambert to get too mouthy with the press. JustJared may not be Rolling Stone, but man, that cover did him no favors, anyway. He’d be wise to take a cue from Clarkson’s humility. After all she managed to take Ryan Tedder’s embarrassing Beyoncé fiasco and turn it into a Top 20 single.

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

You can find the “Since U Been Gone” singer at @ Kelly_Clarkson. The original idol only has two Tweets so far, and she says she “make no promises, that I will say anything worth reading.” But we’ll be following avidly anyway.

Hopefully the original Idol takes some time to share her thoughts on this season of Idol hopefuls.

Just wanted to say hello and hope y’all are having a great Christmas (= So far my day has consisted of feeding and watering horses, slipping on my butt in A LOT of mud (thanks to all the pretty snow that came our way and then turned to crappy slush), playing with my dogs, opening some awesome presents from family and friends, and getting beat by my 7 year old nephew at the game Sorry ….very embarrassing, yet a reality. We just finished up my tour here in the U.S., in New Orleans (had an incredible end of tour party there, thank you New Orleans), and had an awesome tour run here in the states! I love my band and crew! They work so hard and are amazing people! I recorded a christmas song for my mom during the last show, for one of her presents this year, and it turned out alright so I’m gonna try and post it for y’all. I sang “I’ll be home for Christmas” and it’s not too bad so I thought y’all might want to have it since I don’t have a christmas cd or anything. Hopefully my internet works long enough out here in the sticks for me to be able to post it. I have come to the conclusion that I pissed off the internet gods and they hate me so we’ll see what happens (= Thanks for all the support this year! Without y’all I wouldn’t get to do what I love ….which would suck.

Sincerely,

(the girl who loves run-on sentences KC (= )

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