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Post by kmbgs on Dec 22, 2015 12:14:57 GMT -5
Adele talking about a duet. Chances it's Kelly? I'm going with 90%
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Post by karatekid on Dec 22, 2015 14:01:45 GMT -5
Adele talking about a duet. Chances it's Kelly? I'm going with 90% I hope it is Kelly! I think they would get on "like a house on fire"... I don't think I could handle a song with both of them on it
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Post by Revelry on Dec 22, 2015 14:06:29 GMT -5
Weren't there pics of Adele hanging out with Gaga? That'd be my guess.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2015 18:06:38 GMT -5
I'm 100% certain it wasn't Kelly lol
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Post by Kurt on Dec 22, 2015 20:26:23 GMT -5
Haha I feel like Kelly would have gushed on Twitter if there was any possibility of it being her.
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Post by Focus on Dec 24, 2015 14:42:50 GMT -5
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Post by ificanthaveyou on Dec 24, 2015 16:15:17 GMT -5
Gah she's so freakin adorable. Cutest smile ever.
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Post by Focus on Dec 26, 2015 14:07:38 GMT -5
Kelly parts, hosting Sirius Radio Countdown on Christmas day...
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Post by kmbgs on Dec 27, 2015 15:08:09 GMT -5
My gym currently playing the album version of PBP and I just remembered it was released as a single lmao
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Post by Focus on Dec 27, 2015 15:34:55 GMT -5
A great article, plus finally the meaning of the puzzle piece tattoo... Kelly Clarkson talks Piece by Piece, tattoos and her gay fans10:00 26th December 2015 by GT We’ve delved into the GT vault this festive season, to give you some holiday reading.The original American Idol has been at it for 13 years, has 13 tattoos and has now unleashed her sixth studio album Piece by Piece. It’s an eclectic, modern pop masterpiece – and gives GT the perfect excuse to get to grips with the pieces of the puzzle that make up Kelly Clarkson all over again. We’re in the presidential suite of Kelly Clarkson’s UK record label and she’s recycling a teabag to see her through our lengthy chat about her latest record. She’s had more hits that she can keep track of – “I’ll be sitting somewhere and a song will come on and I’m like ‘That’s me, stop singing!’” – and her new album is not short of bangers nor ballads. Our personal favourite is Good Goes The Bye, which sounds like all the best bits of Taylor Swift’s 1989 in one track. Kelly understandably says ‘I love that song’ to practically every track we bring up, but she says of the last track, “It reminds me of old school Eurythmics, a little bit like Annie Lennox.” There are some indie rock moments that sounds like The Killers with Dance With Me, which to her ears is “a little bit like David Bowie meets ABBA.” And then there are some curve balls like Take You High, which sound like no Clarkson song we’ve ever heard before. “I love it because it sounds trippy. That was the one song where I kept going, ‘Uh-uh, I want weirder. I want trippy orchestral elements and sampled voices doing dark weird stuff.’ It feels like you’re flying. Or falling. Either one.” The other surprise track for us was Someone, where Kelly sings she’s “sorry I’m not sorry” for “saying all those s**tty things.” We find it quite hard to imagine Kelly Clarkson saying s**tty things. “Oh, I don’t find it hard,” she laughs. “I had fun. Sometimes people send songs and it’s the typical straight up Since U Been Gone #4, and I’m like, ‘Oh my God this is going to be terrible.’ And so I listened to [Someone] laying in bed with my husband. We were so quiet and both looked at eachother and I was like, ‘This is the most poetic thing ever.’ It’s so pretty and dark and truthful and everyone feels that.” There’s, to wheel out a much used phrase, something for everyone on this album. And of course, no modern pop album is complete these days without a Sia co-writing credit. Piece By Piece has two, including the single Invincible. “I think the thing that’s similar about her and myself as writers is we’re both about empowerment – and that’s what I loved about that song.” She was sent the song that was written by her producer Jesse Shatkin and Sia just as her own album was about to be finished. “I called him right back and was like, ‘You’re an asshole!’ ‘Cos this is really good and this means you’re gonna have to come into town and record it. I was recovering from surgery,” after her pregnancy, which she’s talked at length about in other interviews – and so we gave it a wide berth. “So that’s why I was like, ‘Arrgh!’ But anyway, it was great. It sounds like Stronger on steroids. That’s my take.” Despite calling her album Piece by Piece, it’s got nothing to do with jigsaw puzzles – though the deluxe box set comes with something resembling one. We still end up chatting about our secret pastime. “You know what I love? I love a mindless arts and crafts project. I just love sitting down, putting some music on, drinking a glass of wine. I’m a puzzle girl as well.” Clarkson even has a jigsaw tattoo she had done in Amsterdam.
“How it is on me is, it’s like you’ve removed the top layer of me and you can see inside,” she says, “so inside the puzzle piece is this little tornado with a golden brick road and a hot air balloon, a kind of Wizard of Oz theme.”
It’s one of the many times we’ve ended up saying ‘amazing’ to Kelly Clarkson.
“It’s like you peek inside. It’s a very dark tattoo actually, it was a childhood thing I loved but also it worked for my life at the time. I feel like when I got this tattoo, I don’t even know how many years ago, I felt no matter how hard I clicked I just couldn’t find a home. And by home, I just mean I’ve always longed for a family. A solid family foundation and I just hadn’t had that.
“Well, I guess if you get tattoos they just come true! ‘Cos I got one, I got three kids and a husband. So apparently I have a genie somewhere.”
Even if Kelly can’t help us click our own heels – “Where do you find great men?! I stayed really close to home, he’s my manager’s son.” – she did bring the house down the other month with an intimate gig in a gay bar in London. “Most amazing time ever,” is how she put it. “I mean, it was the perfect thing. I love the intimacy factor of anything like that.” The first single off her latest album, Heartbeat Song, hadn’t even come out at that point. “It was so weird, everybody knew the words. I was on stage shocked and I kept thinking, ‘Am I hearing the feedback bouncing back?’ And then I was watching everyone’s mouths move and it was just the most remarkable thing. To have that many people crammed in and having such an awesome time, singing every word. And it was so hot it was like a sauna, but it was great.” Of course, the video for that song features a few of our own, which Kelly discovered during a radio interview in her adopted hometown of the last eight years, Nashville, Tennessee. “He didn’t know that his boyfriend was going to propose to him. No one knew, so he was kinda confused in the video because he was going, ‘Is this real? Or for the video?’ It was just the most amazing thing to capture that live, and them embracing and that kiss, that was real.” It is a bit of a statement to put that in your video, we try to argue. “It’s funny, we didn’t actually mean to do it as a statement because I think in the artistic community we’re so far past that. Equal rights is a no brainer. It’s almost like we’re in some bubble. All of a sudden I’ll be in an interview and someone will say like, ‘Oh, that’s quite statement,’ and I’ll be like, ‘Was it?!’” We just think it’s great that someone with such a platform as Kelly Clarkson is happy to throw a gay couple in her video without a second thought and openly acknowledge and embrace her gay fans. Surely Beyoncé has the memo by now? Anyway, Kelly doesn’t think she’s special for it, and that’s great too. “I think a lot of people are like, ‘Screw you! I’m gonna put this in my video because this is life. Accept it or go live on Mars.’ I’m tired of talking about it. You know what I’m saying? I’m tired of it even being an issue, because it’s silly. Everyone should have equal rights, that’s it. Hello!” Hello indeed. Words Bob Henderson www.gaytimes.co.uk/culture/20693/kelly-clarkson-gay-fans-tattoos-piece-by-piece/
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Post by StrongBreakaway on Dec 28, 2015 7:20:08 GMT -5
Current Kelly (nope I don't know how to change the size)
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Post by kmbgs on Dec 28, 2015 11:05:54 GMT -5
Honestly we need to appreciate how Kelly takes pics with her fans even when she is pregnant. Most celebs would not allow themselves to be photographed in that state
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Post by Kishi KCM on Dec 28, 2015 13:47:18 GMT -5
She's always seemed like one of the kindest, most genuine artists in the industry. Even if I never get a chance to see her live, I'd love to just meet her!
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Post by Focus on Dec 31, 2015 15:12:06 GMT -5
GoodListener at the KCE posted this today. It's pretty great. Kelly's 2015 Year-in-ReviewSince 2015 is coming to an end, I thought I'd make a thread looking back on the memories. This list will not be "all inclusive". Feel free to post any memories you have if the spirit moves you. January/February:Kelly begins promo for the release of "Piece By Piece" with radio interviews. ( LINK to interviews throughout the year) Kelly goes to the UK. She appears on some morning shows, The Graham Norton Show, and performs a club show on Valentine's Day. March:"Piece By Piece" released. Debuts at #1 on Billboard! Feature segment on CBS Sunday Morning. History of Duets with Jimmy Fallon ( LINK to video) What What Happens Live ( LINK to video, LINK to aftershow video) People Magazine cover April:Kelly returns to American Idol as performer, mentor, and content provider. Kelly travels to Montreal for "La Voix". She presents Reba at the ACMs and tells everyone to "suck it". Ha "All I Ask of Your" duet with Josh Groban released Greeting Card line retailed at Walmart May:Kelly travels to Australia for promo ("It's a slow day.) Forced to cancel concert in Australia Performs on Billboard Music Awards Performs on "The Voice" with two contestants June:Kelly starts prepping for tour; performs at Summertime Ball (London), iHeartRadio Pool Party (Las Vegas), Alice's Summerthing (San Francisco) July-September:"PIECE BY PIECE" TOUR!!!!! Great set list, stage production, and emotion. Los Angeles....... "I'm totally pregnant"! Jimmy Kimmel "Tinder" October-December:GRAMMY nominations- Pop Solo Performance and Pop Vocal Album!! Josh Groban's "Stages" airs on PBS "Second Hand Heart" duet with Ben Haenow released "Kelly Clarkson's Cautionary Christmas Tale" airs for a 3rd year And this:
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Post by foxxden on Jan 5, 2016 14:38:18 GMT -5
Anyone read this book that came out recently called The Song Machine by John Seabrook? I got it for Christmas and just read the chapter on when Max Martin and Dr. Luke worked with Kelly and Clive Davis during the 'Breakaway' era. It's probably not new news but it doesn't portray her favorably. Apparently she was dead against releasing "Since U Been Gone" and "Behind These Hazel Eyes" - which became two of her biggest hits that helped her really breakthrough...heck she even won a Grammy for "SUBG"! Then when she got more involved in the creative process on her next album (My December) it flopped only for her to go running back to the Swedish producers (who she complained about working with) for her next album to score hits again ("My Life Would Suck Without You").
I know there are two sides to every story but I remember hearing inklings of this in the past so it seems like there is some truth to it. Kind of makes me view her less favorably knowing that she was so against some of her most loved songs and not appreciative of the success they brought her.
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Post by AP on Jan 5, 2016 14:46:14 GMT -5
....Gurl you just opened a can of worms. I read the book as well and while the Kelly/Clive bits were extensively discussed, no new sources were brought to the conversation. It basically told Clive's POV as it was told in his 2013 memoir, with bits of Kelly's (strikingly opposite) rebuttal from her blog post that's now taken down. Seabrook states numerous times that in Clive's stories he's "always right" - alluding that there could be some, or a lot, embellishment in his telling of the situation. Seabrook also gives Kelly's word a pretty fair shot and compliments her talent a lot, but when it comes down to it, those Breakaway songs were smashes and nothing from My December was. Regardless of how it all shook out (and who said what), the hits are in the numbers. We probably will never know who the 100% true story for a very long time, or ever, as I think both parties are done talking about it.
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Post by kmbgs on Jan 5, 2016 14:56:30 GMT -5
Funny I thought the can of works opened today was going to be Ryan Seacrest's comments on The Today Show that Carrie is the biggest star to come out of Idol
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Post by Ginger Spice on Jan 5, 2016 14:59:57 GMT -5
God this is such a tired subject but I would like to add that just because she was against recording them doesn't mean that she isn't grateful for their success and she still performs them so it's not like she's making the fans suffer either.
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Post by foxxden on Jan 5, 2016 15:44:57 GMT -5
....Gurl you just opened a can of worms. I read the book as well and while the Kelly/Clive bits were extensively discussed, no new sources were brought to the conversation. It basically told Clive's POV as it was told in his 2013 memoir, with bits of Kelly's (strikingly opposite) rebuttal from her blog post that's now taken down. Seabrook states numerous times that in Clive's stories he's "always right" - alluding that there could be some, or a lot, embellishment in his telling of the situation. Seabrook also gives Kelly's word a pretty fair shot and compliments her talent a lot, but when it comes down to it, those Breakaway songs were smashes and nothing from My December was. Regardless of how it all shook out (and who said what), the hits are in the numbers. We probably will never know who the 100% true story for a very long time, or ever, as I think both parties are done talking about it. Oh I definitely think that Clive is full of himself so I take what he says with a grain of salt but over the years the narrative of Kelly being strongly against releasing what would become two of the biggest hits of her career has remained consistent so that a lone shows that she doesn't have the best artistic judgement. Like you said the hits are in the numbers and she really hasn't been able to return to that level of success again without teaming up with the latest hot Swedish producer.
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Post by kmbgs on Jan 5, 2016 16:02:28 GMT -5
I didn't realize Greg Kurstin was Swedish.
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Post by foxxden on Jan 5, 2016 16:07:25 GMT -5
^Assuming you are talking about "Stronger", she also worked with Jörgen Elofsson who is Swedish and I believe used to hang around with the Max Martin crew.
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Post by Focus on Jan 5, 2016 16:24:15 GMT -5
I can't imagine Kelly would be against releasing BTHE, since she wrote it. Kelly's words about SUBG in a Rollingstone interview: How is working with Piece by Piece producer Greg Kurstin different from working with Dr. Luke or Max Martin?I think that's a bit unfair just because I already had a career when Greg knew me. When we got introduced to each other he already had four albums to kind of look at and gauge "what kind of artist is she?" Dr. Luke or Max, I just had the one record out and it was my first record and we came out with so many different singles. We came out with a big R&B ballad like "The Trouble With Love Is" and a pop rock song like "Miss Independent" and then more of a pop rock song like "Low," which was my single. I think people still didn't realize what I wanted to do with my career. I like all those avenues, but I think in the beginning people heard the demo for "Since U Been Gone" and it wasn't as it is now. I love guitars. I love a big sound and I love a little bit of angst in the production and, you know, we had to figure that out while we were working together, to where Greg already kind of knew that about me. He'd seen me perform live before and he'd heard me on these records and he kind of had a grasp of who I was already. What was the demo for "Since U Been Gone" like?It was real bare and there were hardly any words. [Laughs] It was just, like, mumbling. It was one guitar and really funny. I remember my label was like, "This song is so amazing!" And my manager and I were like, "It sounds cool, but they're not really saying anything." And they were like, "Listen to the melody," and I was like, "The melody doesn't really sound like it's solidified yet!" They were like, "I know, I know, but it's the production," and I was like, "There's really only a guitar and a snare!" It was a lot of trust in the label because I didn't know Dr. Luke or Max. And it worked out. We ended up getting together in Sweden and they got to know me as an artist and we amped up the track and made it a little more rockin'. But they didn't know I was going to go an octave above on the chorus. www.rollingstone.com/music/features/kelly-clarkson-talks-since-u-been-gone-going-country-and-upbeat-new-lp-20150303
You can read the Kelly parts of the book that foxxden is talking about here in Chapter 13: books.google.ca/books?id=kOdwBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT97&lpg=PT97&dq=the+song+machine+kelly+clarkson&source=bl&ots=Ym8WYUtIKA&sig=dLJZ7oFUsWe8x74aBpZNbEUP3UQ&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=falseHere is a bit about SUBG. I had no idea that Kelly wrote the bridge for SUBG and didn't get credit for it, but that's what the author says...
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Post by kmbgs on Jan 6, 2016 8:20:36 GMT -5
I don't think Kelly comes off bad in that excerpt. If anything it makes sense - I also hate being micromanaged and being told exactly what to do at work. I'm not a robot, and neither is Kelly. Plus he gives her credit for writing the bridge. Also, it's just as unfavorable to Max, who seems like a complete snob. Meanwhile, it's ironic that neither party wanted to do this, and both benefited majorly from it.
I also love the Dr. Luke shade.
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Post by bitchplease on Jan 6, 2016 10:25:48 GMT -5
Kelly WAS against releasing BTHE as A SINGLE. That is confirmed. She wanted Walk Away to follow SUBG, as kelly said BTHE is too similar to SUBG and she wanted to showcase a different sound from the album. That is a fact. During that time DrLuke posting everywhere online that BTHE would be next and confirmed 100%. It just showed how much control kelly had over her music career during that time. We have NO PROOF about kelly not wanting to put BTHE on the album at all (aside from clive's book), after all she did co-write the song.
Kelly was surprised how people were loving SUBG. she said in an interview around its release about how SUBG is the poppiest song on the album. That is a fact. People were looking at some of her comments as she wasnt a big fan of the song, but there's no proof.
Clive was 100% right with SUBG+BTHE combo. Her career took off in a major way. She became a superstar and the biggest pop star in the world at the end of album campaign. It turned out , SUBG+BTHE 1 2 punch had been planned way before album release. Those 2 songs had been chosen as the 2 main singles to showcase the album BEFORE breakaway release and got sony execs from all over the world agreed to make kelly their priority and break her as a WW pop artist.
anyway, imma need kelly to release a tell all book about her career, she needs to do it soon before Clive is dead. I need the old man to be still living when the book is published. According to kelly clive was 80 during MD, so he'll be pushing 90's soon. Im gonna need clive to comment on the book as well. There r always 3 sides to a story, clive's side (his memoir is out with almost a whole chapter dedicated to kelly), kelly's side, and the truth. The truth usually is somewhere in the middle.
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Post by StrongBreakaway on Jan 6, 2016 20:31:22 GMT -5
It's interesting to think about how she'd be perceived as an artist if her label took more risks. I would've loved to see If I Can't Have You, Tip Of My Tongue, Honestly, Let Me Down, Take You High, Run Run Run, Bad Raputation as singles!
and all these drama stories.. well I'm always #TeamKelly. Adding all stories up, it seems clear to me that she was this new artist with big n risky ideas not willing to compromise too much to hurt her artistry. Then she became an established artist in a specific genre more or less. She'd even do stuff to be allowed to do her own and she's let people belittle her. Kelly herself is the last person to make all of that public - it's always been the other people who leaked background info. However, years later Kelly knows she can speak louder than in the past as nice open letters, interviews and tour chatters show.
Personally, why would we care at this point? It all led to Clive leaving the Kelly-ship. I think it's never been talked about here, but we've gotten a lot of exclusive stuff since Stronger aka cliveless era. 3 EPs, 1 GH album, 1 x-mas album, a random country and x-mas single. We'd never get anything like that until 2011!
Ryan Seacrest's answer is.. weird kind of. Where would he be if Kelly hadn't made AI popular? Carrie donimates earnings - she's the 2nd best earning idol in the most recent list. Kelly the 5th best selling (the list ended in May 2015) - but Kelly's overall worldwide sales and legacy are the biggest.. which makes her the biggest star IMO.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2016 20:52:39 GMT -5
I'm watching the Idol farewell season premiere right now... they have a big poster of Kelly in the audition room and we heard HBS and Invincible so far
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Post by Focus on Jan 6, 2016 21:05:27 GMT -5
Kelly Clarkson kelly🌷💞_clarkson 40m40 minutes ago Watching @americanidol & totally crying like a pregnant girl every time some1 makes it ha! Last season, so crazy! Thanks 4 my start Idol :) Kelly Clarkson kelly🌷💞_clarkson 26m26 minutes ago Watching @americanidol with @ashes2lashes and she said they should tell the bad ones they can always audition next year ha! #lastseason
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Post by spencer on Jan 6, 2016 21:37:35 GMT -5
I'm watching the Idol farewell season premiere right now... they have a big poster of Kelly in the audition room and we heard HBS and Invincible so far Just curious but who was # 1 on that list of top idol earners for the year.. Thanks.
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Post by StrongBreakaway on Jan 6, 2016 21:55:12 GMT -5
^ #1 Adam Lambert 10 million $ #2 Carrie Underwood 8 #3 Chris Daughtry 6 #4 Phillip Phillips 5 #5 Kelly and Scotty 4
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