Kelly Clarkson: “I’m Afraid of Mouth Herpes”

God i love her, plus that covers hot

Wow! She looks like Rachel Bilson’s size and she is sooo not! Amazing what the airbrushing does! Mabey, they put her face on Rachel Bilson’s body? No?

Too bad she doesn’t really look like that though. Quit with the airbrushing. It just makes her look worse when people see her real pictures and she looks so bad these days.

Kelly Clarkson said:

“I was like, I don’t know you very well, and I am not a bulls******. I get you don’t like the album. You’re 80; you’re not supposed to like my album.”

LMAO! Rage against the machine, girl, rage against the machine! :)

shes HOT,damn

‘First of all, Mariah writes a lot of her stuff.’

Love what said about Mariah Carey ^^. Mariah sure does write almost all of her songs.

eat eat eat kelly, keep on eating.

“‘Clive, I’m going to make tons of albums.”

>Nobody knows that for sure. I think that was Clive’s point.

“It doesn’t have to be mainstream every time…‘You’re a Whitney! You’re a Mariah!’…I don’t want a career like either of those singers.”

>Who does she think she is? Alanis Morrisette? Oh wait…going back to Clive’s point…where the hell is Alanis now?

About the mariah/Whitney comment, I think what Kelly meant was that she never wants to be as big or as famous as they have become. She blew up soooo big and sooo fast with the Breakaway era, and i honestly believe that it scared her (being THAT famous). Maybe this album is her way of leveling things out a bit. Getting life back to “normal” so to speak. She’s made it very clear that she’s not in it for the fame OR the money and i truly believe that. She’ll have a long, successful, career and I personally can’t wait to see what else she has in store for us.

Wow she loves to talk. haha. Anyway I have respect for her. I wish her all good things :)

I think what kelly meant about Clive saying “you’re Mariah!” “You’re Whitney” is that her style isn’t Mariah not Whitney. Yeah it’s true that he signed Whitney and Janis Joplin but those were in his younger days. There’s a big age difference. She’s 25 and he’s 80. And yes, she’s right about it when she said he does not know her because if he did, he would know that kelly’s fave bands are The Toadies, U2, Aerosmith, Guns & Roses. He would know that kelly loves Rock. He would also know that Kelly lovers country and singer-songwriters like Patty Griffin, Ryan Adams etc. Kelly has such an eclectic taste in music. If he took the time to get to know her then maybe he would understand her.

I think that Clive could not stand the fact that a small town 25 year old woman said “no” to him. Clive thinks he’s God in music. And that everyone should vow to him.

As it stands now: her first singles have relatively flopped; the album, getting mostly so-so reviews (see http://www.metacritic.com - trumping her claims of this being her more “artistic” one), debuted at number 2 this week behind Miley Cyrus (I don’t even know who he/she is) and is predicted to tumble next week; and her tour has been cancelled due to poor ticket sales. You have to have more than one big album before you can afford to become THIS swell-headed.

Actually, Dr. Feelgood, Kelly’s album debuted at #1 on WORLWIDE SALES. Even if she only sold 291k in the US, she’s sold 390k in total. That means she still has a worldwide impact. Her “swell-head” is probably rightly earned. After all, going 14x platinum is nothing to laugh at.

And btw, her single is hardly a flop. Unlike past singles which started off very slow but gained momentum quickly, Never Again shot off pretty fast and is NOW dropping, but staying consistent. Its sales will eventually go platinum. I think her next single Sober isn’t getting much airplay and that’s probably the relative flop, but oh well.

Frankly speaking, I don’t like to follow metacritic.com. They have different tastes from me, and I quite enjoyed “My December” for its artistic expression AND good music. Kelly’s just experimenting, let her be.

And I don’t think peaking at #8 is a “real” hit by Kelly’s standards. First week sales are also not indicative of long-term sales. Nearly all albums by high-profile acts debut high because of hard-core-fan sales. We will have to see if this album has “legs”, which by most indications, it isn’t predicted to have.

It’s ridiculous that some people are holding Kelly to this unrealistic “standard”. What artist hasn’t had ups and downs in their career? For the amount of negative buzz and lack of label support that went on for months and months prior to her album’s release, I think these sales numbers are great. For me, high sales (while nice) is not always a true indicator of good music.

And you can bet that she will be making more records. If RCA is so stupid as to cut her loose, there are other labels who will be running to snap her up.

I’m interpreting the Mariah/Whitney comment as Kelly just wants to establish her own style and music. Good on her.

Ha! Some of you are confusing confidence and maybe a little cynicism on her part with conceit. She is far from full of herself. She’s just not inclined to believe the same people that told her her last CD Breakaway wouldn’t sell more than 600,000 copies. I think I would think twice about listening to the advice of those who were so incredibly wrong before. Also Clive Davis hated one of Kelly’s biggest hits to date, “Because Of You” a song she originally wrote when she was 16 and had to literally cry so they would even put it on her last record. Whether or not you are a fan of that song, it touched a lot of people. And I think that is what matters to her the most. Impacting people on an emotional level and sharing her own personal demons so people going through the same/similar situations know they are not alone. She sees this as almost a mission in her life, if you will only care enough to listen.

god kelly is sooo hott!!
when does this mag..come out??
i wanna buy it

tucker u beat me to it.. haha

Kelly Clarkson has a great body. Stop calling her fat. I hope the best for her in the future.

what a conceited bit*h. f*ck you kelly you no talent ho.

Go Kell!! prove Clive wrong…he’s dumb anyways…the rock music is probably to loud and it herts his ears so thats why he didn’t like it…hia losaa

LOL, love how Kelly speaks her mind to her boss. Not many artists have the balls like her to say what she said to him, haha!

I think Clive does have some good intuition for an old man. Remember a couple of years back Clive, picked three songs for the last 3 runner up girls on American Idol. Clive picked some hard one’s man. The only one who had the singing chops for a “Whitney” song and, sang it well was, FANTASIA! Diana DeGarmo or whatever the **** her last name was. Well,it mut have been bad because, I don’t remember what she sang. Diana hang on by a thread. Then, their was this troll like Hawaiian girl. Can’t remember her name. We’ll, as we all can recollect, the gal from Hawaii was all cutsy but, couldn’t sing all that well but, she got to be the third runner up for some odd reason. I think because, she cried. Clive picked, “Can’t Live” for the girl from Hawaii. “Can’t Live” song is a very challanging song. Even, Celine Dion starts her chest thumping thing while, singing this so, I imagine this song is even Challanging for Celine. Of course, with the gal from Hawaii it, was either suck it up and sing well or totally butcher the whole song. We’ll, she tried and sang her little hart out but, did not have the singing capability or vocal stamina and octive range for this song. Some parts she sang well but, for the high notes. Holy ****! She sounded awful. So, she was eliminated. Their was the proof in the pudding she, did not have the talent. Mabye, music writing. Oh well. So, Clive knows what he’s doing. Kelly should know that.
Kelly does have the vocal chops. A lot of the new stuff she does, sound like she is shouting. She needs to stick with the soul & blues stuff. Like, she sang on American Idol this year. She’s got the talent of a Janis Joplin minus, the drugs man. Drop, the hard rock. She sounds like she is shouting. She wasting her talent. Stick with the blues. When, she sings the blues I, almost cry. It gives you goosebumps. That saying a lot for me because, I don’t cry easily. I’m just a *****!

I LOVE THAT GIRL! LOL She has such a great personality.

Clive is a huge jerk. He should have some faith in his artists.

kelly-hater is right..she disgusts me now.. i am happy that she only sells 390K for my december..it’s so vastly different with breakaway sell number at first week….for the first time, I’m glad that clive davis proved what he said!!!

It is sad….this album is amazing, yet everyone seems bent on pulling Kelly back to earth. It is so like our society…we build people up, and then delight in knocking them down. I admire Kelly for sticking up for herself. She was awesome when she won Idol and she still is.

Shes not bitching in every interiew abut her label…stupid media KEEP ASKING ABOUT IT..Its nothing new…but it they ask…grr to them.

Kellys pretty grounded and fun..
Shocked they gave out Davids name like that. YIKES.

Dr. Feelgood:

The whole point Kelly is trying to make is that she doesn’t care if this album isn’t number one. Sure, she’d love it, but that wasn’t her intent when making this album. She made it for her fans– we all know Kelly can sing but now she opened up more with this album. It’s so personal, so raw…she sucks you into your world when you hear it. THAT’S what she wanted. She isn’t like Clive– she cares about quality, not quantity.

And about the tour, that was wholly her manager’s fault, whom she fired a couple weeks ago. HE was the one who booked the big shows to make more money. Kelly wanted smaller arenas so the tour would be more personal, like her album is.

Eh, I don’t see the “quality”, sorry. I gave her the 2nd benefit of the doubt before I listened to the album again. If only it were even half as good in “that” way as she thinks.

I think Clive knows Kelly Clarkson from true alternative talents like Janis Joplin & Patti Smith; both of whom he signed and had gone on to build legendary “non-commercial” (Patti doesn’t even have one gold album to her credit) and artistic careers - albeit posthumously for the first - that Kelly pretentiously aspires to have. She’s more Carrie Underwood and Celine than she thinks she is. THAT, I believe, was Clive’s point.

Though, Clive’s only “crime” was that she was told to record a song previously recorded by La Lohan (thanks to Drea who “coined” this, in case she reads), among other more “radio-friendly” songs. If true, then that would make Clive more “evil” than I thought (grin). I agree that Clarkson’s far from being Springsteen (she likens her album to his “Nebraska”, Bruce’s supposed “artist’s record”) but she’s not THAT bad.

i think alot of people are misunderstanding kelly’s point. trust me, im not a clarkson fan, at all, but i respect anyone who i think is a geniune artist, regardless of looks, weight, or album sales. and everyone knows clive davis is a musical mastermind… but everyone is saying that clive knows what sells and kelly doesnt, so kelly is wrong. but i think her point is, she doesnt CARE what sells… she doesnt care how many singles come from the album, she doesnt care how many times it goes platinum… she put out something she wrote, something she believes in, and thats good enough for her. 2 grammys gives you that freedom i think. she’s proven herself as an artist already, its time for her to do her own thing, whether its mainstream or not…

and whoever made that comment about clive discovering janis joplin… check out her album sales… 4 million? i believe ms clarkson has outsold her by a few million