OlderKelly Clarkson: “I’m Afraid of Mouth Herpes”
Kelly Clarkson gives a very candid and hilarious interview in the August 2007 issue of Blender.
On what she does in her free time: “You know, I never go out. If I’m in L.A., I’m usually at my house playing Guitar Hero.”
On her lying music label, BMG: “Everyone keeps saying how hard this record because be because of all the crap surrounding it, but that last one was really hard to make. I literally got told to my face that it wouldn’t sell more than 600,000 copies. And I got lied to. One reason I don’t like working with people at the label is that they like. They told me, ‘We really want you to go to Sweden. These people really want to write with you.’ So I flew to Sweden with lyrics I’d written to this track I’d been sent, ‘Since U Been Gone.’ I get there, and the writers are like, ‘Oh, we already have lyrics. We just want you to sing it.’ It was really awkward. It was mean. That’s why there’s no relationship with them. Because I don’t like to be lied to.
On ex-boyfriend David Hodges, former Evanescence keyboardist: “I didn’t even really like the guy. I’m more mad at myself for being so blding. Why would I pick someone like him to date? What’s wrong with me? … It’s fine in the end. Maybe I had to go through that and learn more about myself. Maybe that’s why I don’t date much, either.”
On how many boys she’s made out with: “Four? No, wait. Oh my God, five! I have major trust issues. [laughs] I just don’t make out with people. That’s a waste of my kisses and time. And it’s so personal. It’s like, my face. Plus, I’m afraid of mouth herpes.”
On her face-to-face meeting with music exec Clive Davis: “It was nice. IT was just the two of us, and his dog. 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. I said, ‘Clive, I’m going to make tons of albums. It doesn’t have to be mainstream every time. Then he kept bringing up people he’s worked with. ‘You’re a Whitney! You’re a Mariah!’ ‘First of all, Mariah writes a lot of her stuff. Secondly, I dont’ want a career like either of those singers. That’s why it’s hard for us to make an album. You don’t know me! You don’t know what I like, and you don’t know what my fans like.”
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God i love her, plus that covers hot
interesting….
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?
wow
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.
I can’t wait to get this magazine. She is so damn interesting and I love that she tells it like it is. No one else like her. Love the pictures, yummy. Mouth herpes. lol
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! :)
Kelly is so much the ****. I love her so much. Can’t wait for this magazine to hit newstands.
shes HOT,damn
RESPECT. pure and simple.
‘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.
sheesh!! she sounded rude when describing her conversation with C.Davis show some respect!!
eat eat eat kelly, keep on eating.
I love her.
“‘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?
Where is Whitney? Where was Mariah for a while? No career is a constant high- unless you die at your peak, and I *really* doubt that’s Kelly’s career plan.
Paraphrasing her conversation with Clive, it does come off rude at first glance. But anyone who’s ever heard this woman speak, knows she wouldn’t actually *say* that- hence it being part of ‘I was like’ NOT ‘I said’. Take a moment to wade through that crime against spellcheck and you would realize that.
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.
“Where is Whitney? Where was Mariah for a while?”
The fact that both women had ALREADY established long and successful careers well beyond most aspirants like Kelly could even dream of achieving by the time their career-stumbles took place — largely, if not wholly, because of PERSONAL and not musical/artistic reasons — makes that a moot point.
I think the man’s track record (that included having signed true alternative acts like Janis Joplin) makes it safe to say that if there’s anybody who’s NOT naive in the music business, it’s Clive and not Kelly, which puts him in a better position to help her secure FIRST a firmer career on which to stand on before she can afford to wager the “alternative” music she thinks she’s making.
Wow she loves to talk. haha. Anyway I have respect for her. I wish her all good things :)
WOW! She looks so hot! I subscribe to blender!! SO pumped to get this issue! I’ve always been a HUGE Kelly fan and this does nothing but make me love her more!
and to all of you criticizing her weight: 1-she doesn’t care, 2-you don’t always need to find a reason to pick someone apart and 3- It’s not airbrushed, she is only bigger around the waist are…not the top.
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.
AMEN MARBS!!!!
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.
GO KELLY! I have so much respect for her now. Plus, “My December” is my album of hers that she’s made. I encourage everyone to buy it, tracks like “Sober” and “Maybe” are really all that. Plus, she’s funny. “Mouth herpes” lmao, me too Kelly. Me too.
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.
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