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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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!!!
yeahh!!! I hope she flops hard for this album.. DON’T BE A SMART ASS KELLY…i know you wrote all the songs in this album or whatever….but shows some respect to your boss you fat whor3…
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.
I love her too, but she really needs to be afraid of crotch herpies! LOL
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.
Her tour did not have poor sales per se….. It had poor sales for arenas, which is not where she wanted to be in the first place. She wants to be in smaller, more intimate venues, not where 40,000 people are screaming. That’s good for some songs, but not a lot of her more personal music.
Everyone I know who saw her, and saw her in 15,000 seat venues, say she rocks!! She is a really good live performer, who has come up by playing live gigs and not some studio-prepared act. She knows how to really perform but wants to interact with her audience, not be an ant on a stage far away. So I think she’s really happy to be reconfiguring her tour to the venues she does well in.
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.
I don’t understand why so many people leapt onto the bandwagon of “hating” Kelly and cackling over her failure solely off of bad buzz created by Clive Davis and the press? It really shows how sheep-like everyone is. I would think, what with everyone ragging on so many manufactured artists over NOT wanting control of their career and image, of NOT writing a large portion of their songs(and not just getting credit for changing a line here and there), for NOT wanting to strip and gyrate to sell sex for lack of talent, for so many music artists who don’t have GREAT voices, people would love Kelly for not wanting to be any of those things. It’s a shame that people think Kelly has a “big head” and is accused of not being talented enough to wrest control of her own livlihood. SMH
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.
Confirms what a ***** miss clarkson is.
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
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