Kelly Clarkson Archives

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.”

Kelly Clarkson recently spoke out about David Hodges, her cheating boyfriend from last year.

“My standards were low because I was lonely,” she said. “I met this musician, not a famous musician–he doesn’t even deserved to be named–and I thought he was totally into me. And then you find out, oh God, that he had this whole other relationship on the side, and that he is only dating you to get into pictures and to become famous.”

Kelly had penned the song “Never Again” about Hodges on her latest album, My December.

Now Hodges is fighting back with his own song called “Just a Little Girl”, which according to his website us “a rebuttal to a single by a former idol currently on the radio.” (You can listen to it here.)

Hodges is best known for his work with the band Evanescence, which he left in 2002. He now fronts his own band, Trading Yesterday. Check out the lyrics to “Just a Little Girl” below.

DAVID HODGES - “JUST A LITTLE GIRL” LYRICS

You never cared to hear the other side
So why would you care to keep this thing alive
You paint me into a memory of all your pain
But i will not be drawn into the past again

[Chorus]
Cause all of this is all that I can take
And you could never understand the demons that I face
So go ahead and bat your eyes and lie right to the world
For in everything you are, you’re just a little girl

I never meant for you to feel this way
but Decembers were never meant to be our graves
It’s not a question of who was wrong and what is right
But time cannot heal what you will never recognize

(Chorus)

So go ahead and cry
Go ahead believe that you were right
To keep away the dark to help you sleep tonight

Go on and decide
Who is wrong what is right
If you know inside

(Chorus x2)

Kelly Clarkson dresses casual in an orange tee and jeans as she arrives at the airport in New York City on Thursday night.

The American Idol champ recently opened up to USA weekend in their July 13-15, 2007 issue.

On her boyfriend cheating on her last year: “My standards were low because I was lonely. I met this musician, not a famous musician–he doesn’t even deserved to be named–and I thought he was totally into me. And then you find out, oh God, that he had this whole other relationship on the side, and that he is only dating you to get into pictures and to become famous.”

On the stress of her second album and two bouts of pneumonia: “Everything caught up with me in a bad way. My body was wearing down, and my emotions were wearing down. I was trying to get over someone. I hadn’t seen my friends and family for a while, and it was becoming a nuisance [to see them] because I was so busy. I was traveling, and then there was more added to the schedule. It just got chaotic. I was 24, and that is pretty young to be the boss of so much. And it caught up with me. I couldn’t smile. I couldn’t do anything. I broke down. I cried so much I couldn’t speak. I was that tired. I was drained. I didn’t want to act, didn’t want to smile–I didn’t want to pretend. I just broke. …It was the lowest point of my life and my career.”

On having tried marijuana once: “It was in Amsterdam. It is legal there, and it is not legal here. I don’t ever do anything illegal here. I have never smoked anything in my life. I’ve never tried any drugs. I wouldn’t do anything that would cause holes in your brain or your nasal cavity. Call me Texan, but I don’t think of marijuana like that. I don’t understand people who drink too much. I think, ‘Why do you drink so much? It just adds calories.’”

On her weight issues: “I have never been to a point where I have been so unhappy that I have said to myself: ‘Oh God, you are fat!’ I don’t allow myself to go there. I know when I am unhappy with myself–and then I am like, ‘Wow, stop eating so many cookies [and her other favorites, cake and pumpkin pie] and get on the treadmill!”

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Kelly Clarkson arrives at CBS’ The Early Show on Tuesday to perform her three-song set: “Never Again,” “Sober,” and “Since You Been Gone.”

The original American Idol winner dressed in head-to-toe black including a minidress with metallic geometric shapes up top and suede thigh-high boots.

Kelly’s latest album My December drops TODAY, so be sure to pick up your copy!

You’re gonna have to wait to catch Kelly’s performances on The Early Show though. They won’t air until Monday, July 9!

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Kelly Clarkson rocks out to a four-song set during ABC’s Good Morning America summer concert series in NYC’s Lincoln Center on Tuesday morning.

Dressed in a slightly belly-baring top, the American Idol champ performed “Never Again,” “Sober,” and oldies-but-goodies “Behind These Hazel Eyes” and “Since You Been Gone.” Kelly’s latest album My December drops TODAY!!

You can download Kelly’s GMA performances here, here, here and here.

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Kelly Clarkson re-recorded her hit song “Because of You” with country singer Reba McEntire for McEntire’s album Duets, out September 2007.

The song is the first single off the album. Somehow, the music video is better than the song. But then again, the original is better than the cover.

Watch Reba and Kelly’s “Because of You” music video below!

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[Sob, sob, sob]

The original American Idol champ Kelly Clarkson just announced via her official website that she’s canceling her summer tour!!!!!!!

“I can’t tell you how much I’ve been looking forward to getting out there to perform for y’all. In the craziness of the music business, performing is what I look forward to doing the most, so it really is disappointing for me to have to tell you that I won’t be coming out to tour this summer. The fact is that touring is just too much too soon.

But I promise you that we’re going to get back out there as soon as is humanly possible to give you a show that will be even better.

Thanks for all of your love and continued support.

— Kelly”

Noooooooooo!!!!! What do I do with my tickets?????

This follows her ongoing battles with her record company and management over artistic control of her music. She recently fired her longterm manager Jeff Kwatinetz of The Firm.

From her former management: “Kelly Clarkson is an enormously talented artist and we are pleased to have served as her managers in her well-deserved rise to stardom. We have only the best wishes and hopes for her in the future.”

Kelly’s album is still due out in stores June 26, 2007. Er, we hope.

Who is that and what have they done with Kelly Clarkson?

On never having said “I love you”: “I love my friends and my family. But I have never said the words ‘I love you’ to anyone in a romantic relationship. Ever.”

On the the many unflattering paparazzi photos: “I’m fine with it. I just don’t care. I don’t wear makeup in public. I don’t worry about what I’m wearing. Hell, I wore pajamas to high school.”

On being flat-chested and her fluctuating weight: “I have no boobs. (laughs. I go in and out. (points to her middle, then her hips) Greek.”

On how it sucks to me young and female: “I’ve sold more than 15 million records worldwide, and still nobody listens to what I have to say. Because I’m 25 and a woman.”

On refusing to sing her single “Never Again” on Idol Gives Back: “My label wanted me to sing ‘Never Again.” And I was like, To promote yourself on a charity event is beyond crass. People are starving and dying and I’m up there singing some bitter pop song? And believe me, everyone wanted me to sing it. Because they are jaded and they have no soul. Imagine sitting in a room full of people totally against you. Can’t they hear themselves speaking? Capitalize on AIDS? Are you kidding? Insulting an entire nation of people? I just refused.”

Read Kelly’s full interview with Elle here.