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Originally posted by Gidget:
I found this one....is there another??

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0hSM23865mM

No, that's the one! I am so addicted to it!

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Originally posted by Gidget:
All her live performances for the promotion of this album have been stellar. Last time out her voice cracked a lot and she screamed a lot for Since U Been Gone. But it seems these songs are perfect for her voice and she just sings them so well!

I agree completely! And I love how you can just like feel Kelly's passion when she's singing them! She's amazing!

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Originally posted by BigNLiddle:
My December, which came in at #2, ended up selling 291,000 copies - far below the #1 album in the U.S. this weeks, Miley Cirus’s Hanna Montana 2: Meet Miley, which sold 326,000 copies.

I will never understand why someone would want to buy Hannah Montana's album over Kelly's.

Is Kelly Clarkson The New Carrie Underwood?

…Thankfully, July has arrived, and with it, a new management team. Nashville-based Starstruck Entertainment has taken the reigns to help guide Clarkson out of her career limbo, and it doesn’t take a conspiracy theorist to guess which path they’ll steer her toward …

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/07...ew-carrie-underwood/

Maybe and Sober give me chills.

Kelly at a glance.

Kelly's audition is so funny.

OMG this is so funny, Kelly buying her cd! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3Uv8IDMy2U

Not Monkeeing around

Micky Dolenz and Kelly Clarkson have more in common than one might think. The distance between a Monkee from the Summer of Love and our first “American Idol” may seem vast, but both engineered splits from powerful music moguls on their third and pivotal albums…..

http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2...NMENT/107060027/1007

Clarkson, ‘American Idol’ take their hits

…Clarkson and Idol are inextricably linked, a symbiotic relationship that is finally showing signs of stress. That’s right: The bloom is off the rose. It’s no coincidence that Idol and Clarkson, whose new album, My December, was just released, are suffering their first setbacks at the same time.
Down goes Idol, down goes Clarkson…

http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/article/20070707/NEWS/707070318/1051/NEWS

CLARKSON BLASTS LABEL ‘LIARS’July 12, 2007

KELLY Clarkson has been biting her tongue as we’ve reported on her fight with BMG/RCA boss Clive Davis. Clarkson insisted on recording her own songs on her third album, while Davis - mindful of needing hits - wanted her to sing tunes written by others. But in the August issue of Blender, Clarkson says she told Davis: “I don’t know you very well, and I am not a bull-[bleep]er. I get [that] you don’t like the album. You’re 80; you’re not supposed to like my album.” She also said: “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 lie . . . If you’re going with the flow and not fighting, that’s settling. I can’t take that. Life is just too short to be a pushover.” But meanwhile, Clarkson fired her manager and cancelled her summer tour because of slack ticket sales.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122007/gossip/pagesix/cla...l_liars_pagesix_.htm

I've always really liked Kelly, but I like her more now than ever. She's a fighter and I can relate. How about the rest of you women?

COWELL URGES CLARKSON TO END FEUD WITH DAVIS

British music mogul SIMON COWELL has urged AMERICAN IDOL star KELLY CLARKSON to end her war of words with record boss CLIVE DAVIS - because he knows better than her. Clarkson confirmed reports she and Davis had fallen out over tracks she wrote for new album My December during a recent Blender magazine interview, and Cowell feels the singer would be unwise to continue the feud….

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/cowell%20u...with%20davis_1037340

Kelly Clarkson: ‘December’ Romance Almost Over

By Roger Friedman

Kelly Clarkson’s new album, “My December,” will hit the 500,000 mark, or just a little under it, Tuesday, after three weeks in release.
But basically, “My December” is a dud. Just as insiders predicted, it started big with 300,000 copies sold in the first week, followed by 114,000 in the second and about 60,000 in the third.
Clarkson said some nasty things last week about her label guru, Clive Davis, with regard to his age.
But Clarkson was dead wrong, and Davis was correct. She’s now undermined the pop persona Davis and his team carefully crafted. She may never get it back. “My December” will be lucky to sell a total of a million CDs over the next few months.
Clarkson may already have accepted that. After firing manager Jeff Kwatinetz and The Firm, she’s hired Reba McIntire’s husband-manager to replace him. That may very well be a signal that Clarkson is headed to Nashville and a country base, where she can give up the pop rat race and concentrate on the loyal audience down there.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289570,00.html

Reba Sings Kelly’s Praises
Country star says Clarkson reminds her of herself

Reba McEntire met with the Nashville Press esterday in advance of the release of her upcoming duets album, featuring 11 songs with some of the greatest music stars of two centuries. Reba was happy to talk to us about the debut single, “Because of You,” with Kelly Clarkson, a person she says reminded her a lot of herself…….

http://www.netmusiccountdown.com/inc/news_article.php?id=13072

Idol Char****ch, July 20: Was Clive Right About My December?

by Donna Reynolds — 07/20/2007

Music sales were down last week, and while Kelly’s album remains in the top ten, her third week sales slipped dramatically. Two other American Idols have achieved milestones, however, and Elliott continues to thrill and amaze! Read on for more…

http://www.foxesonidol.com/cgi-bin/ae.pl?mode=1&article=article2163.art&page=1
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=3393129&page=1

Did Kelly Clarkson Commit Career Suicide?

The Decision to Challenge Music Mogul Clive Davis May Have Backfired
Did Grammy-winning singer Kelly Clarkson commit career suicide when she took on the iconic music industry executive Clive Davis?
Yes, is what some pop-music charters are whispering as U.S. sales of Clarkson’s third album, “My December,” begin to slide.

Clarkson Apologizes to Clive Davis

In a posting just added to the front page of her Web site, Clarkson takes great pains to apologize to BMG North America chairman Clive Davis from comments she made about him regarding her struggling album, ‘My December.’

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,290458,00.html

Jul 23rd, 2007 at 3:32 pm

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/rumormill.cgi

ALL IN THE FAMILY: In an attempt to clear the air regarding her widely reported conflict with Clive Davis about her My December album, Kelly Clarkson has issued a statement on the homepage of her official website. Of the “supposed feud,” she explains that she regards her team as “family,” and that her disagreements with Davis “have been blown way out of proportion and taken out of context….”

CLIVE’S THE MAN, KELLY ADMITS

She fired her manager, Jeff Kwatinetz, who co-produced “My December,” and predicted the album would result in six hit singles…
Insiders say Clarkson finally came to her senses after hiring a new manager, Narvel Blackstock, who is the husband and manager of Reba McEntire.
“Kelly found herself at the center of a damaging, misguided public controversy,” said one source. “Blackstock found that Clive was right all along and was very concerned about the advice she was getting.”

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07242007/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm

Kelly/Reba duet on CMA fest: http://www.gofish.com/player.gfp?gfid=30-1138212

Kelly Clarkson Gets the Message, Returns to Pop
Friday, July 27, 2007

By Roger Friedman





Kelly Will Go Back to Pop for Next Album

Kelly Clarkson gets the picture, finally.

There was no bucking the system, and no going against Clive Davis. Sources tell me that Clarkson has agreed, through her wise new manager Narvel Blackstock, to make a pop album for release in 2008 with songs selected by Davis and his team.

Clarkson's acquiescence comes at the end of a long melodrama concerning her current, turgid album "My December," which features a lot of ragged self-penned songs by Clarkson about a relationship gone sour.

Davis didn't like the album, considering it was the follow up to Clarkson's multimillion selling "Breakaway." But he released it, and Clarkson responded by dissing him and then apologizing earlier this week.

In the meantime, "My December" is sort of free-floating away now, and will probably sell a respectable 850,000 copies in the U.S. and maybe the same worldwide.

Clarkson gets points for trying out her chops as a songwriter, but demerits for not following anyone's advice, trying to take on the record industry's most astute executive maybe of all time and acting like a 25-year-old (which is, in fact, her age.)

The news about Clarkson's next move came Thursday during the annual UJA Federation lunch at which Davis was honored. Everyone in the biz was there — the room was so packed that there was little space between the tables for waiters to maneuver or for good schmoozing.



read the rest...



http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291060,00.html

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/July2007/31/c3018.html
CTV also announced tonight that North America’s first Idol, Kelly Clarkson, is the next to join Canadian Idol’s blockbuster guest line-up when she joins the Top 5 competitors for the “My Own Idol” themed episodes on
August 20-21. Clarkson will mentor the Top 5 as they rehearse songs originally sung by their musical heroes to be performed August 20, and then takes to the Canadian Idol stage herself to perform on the results show on August 21. The announcement comes as the Top 7 prepare to rehearse tomorrow with the legendary Brian May and Roger Taylor from Queen on the set of We Will Rock You in advance of next week’s Queen-themed episodes.

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Originally posted by BigNLiddle:
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/July2007/31/c3018.html
CTV also announced tonight that North America’s first Idol, Kelly Clarkson, is the next to join Canadian Idol’s blockbuster guest line-up when she joins the Top 5 competitors for the “My Own Idol” themed episodes on
August 20-21. Clarkson will mentor the Top 5 as they rehearse songs originally sung by their musical heroes to be performed August 20, and then takes to the Canadian Idol stage herself to perform on the results show on August 21. The announcement comes as the Top 7 prepare to rehearse tomorrow with the legendary Brian May and Roger Taylor from Queen on the set of We Will Rock You in advance of next week’s Queen-themed episodes.

This is so exciting! I can't wait to hear what she has to say to the Top5.

Just don’t call me a celebrity

Grammy winner and former American Idol star Kelly Clarkson has hit out at the notion of being a celebrity, saying she is sick of fake stars.
Clarkson refuses to put on a public persona that is different to the way she behaves behind the scenes……..

http://www.smh.com.au/news/music/just-dont-call-me-a-ce...5/1186252525742.html

http://www.tmz.com/2007/08/06/fired-by-clarkson-hired-by-britney/
Fired by Clarkson, Hired by Britney!

Kelly Clarkson and Avril Lavigne to Perform on Teen Choice 2007

Two-time Grammy Award winner Kelly Clarkson and punk-pop dynamo Avril Lavigne are set to perform on Teen Choice 2007 Sunday, Aug 26 (8:00-10:00 ET Live/PT tape delayed) on FOX. Clarkson will perform the “Never Again” and Lavigne will sing her infectious “Girlfriend”…

http://www.movieweb.com/tv/news/19/21719.php

Clarkson slipping into a sales slump

Five years after winning the first American Idol title, Kelly Clarkson may be losing it at the cash register. At least temporarily.
Her current album My December, a dark departure signaling the singer’s artistic independence and emotional turmoil, is falling short of its two peppy pop predecessors. In its sixth week on the Billboard chart, the disc dropped six slots to No. 21 after selling 26,500 copies, down 14% from last week’s 31,000, for a total of 562,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan….

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2007-08-09-clarkson-sales_N.htm