What was the big shocker there? Your recent comments in support of Ron Paul ruffled feathers too. Oh, my gosh! All I said was that I like him. Are you a big Whitney Houston fan? I know every Whitney Houston song.
Were you jealous when Adele won all her Grammys? No way! If I could roll over and look like that. This story is from the March 15th, issue of Rolling Stone. Kelly Clarkson performs in New Orleans, Louisiana. Newswire Powered by. Close the menu. Rolling Stone.
As part of the Glamour series To Me, From Me , writer Christopher Rosa argues the power of a great film can be just as transformative as a day at the spa. By Christopher Rosa. Rewards Free Stuff Promos. Twitter content View on Twitter. Topics kelly clarkson lady gaga. Celebrity Gossip. This is a point Clarkson emphasises throughout the interview: she has no interest in fame or celebrity, she never dreamed of being a star, she doesn't seek the limelight, she's just not that kind of girl.
And for all her bubbly charm, a steely professionalism glints occasionally. When asked to respond to Simon Cowell's recent comment that Clarkson "started to fight against what made her successful … one minute she wants to make pop records, and then she doesn't," she laughs loudly again, but there's a distinct flash of anger as she says: "Everyone's aware that My Life Would Suck Without You and Already Gone were huge pop hits, right?
Just checking. Maybe someone should send 'em to him! So her protestations of ordinariness might all seem somewhat disingenuous — though it's refreshing to hear a pop megastar acknowledge concepts such as luck and chance, rather than grimly trotting out American dream cliches and Protestant work ethic myths — were it not for her own career decisions bearing it out. Between promotional campaigns, she all but vanishes from the public eye, retreating to her homes in Nashville and Texas, where her family owns a acre animal rescue ranch "horses, goats, pigs, dogs; animals that are deaf, blind, mistreated, about to be put to sleep".
And famously, over the years, there have been the repeated clashes with her label. Reviewing her debut album, 's solid-but-unremarkable Thankful, Rolling Stone described her as "a pop posy whose career is tied for eternity to the whims of her American Idol overlords". During the subsequent eight years, the question of what sort of music it is appropriate for an Idol winner to record and release has been front and centre of Clarkson's career.
This came to a head in over the bleak My December, an album that opens with the girl who was meant to be America's sweetheart snarling " I hope the ring you gave to her turns her finger green" over grunge guitars, and ends with Irvine , a bare, flickering lightbulb of a ballad that sounds like a nervous breakdown in song form. Clarkson says she penned it alone in a hotel room, exhausted, at the "lowest point in my life".
Too dark, too bitter, too negative; the reaction, both from label executives and, bizarrely, from critics who seemed to run with their line, was telling. It was possibly indicative that none of its critics had listened to Clarkson's previous album, Breakaway, particularly the song that would become its greatest success. Rolling her eyes, Clarkson laughs again. That song really is the most depressing one I've ever written.
I tried to get it on Thankful, and was laughed at and told I wasn't a good writer. So then I tried to get it on Breakaway — and the label saw the results, people responding to it, and allowed it to become a single.
Then took credit for its success, of course.
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