Kelly Clarkson‘s kids started to wonder what love really was after her divorce from Brandon Blackstock.
23.06.2023 - 23:43 / variety.com
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Who wouldn’t want to sing Kelly-oke to a brand new Kelly Clarkson album? But just be prepared to go to a few darker places, as some of the deeply confessional songs on “Chemistry” come up, many of them prompted by her 2020 divorce from Brandon Blackstock and the events that led up to it. Even if she insists that she put some of the most baldly personal songs she wrote away in a drawer, what’s left is still altogether autobiographical, having been written during some of her darkest days roughly three years ago. Not that it’s entirely daunting stuff; Clarkson made sure to include some songs harking further back in her relationship, before the chemistry went sour, to cover the heat generated in the early stages of a relationship, too. She joined Variety via Zoom to discuss the full arc of what “Chemistry” covers.
You’ve said you wrote a lot of the material for this album on planes going back and forth, late at night. What was going on then, and why was that such a good place to get your feelings out? Those were very emotional moments. First of all, I was exhausted emotionally, just from going through a divorce. And I was working very hard, two or three jobs at once, plus flying my kids. Every night I’d go right after work, have to fly, then fly back. I’d have my headphones on and everything would go away. It was dark and, because it was always at nighttime and 35,000 feet in the air, it’s the one place where people aren’t really bothering you and talking to you and wanting something from you, so it was a still environment. I think that’s why. I didn’t plan it. Yeah, there were a lot of tear-filled airplane rides, writing these songs. Did you ever find when you were
Kelly Clarkson‘s kids started to wonder what love really was after her divorce from Brandon Blackstock.
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Kelly Clarkson is opening up about how she cared for her mental health amid her divorce from Brandon Blackstock.During an appearance on the Las Culturistas podcast, Clarkson revealed that she wouldn't have made it through the divorce without the help of antidepressants.«I am gonna be very honest right now and I have not owned this ever… I looked at my therapist and I just couldn't stop sobbing, and I was like, 'I actually had to cancel something the other day because I couldn't stop crying. I cannot do this,'» Clarkson shared.
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Kelly Clarkson appeared on “Watch What Happens Live” and clarified the tension behind the making of her hit single “Since U Been Gone,” which still carries a “bad vibe” for her to this day. Clarkson was asked by host Andy Cohen to respond to a revelation in Clive Davis’ memoir in which the mega-producer claimed he had to force Clarkson to record “Since U Been Gone.” “Let’s give some backstory,” Clarkson said. “I was lied to, and they told me there are these producers who want to work with you and there’s this song. It had dummy lyrics. They didn’t have lyrics in. They said they wanted me to work with it. I was told to write to the song.”
Kelly Clarkson went through it!
Kelly Clarkson got a lot of help from medication.
Kelly Clarkson was able to break away from her marriage to Brandon Blackstock, but not without suffering from an enormity of feelings, all while in the spotlight. For the first time, Clarkson is admitting that she took antidepressants as she dealt with her public, messy divorce. "I was on Lexapro for like, I think two months," she said of the popular SSRI drug. "Because I was like, look I don't want to be on it forever.
Kelly Clarkson is getting the last laugh. The three-time GRAMMY winner threw a hint of subtle shade at some unnamed celebrities she says were rude to her following her 2002 win. In an interview on Tuesday's episode of Clarkson was asked by host Andy Cohen to identify one of those stars by name. Opting to plead the fifth instead, Clarkson couldn't help but offer a little tease.«I will say, a lot of them ended up on shows like the one I'm from,» she hinted.
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Taylor Swift that she re-record and re-release her old albums — after Swift lost the rights to her masters when Scooter Braun purchased her former label, Big Machine Records — Kelly Clarkson isn't taking any credit for the success of the releases.«She’s brilliant, she would’ve come up with that on her own, and she maybe already had before I even tweeted it,» Clarkson told Andy Cohen in a new interview this week, in support of Clarkson's new album, C.On July 13, 2019, days after Swift took to social media to share that she was unaware of the details of the sale beforehand — stating that Braun owning her masters was «my worst case scenario» — Clarkson reached out to Swift on Twitter, saying, «Just a thought, U should go in & re-record all the songs that U don’t own the masters on exactly how U did them but put brand new art & some kind of incentive so fans will no longer buy the old versions. I’d buy all of the new versions just to prove a point.»@taylorswift13 just a thought, U should go in & re-record all the songs that U don’t own the masters on exactly how U did them but put brand new art & some kind of incentive so fans will no longer buy the old versions.
Kelly Clarkson admitted changes are already in place for the fifth season of her talk show after accusations surfaced of a "toxic" working environment. Clarkson said she "definitely was blindsided" by a report published in May where one current and 10 ex-staffers alleged abuses from producers and other high-ranking employees. "I think the important thing is, we get into this mindset of canceling everything or everyone. And that’s not unhealthy because it’s like, ‘OK then …’ Because what you’re saying is every time somebody says something, then it’s just over," she told The Hollywood Reporter. "And that’s not how you work on things.
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Kelly Clarkson has plans to change how work is done at her talk show after some staffers said it was a «toxic» environment.In a expose published in May, one current and 10 former employees of spoke out about their time working on the NBC program.«Kelly has no clue how unhappy her staff is,» one former employee told . Among the allegations lobbied against the production, the employees told that they were overworked, underpaid, and that their mental health suffered as a result of working on the show. Now, in a new interview with, Clarkson says she was «blindsided» by the comments from the anonymous staffers. And while the claims were shocking for her, Clarkson wants to learn from this. «I think the important thing is, I think we get into this mindset of canceling everything or everyone.
is hard enough without the added pressure of being a public figure. And though Kelly Clarkson appeared to have it together following her 2021 divorce from , to whom she was married for seven years, she says that “behind closed doors" she was a mess.During an interview on Apple Music 1, which dropped June 21, the singer told host Zane Lowe: “Just to be brutally honest, I did not handle it well.”“I had many sessions with just my friends [where] I couldn’t even speak,” she continued.