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Published Date: 13 February 2010 By Malcolm Jack KELLY CLARKSON *** O2 ACADEMY, GLASGOW WE’RE suckers here in the UK for a cuddly sap (Leon Jackson, Joe McElderry) or a diva-ish belter (Leona Lewis, Alexandra Burke) when it comes to our TV karaoke stars. Across the pond, they prefer to pluck from obscurity the sort of down-to-earth, all-American sort whom you can imagine fixing your car or taking your food order when not belting out a note-perfect Bridge Over Troubled Water.
Kelly Clarkson may have become American Idol’s most successful winner because she’s the ultimate girl-next-door with the big voice, or simply the prototype.
Either way, she’s succeeded where many others have failed in forging a wildly successful career beyond the idiot box, by toeing a line in angsty-but-cute pop catered to alienate approximately no-one.
A diminutive lass in flat shoes, jeans and a sparkly top, flanked by a crew of rockers for hire, Clarkson paid lip-service to about every American genre going, with everything from a bluesy Patsy Cline number to a take on the White Stripes’ Seven Nation Army. There were inevitable schmaltzy ballads to lower her powerful vocal guns upon. Electro-disco fare among Clarkson’s newer material suggested a desire to reach out to anyone who finds the Killers a little too edgy.
Her default setting is punky power pop, and it was the likes of Since U Been Gone and My Life Would Suck Without You that got the crowd bouncing. Clarkson’s lyrics are desperately hackneyed, her emotional clout non-existent. But the mother-daughter team sat by this reviewer hooting along in tandem to every word didn’t seem to care a jot, and that would appear to be the point.
Kelly Clarkson kicked off her UK tour – entitled All I Ever Wanted – at the arena in Liverpool and has been praised by one news provider for the performance.
According to the Mirror, the singer “has come a long way since she won the first season of American Idol in 2002″.
The series of concerts are taking place in support of Kelly’s fourth album, which has the same name as the tour, and it reached number three in the UK charts last year, the publication adds.
Kelly Clarkson is planning to get rockier on her new album, as she is inspired by acts such as Garbage and Muse.
The singer recently revealed work has already begun on the follow-up to ‘All I Ever Wanted’, and now Kelly has revealed the heavier direction she intends to go.
“We’re already working on it but it’s probably not going to hit until, like, the fourth quarter of next year – around Christmas next year. said Clarkson.
“There’s still some like singer/songwriter stuff on the album, but there’s – I don’t know. It’s almost like Garbage-meets-pop-meets-Muse. It’s a little different.
“I don’t know how it’s going to end up. Who knows? It always ends up being something completely different.”
Joint Winner of South African ‘Idols’ 2009 Jason Hartman has been chosen to support ‘American Idol’ Kelly Clarkson during her South African leg of her ‘All I Ever Wanted’ global tour powered by 5FM.
Locally, the tour starts on Friday 12th March at the Coca-Cola Dome in Johannesburg, before moving into the ICC Durban Arena on Sunday 14th March and finally Cape Town at the Grand Arena, GrandWest on Wednesday 17th March 2010.
‘Idols’ fans already know a large part of Jason Hartman’s musical gifts: the 29-year-old made such an impression with his singing and performing that in May 2009, he was named the co-winner of this year’s incarnation of the global talent search. But ‘Idols’ only gave a small window into Hartman’s dazzling array of talents — which together make him as exciting an artist as any who have emerged out of South Africa’s five ‘Idols’ seasons.
Jason’s debut album ‘On The Run’ is a 13-track album which he wrote himself and played many of the instruments on the record and music industry insiders believe this is just the beginning for this super talented South African Idol.
Kelly Clarkson was the first to prove that winning ‘Idols’ can catapult a music career to world-wide success.
She has sold more than 20 million albums since her 2002 ‘American Idol’ debut. Her current ‘All I Ever Wanted’ release shattered records, with the lead single ‘My Life Would Suck Without You’.
The song earned Clarkson her first #1 single in the UK. Concert attendees can expect to hear the latest hits from the tour’s namesake album, along with her signature pop anthems such as ‘Since U Been Gone’ and ‘Because of You’.Jason is extremely excited to support Kelly. “It’s a great honour to be given this opportunity,” he said. “I think that Kelly is a phenomenal performer and I’m really looking forward to touring with her on her first visit to our beautiful country South Africa.”
Kelly Clarkson has landed a Grammy Award Nomination! She is being nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album for All I Ever Wanted.
The announcement of Kelly Clarkson’s Grammy Award nomination was posted today on her Facebook page.
This is Kelly Clarkson’s fifth Grammy Awards nomination. She earned her first nomination in 2004 for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (Miss Independent). She along with Reba McEntire also received a joint nomination in 2008 for Best Country Collaboration With Vocals (Because of You).
Kelly Clarkson currently holds two Grammy Awards, both from 2006. One for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (Since U Been Gone) and another for Best Pop Vocal Album (Breakaway).
Visit the Grammy Awards site for a complete list of this year’s nominations.
Kelly Clarkson Is Working On New Album for Late 2010
Friday October 30, 2009
Yesterday, in an interview with Chicago’s Kiss FM, Kelly Clarkson revealed that she is already at work on her fifth solo album, and we may see a late 2010 release. She says the next album will be really different. That would seem nothing new. All I Ever Wanted, My December, and Breakaway are all significantly different from each other. The primary thing they have in common is Kelly Clarkson’s stellar voice.
Kelly Clarkson seems to have calmed any of the fears about whether she was a long-term commercially viable artist after the introspective My December sold poorly. Her current album All I Ever Wanted has already sold nearly as many copies as My December in just over six months of release, and it has generated three top 20 pop singles while My December produced only one.
Kelly Clarkson stops by to hang with Ty Bentli at 103-5 KissFM in Chicago! This is part one of two…before she ran upstairs to the Coca-Cola Lounge to meet a bunch of 103-5 KissFM listeners and perform a whole acoustic set for them!
Kelly Clarkson Working on “Something Different” for New Album
Even though Kelly Clarkson is still out on the road in support of her latest release All I Ever Wanted through March 2010, that doesn’t mean she’s not already thinking about what comes next. In a recent radio interview with Kiss FM in Chicago, the chatty singer revealed that she’s already begun work on her 5th studio album. So what can fans expect?
According to Clarkson, “something different.” Well that’s insightful, no? Thanks, Kel! The real interesting tidbit is that she disclosed that she might not have time to write the whole album as a result of her tour schedule (read: Clive won’t let her). Fans have come to expect a certain number of Clarkson penned tracks on her albums, though you get the sense that shes learning to play nice with her label honcho by mixing her own work with the industry’s hottest producers. Can we say “My Life Would Suck Without You?”
Knowing the Clarkson, she’s still got a few tricks up her sleeves. I, personally, would love to see her do an all acoustic/stripped down record. Check out the interview below