If last week’s Twitter rant by Kelly Clarkson was any indicator, we should all be happy that the Grammy-winning songstress has been keeping her tweets to herself in the wake of another unreleased song making its way online. “Cleopatra,” a demo of a tune Clarkson said she’d written for another artist, leaked last week and caused her to go off on “disrespecting, lying, sneaky little trolls.” But while “Cleopatra” was meant to be handed off to someone else, “Naked Eye,” a new song, sounds like 100% pure Kelly Clarkson. Have a listen after the jump.
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Kelly, who recently turned 28, sounds in top form on this upbeat, slick pop track (though the chorus seems a bit sparse, lyrically). If “Naked Eye,” which musically falls into the “My Life Would Suck Without You” vein, isn’t yet on the slate as a single release, it ought to be.
“Can’t take back what you can’t change, can’t fix what’s more than broken,” Clarkson sings. And that applies to songs surfacing on the Internet in the modern age.
So we say slap this jam onto iTunes pronto, Kelly, even if your album isn’t fully ready yet. Because you’ve got another surefire hit on your hands.
UPDATE: Be sure to check out Kelly Clarkson’s other new song “Wash Rinse Repeat,” which appears to be a not-so-thinly-veiled attack on Ryan Tedder.
No, everybody agrees Nickleback sucks.
Wow definately 100% Kelly Arcade Fire
Liiiies~ liiiies~
she better pay some royalties to arcade fire, this is a total ripoff.
i like it! kelly is amazingg cant wait for next record, she has one of the best voices in the music industry, so versatile, and incredible pipes :)
Kelly Clarkson is an idiot.
I wholeheartedly agree that this is a rip-off of Arcade Fire’s “Lies.” The sad thing is, however, this song isn’t even remotely good. Oh well Clarkson, better luck next time.
Wow, and the RIAA wonders why people steal their “music”, they stole it themselves!
it sounds more like ‘no cars go’ than rebellion
jerk!!!
She is not that bad. She probably doesn’t even write her own songs.
arcade fire > kelly clarkson. all day everyday. kelly should be embarrassed.
RIP OFF!!!
She probably had nothing to do with the chord progression. Chances are it would’ve changed before it ever got released, this is just a rough demo remember? She could give it a much heavier mix which would be much simpler to play live than this. It could be a tribute to Arcade Fire for all we know, ever heard of SAMPLING in a song?!
Bitch be stealins.
Just for comparison, here’s Rebellion (Lies) by The Arcade Fire which was released in 2004 and went on to win a number of awards from NME and Blender: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNfWC4Sgkcs
You be the judge. Is Kelly Clarkson the new Vanilla Ice? Or are we all still just ripping off of Pachabel’s Canon which most likely was itself ripped from some Christian chorals?
PS No Cars Go by The Arcade Fire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83KR_UBWdPI
PS, according to the internet, this is apparently not the first time: http://www.theawl.com/2010/05/kelly-clarkson-naked-eye
Considering she had Since U Been Gone written to rip off Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Maps, it isn’t all that surprising that she’d go for some more indie cred…though, this blatant plagiarism. Not cool, K-Clark.
I’ll be honest, while this is an obviously blatant rip-off, I’ll bet it’s not on Kelly herself. I’ll bet her producer decided that. I don’t listen to her, but I generally don’t mind her as an artist…but seriously…I liked it better the first time I heard it as “Rebellion”…
PLAGIARISM! COPY!
ridiculous!!!
Arcade Fire is 10000000x better than you Kelly!
copy fail from
“Rebellion” by Arcade Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNfWC4Sgkcs
In your opinion.
The two songs doesnt even sound the same at all!!
they have to different beats…
Hahahaha you suck
How could she pay royalties to Arcade Fire? She hasn’t made a penny off of this song. Like some other people have said, this is just a sample. She hasn’t released it to the public to buy, so she hasn’t made money off of it, so she couldn’t pay royalties. This very well might not be on her next album. Sometimes artists like to re-record other artists’ songs. (Think ‘I Will Always Love You’…) Some of the time they do release it, but others it is just to mess around and have some fun like Kelly is known for. Remember here, she never had any intention of this getting on the internet, so she’s probably just as mad as you guys are, but at least she has a good reason.
OK SHUT UP CUZ KELLY CLARKSON IS NOT NO IDIOT! She is my idol!
not 100%. the chorus also smacks heavily of Mr. Brightside
fake eyes…
its arcade fire!!!!!!!
she not that bad
You are the idiot.
Kelly Clarkson fricken rocks. All you haters suck. Who the eff is Arcade Fire??? Yeah….nobody!!!
Kelly Clarkson rocks and nobody can deny that.
Youre an idiot.
this is a great song and will be a big hit. who cares if the chords are the same. most songs out there consist of the same chords. what matters most is who puts out the better product and Kelly’s use of the music will provide a much bigger hit and will have better use than Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire is to epic for you to have heard of.
do someone know where i can get this song??? <3
I love it. I do see a little resemblence in the beat of Rebellion, but i wouldn’t call it a complete rip off. Considering all the drama with this though and the fact that we can still listen to the song on the internet, i doubt it’ll be on the album. I hope it is cuz i really like it. For all you haters why don’t you go listen to “Irvine” or better yet the entire My December album, it’ll change your mind. Honesty, I blame Clive Davis for all this drama around Already Gone and any future drama cuz nobody said anything about My December when it came out, they didn’t criticize any of the songs sayin they sound like something else. But now that Clive Davis when douche bag mode on Kelly and basically made her make a strictly pop album, (AIEW), we start hearing stuff like this (granted that was Ryan Tedder’s fault, but you see my point). Kelly would be better if she had complete creative control like she tried to do in MD (which is my favorite album by the way).
wow.
f she had complete creative control like she tried to do in MD (which is my favorite album by the way
You don’t know what you are talking about. Kelly Clarkson is one of the best artists around. Chord progressions are so easy to accidentally have two of the same. It’s probably just a coincidence.
You should be embarrassed for being a hipster who can’t see that there is talent in mainstream music as well.