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Kelly Clarkson might have another chance to call December hers next month, when she releases her new single "My Life Would Suck Without You." At least, that's what Swedish pop svengali Dr. Luke—who co-produced the track with Max Martin—is claiming, although he's also hedging his bets and saying the single could be delayed until early 2009. [Hollywood Insider]

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A tipster has written in to let us know that Kelly Clarkson's album is not, in fact, coming out before the end of 2008, as we speculated in our Friday post about the fourth quarter's release schedule. Here is a space for you (and me) to commiserate over that fact.

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revolving chairs

"American Idol" Hopefuls To Be Judged By Former Dave Stewart Collaborator

Alas, I'm not talking about Annie Lennox. In an effort to bring what a Fox exec calls more "girl power" to the show, the judges' table for the next season of American Idol will now have a Coke cup for songwriter Kara DioGuardi, who's shared writing credits on songs including Christina Aguilera's "Ain't No Other Man" and Kelly Clarkson's "Walk Away" and collaborated with Stewart on the pseudo-retro project Platinum Weird. DioGuardi, who Idol head honcho Simon Fuller called "a smart, sassy lady," is being billed as the show's fourth judge, which I guess means either that the judges' table will be widened or Paula Abdul will get some time off to "rest" now and again. (One producer claims that Idol was always supposed to have four judges, although it seems strange to me that it took the executives this long to find someone who wanted the gig.) A few highlights of DioGuardi's career after the jump. More »

10:30 AM on Mon Aug 25 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Latest by jckrbtslmz: Fully shameless plug here, but I wrote a piece for the Orlando Weekly last year about today's pop music and it features some interesting quotes from Kara. ("Hilary Duff's doing a service for kids") [www.orlandoweekly.com] I can tell you she's an awesome more »

Get It While It's Still Streaming They were scoured from Pretty Much Amazing almost as soon as they were posted, but four leaked Kelly Clarkson demos from her forthcoming, much-more-country-tinged album are still lurking in the bowels of the Hype Machine. Get clicking quickly—particularly on the link that takes you to the pretty "Close Your Eyes," which perhaps unsurprisingly recalls "Dust In The Wind"—because I suspect they won't be around for long! [Google / Photo: AP]

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never again will i sin against you

Kelly Clarkson's Road To Redemption Continues With Stop In Front Of The Pope

It's not reciting the words to "How Will I Know" 20 times and "I Will Always Love You" 30 times, but Kelly Clarkson is going to perform a penance of sorts later this month, when she'll perform what could be seen as the ultimate diva jam: Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria," which she'll perform for Pope Benedict XVI before he gives a speech in Yonkers, N.Y., on April 19. She's calling this opportunity a "blessing," even though she's Baptist and the oh-so-conservative Benny 16 will probably be thinking that she's a fake Christian during her entire performance. More »

2:55 PM on Tue Apr 1 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Latest by Maura Johnston: @NoNewYork: i wish. i found cites of this story dating back to mid-march. more »

reworkings

Slash Finally Realizes Weiland Is Velvet Revolver's Weakest Link

Slash promises that Velvet Revolver will record a third album, with or (please please please) without Weiland. "We don't know how or when but the core four guys will continue," he was quoted as saying. It's a heartwarming response to the bitchfits his estranged compatriot has been issuing to the world, as there's no reason The Band Formerly Known As Guns N' Roses should back a grating, obnoxious hack who can't get his pipes around anything on Appetite For Destruction except "It's So Easy," making him more of a rock dodo than a rock dinosaur. But now that The Big Empty might be out of the picture, which grating, obnoxious hack (with more vocal range) should replace him? More »

10:00 AM on Mon Mar 31 2008
By Anthony Miccio
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Latest by wakeupbomb: Come on people, is there a more obvious choice than Justin Hawkins from The Darkness? Seriously, the Darkness broke up (didn't they?) and he's got the pipes to cover Axl's high notes, and rock out on his own. more »

it's everybody's december now

Once Again, Clive Davis Learns the Wrong Lesson From the Kelly Clarkson Affair

Because apparently the Beatles took music in the wrong direction, Clive Davis says that singers should not write their own songs.

Davis, chairman and chief executive officer of the BMG Label Group, said he has seen many entertainers lose their careers by not concentrating on finding hit songs — no matter who they are written by..."I don't care how many No. 1's you have written in the past, have you written a new No. 1?" When [Whitney] Houston came to him after her second or third album and asked if she should start writing songs, he said: "Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra didn't write, and they are among Time magazine's greatest artists of the century."

Let's break down the numerous ways Davis is wrong, shall we?

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10:30 AM on Fri Mar 7 2008
By Dick Malone
2,856 views, 16 comments

an objects of affection special report

Kelly Clarkson Fans Fight Clive Davis With Rudimentary Understanding Of Editing Software

In light of what they see as Clive Davis's neglect toward the promotion of Kelly Clarkson's My December, the Kelly Clarkson Express—a group that sounds like it should serve as a dual-purpose fan club for the first American Idol and trains—has put together a video for the song "How I Feel," which its members think should be the next single. This is but one facet of the How I Feel Project, a campaign to get the song played on the radio, or maybe very quietly in the background of an MTV show. While strong fan support is essential when you're a pop star being ignored by one of the world's most powerful music bigwigs, that devotion can come with a price—and in this case, that price is a well-intentioned but sadly incompetent tribute video. More »

2:00 PM on Tue Feb 19 2008
By Kate Richardson
1,849 views, 9 comments

Latest by krazygemini1980: The Album is not a FLOP as many are compelled to Call it.. It has gone Platium in the US as of December 07, (yes look it up if you wish on the RIAA website) Also the album world wide more »

passive-aggressive management 101

Kelly Clarkson Invited To Be Back On Clive Davis' Good Side

Kelly Clarkson didn't have the best 2007, and a large part of that was because of her very public tussle with record label honcho Clive Davis over the artistic direction she took on her most recent album, My December. Since that tumult—which culminated in her tour being canceled and only one single being released from the album—she's been taken under Reba McEntire's wing and played some intimate shows in theaters. And Davis has taken notice, waving an olive branch in the form of his glittery invite to his annual pre-Grammys dinner party in Clarkson's direction. Since our invitation apparently got lost in the mail, Roger Friedman's breathless description follows: More »

12:35 PM on Mon Feb 4 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,913 views, 3 comments

Latest by egg cream: @dabug: It wasn't, which is why this whole thing was so stupid in the first place. It wasn't a matter of Davis being unhappy with her sound (which wasn't much of a departure from Breakaway anyway), it was a more »

Some behind-the-gold-and-platinum numbers from Ken Barnes' RIAA reality check: The Jonas Brothers, despite seeming damn nigh inescapable, have only just gone platinum with their latest full-length—and they haven't even hit the million-sold mark yet; Kelly Clarkson's My December also got a platinum plaque despite being about 250,000 copies short of the million-sold mark; and someone greased enough palms to get James Blunt a gold record for his latest album, even though it's sold 352,000 copies. (Although that number seems very, very high to me, given the loud thud of indifference that greeted the album's release a few months back.) [Listen Up]

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dental hygiene

Musical Toothbrush Changing The Way Children Experience Hannah Montana, Having Songs Beamed Into Their Brains

Now that purchasing music directly is out of style, how will the next generation consume their favorite Top 40 hits? And will they be able to do so while maintaining their daily personal hygiene routine? Hasbro's Tooth Tunes Musical Toothbrush is the only brush that sends music through your teeth...and into your head! Which two-minute song clip would you choose to be sent "through your jawbone to your inner ear? More »

12:40 PM on Fri Dec 7 2007
By Kate Richardson
1,204 views, 6 comments

videodrone

Kelly Clarkson Screams For Vengeance, Charity

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videodrone

The New Kelly Clarkson Video: The Overgrown Foliage Is A Metaphor, You See


My ears pricked up toward the end—from "Since You Been Gone" to "Walk Away," the woman knows how to work over a tight bridge—but mostly the MOR snooze of "Don't Waste Your Time" is a pretty obvious excuse to create Kelly's ornate summer-job-at-the-Ren-Faire/dark-fantasy-novel-about-unicorns-and-princesses daydreams on screen, with the living creeper vines and corny CGI castles and flowling black and red goth dresses and the Sleeping Beauty canopy bed and the candelabras, and whatnot. Our "pals" at Stereogum compare it to Evanescence like that's a bad thing, making me wish the song was actually, you know, better so I could get all protective/defensive over KC rather than just wishing her rock was a little less rote here.

Kelly Clarkson - "Don't Waste Your Time" [YouTube]

2:55 PM on Mon Oct 8 2007
By jharv
161 views, 4 comments

Latest by mandarin: Her arms are kinda big.. more »

Kelly Clarkson's Bad Year Gets A Bit Of Spam Thrown On It A tipster forwarded us an e-mail that he'd fished out of his junk-mail folder this morning, and it made us sad for reasons that will become pretty obvious:

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Kelly Clarkson's new-look tour, so far: One night at a casino, two nights at New York City's decidedly-not-arena-sized Beacon Theatre. Jordin Sparks take heed: The long road back into Clive Davis' good graces is pockmarked with "manageable"-sized venues. [kellyclarkson.com]

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Swedish kook-pop queen Robyn gives "Since U Been Gone" a delicate electro makeover. If you listen hard enough, in the background you can hear the collective brains of the Internet's pop fiends exploding! [Electroqueer]

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fourth or fifth wave feminism

Feminist Icon Reveals Herself As Closet Clarkson Fan

Camille Paglia—who has never, ever been right about anything ever (and I swear I'm not just saying that because she flunked me in freshman year of college)—has heard the future of rock, and its name is My December. More »

1:00 PM on Wed Aug 8 2007
By jharv
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A shot-for-shot remake of Kelly Clarkson's "Never Again" video that allegedly didn't cost a cent to produce. We're sure the accounting department at Sony BMG is forwarding this clip around the office right now. [Pop Music Kingdom]

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