Kelly Clarkson is Back with Soul!

Here's the direct link to Love So Soft

Here's the direct link to Move You

The first one is okay, the second one is just boring. But I love Kelly and she looks great in that blue outfit.

She looks like Our Lady of the Flowers at OP.

Love her voice, Kelly!!

Her music is not my cup of tea but she really does have a fantastic voice and there is something about her that I really like she just comes across as a decent person and it doesn't seem like a put on like with Gaga and Beyoncé with their fakey fake persons.

R6 true! I always thought she pinged too.

personas^

Wow, she got fat!

R9 she never lost the baby weight, poor girl

Looks more like she's back with soul food - and plenty of it.

[quote] But I love Kelly and she looks great in that blue outfit.

She looks huge, sis.

Love so soft is great and she looks great. Her body is her business. She is a singer. Not a sex symbol.

The Chunky Beauty is back, and with a vengeance!

The songs are not bad, but they're not really a complete departure from her existing repertoire. They are very much in her lane and safe for pop radio. Don't call it Urban Soul though.

She seems to be turning into Beth Ditto.

I wonder if the new label will promote this record. Her most recent record was good but not a lot of people knew it was out.

Maybe people who see her on The Voice will buy it.

I like the new songs.

Why is fast food flying around behind her in OP pic?

Although waaaaay too many singers have done it before her, I always hope she'll cover some of the Great American Songbook. She's got the voice for it. And about the only thing I remember her singing on her American Idol season was "Stuff Like That There." More of that, please!

R19, it's funny that you reference her Idol performances--in this interview from last year, she says that her performing these new songs is "what people voted for"

I was afraid that she'd crossed over to Country music permanently after hooking up with Reba's people. Sooo glad that she hasn't done that (yet).

No reason why she shouldn't do Country music since that audience loves her, too.

Didn't like "Love So Soft"

"Move You" not bad

Good god, those arrangements are annoying.

Is she still a lesbian?

She trying to be fatter than janet

Frau music

That soft song is annoying as fuck. And she got plump. Those outfits were horrid.

The production, particularly Love So Soft, sounds "very 2017" to me which apparently current music buyers like. I'd guess that both songs will sound much better when performed live with a band.

meh, I like her but this is just generic pop music

She's very fugly looking isn't she? Can't stand her mostly because of her bitching about how no one wants to work with her, UGH. And seriously? She's very fug, she's one of those people who should never gain weight as it makes her look a bit slow cognitively in the membrane.

Hated it. UGH at 1 minute 45 sceonds...."move you"....that note.....when she tries to sing those notes and get up high.....her voice sounds painfully dry, sore and cracked. Whitney (used to) be able to hit those and it comes from a place of FEELING "it". Kelly sounds horrible.

She looks terrible.

Yawn... Music for supermarkets.

I think she is the kind of singer who doesn't need to be boxed into a specific genre. She could do "soul" or country or any variation of pop music and still sell units. She won't ever be a Top 40 juggernaut again but she is just so damned likeable and vocally talented that it doesn't matter. She's a star with no star attitude.

It would have to be a biiiiiiig box, r34.

I love her ginormous over weight voice

Who cares if she's fat?

God, you gay men are beyond disgusting with your critiquing of her body weight as your only comment. As a recent article about Mariah stated, no one ever criticized Pavarotti for being overweight, they focused on his voice. They're singers, not bikini models. Grow up and get over yourselves. You're trash.

First song is so-so. The 2nd one is a fucking snooze. No idea why they need to put her voice through auto-tune. She's one of the few singers out there today who actually CAN sing.

She hasn't had anything good since that should-have-been-a-hit People Like Us off her Greatest Hits. She's kind of over, but she had a good run.

R38 = LSA

She is not Adele.

Adele is fine but I think Kelly has 10x the natural talent. I'd much rather listen to Kelly than Adele.

Yes, but unlike Mariah Pavarotti didn't wear suits in a teenager's style and size.

She dresses appropriate for her size. Mariah just looks pathetic trying to dress like a 20 year old sexpot plus she cant sing anymore.

Love her voice and first song

Derivative, just like everything she's done.

Cultural Misappropriation

If you're going to deliver something so bland and MOR, don't go around crowing about wanting to do something so different now that you've regained your "creative control."

She's the American Adele

"Love So Soft" sounds like a Meghan Trainor song, and that ain't good. Move You starts out good, but it goes nowhere. Her voice also sounds raspy and dry.

Meghan Trainer should feel very threatened. This industry, along with many elevators, ain't big enough to fit the both of them.

Meghan Trainor is ugly and can't sing #puke

I'm curious, derivative of what, R46?

[quote] If you're going to deliver something so bland and MOR, don't go around crowing about wanting to do something so different now that you've regained your "creative control."

This 100%. But I like Kelly, so I hope it's a success for her, even though I won't bother listening to it again.

Off-topic listen to Lara Fabian's new song Growing Wings. Gorgeous song and video.

Is Kelly still a muff diver?

She got fat is she trying out to replace the Goodyear Blimp?

[quote] She got fat is she trying out to replace the Goodyear Blimp?

Hey, she had a baby!

Of course, that baby is in middle school at this point...

I think I know the answer but would you chose Kelly over Demi Lovato? I'd probably say Kelly. What say y'all?

Kelly is a much better singer. Demi screams on key and people mistake it for singing.

I wonder if the recording industry is ever going to be all right with Black people making R&B or Soul music ever again or do we have to let White people continue to take it over until the end of time?

R61, I have no problem with white singers doing R&B or Soul if they feel it and have the vocal chops. I think LeAnn Rimes, Wynonna Judd and Joss Stone have proven that. But I would enjoy the next Luther or Gladys or Aretha to be African American. There was a Japanese band called Orquestra de la Luz that played Salsa and played extremely well and with great feeling. Lead singer was a woman named Nora. So anyone can perform in any genre if they really love it.

I love the first song It looks like she's having fun. She has an amazing voice and truly can sing in any genre she wants. For instance, her version of "Quiet Uptown" is amazing. And even though I loath country music, I'd always hoped she'd do a country album just to piss off Carrie Underbot.

Sounds like material that was rejected by Amy Winehouse - with good reason. Repetitious and dull. And despite all the "Hey, it's her body" comments she looks just awful in the video clip, which is the kiss of death fro female singers who were once considered hot. If she'd been doing the "porky and proud" routine from the get go she might have been able to get away with it.

When she was young and beautiful (and in spectacular voice).

The video at R65 is from 2002 when Kelly was 20 years old.

We can't stay 20 forever. Should she have killed herself on her 21st birthday?

Her voice is always on point.

I don't really know much of her music, but I think she has a fantastic voice. I used to be a waiter, and waited on her one night, in Nashville. I didn't know who she was, but I loved talking to her and joking with her. She got their before the rest of her party, and sat alone at the bar, and I started talking to her because she looked fun. And she was. When she was seated, it was in my section. We joked and she was a doll. I didn't know it was her until she gave me her credit card. She left almost a 100% tip on a fairly large tab, and gave me a big hug and kiss when she left. She was an absolute doll.

r68 great story. Kelly is the real deal.

[quote] We can't stay 20 forever. Should she have killed herself on her 21st birthday?

Did you hurt yourself after leaping to an absurd and unwarranted conclusion like that? Gee, I hope so.

People don't get obese naturally as they age. They do it by overeating.

I love her voice and she's great singer but sorry these songs are not good

her last album was a great pop collection. She's got a great voice. And you know she's intouchable now because she's allowed not to get thin.

She hasn't been skinny in ages.

[quote]I love her voice and she's great singer but sorry these songs are not good

I'm with you. One of my favorites of hers is 'Walk Away', now that is a great song.

After consistently selling platinum albums, Her final RCA album only sold 250K. It got very little promotion. Hopefully Atlantic will promote this new record. I like her and support her success.

The song about her dad from the last album was great.

Fat or not so fat Kelly can SING and she always had soul. She has a very pretty head voice, the best in the pop business but she can add rasp at will and spinto power up to those high G#. Girl is a real soprano with lyric and soulful qualities. Her voice has suffered a bit from years of touring, her singing style and two pregnancies. She has a lot of it back based on this week's live performances of her new songs. Being perfect is not really her thing, she sacrifices that for emotion and vocal power sometimes.

Try to find her singing "It's quiet Uptown" from the Hamilton soundtrack or her beautiful live performance of same on New Year's Eve on Seth Meyers. Her voice is b e a u t i f u l. Kelly has the range, the tonal pallette and the phrasing to make everything sound good. She's showing off her whistle notes on her new song, she always had them but saves them for soul. Kelly loved Mariah and that always shows, but to be honest she is a much better vocalist that Mariah. She is the coolest chick around, so cool and ordinary that y'all bitch she's not Taylor or Katy or Rihanna? Kelly is a real singer with a legit star voice. She's the best vocalist in the game. She has bitched about not getting the best songs and collaborators. I think this album will do well, but I wish she would do one of covers too.

KC covers Coldplay. Listen to the beautiful resonance and texture of her voice as she soars through this kind of monotonous song - she colors it in with her voice timbre and emotion. She's great. Cute here too.

This is what Kelly does in concert. She covers a new song every night that twitter fans suggest for that night's concert. She and her very good band work something up, but it's usually a bit messy and raw. She swings for the fences and strains her vocal chords but girl can sing her ass off AND her voice has amazing beauty. It's not just screaming - there are so many sweet spots, she raises goosebumps.

To say she has not recorded good material is a lie. She just hasn't been given much material worthy of her deep talent and feeling. Don't forget the girl could turn out a hit song like that. She can bop with soul. But she's a grown woman now. She fought Clive Davis and her old label for years. They wanted her to sing "My life would Suck Without You." She had to after some of her own ideas proved to dark. Kelly got soul.

When you sound this good, some people are still gonna call you out for not looking good. Kelly wears band shirts and no shoes in concert. She loves to sing but is not especially big on dressing up in drag for TV. She isn't big on acting like a pop diva either - she performs with real instinct and feeling. Girl is always herself. The Obamas had her perform for the WH many more times than publicized. She's got soul. If her new album bombs, does that make Taylor Swift a better singer or woman than Kelly Clarkson? Not ever. Nope.

She's the best. That glissando, the head trills, gorgeous vibrato used without melisma or + melisma later. On and off rasp at will. Known for her clear belting voice from the low chest tones to high mixed head voice. A whisper to the whistle voice with breathy finesse. Her head voice is the prettiest and most incisive in the business. She is an amalgam of pop, blues r&b and country singers. The best bar band chick singer in the world. She's never perfect, so doesn't worry about that. She always sings LIVE.

Oaky r62 but if you look closely and track it at a certain point in the 90's Black artists were guided into making hip-hop or rap. The Black boy band groups were shelved in favor of White boy groups and along with that R&B and Soul, which was Black and urban, became White and pop. I have a problem with what the music industry did in that regard. You can't tell me Timberlake or Beiber are as good as soul singers once were, neither is Kelly Clarkson. You might think they are, but they aren't. Do a sound comparison. They only sound good because there is no one else out there doing what they do.

All of songs sound the same: I'm a fat girl who's been misused by some ma but I'm losing weight and improving and now a new guy loves me.

r55 that song is shit. basic. boring. blech! Go away!

Kelly is one of the best live singers ever.

R84 OK, sorry

SINCE YOU BEEN GONE MS. LONELY

I've been Team Clarkson ever since! I am SO happy she's finally embraced what she REALLY is: a blue eyed soul singer. Think Box Scaggs and Teena Marie.

Don't deny what you are. Embrace it. LIVE IT!

Love this version of 'Walk Away' from Kelly and Reba's Tour together

I think the clip does her no favors. High concept "edgy" shit almost always requires a lean physique. Imagine how much better it would be if she was dressed down in a smokey bar setting in black and white.

Jolene

I wish she'd pick songs with more melody for her ballads. The second one is just a few repetitive notes over and over. Where are the "Unbreak my Heart"s or "Try a Little Tenderness." where she could really show her emotions and her exquisite control.

She's back with cream filling.

[quote]She trying to be fatter than janet

Janet's thin now.

Dang, how can a voice be so powerful AND so beautiful? Yes R91, Kelly can handle a classic bluesy melody and add her thrilling soar and pretty pretty voice to it. Her Christmas album is gorgeous singing too for folks who love her voice but not her usual songs. Just sayin...

Wtf is "urban soul"?

Why is she so fat?

Duet with John Legend on "You Don't Know Me".

I like that she tries different genres. Some singers never go outside their box.

Here with Josh Groban on "All I Ask of You".

No wonder she wants to do "Urban Soul". She knows the brothers can't get enough of that ass. She is marketing to a demographic that appreciates some poundage.

Doing Eminem's "Lose Yourself".

I liked her cover of "Purple Rain".

R97, I really enjoyed that Duets show, sorry it wasn't renewed. Legend, Clarkson and Jennifer Warrens were unbelievable every week. Even slimy Robin Thicke was watchable.

Covering Aretha Franklin "Never Loved a Man".

R102 I only discovered the show through YouTube. It looked like a good program.

The best origninal Christmas song since Mariah. Instant classic xmas bop.

Covering "Go Rest High On That Mountain". Starting @ 1:30.

Kelly shows off beautiful nuance and the raw power of her voice in this No Doubt cover. Gorgeous singing with total emotional commitment. Don't Speak.

I really like this cover of Florence + The Machine "Shake It Out".

While the Clarkbot is more subtle, its been no less committed than janbot over the years.

At least Kelly has talent. I forgot how much I liked her voice. She's one of the best singers we've seen in a long time. She's definitely better than Adele and Beyonce who are overrated.

She's fat now?

These Southern girls ...

Looks like she needs to step away from the soul food buffet...

[quote] To say she has not recorded good material is a lie. She just hasn't been given much material worthy of her deep talent and feeling.

Ummm, that's basically the same as not recording good material. You just made his argument for him.

[quote]And you know she's intouchable now because she's allowed not to get thin.

Are you kidding? Even Aretha got flak from becoming obese. And look at what Janet Jackson went through when she went through her recent whale period.

The only singers, male or female, who are allowed to be fat are the ones who were fat when they first came to the public's wide attention.

Don't forget opera sopranos, R114

I love her voice and I really like most of her music. But in interviews it's clear that she's quite dumb and ignorant. I think I would really dislike her if I knew her in person, but I don't so whatever.

Is Kelly still a carpet muncher?

Yes.

Kelly's not gay. Nope.

Hot Buttered Soul

She's been charting for 15 years now. Not too shabby.

[QUOTE]Janet's thin now.

Give it time

Clarkson's voice is so raw here, it was the Sony party for her Stronger album at The Troubadour. A great night, Reba and Blake were there & her future husband. Me and the bf too. She threw in this Carrie Underwood cover and showed why she was the best damn singer that American Idol ever found and that Carrie got better songs, ha. Carrie could never so this.....

I don't know what makes a pop hit but I have some idea. Pink is at #17 on itunes now and Kelly at #13. It's Sam Smith and Taylor Swift at # 1 and 2. That's just the way it goes. Kelly's new song is a bop and her vocals are on fire. It's a 3 minute disappointment knowing what she can do. Doing a cover album is for the graveyard and Clarkson ain't ready for that yet. She always charts and her fans are very loyal. Girl can sing just about anything but albums are meant to produce buzz and multi platform hits. She has some old school surprises on this recording. She got to do more of what she wanted. Clarkson performs all the damn time live, she doesn't tour only when she has a new album. She's a singer.

I Know You Won't

Carrie could never *do* this...

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Looks like she has been recording this CD from a soul food restaurant. She's thickened a bit.

She's fat. That negates everything else about her. Fat fat fat fat fat.

Had anyone pointed out that she is fat? Because she's fat!

Fat fat fat fat fat fat

I am posting on the Internet that this person is fat

Fat

Rachel Ray neck, or lack thereof. I liked her back in her Miss Independent days...

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Damn she fat.

R132 So what?

Kelly's voice is in great shape these days, I hope the new album brings her some great reviews and a HIT. She's too good a singer not to be heard. Love so Soft has an amazing vocal and when I hear it I like it. But I wouldn't look for it.

Love So Soft is really growing on me. It doesn't sound like an out-of-the-gate hit but it could be a grower if radio gives it a chance.

R41 Adele is not in the same league as Kelly as a vocalist and a live performer

a) Adele is not consistent as a live performer and she often sings off-key (watch her live performances in YT)

b) Kelly has much wider vocal range

Kelly Clarkson got soul y'all. Beautiful voice that's clear as glass up top, rich and raspy and soulful when she wants to be. She's a great singer.

R127 and R132, she responded to a Twitter user who called her fat, by saying "And still fucking awesome!"

But here's the thing, she may not always be fat, but you two will NEVER be awesome. Chew on that bitter pill.

She's a fat, ugly lesbian.

But damn, she can sing.

Like that. This.

Wow, R140. That's tremendous.

Kelly singing "Up to the Mountain" solo.

Her doing a duet with Reba on it is at R137.

Saw Kelly perform at the closing ceremony of the Invictus Games last night in Toronto. Her voice was on fucking point.

Watching her perform her #1 hit "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" was very moving, especially when many of the athletes, many of whom were wounded, clapped and sang along.

Heard 'Love So Soft' on my drive home from work Friday so it's getting played here.

Cool. More songs about how she was taken for granted by an old boyfriend. has a new guy who is interested and finds her EXTRAORDINARY. Oh, and she wants you to know via her songs that she's growing stronger every day, she's still hot and working on getting rid of those pesky extra pounds.

Over-weight, over-white ladies can't sing soul.

Only our Sable Brothers can do Soul.

Sole is in our blood and in our Ass. We earned that soul in dose cotton-feilds and no over-weight, over-white lady can pretend to have it.

Kelly tells all including her experiences with her Billy, Clive Davis

Her next single

This is the epitome of "frau music".

Old fags are experts in frau. Clarkson is not edgy, she's one of the best singers in the world. A cool, honest chick. Not a republican and not dumb. Happy.

Brand new Christmas bop

Such a great voice, she needs better material

Rich, white ladies in high heels CAN NOT do "urban" "soul".

They aren't black! They haven't suffered living in the fields!

They have no right to steal our music!

Ha ha, imagine if someone thought that for real!

Is she actually a lesbian? Her husband seems shady af

I've been hearing "Love So Soft" on the radio a lot...and I don't even listen to the radio much.

She's not a lesbian

When my sister was visiting TN she took her kids to the zoo. She just happened to be near a lady pushing a stroller. They made small talk for a little while. Sis realized that it was Kelly after she went home and googled the kid's name (She had her suspicions since we were raised on American Idol and all). No make-up. In mom mode. It was her. Totally down to earth. The real deal. Retract your claws, bitches.

Pink (love her too) was on the Andy Cohen Programme last night and Andy suggested that she and Kelly Clarkson do a cover of "Enough is Enough". Pink says she loves Kelly, but wouldn't do a duet with her--she would be outsung by Kelly.

Later Pink says she and Aguilera have mended fences (didn't even know there was a "feud") and are doing a duet. Hehe.

Third song released from the new album.

This song was going to be on Piece by Piece but Kelly pulled it at the last minute. She thought that it should serve as the centerpiece of an album built around it.

Album comes out next week (10/27).

I want to like that, R160, but the stupid backwards-sample shit is intolerable.

Bump so that people stop creating threads on this topic

Bump so that people stop creating threads on this topic

I knew she reminded me of an old comic book hero.

Is she a closeted lesbian?

after 500 threads fat jokes aren't funny anymore just stop R164

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She thought she was asexual... Until she saw that plate with a BBQ ribs, mashed potatoes, apple pie... Etc. Etc.

[quote] Kelly Clarkson is Back with Soul!

How many souls did she eat?

R167 translated:

“I’m a deeply closeted dyke.”

R170 How do you know she's not telling the truth?

On Datalounge, everyone is gay, including the women who marry men and give birth to children.

Eating contest: Clarkson v. Huckabee Sanders. Who'd win?

I love her voice! Go girl

Remix !!

Kelly posted a Video saying how much she wanted to meet Meryl Streep at the Golden Globes and then it actually happened on Live TV.

Oh good. I need more songs about how she's a fat girl but working on it and how the man she was with didn't appreciate her BUT now there's someone who does.

Fat fat fat

Anything else? Because we know that already.

She spanks

I love Kelly's voice but she is too young to be that fat, and I can't believe she honestly is as happy with herself as she pretends to be.

Great voice, but she's become obese. That cannot be healthy.

"You've been eatin' too many candy bars, honey... you're a mess." -- Marlene Dietrich, TOUCH OF EVIL

[quote] Rich, white ladies in high heels CAN NOT do "urban" "soul".

What about rich, white ladies in flats?

I love her voice, but she really needs to stop eating.

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girl loves her bbque and ribs and chicken fat and biscuits wid syrup yesss

big momma!

Is she fat? Because there are only 100 different posts on this thread that call her fat.

Can you please let me know 100 more times if she’s fat? It’s fresh and funny each time and never gets boring.

She's fat

Those earrings look like cellphone cases

LMAO r181

Kelly sounds fantastic these days, showing off all her range and that beautiful head voice. And she's looking good too. Her record label did not' drop her, what a stupid comment R186. She had a number one album at the time that SHE left RCA.

[quote]It's worth noting that most artists whose contracts are imminently due to expire would renegotiate on album number 6 (as Britney Spears did with RCA), but in running out the clock, Clarkson has much more leverage. “That’s a good time to mention you’re a free agent, when you have a No. 1 album,” notes one manager of major pop acts. Also, Clarkson has a proven track record at radio. Says Jim Ryan, program director at New York top 40 station WWFS: “She’s a core artist for the format. Our listeners have watched her grow up. The last album had three huge hits for us, so it only made sense to embrace this one.” Indeed, Clarkson’s latest single, “Heartbeat Song,” was played 466 times through March 21, according to Nielsen BDS. “We’ve got a lot of good friends at RCA,” adds Ryan. “We would hate it if [they] lost out on her music.”

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Of course Kelly is one of the best singers in pop music. She knows how to sing and is insanely gifted. Her voice is not perfect but it is exceptional. TALENT and skill. She'll be singing great for another 30 years because she can sing anything.

Quiet as it's kept, Kelly Clarkson is a real singer.