Kelly Clarkson Says Her Next “Raw” Album Will Be “Awesome.” Will Her Label Agree?…
A few years ago, much ado was made about Kelly Clarkson‘s “controversial” and largely self-penned third album, My December (aka The Album Clive Davis Didn’t Want You To Hear), and its supposed lack of commercial appeal. Along with Kelly‘s poorly timed decision to fire her management firm (um, called The Firm) and cancel her summer tour just two weeks before My December‘s street date, there were those troubling rumors about Clive “I Don’t Hear A Single” Davis humiliating her in record-label board meetings. Or that gossip about him dangling a $10 million carrot in front of her face to persuade her to cut five songs that apparently didn’t sound enough like “Since U Been Gone Part 2: Electric Boogaloo.”
Anyhoo, after My December failed to sell as well as her first two albums (no doubt partially thanks to Clive‘s smear campaign and a lack of overall label support), Kelly inevitably reverted to a poppier, more candy-coated sound and scored hits with the frothy “My Life Would Suck Without You” and the string-laden ballad “Already Gone.” But now, judging by some of Kelly‘s recent tweets and statements to the press, it sounds like all her old anger is bubbling up again, and Kelly is ready to get rockin’ and raw on her fifth album, due sometime in late 2010/early 2011.
Last October in a radio interview with Chicago’s KIIS FM, Kelly described her new songs “really different; the next record is going to be really different.” Then recently she tweeted, “In the studio again with Jason and loving the song we’re cutting. It’s very industrial/raw/awesome,” referring to Jason Halbert, the man who co-produced My December.
Then this past weekend, Kelly excitedly posted on Twitter: “The album is gonna b awesome. Just got some songs back from my session in LA!” The first single off the album will reportedly be a duet, although Kelly won’t yet reveal who her partner is; judging on how she’s described her new direction, I’m kind of hoping it’s Marilyn Manson or Trent Reznor…
Source: Yahoo News
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