Kelly Clarkson

Ten Kelly Clarkson Songs That Could Have Been Written About Clive Davis

After reading her gutsy open letter to Clive Davis that fought back against some of the hurtful accusations he made against her in his new memoir, it's fun to repurpose some of her feistiest lyrics as a career-long diatribe against the legendary but stifling mogul. Presented in no particular and lea ... More >>

Kelly Clarkson Says Clive Davis Lied About Her Career In His New Memoir

As you may be well aware, music industry bean counter Clive Davis is currently doing the big publicity push for his new memoir, The Soundtrack of My Life. In it, the 80-year-old Davis comes out of the closet. Sorta. He's taken lovers of both the male and female persuasion, and he considers himself a ... More >>

The Best Tweets and Photos From Last Night's Grammy Awards

Last night, during the 55th Grammy Awards, we trudged through the bile and self-loating of angry would-be comedians and critics who took to Twitter to tell Jack White he looks like Edward Scissorhands and Johnny Depp he looks like the butt baby of Jack Sparrow and Steve Tyler and Adele she was dress ... More >>

Ranking All The American Idol Winners In Terms Of Quality

A regular on the gay gossip board datalounge.com took a stab at ranking the show's bevy of belting prize winners, from 11 to 1. If you don't see some of the best talents on the list, it's because they didn't win on the show! Here what they wrote: "11. Lee DeWyze (above). He's cute and can more or ... More >>

Yarn, Bitchery, And Twinks Entertainingly Collided At DragKnit

DragKnit was last night's New York magazine-hosted event at Benetton's pop-up store at 135 Crosby Street, combining stitch work with some pieces of work who are a stitch. Drag star Paige Turner cohosted with LT from Bravo's Pregnant in Heels, serving medleys, trivia contests, giveaways, and some zi ... More >>

Six Superlative Summer Shows

Our music critic's picks for the season's hottest concerts

This Week In The Voice: Visiting Maya Jane Coles's House; Six Sizzling Summer Shows

This week in the Voice: Michaelangelo Matos talks to Maya Jane Coles, who brings her spin on house music to this week's Electric Zoo; and I run down six concerts from this summer that I loved, including outings by MS MR, Kelly Clarkson, and the Killers.

Kelly Clarkson+The Fray

Radio Hits One: Kelly Clarkson, Lionel Richie And Countrified Pop Tunes

After Kelly Clarkson went to No. 1 on Billboard's Country Songs chart last year with the Jason Aldean duet "Don't You Wanna Stay," I wondered hopefully if the Texas-born pop star would finally go country with her next album. So I was a little disappointed a few months later, when she debuted the bla ... More >>

Jones Beach Theater And PNC Bank Arts Center Schedules Announced: Drake, Wiz Khalifa, Kelly Clarkson, And More

Ah, the summer, the time of year when one can enjoy a concert in the glorious out of doors. This morning Live Nation announced the full lineups for its two local amphitheaters—the PNC Bank Arts Center in bucolic Holmdel, N.J. and the Jones Beach Theater, out on the South Shore of Nassau County ... More >>

Six Things To Know About One Direction, The Quintet Taking Over The Metropolitan Area For The Next Few Days

Beginning tonight and spooling out over the weekend, a pack of five British youths will blitz the tri-state area with performances and signings and, eventually, a Rockefeller Center-stuffing appearance on NBC's Today. The five young men make up the vocal group One Direction—a five-member boyba ... More >>

Will The Chart-Topping Success Of fun.'s "We Are Young" Break Pop-House's Top 40 Stranglehold?

The new No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, crowned today, is the grandiose slice of car-commercial-approved arena-pop "We Are Young," by the trio fun. Thanks to some massive sales at iTunes and other digital outlets—302,000 of them last week—"Young" leapt over Kelly Clarkson's "What Doesn't ... More >>

Five Cover Songs To Take You Into Your Weekend

Antony's heartwrenching take on "Crazy In Love" last night capped off a week where cover songs were seemingly dropping into my lap on a daily basis. Why not take time out of your schedule to enjoy them now?

BEEN GONE

Kelly Clarkson  returns to New York

Miss Independent: Why Kelly Clarkson's Ron Paul Endorsement Makes Complete Sense

For those people who adore Kelly Clarkson and hate Ron Paul supporters, the inaugural American Idol's Wednesday night endorsement of Paul's presidential candidacy was especially painful. The move might have been merely confusing in years past, when Paul was a web-specific phenomenon—the equiva ... More >>

The 10 Best Live Shows of 2011

The best stuff we saw on stage this year, from thrash to Kpop

Live: VH1 Brings Out The Divas At The Hammerstein Ballroom

via VH1​VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul Hammerstein Ballroom Sunday, December 18 Better than: Whatever Ryan Seacrest is going to cook up for VH1 Soul. Last night's VH1 Divas taping existed both as a performance and self-contained, 24-hours-out advertising opportunity for its broadcast. (Tonight at ... More >>

Live: Lady Gaga Is Z100's Homecoming Queen At The Jingle Ball

​Z100 Jingle Ball: Lady Gaga, Pitbull, David Guetta, Kelly Clarkson, LMFAO, Gym Class Heroes, Demi Lovato, Foster The People, and Hot Chelle Rae w/Karmin, The Script Madison Square Garden Friday, December 9 Better than: A lump of coal and a "Firework" CD single. To begin, let's run down a f ... More >>

Six Awful Things About Karmin's "Crash Your Party"

​Tonight is Z100's Jingle Ball—headlined by Lady Gaga! with a set by Kelly Clarkson!—and the top-40 station's annual celebration of its playlist's biggest stars will be co-hosted by the duo Karmin, a pair of Berklee-educated musicians from Boston who rose to prominence earlier this ... More >>

NOT SO SILENT NIGHT

O come all ye faithful to Z100's Jingle Ball

Kelly Clarkson: Miss Independent

The singer offers more real talk on Stronger

This Week in the Voice: Lost Boys, Life Under Occupation

​This week in the Voice, out today: Kristen Hinman explores new research on teenage sex workers. Rosie Gray discusses how the community around Zuccotti Park is reacting to Occupy Wall Street's continuous presence. Michael Musto gets personal with fading stars and is determined to get one deg ... More >>

Kelly Clarkson's Seven Best Cover Songs

Bryan Horowitz​In this week's Voice I talked about the new album by Kelly Clarkson, inaugural American Idol and the pop star who seems most likely to be a rip-roaring time at a coffee klatsch/Tupperware party/gathering of pals. The show that put her on the map, of course, is known for putting ... More >>

My 10 Favorite Angry Songs Of All Time

​Here are my top 10 bouts of musical rage. If you disagree with me, I'll be furious! (10) "We're Not Gonna Take It"--Twisted Sister Infectious anger at its most rollicking. I always felt this song was the musical equivalent of "I'm mad as hell" from Network.

Kelly Clarkson Is Apparently Proof That Men Have It Really Hard On The Pop Charts These Days

Big news about pop music on MSNBC.com: Apparently songs like Kelly Clarkson's new track "Mr. Know It All" (above), as well as older invective-filled songs like "U Ur Hand" and "Before He Cheats" and "the not-even-that-big-hit "According To You"—songs in which wronged women sing about the me ... More >>

Drake's Album Gets The Push-Back (But It's All For You, Baby)

Over the weekend the sad-sack MC Drake put up a sad blog post announcing that Take Care, his long-in-the-works second album, would be coming out on November 15, and not in time for his 25th birthday on October 24. "So I have completed 19 songs (17 on physical and 2 on bonus), and have run into a roa ... More >>

What The Lineup For Clear Channel's iHeartRadio Music Festival Says About Radio Formats In 2011

Lady Gaga.​Today the radio behemoth Clear Channel announced a festival celebrating the relaunch of its online service iHeartRadio, which currently allows listeners to tune into the chain's terrestrial-radio outlets from all over the country (as well as about 150 digital-only stations) and whic ... More >>

Live: Kelly Clarkson Shows Those Whippersnapper Idol Finalists How It's Done

Bryan Horowitz​ Kelly Clarkson Highline Ballroom Wednesday, May 25 Better than: Watching the American Idol finale in real time. I'll be honest: There was something pretty delicious about spending last night, during which a super-frustrating American Idol season came to an end by crowning a ... More >>

American Idol Season 10: Pia Toscano Has A Reason To Weep

Michael Becker/FOX​ Judging by the slavering praise the judges heaped on every last candidate on Wednesday night's American Idol, it was hard to even guess at who would go home this week. Still, losing Pia Toscano is a pretty big surprise. She's one of the few people on the show who actually ... More >>

Kelly Clarkson in Spider-Man?

​Someone posted on the ATC Broadway board that a high-profile visitor to Broadway's troubled Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, who is famous from American Idol, might have gone as a precursor to possibly taking over one of the roles in the show. That's pretty vague--someone please turn off the d ... More >>

The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #20: Far East Movement featuring Ryan Tedder, "Rocketeer"

F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. ​The sensitive-guy song from this Los Angeles group, which reached the summit of the Billboard Hot 100 with its ode to its members' intoxicating qualities "Like A G6," is a wan bit of treacle that doesn't really go a ... More >>

Surveying the Dr. Luke Moment: A Critical Look At Lazers, Glitter, and the Un-Sexing of America's Pop Stars

On May 7, Katy Perry debuted "California Gurls," the first single from her forthcoming album, Teenage Dream. It was a cleverly-engineered, synchronized piece of pop craft--a classic no-chances move--and it had to be: there were things riding on this song. Things like the viability of Perry as a bo ... More >>

Who's Coming Out on May 5?

via Wikipedia​On his boyculture blog, Matthew Rettenmund helps narrow down just who it might be who's supposedly coming out on the cover of People on May 5. Signs point to a female musician, but Queen Latifah is no longer considered to be the one. (She's mainly an actress these days, don't ya ... More >>

Gogo Over to "Gogo Idol" at the Monster

​The problem with American Idol is that the world has no real use for people who can belt out a song, especially when they do it really well. A far more important talent to use as a salve for the planet's ills is gogo dancing! Nothing soothes the savage beast more than another savage beast p ... More >>

Who's The Biggest Pop Diva of All?

Which glorious singer with female private parts do you feel reigns over all the other pretenders (and no, this has nothing to do with "Now that Jacko's gone...") The top diva choices are: Lady Gaga. Her three songs are fee-eerce. Will her future be so bright she still has to wear shades? Rihanna. ... More >>

New York Mag Needs an Actual Rock Critic

Rock-criticism enthusiasts (pfft) will note that this weeks' New York magazine reprises their most aggravating feature, "Jukebox," wherein three "citizen critics" representing theoretically wildly different demographics -- Jenny the (Mostly Ex-) Party Girl, Fred the Deep-Thinking Dog Walker, and (pr ... More >>

American Idol Results: Kanye West Performs "Heartless," Adam Lambert Safe, Paula's Boobs Look Incredible!

Sharyn Jackson is your American Idol host for season eight. This week: the Top 13! Ray Mickshaw / FOX¡Adios, Jorge! There's a new Idol rule, the judges can make a unanimous decision to save one cast-off one time only--and only up until the Top 5. This is to avoid future J-Hud and Daughtry early b ... More >>

MISERY BUSINESS

Unlikely industry darlings Paramore kick out the jams

Idol Gives Back 2: A Running Diary

The Pied Piper's TV Party

Marveling at the eloquent insanity of the Dirty Projectors' new Black Flag tribute

Self-Service Nightlife

Elvis sightings, ethnic humor, and tomcat cruising, plus a peek at Jodie Foster's panic room

NBC's Live Earth Special: A Running Diary

Kelly Clarkson's My December

The real Breakaway, more pathos than pop and worse for it

The American Idol Finale: A Running Diary

Kelly Clarkson and the Economics of Pop

Chart-Topping Vitriol

No point in getting famous if you can't publicly antagonize your ex

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Stuff you need to know to avoid cultural ostracism

Get del Real

Latin popster's rock-a-boom conversion proves no peril

Turkey Shoot 2005

Fifteen courses you'll be better off skipping at this year's musical overfeed

Identity Crisis

Three American Idol alumni follow up the process in their own, vaguely individual ways