Soon thereafter, Clarkson and Davis sat down for a face-to-face meeting at the Beverly Hills Hotel. “It was nice,” Clarkson says. “It was just the two of us, and his dog. I was like, I don’t know you very well, and I am not a ********ter. I get you don’t like the album. You’re 80; you’re not supposed to like my album. I said, ‘Clive, I’m going to make tons of albums. It doesn’t have to be mainstream every time.’ Then he kept bringing up people he’s worked with. ‘You’re a Whitney! You’re a Mariah!’ ‘First of all, Mariah writes a lot of her stuff. Secondly, I don’t want a career like either one of those singers. That’s why it’s hard for us to make an album: You don’t know me! You don’t know what I like, and you don’t know what my fans like.’”
