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US digital sales: #49 Catch My Breath 40,074 (206,400) & #151 Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) 14,227 (3,925,471) by @Kelly_Clarkson.
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4 million by January.
And the album 1 million by January as well.
Such a great era. 
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Kelly better snag IWALY or IWDWS. If this bitch gives me Swoop Swoop once again, I'm officially resigning my stan card. |
Seriously. I haven't seen Kelly really hold a flawless, long note in....forever. Or maybe ever. That's always been one of my complaints about her. She can OBVIOUSLY hit the notes, but she always cuts them short and never holds them. I'm here for a 10-15 second sustained Whitney note 
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4 million by January.
And the album 1 million by January as well.
Such a great era. |
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My bussy already senses that she's gonna be singing swoop swoop...with Miley.
But IWDWS can go to Kelly Rowland or Jordin but Kelly rightfully needs that get the Witney ballad. She is the only one deserving, even though Jordin performed it as a tribute right after Whitney's death somewhere. I forget where exactly...
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Article in the new Billboard Country Update
Clarkson, Gill Bring Some Soul To Country
Kelly Clarkson and Vince Gill delivered one of the most powerful performances during the Nov. 1 Country Music Assn. Awards with “Don’t Rush,” a song whose roots are grounded in the classic soul of Al Green, the classic country of Crystal Gayle and Clarkson’s own apologetic reaction to her spot on the 2012 CMA ballot.
Though Clarkson has had country hits by guesting with Jason Aldean on “Don’t You Wanna Stay” and Reba McEntire on “Because of You,” she was sensitive about the CMA making her a female vocalist of the year candidate.
“When I heard about that, it completely freaked me out,” she remembers. “I called [manager] Narvel [Blackstock] and was like, ‘How many people just got pissed off?’”
Clearly, the industry appreciated Clarkson’s country cred, but she felt an urgency to live up to the nomination. With “Don’t Rush” shipped to country radio via PlayMPE on Oct. 29—three days before the awards—she certainly delivered, using R&B-flavored, late-’70s Gayle and Barbara Mandrell records as a sort of inspiration.
Mandrell had earned a reputation for remaking soul hits- including Luther Ingram’s “(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want to Be Right” and Shirley Brown’s “Woman to Woman”—so it wasn’t that much of a stretch that Clarkson’s country offering was a song inspired by Green.
Natalie Hemby (“Pontoon,” “Baggage Claim”), Blu Sanders and Lindsey Dawn Chapman were writing old-school soul music in 2008 in hopes of getting Chapman a recording deal. “Don’t Rush,” penned over pickles and coffee in the living room of a duplex on Nashville’s Castleman Drive, was their second effort, built around a smoldering groove and the slinky, sexual nature of Green’s Willie Mitchell produced slow jams.
It was truly a group effort. When Hemby introduced a melody, they mumbled syllables as placeholders, and a few of those phrases became a permanent part of the finished song. None of the three writers is sure who contributed what part. “We were singing it down, singing stupid, dummy lyrics,” Hemby notes. “We kept saying, ‘Don’t rush,’ or something.”
Hemby’s husband, producer Mike Wrucke (Eli Young Band, Miranda Lambert), produced some demos on Chapman with an eye toward a pop deal, though it never came to fruition. Sanders, who toured for years as an artist, often on the same bill with Matt Nathanson, had meanwhile become friends with several of Clarkson’s associates, and he slipped a copy of “Don’t Rush” to her guitar player this year, hoping it might get passed along. Neither Hemby nor Chapman, who had given up songwriting, knew anything about it.
“Blu is really quiet about that stuff and didn’t want to jinx it,” Chapman says. Clarkson, of course, flipped over the song and enlisted Dann Huff to produce it for her Greatest Hits: Chapter One, released Nov. 16.
“It was an awesome demo,” Clarkson says. “It just sounded a little more like oldschool smooth jams and that whole vibe, but I wanted to go more with a Crystal Gayle, Bonnie Raitt kind of thing. There was a lot of production going on on the demo, and what I really like about country music is that the music is separated and you can hear the different instruments. You can pick out the guitar, and you can pick out the bass. It’s not just a bunch of **** jammed in there to make some sort of power track.”
What she couldn’t pick out was one of the words Chapman sang on the demo. Huff ultimately decided—correctly—that it was “agenda,” an atypical word that only made Clarkson like the song more.
“When you are listening to a song, you assume what the next word is going to be,” she says. “No one assumed it was going to be ‘agenda.’ I can promise you that.”
Clarkson had only a few hours to record the vocal track before she jumped on a plane to Australia, so Huff encouraged keyboard player Charlie Judge to do his part of the track in three different keys and give them different options. In the middle of the session, Huff decided to meld two of those musical beds and raise the key just a notch.
“We did the song a couple times and it just felt like it needed a bump,” Huff recalls. “I step gingerly around modulations you can really hurt yourself and sound really corny if you do the wrong kind of modulation, but it seemed to cry out for an old-time, half-step modulation. Not a full step. I said, ‘Kelly, how about trying a little something a little radical?’ And she was totally game.”
The track practically stops at the three-minute mark with Judge holding out one low note on the piano, a subtle setup to the key change that was created by dropping instruments that had once been in place.
“We kept pulling stuff out,” Huff says. “We didn’t want to telegraph the modulation.”
Before she headed out to catch her flight, Clarkson dropped a hint that she’d love to have someone like Gill add a male voice to the song. Before the plane landed in Australia, Gill had already done his vocal turn and added an elegant, classy guitar solo.
“It sounds effortless, but Vince is very intentional about everything that he does,” Huff notes. “He is just so into nuance, and he must have played that solo 30 times, just looking for that thing in every note. That’s why I have such a respect for his musicianship.”
“Don’t Rush” certainly took its time—four years from conception to master recording—but it’s made a difference for several of its participants. Clarkson has a song that underscores her legitimacy as a country singer, in addition to her pop career;
Chapman, who owns a jewelry store in Nashville’s Edgehill Village, finally got her first cut and is writing songs again; and Sanders, a West Texas-based production manager for Lambert’s tours, is thinking about moving back to Nashville.
“I’m thrilled to death that somebody recorded my song,” Sanders says. “I’m extremely thrilled that it happened to be Kelly Clarkson and Vince Gill.”
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Before she headed out to catch her flight, Clarkson dropped a hint that she’d love to have someone like Gill add a male voice to the song. Before the plane landed in Australia, Gill had already done his vocal turn and added an elegant, classy guitar solo.
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Amazing.
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“Don’t Rush” certainly took its time—four years from conception to master recording—but it’s made a difference for several of its participants. Clarkson has a song that underscores her legitimacy as a country singer, in addition to her pop career;
Chapman, who owns a jewelry store in Nashville’s Edgehill Village, finally got her first cut and is writing songs again; and Sanders, a West Texas-based production manager for Lambert’s tours, is thinking about moving back to Nashville.
“I’m thrilled to death that somebody recorded my song,” Sanders says. “I’m extremely thrilled that it happened to be Kelly Clarkson and Vince Gill.”
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Even more amazing 
Kelly helping people get their careers back on track
Queen tbh.
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It's just sad that DR is not doing as well on radio. It's critically acclaimed, but it's not really moving up on the charts.
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It's just sad that DR is not doing as well on radio. It's critically acclaimed, but it's not really moving up on the charts.
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one promo event and not having a music video kind of sucks 
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OMG
The note she hit. The next hit gif.
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Originally posted by jpsketch
If she doesn't showcase her vocals...
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i'm here for whistles 
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Originally posted by EdgeOfAddiction
My bussy already senses that she's gonna be singing swoop swoop...with Miley.
But IWDWS can go to Kelly Rowland or Jordin but Kelly rightfully needs that get the Witney ballad. She is the only one deserving, even though Jordin performed it as a tribute right after Whitney's death somewhere. I forget where exactly... |
Hopefully she will sing with Demi again
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one promo event and not having a music video kind of sucks |
True, but it should be taking off. It was doing so well at the beginning of its run.
Kelly should do a country radio tour, and film a music video for it
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is it on YouTube yet? Because that video keeps freezing on me and not working 
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Seriously. Kelly needs to get it out of her ****ing damn mind that she can't act and make a ****ing movie Jesus Christ! She was ****ing hilarious!
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Kelly is going to be on divas?!? She better be the closer with this flop line up. 
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OH MY ****ING GOD!!! THIS IS ****ING AMAZING!!!!! SO ADORABLE AND HILARIOUS!!!
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Originally posted by KevinKDC
And what are you gurls talking about? The line-up is pretty great!
Ciara
Kelly Clarkson
Miley Cyrus
Melanie Fiona
Demi Lovato
Metric
Kelly Rowland
Jordin Sparks
Pitbull
The show flopped last year with only 1.3 million viewers. Let's hope Demi, Pitbull, Miley can attract more viewers.
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Melanie Fiona is the only good one in this line up besides Kelly. But Pitbull at Divas, seriously? Like, SERIOUSLY 
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Am not liking this hate for Mr. 305. He's better than 90% of the line up. At least he has the star power. The rest is irrelevant fillers like 70% of Stronger.
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Am not liking this hate for Mr. 305. He's better than 90% of the line up. At least he has the star power. The rest is irrelevant fillers like 70% of Stronger. |
Hew else can go Platinum off 70% filler?
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