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kelly is a sellout just cuz no one gives a **** about her last cd shes gonna come back with a new one with probally the same since you been gone recycled **** just to please ppl?
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Kelly told her label if they let her do the third album her way she would do the fourth album their way. So they gave her MD, created a big media mess over it, basically only gave her one single proper (Sober didn't get pushed in any kind of way), and let the album freefall. It was pretty much about control...if you look at her opening numbers, plus NA being a top 10 hit, it was clear to me that the album could have easily gone 2, maybe 3 times platinum if it had been properly promoted with the right three or four singles. But that would have given Kelly a bigger leg to stand on if she wanted to do her own thing in the future...it took me a while to get over it but I finally realized it wasn't anything personal against Kelly but just labels being greedy control freaks. It could have happened to any artist (and has).
The thing to understand about MD was that as great as it is (IMO), it was just one part of Kelly Clarkson the artist...she was going through some things, she had to get some **** off her chest. Call it a 'phase' if you would like...but clearly she needed to go through it on wax in order to move on, and I don't begrudge her that at all. It just ticked me off that so many other people did just because it wasn't what THEY were expecting or wanting from her.
Now I will admit upfront, I am crazy about Kelly and I got that info from two Kelly boards that I follow, so have your stan grains of salt handy...but I don't think she is selling out by going back to a Breakaway-style album. She's good at it (understatement!), and I'm sure she likes it as she co-wrote several songs on Breakaway, including three of the singles (Behind These Hazel Eyes, Because of You, and Walk Away). I also read on one of the Kelly boards that she did the A&R herself for this album and the label was extremely happy with the job she did. So if she picked out the songs herself I doubt she picked something that isn't her at all just for the sake of selling out.