History Music / KellyClarkson

Unfortunately, record companies she sent demos to were either surprised to find out she was white when they met her or wanted her to lose twenty pounds (she's 5'1" and weighed 120 lbs.) and sign contracts that forced her into bubblegum pop. After a few months she returned to Texas dejected until a friend gave her an ad for a new singing competition series holding auditions in Dallas. With nothing else to lose she went to the auditions meeting Simon Cowell, Music/PaulaAbdul and Randy Jackson and was passed through to Hollywood, where she had just left. During the summer of 2002 she competed on live television with several other hopefuls in the inaugural season of ''American Idol: The Search For a Superstar''. Kelly's belting voice and small town Southern charm got her voted through by viewers to the end when it was down to her and Justin Guarini. She was declared the winner and in a week her first single "A Moment Like This" had the fastest rise up the Billboard chart to number one since Music/TheBeatles. Unfortunately she and Justin were also forced into starring in the 2003 movie flop ''Film/FromJustinToKelly''.

* DestructiveRomance: Implied in "My Life Would Suck Without You" with the lyrics "I know I've got issues/But you're pretty messed up too" and "Being with you is so dysfunctional".

* LastNoteNightmare: The final thirty seconds of "Yeah," where what's easily the lightest and most upbeat song on "My December" does a random TruckDriversGearChange by playing its chorus a semitone lower, making the song seem quite a bit spookier.

* LoveMartyr: The singer of "Beautiful Disaster".

* VocalEvolution: Kelly's singing voice is higher and clearer in her earlier albums compared to recent ones like "Stronger" where it sounds huskier.

-->''I know you know I know\\

Let's get this show on the road today''

* SurrealMusicVideo: "Love So Soft" contains a plethora of different imagery mashed into a single video. Especially bizarre is where several Kellys in identical outfits standing in a row sing one after another.

* LoveIsADrug: "Addicted".

* {{Adorkable}}:
** In any interview she gives.
** Her participation in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1P_hDM2lao Ice Bucket Challenge]]
* AMinorKidroduction: In the music video for "My Life Would Suck Without You," it starts off with a little boy giving a little girl a necklace, and then fast-forwards to adult Kelly now wearing the necklace as a bracelet and dating the boy who gave it to her.

* BareYourMidriff: During the "Breakaway" era in 2005 when she was skinnier. Most notably during her performance of "Since U Been Gone" at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards.

* BlackBestFriend: Tamyra Grey

* ChristmasCake:
** She's joked that people in her home town consider her one because she hasn't gotten married like the other girls she grew up with, even though she's only 30.
** This one seems outdated, now that she's married.
* CoolBigSis: Acts as one for FanGirl (and fellow Texan) Music/DemiLovato, who Clarkson admires.

* FagHag: To Clay Aiken.

* FanGirl: Of British author Creator/JaneAusten. In 2012 she paid 228,000 dollars for a gold and turquoise ring once owned by Austen at an auction in the UK. Unfortunately the ring was deemed a "national treasure" by the British government and Kelly was barred from taking it out of the country. The Jane Austen Museum in England raised enough funds to buy the ring back from her. Kelly's fiance did her a replica of it for her to wear.
* FanVid: "My Life Would Suck Without You" is extremely popular for {{Shipping}} videos on Website/YouTube. Name any pairing from any TV show, movie or RealLife, especially one that's SlapSlapKiss, there's probably a video dedicated to them using this song.
* FootballFightSong: "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)". [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by British football forums, to much glee.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Besides having two small dogs, a Maltese and Labradoodle which she takes everywhere, she founded a rescue ranch on her property for over 50 abandoned shelter animals. Her boyfriend took her turkey hunting for the first time on her 30th birthday and she later admitted that she couldn't pull the trigger when she had one in her sights.

* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Perhaps because of EvenTheGirlsWantHer, frequently has to deny being a lesbian:
-->"I get that all the time. Lesbians tell it to me all the time 'Are you secretly a lesbian? Because I’d really love it.' I’m like, 'I’m glad it works for you and I wish I liked women like that because men are very hard for me!"

* HeroicLineage: On TLC's "Who Do You Think You Are" Kelly finds out her 3X great grandfather was a Union soldier from Ohio who was captured and escaped the notorious Confederate prison Andersonville, who later became a sheriff and first term state senator.

* [[ICallHimMrHappy I Call Him Big Bob]]: Some fans have taken to affectionately referring to her noticeably large derriere as "Big Bob" ever since a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UymKjbMN5kA fan at a concert in Manchester]] once held up a sign reading: "Kelly, Kelly, do your job, make our day and shake [[FanNickname Big Bob]]!" She turned around and [[{{Fanservice}} happily obliged]], commenting "It's mighty big, but whatever!"
* IntercourseWithYou: Averted, though "Yeah" comes awfully close during its final verse (before its weird [[TruckDriversGearChange Reverse Truck Drivers Gear Change]]).

* TheLeader: Attained this status for all future Idol champions and contestants after winning the first season, starting with the first Idol concert tour and whenever she makes return appearances on the show.

* MotorMouth: In the space of three minutes or so she can talk about 10 different topics without pause.
* MsFanservice: Primarily during the ''Breakaway'' era in 2005.
* MyOwnPrivateIDo: Originally planned to have a big outdoor wedding to fiancee Brandon Blackstock at their house in Nashville with 200 guests. Instead they decided a few months before the date to cancel it and have a private ceremony with just them and Brandon's two young stepchildren in attendance.
* NotChristianRock: Some of her ballads, such as "Hear Me" and "Irvine," are very clearly musical prayers to the Judeo-Christian God.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Her Texas accent can sometimes sound either very weak or very strong occasionally.

* ProductPlacement: Blatant ones for Nokia and BMW in the "People Like Us" video.
** The song "Go". Both it, and its accompanying video were made to promote the Ford Mustang.
* RagsToRiches: Kelly grew up very poor in a small town. Until recently she owned a 14 acre ranch with a large house in Texas that she put up for market at 1.5 million dollars before moving permanently to Nashville. There she and her fiance Brandon bought a 7 bedroom 17,000 square foot mansion with a private dock on the Cumberland River for 3 million dollars.
* RearrangeTheSong[=/=]RereleaseTheSong: "Because of You" was re-released to country as a duet with Music/RebaMcEntire. "Mr. Know It All" also got a remixed country release in 2012.
* RevolversAreJustBetter: Uses a Colt .45 instead of a shotgun to shoot skeet.

* SingingVoiceDissonance: When Kelly speaks, she sounds like just a perky white girl from Texas that drinks a '''lot''' of Red Bull (watch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyX8qr09C74&feature=related interview]]). When she sings... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-CSZMt9Mos she doesn't.]] This is heightened by the fact that she can sing in a variety of styles: soul, rock, country, pop, big band, and ballads.
* SmallGirlBigGun: Out of the 9 guns she owns (which in Texas is a ''small'' number), 5'1'' Kelly keeps a Colt .45 by her bed.

* StoryboardBody: At this moment has 13 tattoos. Prominent ones are a little cross with a saying next to it "Love them more" little cross on her right wrist, and a large puzzle piece on her left shoulderblade. Each represents an important moment in her life:
-->"For me, each one is like a memory etched on my skin. They’re badges of honour, a permanent record of a hurdle in life that I’ve jumped over."

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong:[[invoked]] Some have accused "Already Gone" of being similar to Music/{{Beyonce}}'s "Halo". Both were produced by [[Music/OneRepublic Ryan Tedder]] who used practically the same drum tracks and arrangement for both. Kelly had not been aware of this and recorded her song before the other was released. It was too late to get the song off her fourth album "All I Ever Wanted" and her label also insisted on releasing it as as single. Kelly was livid, vowing never to work with Tedder again and had to come up with a new acoustic arrangement for the song when she performed it live in concerts. She also wrote an unreleased song called "Wash, Rinse, Repeat" which is a TakeThat at Tedder and her label.
** "Heartbeat Song" has also been accused of being this to Music/JimmyEatWorld's 2001 hit "The Middle".

* VerbalTic: Says "like" a lot.

In October 2013, she married Brandon Blackstock, the son of her manager Narvel, and stepson of Music/RebaMcEntire. Brandon had two children, a boy and girl from a previous marriage. In June 2014, she gave birth to their first child, a girl named River Rose.

-->--'''Kelly Clarkson'''

Kelly Brianne Clarkson, a top selling TurnOfTheMillennium musical artist and the first winner of ''Series/AmericanIdol'', was born on April 24, 1982 in Fort Worth, Texas. After her parents divorced when she was six, Kelly was raised alone by her mother in Burleson, a small town near Dallas. She first learned she could sing in junior high when the choir teacher heard her singing in the hall and told her she should try out. In high school she starred in musical productions and after graduating she moved to Los Angeles in early 2002 to try a career in the music industry.

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* FanVid: "My Life Would Suck Without You" is extremely popular for {{Shipping}} videos on YouTube. Name any pairing from any TV show, movie or RealLife, especially one that's SlapSlapKiss, there's probably a video dedicated to them using this song.