[Niall]

Dark Side is one of the most perfect songs in existence.

[Doogle]

I love Standing In Front Of You

[Callum]

Originally Posted by Smithy

I'm waiting until the complete my album comes on iTunes, I hate having two of the same song

What's your fave so far?

Only up to Standing In Front of You (her voice sounds incredible in this) atm but so far I'm loving it, no filler tracks, consistently good. I love Dark Side, I really liked the preview of it but the whole song is stunning.

[Callum]

I love Kelly's thinking here, I bought the same two earlier.

http://www.whosay.com/kellyclarkson/photos/83629

I'm now up to You Can't Win and still not disappointed by any track, her vocals sounds so good on this record. Not even listened to every song yet but I can already say this is a better album than All I Ever Wanted.

[Callum]

Now listened to the whole thing and it really is a great, consistent album. So many good tracks and only one perhaps two songs I'd consider filler material, the rest were brilliant. Lots of great potential singles. She is truly one of the best pure musicicans of the 21st century. Has anyone heard Thankful, her debut album? I have all her albums bar that one. I've heard A Moment like This, Independent Woman and Beautiful Disaster and liked all three.

[Smithy]

I love, how unchanged the vocals are, like, there's a 99% chance that when she sings it live, it's going to sound exactly the same as the studio version, if not better. I hope we get around 5 singles, like with breakaway

And Thankful's ok, but it's just sorta an Idol Winner's album, the songs could have been sung by anyone.

[Doogle]

Stronger > Breakaway > All I Ever Wanted > My December

imo

[Callum]

Originally Posted by Smithy

I love, how unchanged the vocals are, like, there's a 99% chance that when she sings it live, it's going to sound exactly the same as the studio version, if not better. I hope we get around 5 singles, like with breakaway

And Thankful's ok, but it's just sorta an Idol Winner's album, the songs could have been sung by anyone.

Yep, her vocals have been left virtually untouched which is great and sadly a rare thing these days with autotune available. You can tell she had much more control with this album too, like there were some songs on AIEW which just didn't feel like Kelly songs. I hope we do get lots of singles, there are so many single worthy songs on this album.

I thought that would be the case but I still think I'll give it a listen just so then I've listened to her entire discography.

[Niall]

Originally Posted by Doogle

Stronger > Breakaway > All I Ever Wanted > My December

imo

[2] (Though I only did ever listen to AIEW & MD once )

[Callum]

Can someone please upload the iTunes bonus track "Why Don't You Try"? I can't find it anywhere.

[Smithy]

http://www.mediafire.com/?h36o4s8g8riohaa

You Still Won't Know What It's Like would have been a better choice imo

[Callum]

Originally Posted by Smithy

http://www.mediafire.com/?h36o4s8g8riohaa

You Still Won't Know What It's Like would have been a better choice imo

Thanks It's a nice song but I can see why it's an iTunes bonus track only.

Yeah it would have been great to have gotten a studio version of that, real shame it didn't make the album.

[Callum]

Dark Side is looking likely to become the third single because it's featured on the album sticker along with MKIA and WDKY (Stronger) which is usually a good indiciation of a future single. Already Gone was on the AIEW sticker and it went on to become the third single.

[Smithy]

I hope the third single is either Dark Side or TWIO, I remember reading a while back that the writer of the song had been told it was being considered as the 3rd single, Im not that fussed as long as they both become singles

[Callum]

I think Dark Side would be the perfect third single, it's really radio friendly and I'd love to see a MV for it. I can imagine Honestly and TWIO being other good single material. I hope she has lots of singles with this album, not just 3 like with the last era. There were lots more great potential singles on AIEW so it was a pity she only had three.

[Marc]

I do like the woman but her song on TXF wasn't that exciting IMO, it did stay in my head for a good couple of hours though.

[Smithy]

The rest of the album is better , you just need to listen to the previews on iTunes to see that

I think they released MKIA as the lead so that the album'd have longevity rather than peaking really early then rapidly declining in sales

[Smithy]

VH1's beloved, popular franchise, "VH1 Divas," returns and will pay tribute to the cities where soul gave birth to music's most powerful classics and inspired today's divas. Jill Scott, Jennifer Hudson, Florence + The Machine, Kelly Clarkson and Jessie J will pay homage to these cities and soul music's timeless classics at New York City's Hammerstein Ballroom. "VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul" premieres Monday, December 19 at 9 PM/8c on VH1.

She's doing VH1's Diva's again

[Callum]

Nice interview from Kelly on Daybreak just then, another brilliant performance of Mr Know It All too. Great to see her still doing promo over here plus she's always so good live.

[Vladimir]

Stroger is such a great album!

What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger), Honestly, Dark Side, You Can't Win

[Smithy]

She's on loose women tomorrow

also, her toyota commercial is hilarious

Youtube video

[Smithy]

what have they done to it

Youtube video

[Smithy]

WDKY only got sent to radio this week in the US and it's already at #4 on iTunes and #10 on iTunes UK, so pleased for her

She kicked off the tour the other day too and she does a fan request a night, last night was fix you

Youtube video

[Callum]

So pleased WDKY is doing really well both here and in the States. I was shocked to see it in the top 10 of iTunes (UK) this morning. I didn't expect it to do well because the 2nd single from AIEW, I Do Not Hook Up peaked quite low but I think it's getting good airplay on radio and TV and it helps that it's a great song and IDNHU was not one of her best singles. I hope it keeps climbing.

[Smithy]

They're definitely trying to recreate Breakaway, releasing a mid tempo song as the lead single, then building up, Breakaway > SUBG + MKIA > WDKY hopefully it'll have the longevity of breakaway too