Kelly Clarkson is open about the difficulties she has faced over the last two years. In 2020, she Brandon Blackstock filed for divorceBegining two years of court battles together with her ex-husband, and his family, she will Extend into 2023, despite her March marks the end of divorce proceedings. For a songwriter like Clarkson, there’s no way she could go through such an emotional time and not have it translate into her music. It turned out, that even though she was struggling to deal with her complicated feelings regarding her marriage’s end, Clarkson was able find another outlet through Christmas music.
Next year, the OG American IdolWinner will release her first album of original music in studio since 2017. Kelly Clarkson spoke to Variety about all of the emotions she’s felt over the past two years, saying she needed to process her experiences a bit before eternalizing them in album form. That need for a pause had the unintended benefit — for fans and for Clarkson — of additional Christmas music from the artist. She explained:
There were many emotions when my ex and me separated for the first time. It was hard. We laughed at each other yesterday, because I was so… ‘Remember that time we wrote, like, 25 songs in a week?’Many of these are also the ones on the album. These are the songs I actually wrote nearly two years ago. I finally told my label. ‘I can’t talk about this until I’ve gone through it,’ and it’s just taken some time to do that. That’s one of the reasons we’ve done a lot of Christmas stuff the past two years — because I was like, ‘Well, that’s happy!’
I don’t see anything wrong with choosing to focus on something happier like the holidays, rather than relive the heartbreak of what went down with Brandon Blackstock. It’s not like her 2021 Christmas album When Christmas Comes Around… didn’t hint at her personal life anyway, with the first single being a ditty called “Christmas Isn’t Canceled (Just You).”This mix of covers and original songs includes her popular duets with ex-boyfriends. coach on The Voice, Ariana Grande, “Santa, Can’t You Hear Me.”
Whatever genre of music Kelly Clarkson is writing, there’s no denying the emotion she puts into it. She believes that she was able to do this while going through her divorce. she’s written “like, 60 songs,”It was therapeutic and it will be included on her forthcoming album.
The biggest struggle Kelly Clarkson may have had in filtering through all of those songs she’s written was figuring out what to share and what to keep private, knowing that her children are going to hear it. She said that’s been the The most difficult thing to navigate — trying to be completely honest but knowing there are other people involved.
It sounds like whatever she chooses, the star’s fans are in for some gut-wrenching emotion when her new album drops in 2023, and until then, she’s given us plenty of Christmas songs to enjoy. You can find your local TV listings here. The Kelly Clarkson ShowFind out what’s premiering in your region with our guide to 2022. 2022 TV schedule.