Sure, Nashville. Why not? "Since U Been Gone" was a huge country sensation, and... no, it just doesn't make any sense for Kelly Clarkson to try to go country. She's doing it, though. According to realestalker.blogspot.com, Kelly just purchased a One of a kind stone home updated w/ fabulous additions. 5 br / 5 full ba. Open kitchen to den w/ large breakfast room at heart of the home. You will love the screened porch w/ stone fp + stone terraces. Great level treed lot. 9' ceilings. 3 car garage for the price of $1,490,000.

Kelly Clarkson has shared with Billboard.com her thoughts on four unfinished songs leaking to the Internet. The new material from Clarkson, never one to escape controversy, surfaced earlier this week via the Los Angeles-based music blog Pretty Much Amazing. The four songs -- "Close Your Eyes," "Ready," "One Day," and "With a Little Bit of Luck" -- have varying sound quality, indicating that the tracks are in different stages of the recording process. "I write all the time -- lots of stuff not meant to ever be released, just working on ideas," Clarkson tells Billboard.com of the leaked work. "The fact that people have heard music that's not ready yet sucks, but I hope they like it."
Only "With a Little Bit of Luck" continues with the dark rock sound favored on "My December," suggesting it could be an outtake from those sessions. Blog editor Luis Tovar says his traffic skyrocketed this week, both with fans looking to hear the tunes, as well as staunch defenders of Clarkson's right to keep her work private. "The 'Crazy Clarkson Fans,' as one person called them, were amusing at first, annoying later," Tovar tells Billboard.com. "But it's great to see the brand loyalty out there. These people are ready to go to war for Clarkson. It's kind of cute, almost." Tovar says he's unaware of the songs' origins, saying only that a friend passed him a disc that contained them.
- Billboard

It will be "American Idol," Catholic style. Kelly Clarkson, the first "American Idol" winner who has gone on to become a pop superstar, will sing "Ave Maria" to Pope Benedict XVI on April 19 at St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers. Clarkson, who will celebrate her 28th birthday five days later, will also highlight a concert on the seminary grounds that will lead up to Benedict's late-afternoon address.
- Lohud.com

The American Idol singer freely admits that she always goes commando for comfort reasons, and says she refused to wear pants throughout the entire run of American Idol because it gave her good luck. She said: "Why'd anyone want a little thing up their butt when they can go free?"
- TheSun.co.uk

Kelly Clarkson might have risen to fame in the public eye, but American Idol’s most successful graduate doesn’t buy into the celebrity lifestyle. The 25-year-old, who still calls Texas home, prefers reading books to red carpet schmoozing, shuns television and gossip magazines, and is happiest when she’s singing or writing songs. Clarkson said she just lives “in her own bubble” and pleases herself.
“I don’t watch much TV, I’m actually quite a reader,” Clarkson said. “I don’t really read magazines and when I say don’t really, I don’t. “I don’t want to read anything good or bad, because when you see the good you have to see the bad. “I don’t want a big head and I also don’t want to be depressed. “So I kind of live in my own bubble and take care of myself.”
Despite that, Clarkson couldn’t escape the negative attention she received from the press last year. After a dream run winning the first season of American Idol in 2002, and releasing two very successful studio albums, Clarkson’s third album, My December, performed disappointingly when it was released last June. The album was darker and moodier, and was reportedly considered commercially unsound by Clarkson’s US record label, RCA. Clarkson cancelled an arena tour of America and downsized to smaller venues because of poor ticket sales, and changed her management. But she said the response of her fans at her live shows has been heartening.
“It’s no big secret obviously this record wasn’t as popular as the last record,” she said. “I thought when we went out (on tour) that nobody was going to know these songs but we went out and everybody’s singing every word to every song. “So I was like, ‘a lot of you are either illegally downloading this or something’, because they’ve been singing everything, even the hidden tracks. “Even if something isn’t the most successful thing, it’s personal and great for me because you get to see the fans reciprocate your feelings for it.”
Clarkson is back in Australia for a national tour following a brief promotional trip last September. Stopping in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle and Brisbane, the tour features Jamaican sensation Sean Kingston and American songstress Mandy Moore as special guests. While it takes her away from her beloved 60-acre Texas ranch, she said she loves coming to Australia - where, per capita she is more popular than anywhere else in the world. “It’s summer time here, I love it,” she said. “Oh my god, I’ve even come here on my off time for vacation. “One of my favourite places on the planet is Hayman Island.”
In between playing gigs and soaking up the Aussie sun, Clarkson is busy writing her next album, which she plans to release later this year. “We’re already working on it right now, so we’ll probably have it out at the end of this year,” she said. “I figure, why wait, right? “If it were up to me I’d come out with a record every six months.”
- AAP

Kelly fans are a tenacious lot. When fan group the Kelly Clarkson Express heard that Kelly's label, RCA, had pretty much abandoned the My December album as a radio project, the group members took matters into their own hands. They fashioned their own video for the song they thought should be the next single, How I Feel (good choice, by the way), and posted it on YouTube to try to generate grass-roots support.
- USA Today

This morning, Kelly Clarkson did an interview for a radio show, and super comments are shooting out about Britney! Kelly said: “Blackout is an amazing album”.
She also said it sucks that there’s no promotion on it. Then she also said when she meet Britney she was so sweet, and she cares for her. She always said: “Wouldn’t it be funny if all this is a big scam and a joke”.
Kelly said:“She’s too nice and sweet and could be messing with us”. Then, she didn’t know about Britney’s British accent so the dj played a clip of her British accent and kellys like I want one, and they played more and then she said which I thought it was funny “She’s really trying to be like Madonna”. She also said Britney needs to get out of LA that was really it.
- BRITNEY.CL/britneyexperts.net