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Kelly Clarkson is going to be on Oprah today. I write for Daytime Talk, so I’ll have videos up there later today and I’ll probably put some on here too, if not, I’ll at least put up pictures.
Kelly has had some great things to say about Reba McEntire recently. Here’s what I read on USA Today’s website:
It’s one of pop music’s most curious couplings — the 52-year-old country music matriarch and the original American Idol who’s less than half her age.
But Reba McEntire and Kelly Clarkson’s friendship could benefit both. It already has produced a hit: Their version of Because of You from McEntire’s new Reba Duets album recently reached No. 2 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart.
“It’s an odd but warm relationship,” says Chet Flippo, editorial director at CMT.com. “Kelly is Reba’s musical daughter. They’re completely without artifice together.”
The two initially sang together in 2002 when they performed McEntire’s 1993 hit Does He Love You on a postseason Idol special.
Clarkson also was the first singer to pair up with McEntire for Duets, which features everyone from Kenny Chesney and Rascal Flatts to Carole King and Justin Timberlake.
The relationship really clicked during a February taping of CMT Crossroads.
“We’d already done one song together” for the album, McEntire says.
But when Narvel Blackstock, McEntire’s husband and manager, heard them rehearsing Because of You, he said, ” ‘OK, we’ve got to do that one.’ So we went back in the studio.”
Soon after, Clarkson’s career went into a tailspin. She canceled her arena tour, criticized label chief Clive Davis and drew mixed reviews and disappointing sales for her album My December. In July, she hired Blackstock, who shares her hometown of Burleson, Texas, as her manager.
“When you’re hanging out together, you talk about the business,” McEntire says. “She would ask me my opinion, and I’d always say, ‘The best advice I can give you is go ask Narvel.’ So she did.”
With Blackstock helming her career, Clarkson could stretch in new directions, Flippo says.
“Reba hasn’t been limited to the country-music stage for years,” he says. “She’s gone way beyond that with Broadway and TV. It’s a natural thing for Kelly.”
The association with Clarkson has boosted McEntire, too. She recently received a female vocalist of the year nomination from the Country Music Association, something she hasn’t had in three years.
Clarkson says McEntire was an early influence on her singing style.
“She has that big, soulful, kind of sassy voice but can also pull off a beautiful ballad,” Clarkson says.
“Honestly, she’s the light at the end of the tunnel. It’s good for every young singer to have somebody they can model their careers after.”
Tags: kelly clarkson, reba mcentire, oprah, interview
What an odd couple, but hey whatever works I guess
Say WHAT?
I’m a fan of both of them and can’t think of a better team! They have such successful careers and seem very down to earth. I think that’s what keeps people drawn to them, no matter how huge their careers get, they stay the same as when they first started.
I LOVE REBA AND KELLY! CAN’T WAIT FOR THEIR TOUR! I WILL BE THERE JAN 19! NUM. 1 FAN!!!
REBA!! You are sooo sexy and hot! That gorgeous red hair and your beautiful face plus that fair skin and that ultra petite body makes me wanna give you this x-large 18 year old diamond cutter. Wow!! Reba it would be sooo sexy to get with you under the sheets in a sultry hot room with high humidity. All that perspiration from your body and face dripping onto me while you are riding my 9 inch diamond cutter. Your nipples tasting sweet and salty from the perspiration dripping off of them into my mouth. Then when I get close after you have climaxed about 6 or 7 times and have clawed my chest plus my arms while going through wave after wave of intense pleasure, you nestle your wet glistening body between my legs and take my diamond cutter into your awaiting, warm mouth still wet from the juices out of your love canal causing me to spasm in pleasure releasing profusely my load for you from the head of my diamond cutter passing your tonsils on its way to the lovely interior of your inviting throat. You do not waste any of my pleasure and greedily milk the last drop from my diamond cutter with your tiny mouth and small, soft skilled hands. Your tiny hands cup my sack and squeeze my jewels prolonging my pleasure. Afterwards, we lie in each other’s arms soaked from the perspiration and exhausted from the hours of intense pleasure we have shared. I hold you tightly and whisper into your ear how beautiful and sexy you are plus how you become so much more beautiful when you are orgasming in my arms. REBA you are a real, beautiful, sultry goddess. Reba, if you ever need a 6-3 18 year old good looking romantic guy with a tanned and toned body who has been told many times he resembles Billy Ray then look no further.