A loosely structured song cycle, the album is the singer’s most personal effort since My December.
Kelly Clarkson’s When Christmas Comes Around... juxtaposes the yuletide blues with jubilant holiday standards.
At its best, the film doesn’t just privilege altered states of consciousness, it is an altered state of consciousness.
What better goal could there be for an UglyDoll than to find meaning as a product in the hands of a consumer?
Director Timothy Reckart’s The Star turns the greatest story ever told into just another kids’ movie.
The album doesn’t reinvent pop-soul, but it solidifies Clarkson’s position as one of her generation’s greatest singers.
The songs should ostensibly inspire nostalgia but instead feel like they just rolled off a conveyor belt.
It’s Kelly Clarkson’s original songs that elevate Wrapped in Red above just another holiday-industrial-complex cash-in.
The 2012 Record of the Year nominations seem to be transparently based largely on familiarity.
Kelly Clarkson’s “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)” pounds its message of survivalism with nothing resembling nuance, but also nothing resembling fragility.
Starting tomorrow, we will predict the winners in all four general field categories of the 55th Annual Grammy Awards.
There are a few transitions between older and more recent material that draw attention to how her vocals have developed over her career.
If she’s going to keep us waiting for her long-rumored Nashville album, she needs to make sure that her pop releases justify the procrastination.
That nearly every song has a point of comparison that exists outside of the album’s context itself makes for a scattershot, confused listen.
Leave it to the creative minds at the New York Post to twist Kelly Clarkson's words and fabricate a story.
Judging by the photographs in the CD booklet for My December, it seems David Hodges may have done more damage to his ex than simply break her heart.
The greatest artists have taught by example that if you follow your instincts, the fans will usually follow.
Kelly Clarkson heads in an edgier, rockier direction with Breakaway.
The biggest liability of becoming the “American Idol” is evident on winner Kelly Clarkson’s debut album, Thankful.