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Hotlantan

Friday, April 04, 2003 - 09:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
The album title: THANKFUL
The first single: "Miss Independent"


It’s time for American Idol, Kelly Clarkson to expand with the release of her debut album on April 15th. The debut album includes production from some of the biggest names in music including; Babyface, The Underdogs, Rhett Lawrence and songs written by Diane Warren, Tamyra Gray (former ‘American Idol’ contestant) and Christina Aguilera.

The album will be met with an extensive campaign. Clarkson has already performed on American Idol and plans to visit David Letterman, Jay Leno, Extra and Regis & Kelly during the week of release.

The first single from the album will be delived to MTV/VH1 on March 31st, and radio the week following. RCA is also planning an online chat with AOL and idolfox.com.

Album Tracklisting:
1. Miss Independent
2. Some Kind Of Miracle
3. What's Up Lonely
4. Low
5. Just Missed The Train
6. Beautiful Disaster
7. You Thought Wrong

8. The Trouble With...
9. Today For Me
10. Trace of Gold
11. Thankful
12. A Moment Like This
13. Anytime


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00007GUIO/qid=1049475463/sr=8-4/ref=sr_8_4/002-1363658-5740815?v=glance&s=music&n=507846

Jbean

Friday, April 04, 2003 - 07:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
woo hoo! i am "THANKFUL" that it is finally coming out. i'll be in line to buy it on the 15th. :)

ps. where did you find the article, hotlantan? i didn't find it on the site linked. thanks!

Fruitbat

Friday, April 04, 2003 - 09:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Go to Amazon and buy it now. They will send it when it comes.

Wcv63

Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 02:07 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I saw Kelly perform this morning on Regis and Kelly. She sang, "The Trouble With Love Is" and it is wonderful!

I've heard clips of Miss Independent, What's Up Lonely, and Some Kind of Miracle and everything I've heard so far indicates a successful debut album.

If interested you can go here: Pick The Hits to listen and vote on three of the songs on the album.

She is the writer/co-writer on 4 of the songs on her album and in her Regis interview she said that Clive Davis and Simon Fuller (Her manager) were both very supportive once they saw what she could contribute.

ETA: You have to register to listen (It's free) and vote. Her songs are in the Top 40 section.

Hotlantan

Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 10:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
JBean, I'm "in the industry" and retyped the text from part of a larger mailing direct from RCA. I just highlighted the info specificly related to Kelly. Should be getting her full press kit soon.

Jbean

Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 07:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
thanks hot! i adore this girl. think that this year's group are kind of a joke next to her....and that's just my opinion, not trying to upset anyone.

btw, what do you do in the "industry". very fascinating. i'm jealous! :)

Jbean

Sunday, April 13, 2003 - 07:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
just out of curiosity, has anyone actually heard kelly's song played on a radio station? it hasn't been played here at all.

Wcv63

Monday, April 14, 2003 - 07:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't listen to the radio that often so I can't say if they are playing it here or not. Regardless, I believe her album sales will warrent much radio play.

Djgirl5235

Monday, April 14, 2003 - 09:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
WCV - I didn't get a chance to hear the songs you sent me, I'll make sure to listen to them tomorrow night when my bf brings the laptop home for me to use... I had company all weekend...

Wcv63

Monday, April 14, 2003 - 09:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Tommorrow night you can be listening to your CD Djgirl!!! That's what I'll be listening to!

Djgirl5235

Monday, April 14, 2003 - 10:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I have to wait for payday on Thursday - waaaahhhhh!!!!

Jbean

Monday, April 14, 2003 - 03:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
woo hoo! how exciting, finally coming out tomorrow. i hope you are right wcv about the album sales. i really want her to succeed.

Hermione69

Monday, April 14, 2003 - 03:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Cool! I love Kelly! I will pop into Best Buy for this tomorrow!

Wilsonatmd

Monday, April 14, 2003 - 09:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The first review from USA Today: 2.5 stars out of 4....

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/reviews/2003-04-14-kelly_x.htm

Clarkson's 'Thankful' much obliged to many

American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson's debut album Thankful doesn't do singer justice.


By Elysa Gardner, USA TODAY

Here's a little-known secret: For years, evil scientists have worked in cahoots with music industry executives to try to create the perfect female pop star. After repeated attempts to fuse stolen samples of Mariah Carey's and Sheryl Crow's DNA failed, they decided to stage a talent search on national television, hoping they would find a cute gal with a voice perfectly suited to today's most lucrative rock and R&B clichés.

OK, so that's not the real story behind last year's American Idol winner, Kelly Clarkson. But even if it were, I doubt that Clarkson could have released a debut album that sounds more calculated or less original than Thankful.

That's a shame, because Clarkson is an undeniably gifted young woman. Her voice is full and expressive, with a rich, round tone that, like Carey's, veers effortlessly from breathy cooing to resonant belting.

Clarkson's singing also can take on a sensual raspiness more evocative of blues-influenced rock artists, so that wistful but driving numbers such as Low and Just Missed the Train sound more authoritative than you might expect.

Unfortunately, the material here is often so generic that it could stump the most intuitive interpretive singer. Many of the tracks, which team sometime co-writer Clarkson with some of the top tunesmiths in the business, sound as if they were pretested by focus groups to appeal equally to Top 40, urban and adult-contemporary radio formats.

The breathless, colorless single Miss Independent sounds less like the edgy, strong-but-vulnerable-woman number it purports to be than the Christina Aguilera throwaway it basically is. (Aguilera began working on the song during sessions for her most recent CD but didn't complete it.)

Then there's the requisite hip-hop-laced you-done-me-wrong song, You Thought Wrong (featuring fellow Idol alumna Tamyra Gray); the obligatory inspirational love song, Anytime; and, of course, a Diane Warren ballad, the sinuous but tepid Some Kind of Miracle.

It's a tribute to Clarkson's seemingly genuine wholesomeness and warmth that she manages to tackle such treacle without seeming patently insincere. Even the gooey acknowledgements the singer includes in her liner notes — "I am working with the best management team ever!" she gushes, later telling us, "Anything is possible, no matter who you are or where you come from" — aren't quite as irritating as similar appreciations penned by many of her peers.

If Clarkson wants to enhance that personal believability with creative credibility, she would do well to surround herself with people who are more interested in truly nurturing her talent than making a quick buck from it.

Wink

Monday, April 14, 2003 - 09:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
She needs to work with David Foster.

Djgirl5235

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 05:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I have to wait until Thursday - that's not fair!!!!!!!

Wcv63

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 08:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
USA Today gave her 2 1/2 out of 4 stars on the album. Pffffftt! It's a 4 star album!

I love "What's Up Lonely", "Just Missed The Train", "Low", "Beautiful Disaster", and even the Diane Warren song, "Some Kind of Miracle."

Djgirl5235

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 08:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sure Wcv, RUB IT IN!!! I'm just kidding!!!

Luv ya!

Cathie

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 02:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Our stations here have played clips of her songs this week. She is going to be at the local (Burleson) Walmart tonight to sign CDs from 6:30-8:00, which really sucks since AI is on at 7:30 here. Dilemma...do I stay home all nice and comfy to watch the show or set the VCR and boogy down to Walmart with the digital camera???

Texannie

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 03:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
She was on Jay Leno last night singing it. Still not crazy about the beginning, but am liking the rest of the song more. She looked really good, got rid of the wild extensions.

Wcv63

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 04:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm such a dork. I've listened to this album over and over and over ad infinitum. Djgirl...I feel so bad that you have to wait till Friday to listen to this gem.

Jbean

Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - 07:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i bought it today, too, and love it. who cares about what usa today thinks anyway...not me.

cathie, i hope you went to see the girl at wal-mart....you could have taped the show. :)

ps. our wal-mart is selling the cd for $10.88 as a new release, prolly thru sunday, that's how they usually do it. you might check on that, djgirl. $11 is pretty inexpensive for a cd....especially our girl kelly. :)

Cathie

Wednesday, April 16, 2003 - 10:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I taped the show but then got delayed taking baby pictures for a friend and wasn't finished until 8:00, which was when Kelly was suposed to be finished. As I was about 10 miles from Burleson then, I just went home and watched my tape. I talked to a friend a few minutes ago who went to Walmart around 9:45 last night and Kelly was STILL there. Darnit!!!!!

They interviewed Kelly on local radio yesterday and asked her what she had bought so far with her $$. She did buy her friend (the one who urged her to audition) a 2003 Corvette. She had originally wanted a '69 but was VERY happy with the brand new one. She said she had also just paid a down payment on a new house for her mother and step-father. She is such a sweetie!

Wcv63

Wednesday, April 16, 2003 - 12:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Cathie...according to reports that I've read from people who went to the Burleson Walmart signing, Kelly stayed till 1:30AM signing autographs in order to make sure that everybody who stood in line waiting got one. 6 hours straight.

Makes me even prouder of her than I already was.

Hotlantan

Wednesday, April 16, 2003 - 01:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
First day sales numbers from HITS:

The New Breed [by 50 Cent] appears likely to sell nearly 300k in its first week, according to early reports from national accounts. The early numbers for New Breed signal that it will be an easy #1 on next week’s chart.

Or will it? As we file this story, another big debut is in the making: American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson’s Thankful (RCA)—the polar opposite of 50 Cent’s gritty rhymes in its made-for-TV pop lushness—also hit the streets yesterday and appears headed for sales of as much as 250k for the week.

Our retail accountants tell us it would be unwise to rule out the possibility that a big Easter weekend for Clarkson and a little tailing-off on the 50 Cent could turn it into a two-way horserace for #1 by the end of the week.

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/newsPage.cgi?news04275