The pop star and talk show host knows it so well she can itsing it backwards.
“Let’s give some backstory,” Clarkson said.
“I was lied to.”
Kelly Clarkson.Chris Haston/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
“It had dummy lyrics,” she explained.
“They didn’t really have lyrics yet.
They were like, ‘Oh, we just want you to work with them.’
And I was told to write to the song.”
But the singer-songwriter says that she later realized “Since U Been Gone” producersMax MartinandDr.
Lukedidn’t expect her to pen her own lyrics.
“They flew me to Sweden,” Clarkson continued.
That’s a red flag.
Why lie to me like that?
Why not just get me to go there and then they’ll have the song?
I don’t like the lying.
So that’s why I have a bad vibe with that song, because of the origin story."
So how does Kelly cope with the song’s baggage when it comes time to sing the fan-favorite onstage?
“I’m such a great compartmentalizer,” Clarkson laughed.
“I can put that aside and I sing the hell out of it.”
Inan open letter to her fans, Clarkson claimed those stories were “not true at all.”
She added, “His stories and songs are mixed up.”
Davis respondedwith a Twitter statement saying, “I stand by the chapter as written in my book.”
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