Comments on: Is Kelly Clarkson Being Punished For Speaking Up?

By: anna

anna — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:04:02 +0000

TEAM KELLY ALL THE WAY!!! she’s amazing!!

By: Sid Sparkles

Sid Sparkles — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:33:13 +0000

at some point…aren’t all melodies gonna have been written? it’s inevitable that there will be similarities out there, and especially if the same writer dips his pen in both songs, but they are two different songs, both good, but “already gone” is by far one of kelley’s best yet, from a FANTASTIC album that, unless EVERY person at her label is an idiot, will produce 6 or 7 singles. hell, so far, it’d be my fave for album of the year. love it, love the song, love her!!!

By: Mariah

Mariah — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:26:01 +0000

Kelly, take my advice – fuck those label bosses of yours and leave their asses! Kelly is amazing and wonderful and brilliant and fantastic and one of the best in the business so I’m positive that any other label would be more than ecstatic to take her under their wing and treat her with the respect that she deserves. Then when she’ll sell millions upon million of more album, I have no doubt that RCA would be begging and pleading for Kelly to come back to them. FUCK RCA, KELLY! YOU’RE THE BEST! KEEP SPEAKING FROM THE HEART AND TELLING THE TRUTH!

By: la princesa

la princesa — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:24:39 +0000

I love Kelly Clarkson’s music, but when she speaks, I tune her out. She sounds so bumpkin and self-righteous, so I will enjoy her music, but I’m fine if they take her off the talk show circuit…

By: taylor

taylor — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:12:40 +0000

Kelly is strong woman who speaks her mind. I love her for it. As soon her contract is up, she needs to break from that record company. Doesn’t Simon Cowell have a label? Perhaps she should team up with him…and stay away from ‘spirit fingers’ Tedder.

By: cg

cg — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:12:29 +0000

Hey Rami are you a music major because my music major brother can tell similarities in the song especially in the beginning.

By: Jenna

Jenna — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:26:54 +0000

I know from first hand that Tedder is a completely talented person but a douche! I would not be surprised if he knew the whole time. Money talks.

By: Rami Ramirez

Rami Ramirez — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:24:29 +0000

Trent – I’m not accusing you of making anything up. I guess it all boils down to the fact that neither I nor the other 3 musicians I’ve asked in the past day about this think that the two songs sound similar enough to warrant this kind of controversy. Fact: they have different themes, harmonies, melodies and chord progressions, but they have similar tempos, similar instrumentation, and are in the same key. That said, even if I’m just deaf and somehow not hearing what everyone else is, there is nothing wrong with writing two songs that are similar. Now, if you took the vocals out of both songs and the track was exactly the same, now THAT would be shady. That’s not the case here. Anyways, since I am a mere reader of your powerful blog, I’ll allow Mr. Tedder to defend himself from this point on. But you’re wrong. And I love you.

By: nysro

nysro — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:21:10 +0000

She would be better off on another label. Clive Davis has done as much to hurt his record label as her by talking shit about her last album. She could be more successful with some people behind her that about HER and not how they look or the label does. Clive Davis is an asshole and not that in touch with what modern music is all about.

Her My Decemeber album would have done better had clive and his cronies not come out in the media talking shit about how bad it was… It wasn’t bad, but it surely hurt the album with all his remarks… I would have sued him back then for the lack luster results, and seen how that went.

By: Tracie

Tracie — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:03:41 +0000

@Rami:
Uh, The Amy/Diana comparison is a bad one. There is a huge difference between a current artist recording a song clearly influenced by (and hell maybe even plagiarising) a classic song and two songs coming out at roughly the same time that sound remarkably similar AND were cowritten by the same person.

By: It's Trent, Bitch!

It's Trent, Bitch! — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:47:22 +0000

@KEVIN — OMG, you are so right! Teddler’s been peddling that song all up and down the California coast! LOL

By: Krissy

Krissy — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:35:38 +0000

Kevin!!! That is a hysterical, and appropriate analogy!!

And Rami, I don’t agree with you. I think that it has sounded similar to people with out Trent’s help. It is all over the web, not just on Trent’s site. I think it is a bit rude to accuse someone of lying to add fuel to the fire.

By: KEVIN

KEVIN — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:25:13 +0000

It’s kind of like getting duped by the spirit fingers guy from Bring It On. Same ole routine on multiple teams. Do I hear total domination from Teddler?

By: Rami Ramirez

Rami Ramirez — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:33:12 +0000

Oh and I only meant bitch as an endearment. Honestly. Reading again, it seems rude…

By: Rami Ramirez

Rami Ramirez — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:32:41 +0000

@ Trent (bitch): Um OK. If you’ll notice almost every other commenter about this EVERYWHERE mentions the same thing: they heard the KC song, liked it, and never were once reminded of Halo until reading about it. I guess some people’s listening skills are stronger than others. I usually agree with everything you write, which is the only reason I’m challenging you here. We’re all entitled to an opinion I guess. Seriously, at what point in Already Gone do you hear hand claps? THEY ARE DIFFERENT CHORD PROGRESSIONS. I just listened again to be fair. Oh I get it – this is what you do – you’re just trying to add fuel to the fire. Hmmm – I thought you were a little more objective than that. Oh well. My bad.

By: It's Trent, Bitch!

It's Trent, Bitch! — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:16:35 +0000

@Rami Ramirez — Oh, thanks!! I wasn’t sure what I was hearing with my own ears until it was explained to me by a writer/producer. Dude, the songs are way too similar for it to be a coincidence. Not even Ryan Tedder can explain it away.

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By: Rami Ramirez

Rami Ramirez — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:56:20 +0000

I’m sorry, Trent, but you’re really beating a dead horse with this. And you’re wrong, and so is everyone else that thinks it’s the “same track.” I am a writer/producer and the songs are only similar in the sense that stylistically and key-wise they are the same. The rest: melodies, beat tracks, and chord progressions, are different. It seems Kelly Clarkson was speaking in defensiveness, because dumb people are blaming her for stealing, which is absurd. Have you ever heard the similarities between Amy Winehouse’s “Tears Dry On Their Own” and Diana Ross’ “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” ? Give them a listen. See? No one stole there, either. Both songs just use very similar progressions. This is a made up drama. Period.

By: Jacinta

Jacinta — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:47:47 +0000

@Kyleigh-Ryan Tedder and Jesse McCartney co-wrote/produced “Bleeding Love”

@Debho-Kelly’s song is, and has been for like the past couple months, one of the goodbye songs on So You Think You Can Dance. And I swear, every single time it starts, even though I know it’s not Halo, I think it is for a split second because of the extremely similar beats.

By: Krissy

Krissy — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:33:10 +0000

I think the label is so much worse at this whole thing than Kelly is. Ultimately, she tried to tell them not to release it because of the similarities, and they went ahead and did it anyway (IMO, there are a lot more interesting songs on her cd than that one). I think that Ryan hasn’t owned his mistake and clearly side stepped the issues with the drum similarities. In such a stark arrangement, the drums are the song. It isn’t as if they have wildly different guitars over the drums. As producer, I am sure he knew how similar they sounded when he was making the songs. He needs to own up!

Team Kelly!

By: morgan

morgan — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:34:12 +0000

She need to dump her record co., and find someone that will treat her career with more respect. Ryan clearly used the same music for two different artists, two different songs. He needs to own up to it, and apologize to both artists, especially Kelly Clarkson because she is the one getting all the heat for his laziness, and fraud.

By: jen

jen — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:29:14 +0000

Kudos to Kelly Clarkson. She gets into trouble just because she’s not as naive or as much of a pushover as Clive would like her to be. She’s one of the very few artists out there to really speak her mind.

By: Debho

Debho — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:28:14 +0000

Would people have really known that they sounded similar if it hadn’t been pointed out? Whatever, people are listening to her song now.
Back in the 80′s Stock Aiken and Waterman wrote songs for Kylie Minogue and a stable of singers ….they ALL sounded the same. And all were big hits. Don’t understand all of the fuss now really. Songwriters generally have the same sound in their music.

By: Kyleigh

Kyleigh — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:19:51 +0000

Um…I thought Jesse McCartney wrote “Bleeding Love”. Kudos to Kelly for speaking up, BOOOOO to Clive Davis and Sony for not going to bat for their own artist. Kelly Clarkson is the greatest voice to come out of American Idol (Carrie Underwood a close second), and Sony has failed to recognize this. Kelly will be fine if Sony cuts her loose, there will be plenty of other labels knocking at the door, willing to let her take her music in the direction she wants to take it. Hell, it would be even cooler if she started her OWN label (since apparently everyone is able to do these days).

By: Leah

Leah — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:48:35 +0000

LOL, that was supposed to be clap-py track. With the handclaps.