3.20.13 - New Music - Kelly Clarkson

Kelly Clarkson seems to be an unstoppable force, and why shouldn’t she be? If you didn’t love her before this year, I’m pretty sure you do now. I mean, she’s the BEST.

Cutting promotion of her ‘Stronger’ album short in November to release a greatest hits might not have been the worst decision, seeing as all three new songs on the collection have now been released as singles. We all heard the top twenty-peaking “Catch My Breath” and there was the Vince Gill country-leaning “Don’t Rush”. Following in the power pop footsteps of “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)” is “People Like Us”, which is going to hit you almost as hard.

Greg Kurstin (one of the most prolific and successful pop producers in the world today) was behind the soundboards on this one (returning from that little success named “Stronger”), and you can hear it. The anthem for the downtrodden and odd in the world is powerful in message and sound, and I would be shocked to see this not chart fairly well.

Everything Kelly touches these days turns to gold.