Kara DioGuardi (American Idol): Songwriter - Kelly Clarkson, XTina, Pink, Britney & Ashlee

Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Jess Rothschild

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🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Jess is joined by American Idol judge and prolific songwriter KARA DioGUARDI to reflect on her incredible contributions to pop music throughout the 2000s. We go deep behind the music of her iconic songs, including... KYLIE MINOGUE "Spinning Around," PINK “Sober,” CHRISTINA AGUILERA “Ain’t No Other Man,” KELLY CLARKSON “Walk Away,” BRITNEY's Blackout album, and co-writing the bulk of the ASHLEE SIMPSON and LINDSAY LOHAN albums. Kara also reflects on helping secure ADAM LAMBERT's spot on American Idol, and her experience on Bravo’s songwriting competition show Platinum Hit.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dives and my next guest is a Grammy-nominated prolific
0:20.7	songwriter and producer.
0:22.7	Now you might remember her as a judge on American Idol back in the day, but she has written
0:27.3	songs for Christina Aguilera, Kelly Clarkson, Britney Spears, Pink, Lindsay Lohan, Ashley Simpson,
0:34.7	the list is truly endless.
0:37.3	Hi, Cardiagordi.
0:38.3	Hi.
0:39.3	How are you?
0:40.3	Hi, I'm great.
0:41.3	How are you?
0:42.3	I'm very good.
0:43.3	I'm happy.
0:44.3	It's a nice day and I can go outside and, you know, any day you can go outside and be in
0:50.6	the sun as good day.
0:52.9	So I was telling you earlier how I have followed your entire career and of course we're going
0:58.7	to get into American Idol and behind the music of some of your biggest songs, but let's
1:04.0	start with how you discovered that you had this talent as a songwriter.
1:08.3	Well, that's kind of a funny story because I really didn't get into the business to
1:13.8	be a writer.
1:15.4	I wanted to be an artist and at the time, you know, you needed to come up with what, back
1:21.2	then it was a demo tape, so which was basically a representation of, you know, music that
1:28.8	you would put on an album and kind of gave record executives like a look into, you know,
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