KELLY CLARKSON (with Legends Only's Bradley Stern)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2022
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
This week, DJ Louie is joined by music journalist and co-host of the podcast Legends Only, Bradley Stern, to discuss the original American Idol, Kelly Clarkson! First, Louie and Bradley discuss Kelly’s legendary run on Idol, from being deemed “forgettable” by Simon Cowell to winning the show and America’s hearts in a landslide victory, her display of down-home affability and incredible versatility on the show, equally adept at Motown as she was at rock, show-tunes and pop ballads, her first album, 2003’s Thankful, which played up her chameleonic and powerful vocal talent but played down her singular personality to middling results, how she fought tooth and nail to take more control of her artistry on her juggernaut second album, 2004’s more rock-oriented classic Breakaway, and calcified her on-record scorned-by-resilient persona on its signature hit, the iconic kiss-off anthem “Since U Been Gone”. Louie and Bradley then cover Kelly’s legendary and very public battle with label-boss Clive Davis over her third record, 2007’s largely self-penned My December, her mea-culpa for that defiance, 2009’s All I Ever Wanted, how Kelly eventually reached a detente with the powers that be in the 2010s and unlocked a very successful second decade of her pop career, and how all the qualities that made us fall in love with her twenty years ago as a cocktail waitress with a big voice and a dream on Idol lead to a third wave of her career as a beloved daytime talk show host, as well as to her viral covers series, “Kellyoke”. Finally, Louie and Bradley rank Kelly Clarkson in the official Pop Pantheon.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon. |
| 0:17.7 | This is your host, DJ Louis the 14th. |
| 0:20.7 | And I want to kick things off by saying, |
| 0:23.1 | thank you so, so much to all of the pop pantheon fans that came out to my new queer pop party |
| 0:29.0 | in L.A. this past weekend, gorgeous, gorgeous. I got to meet a bunch of you. We took photos |
| 0:34.2 | together. We danced together. The night was so beyond iconic, one of the best |
| 0:38.6 | of my career. I had the most fun ever. The energy in the room was absolutely beyond nuts. |
| 0:44.2 | And I'm so glad that I got to make contact with some of you amazing listeners to the show. |
| 0:49.6 | Please stay tuned. This party will be happening again soon. If you're in the greater Los Angeles area, |
| 0:55.5 | I hope to meet some of you guys there next time. I want to read a few of the most recent reviews |
| 1:00.2 | on Apple Podcasts, of course. This first one is from Colleen McGillicuddy, who says, |
| 1:05.5 | Amazing Podcasts. I hope there's a Robbie Williams episode one day. That's weirdly a very |
| 1:09.9 | oft-requested one, so definitely writing that one day. That's weirdly a very oft requested one. So |
| 1:11.2 | definitely writing that one down. Second is from Shauna L. 32. I'm only five episodes in, but I |
| 1:18.3 | absolutely love the deep dives on my favorite artists and some that I don't know very well and |
| 1:22.2 | I'm rediscovering. I'm so glad, Shauna, I love when people are into the episodes on people that they maybe didn't know as well |
| 1:29.3 | and that the show gives a nice intro to. And then of course, my favorite review of the last week from G-star |
| 1:35.3 | superstar entitled, Ernest, and the content says, please stop saying it. Well, G-Star Superstar, |
| 1:43.4 | earnestly speaking, I will not stop saying it. |
| 1:46.9 | But I do appreciate that you gave me five stars while also saying something pretty rude. |
| 1:50.6 | So thank you for that. If you do have the time or inspiration, I'd really appreciate it if you |
| 1:54.5 | could leave a review or a five-star rating and or on Apple Podcasts in particular, but also Spotify |
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