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Kelly Clarkson spread holiday nostalgia on Friday’s episode (Dec. 16) of The Kelly Clarkson Show with her cover of “I’ll Be Home For Christmas.”
Forgoing the song’s intro, the talk show host launched right into its famous first verse, singing, “I’ll be home for Christmas/ You can count on me/ Please have snow and mistletoe/ And presents under the tree/ Christmas Eve will find me/ Where the love light gleams/ I’ll be home for Christmas/ If only in my dreams.”
Clarkson previously recorded the track, which was made famous in 1943 by Bing Crosby to honor soldiers overseas during the holidays, for her 2013 Christmas album Wrapped in Red. Since then, she’s also released a couple more holiday one-offs like 2017’s “Christmas Eve” and the 2020 duet “Under the Mistletoe” with Brett Eldredge before unveiling her second yuletide record, When Christmas Comes Around…, in Oct. 2021.
The superstar has filled the week of “Kellyoke” picks with her original Christmas songs as well, including “Merry Christmas (To the One I Used to Know),” “Christmas Isn’t Canceled (Just You)” and a solo version of “Santa Can’t You Hear Me” sans collaborator Ariana Grande. Jewel also stopped by at the top of the week to perform a jazzy “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” when the host was filming from home due to COVID.
Next year, Clarkson will return for her ninth season on The Voice after taking this past season off, opposite Blake Shelton and incoming coaches Niall Horan and Chance the Rapper.
Watch Clarkson perform “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” below.
Kelly Clarkson kept the Christmas spirit flowing on Thursday (Dec. 15) by performing her 2021 holiday song “Santa Can’t You Hear Me” to open The Kelly Clarkson Show.
While she enlisted pal Ariana Grade for the studio version from her second Christmas album When Christmas Comes Around…, the talk show host opted to tackle the ditty by herself, belting out, “Santa can’t you hear me?/ Oh, I don’t need a thing/ I sent a letter to you/ On how to make my dreams come true, oh yeah/ Keep the mistletoe/ Unless below, is what I need/ Oh Santa, can’t you hear me?”
The solo “Kellyoke” number continues Clarkson’s string of performing her own holiday originals, following “Merry Christmas (To the One I Used to Know)” and “Christmas Isn’t Canceled (Just You)” earlier this week. Before that, she handed the mic to Jewel to perform a stirring, jazz-inflected rendition of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” while Clarkson was out sick with COVID.
Clarkson’s been in quite the giving mood on her show thanks to her ongoing holiday gift guide. On Wednesday’s episode, she gave every member of her studio audience an all-expenses-paid trip to Hawaii, with airfare to and from the islands.
In the new year, the superstar is set to return to Season 23 of The Voice after taking a season off for the first time since she joined the show as a coach in Season 14. She’ll be joined by Blake Shelton for his final season before leaving The Voice as well as rookie coaches Niall Horan and Chance The Rapper.
Watch Clarkson perform “Santa Can’t You Hear Me” below.
Aloha! Kelly Clarkson got into the holiday spirit on the Wednesday (Dec. 14) of her Kelly Clarkson Show by giving everyone in the studio audience an all-expenses-paid trip to Hawaii.
With some help from Grumpy Elf, the talk-show host has been running viewers through her Holiday Gift Guide all week long, and the episode’s presents were all themed around the outdoors — from portable gas grills, cozy loungewear and backyard fire pits — all of which she also gifted the audience.
Then Clarkson finally introduced the Hawaiian vacation package courtesy of Outrigger Resorts and Hotels, though she couldn’t help toying with the audience in the process. She warned, “Now slow your roll, everybody, ’cause this ain’t Oprah’s Favorite Things, OK?
“So, everybody, you got excited about the last ones,” she continued, “but, umm … this is The Kelly Clarkson Show gift guide, so you’re all getting a Hawaiian vacation!”
As the ecstatic audience broke out into shrieks and cheers, Grumpy Elf revealed a giant card confirming they’d get three nights and four days for two at any of Outrigger’s many Hawaiian getaways. “I feel like this is what Oprah felt like — I like this feeling!” Clarkson quipped before shouting, “Mele Kalikimaka!”
During the episode, the three-time Grammy winner also performed her 2021 holiday track “Christmas Isn’t Canceled (Just You)” for the day’s Kellyoke number, and interviewed both Brendan Fraser and Sadie Sink.
Earlier this week, the eight-time coach on The Voice stopped by the NBC singing competition’s season 22 finale to sing a solo rendition of her Ariana Grande duet “Santa Can’t You Hear Me.”
Watch Clarkson give away vacations to Hawaii above, and perform her Kellyoke below.
Kelly Clarkson is back in the studio for her eponymous talk show and kicked off Tuesday’s episode (Dec. 13) with her very own “Merry Christmas (to the One I Used to Know).”
Wearing a glamorously festive red gown and her hair up in a messy bun, the host crooned the melancholy tune from her 2021 holiday album When Christmas Comes Around… “The rush of us and all that was, right now it’d be so nice/ But I know when Christmas comes around/ And the snow falls like a fresh start on the ground/ You aren’t the one I’m missing, he left long ago/ For my Christmas Eve, my gift to me is dancing with your ghost/ So Merry Christmas to the one I used to know,” she sang before launching into the song’s forlorn bridge.
The number marked Clarkson’s return to her stomping grounds after filming virtually for several episodes due to coming down with COVID. Earlier this week, she enlisted Jewel to step in for a “Kellyoke” cover of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” before interviewing the Season 6 winner of The Masked Singer about her holiday traditions growing up in rural Alaska.
Later on Tuesday, the original American Idol champ is set to make an appearance during part two of The Voice‘s Season 22 finale, where she’ll be performing a solo version of her holiday single “Santa, Can’t You Hear Me” sans collaborator (and fellow former Voice coach) Ariana Grande. While the track appeared on the same album from last year as her latest “Kellyoke” pick, Clarkson released a live recording of the duet earlier this holiday season.
Watch Clarkson perform “Merry Christmas (To the One I Used to Know)” below.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year for Jewel to take the reins at The Kelly Clarkson Show. With Kelly Clarkson home sick, the pop star stepped in to deliver a “Kellyoke” cover of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” on Monday (Dec. 12).
“As always, we’re gonna dive straight in with music,” the host announced via satellite from her home, “except this is a little different — I’m very excited. Instead of a standard ‘Kellyoke,’ I have a good friend and super talented singer, she’s right there to lift you up with a signature song of the season.”
From there, Jewel launched into a wistful, jazz-tinged rendition of the holiday standard, singing, “Have yourself a merry little Christmas/ Let your heart be light/ From now on, our troubles will be out of sight/ Through the years, we all will be together/ If the fates allow/ So hang a shining/ Hang a shining star upon the highest bow/ And have yourself a merry little Christmas now.”
(Billboard can confirm that Jewel’s episode was taped on Dec. 2 and a fully recovered Clarkson is now back on set.)
Right after Jewel’s performance, Clarkson interviewed her fellow singer remotely about holiday traditions, music, Dolly Parton and more. “We grew up without television, without radio,” The Masked Singer champ said. “And so singing was, like, our main tradition. So tons of Christmas songs and folk songs and Swiss-German songs, all kinds for the holidays.”
Watch Jewel soar through “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” below.
Get ready to freak out, freak out, freak out, and get down, get down, get down to Kelly Clarkson‘s newest Kellyoke cover. On the Tuesday morning (Nov. 29) episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show, the pop star-turned-talk show-host performed Lady Gaga‘s electric 2020 single “Stupid Love.”
Standing under a constellation of strobing, Chromatica-inspired pink, purple and blue stage lights, Clarkson and her band Y’all put a slight rock edge to Gaga’s dance pop banger. “All I ever wanted was love,” sang the three-time Grammy winner, wowing her audience as usual with her ever-impressive belt. “I want your stupid love.”
“Stupid Love” was released as the lead single off Gaga’s sixth studio album Chromatica, which marked her first proper solo LP since 2016’s Joanne. The record debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and spawned four Billboard Hot 100 singles — one of which was “Stupid Love,” which peaked at No. 5.
The album’s second single, “Rain On Me” feat. Ariana Grande, marked Gaga’s fifth No. 1 single. It was named Billboard‘s top song of 2020.
The “Stronger” singer’s new cover can be added to her slowly growing arsenal of Lady Gaga Kellyoke performances. She’s previously performed the Mother Monster’s Born This Way single “You & I,” 2008 breakthrough hit “Poker Face” and “Bad Romance” on her Emmy-winning talk show.
At the moment, Gaga is gearing up for next year’s Grammy night following the announcement earlier this month that her scoring work on Top Gun: Maverick had received a pair of nominations. “It’s a real dream to be included in this celebration of music with a song and musical theme so close to my heart thank you,” wrote the Haus Labs founder on Instagram in light of the news. “I fully cried, this never gets old and I’m super humbled.”
Watch Kelly Clarkson cover Lady Gaga’s “Stupid Love” in the video above.
Kelly Clarkson took a walk on the dark side for a cover of Garbage‘s “Only Happy When It Rains” during the Thursday (Nov. 17) installment of her namesake talk show’s opening Kellyoke segment.
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Accompanied by her band Y’all, the instrumental ensemble turned into an alternative band to support Clarkson’s rocker vocals, recalling her 2004 hit “Since U Been Gone.”
“You can keep me company/ As long as you don’t care/ I’m only happy when it rains/ You wanna hear about my new obsession?/ I’m riding high upon a deep depression/ I’m only happy when it rains/ (Pour some misery down on me)/ I’m only happy when it rains,” the talk show host passionately sang.
“Only Happy When It Rains” was released as the third single from Garbage’s 1995 self-titled debut album. “Only Happy When It Rains” peaked at No. 55 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart — the band’s first of so far six appearances on the chart. Garbage’s self-titled album, meanwhile, peaked at No. 20 on the all-genre Billboard 200. It is the band’s longest-charting album on the chart.
Listen to Kelly Clarkson’s cover of “Only Happy When It Rains” in the video above.
Dove Cameron visited Kelly Clarkson‘s talk show on Thursday (Nov. 17) to talk about her hit song “Boyfriend” and got quite the surprise from the American Idol champ in the process.
“(‘Boyfriend’) was such a huge part of me finding my own identity and embracing my queerness,” the Disney Channel alum told Clarkson during their interview. “And it makes me emotional every time I talk about it but, it was such a key to gate for me into stepping into myself wholly, in a way that I never knew if I was gonna be privileged enough to find those pieces of myself. And exist as that person, right?
“‘Cause that’s the fear,” she continued. “The fear is that you exist as yourself wholly and the world cracks open and everything ends, and all the lights go out. And when the song came out and I saw that people were emotionally connecting to it, I think I was really panicked for some reason, just ’cause I wasn’t expecting it. And then over time, it was like it melded into this gorgeous, like…something meaningful for me being something meaningful for others.”
After Cameron explained how she found the song’s success such a “beautiful surprise,” Clarkson revealed a surprise of her own, presenting the burgeoning pop star with the RIAA platinum certification for the track.
“I was so excited when we found out you were getting it, I was like, ‘I wanna give it to her!’” the host told a speechless and visibly emotional Cameron.
After a slow burn of nearly four months, “Boyfriend” ultimately peaked at No. 16 on the Hot 100 in June just in time for Pride, giving Cameron the first top 20 hit of her career. Additionally, the slinky single rose to No. 4 on the Radio Songs chart dated June 11.
Watch Cameron’s adorable reaction to Clarkson’s platinum surprise below.
Kelly Clarkson opened Monday’s (Nov. 14) episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show with a tender cover of “Dream a Little Dream of Me,” as recorded by Mama Cass With The Mamas & the Papas.
For the number, the talk show host whittled down the instrumentation to just two instruments — a guitar and a piano — as she crooned, “Stars shining bright above you/ Night breezes seem to whisper, ‘I love you’/ Birds singin’ in the sycamore trees/ Dream a little dream of me/ Say nighty-night and kiss me/ Just hold me tight and tell me you’ll miss me/ While I’m alone and blue as can be/ Dream a little dream of me.”
Featured on The Mamas & the Papas’ self-titled album in 1968, the song charted at No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and also peaked at No. 2 on what is now the Adult Contemporary chart. The standard dates back to 1931 and has been recorded by many artists over the decades, including a first recording from Ozzie Nelson, followed by Doris Day, Anita Harris, Henry Mancini, Erasure, Eddie Vedder, Michael Bublé, the cast of Glee and many others.
Later in the show, Garth Brooks made a surprise appearance via video link to announce he’ll be headed to Las Vegas in 2023 for another residency.
Other “Kellyoke” songs Clarkson has knocked out of the proverbial park in recent weeks include Florence + the Machine’s “Heavy in Your Arms” from Twilight: Eclipse, the original “Lady Marmalade” by LaBelle, Rihanna’s 2007 smash “Umbrella,” Jimmy Eat World’s “The Middle” and more.
Watch Clarkson’s gorgeous take on “Dream a Little Dream of Me” below.
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir? Kelly Clarkson opened Thursday’s episode (Nov. 10) of her eponymous talk show by throwing it back to the original version of “Lady Marmalade” by Labelle.
For her Kellyoke rendition, the American Idol champion uses the lightest of touches and all the right vocal flourishes to make the slinky song completely her own — and entirely separate from the 2001 version recorded by Christina Aguilera, P!nk, Lil’ Kim, Mya and Missy Elliott for Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge.
“He met Marmalade down in old New Orleans/ Strutting her stuff on the street/ She said, ‘Hello/ Wanna give it a go?’/ Gitchi, gitchi, ya ya, da da/ Gitchi, gitchi, ya ya, here/ Mocha chocolat-a, ya ya/ Creole Lady Marmalade,” she sang, accompanied by an accordion, guitars and a lone back-up singer.
Originally released by Labelle in January 1975, the sultry tale of the sex worker became the girl group’s defining single and lone No. 1 hit when it peaked at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for one week that March. Of course, the girl power-inspired collaboration by Xtina and co. ultimately eclipsed the success of the OG single, spending five consecutive weeks at No. 1 in the summer of 2001.
Other “Kellyoke” numbers Clarkson has knocked out of the park as of late include The Mamas and The Papa’s “California Dreamin’,” Rihanna’s “Umbrella,” Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” and Jimmy Eat World’s “The Middle.” Meanwhile, The Kelly Clarkson Show was recently renewed for two more seasons through 2025.
Watch Clarkson transform “Lady Marmalade” below.