All I Ever Wanted

Got Kelly Clarkson's new album today! Today's the release date of her fourth studio album, All I Ever Wanted. Kind of an ironic title, since the world knows that this is not the kind of music she wants to record. But a singer's gotta do what she's gotta do to survive in this industry, and sad to say, our music industry is ruled by cutesy pop. It's such a harmless and adorable album that the cover art is pink, purple and orange. I see it as Kelly blatantly proclaiming "You want pop? I'LL GIVE YOU POP!!" (Coincidentally, Pink, Orange and Purple's abbreviation spells out POP!)

Even though it's not Kelly's most honest work, it's still a pop force to be reckoned with. Kelly's vocals are still fantastic, as she yells and screams all her fury towards Clive Davis into the song. Her first single, 'My Life Would Suck Without You', has broken Britney Spears' record fo the biggest jump to number 1.

True to Kelly's style, most of the pictures on the album booklet looks nothing like her. Not to say that they don't look great, just that it doesn't look like her. However, one of them looks like a young version of Bette Midler, which was not so great.

What the critics are saying:

"An album unabashedly stuffed with second-generation "Since U Been Gone" rewrites - each one more brilliant than the next."

"The album is a determined effort to put Clarkson back into everyone’s iPod. It appears already to have succeeded spectacularly: the first single – “My Life Would Suck Without You” – has leaped into the No. 1 spot on the Billboard chart and sold more than 290,000 downloads in a week."

"Not much beats the feeling of having a Kelly Clarkson album live up to your expectations. In fact, the ridiculously talented artist offers up this time around a well-rounded pop effort that just brings it!"

Well, all that pop-ness is great, but the thing is, Kelly does have a great aw-shucks quality and a great personality that wasn't reflected in the album. After her not very sucessful attempt at shedding the typical cookie cutter 'Idol' image, she seems to have been completely reined back and kept under close supervision by Clive. At least she has Kara's contribution on the album. I would die if everything was with that mean bully Ryan Tedder (bully cause when he sung with Arch he tried to do all those high falsettos. What a bastard.)


Kelly performing 'Cry' from her new album!