Kelly Clarkson Debuts NEW Lyrics To Track About Ex-Husband Following Their Messy Divorce
Kelly Clarkson doesn’t want no man. The Since You Been Gone singer could have misplaced her companion Brandon Blackstock when she filed for divorce in 2020, however she’s engaged on studying to choose up the items all by herself! Throughout a Saturday efficiency as a part of her Las Vegas residency, the 41-year-old made fairly the assertion by not-so-subtly swapping the lyrics of her 2015 hit, Piece by Piece, to mirror her state of affairs post-divorce.
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In case you haven’t heard the tune, it initially served as a tribute for her now ex-husband, who she sang about being there for her greater than her obvious absentee father. The lyrics initially went:
“Piece by piece, he collected me up / Off the bottom, the place you deserted issues, yeah / Piece by piece, he crammed the holes that you simply burned in me / At six years previous and ”
Nonetheless, whereas serenading viewers members on the Bakkt Theater at Planet Hollywood over the weekend, she took a second earlier than belting the hit to deal with how typically issues simply don’t go as deliberate. She defined:
“This tune I initially wrote simply tremendous hopeful, proper? And properly, typically hopeful turns into hopeless, so right here we go.”
Aww so unhappy! But it surely feels like she’s definitely utilizing the less-than-ideal state of affairs to lean on herself, as she modified all the “he” lyrics to “I.” She as an alternative sang:
“Piece by piece, I collected me up / Off the bottom, the place you deserted issues, yeah / Piece by piece, I crammed the holes that you simply burned in me / At six years previous and ”
Sure, Kelly! We love to listen to that! We all know all of it have to be extremely troublesome and painful, however we so admire her skill to alter a “hopeless” state of affairs into one thing optimistic. However the modifications didn’t cease there…
The Stronger singer additionally swapped out all mentions of “he” within the second half of the refrain, powerfully adjusting issues from:
“He by no means walks away / He by no means asks for cash / He takes care of me / He loves me”
To:
“I simply stroll away / once they ask for cash / I deal with me / ’trigger I like me”
Oooo! That half about cash is particularly related as again in January 2022 a supply for the mom of two instructed Us Weekly that Brandon would “not get one penny from [Clarkson] that wasn’t ordered by the decide. It’s going to be nasty.” Nonetheless, chances are you’ll recall the 2 settled their divorce in March of this yr, with Kelly in the end having to pay Brandon $45,600 a month in youngster assist, AND a further $115,000 a month in spousal assist by means of January 2024… Yeah, we undoubtedly get these lyric modifications now… Watch the total factor (beneath):
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However this, after all, wasn’t the primary time Kelly modified her lyrics post-divorce, as she seemingly referred to as out Brandon AND his father again in March whereas performing a canopy of Gayle’s hit observe abcdefu, altering the tune from:
“f**ok you and your mother and your sister and your job and your broke-ass automotive and that s**t you name artwork”
To:
“Overlook you and your dad and the truth that you bought half and my damaged coronary heart, flip that s**t into artwork.”