Celebrity Feuds
Kelly Backtracks on Clive Comments

Kelly Clarkson, Clive DavisAs stars are now prone to do, Kelly Clarkson took to her website to clear up her recent feud with record exec Clive Davis.

"I want to set the record straight on this by saying that I want my band, my advisors [sic], those close to me and my record label to be one big, tightly knit family," Clarkson wrote. "Like any family we will disagree and argue sometimes but, in the end, it's respect and admiration that will keep us together."

In this case, it looks like mommy and daddy have been fighting a lot and the kids are now in therapy!

The former Idol went on to say, "Contrary to recent characterizations in the press, I'm well aware that Clive is one of the great record men of all time." And by "recent characterizations in the press" perhaps she means the time she told USA Weekend, "I'm going to be real honest with you: I am not a fan [of Davis] ... I do respect him, but I don't want to barbecue with him. We don't braid each other's hair. And, despite the rumors, he is nowhere near a father figure."

And the press misconstrued that -- how?



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16. I like Kelly; can't stand Clive for what he's done for/against other artists. Stick to your guns Kelly.

http://www.celebrity-do-gooders.blogspot.com/

Posted at 3:14PM on Jul 23rd 2007 by writergal

17. I never the bitch anyhow. How she won American Idol is STILL a mystery to me. Just goes to show you the music buying public will buy any piece of pop crap.

Posted at 3:20PM on Jul 23rd 2007 by honeycone71

18. I never liked the bitch anyhow. How and why she won American Idol (and a couple of Grammys) is STILL a mystery to me. Just goes to show you the music buying public will buy any piece of pop crap.

Posted at 3:23PM on Jul 23rd 2007 by honeycone71

19. I am so bored with her and whoever she is fighting with.

Posted at 3:24PM on Jul 23rd 2007 by girlie

20. Too late, bitch.

Posted at 3:27PM on Jul 23rd 2007 by notafan

21. I think Kelly needs a atitude adjustment....I never did care much about her and I do not think her fame will last too much longer. She thought her s--- didn't stink but she found out she it did. Now she is crawling back to Idol and the people that made her famous. Don't ever be too sure of yourself because you can fall as fast as you can get up. There is always some one to take your place. Besides your voice is not that great and you are not a pretty lady, so wise up you are no Carrie Underwood.

Posted at 3:30PM on Jul 23rd 2007 by Gina

22. I have been a fan of Kelly's, but she really needs to shut up.

Yes, Davis is old, but he is respected and has had decades of success in the music industry and will continue to weild power there. She is very foolish to keep making childish statements like this, and if she wanted to apologize or temper her former remarks, she should have left it at "families have arguments" rather than going on and on about how she doesn't care for him.

If she thinks that was diplomatic, then she isn't very bright, and I have enjoyed her past music, but Clive was right -- this new album is terrible.

Posted at 9:28AM on Jul 30th 2007 by Kia

23. Talk about a backhanded way to backtrack. She's a big, fat, Greek BITCH. What an idiot. Just cause Clive is older, doesn't mean he doesn't know a lot about the business. She has some SERIOUS child/daddy issues, as witnessed by a lot of stuff she says concerning marriage, kids, Clive Davis, etc. Too bad someone of his knowledge and talent, has to deal with such a little, pissy HO.

Posted at 3:40PM on Jul 23rd 2007 by yuk

24. #5, I'm not sure what you are talking about Paris's CD was Promoted and Promoted and hardly sold anything, it was universally considered a flop. Kelly's CD on the other hand got tons of attention. All the stories about Kelly in the press fighting with Clive etc... That Cd had so much Free Press it would have cost millions to pay for it. The problem is, the critics hated the CD and the fans don't seem to be buying it. Gee, go figure, some angst ridden 25 year old spoiled Celeb decides she can do a better job than all the songwriters who got her to where she is...and she fails. Time to eat Crow Kelly, maybe there is a reason that Clive runs the lable and you are the wind up doll that gets lyrics put in your mouth to parrot. He apprently knows what he's doing. He was sure right about your CD now wasn't he?

Posted at 4:00PM on Jul 23rd 2007 by cambel

25. Just because she won American Idol some rules of the real world still apply. You can not publicly dog out your boss! Most folks working the 9-5 would have been shown the door. She's lucky she in a profession where she can still continue to work. But she will still need him to help out her career.

Posted at 3:47PM on Jul 23rd 2007 by Tasha

26. I am not a huge pop music fan: and I don't particularly care for Kelly Clarkson's "type" of music. I have no clue about the spat with Clive Davis either........What I do know is she is NOT fat!

I get very concerned about the posters who call her fat, when she is a normal sized young woman. We have an epidemic amongst [mainly] young girls and women in the country who are starving themselves while trying to aspire to some unrealistic and skinny [Posh] Hollywood-type image that is, for the most part, unobtainable for most females.

Posted at 3:51PM on Jul 23rd 2007 by Shelley

27. This album sold over 250,00 in its first week of release, the critics have said some very nice things about the songs on this cd...it's just more serious than the last one.
She does have the right to decide what product she puts out, and she is prepared for it not to sell like her last one. Not every cd can sell over 10,000,000
like her or not she has a voice and I don't think we will be seeing her lip synicing any of her music like so many of the other so called singers that need tons of over dubbing to give them a voice
Also, come on people, she is not fat by any ones standard. She has a bootie , but so what

Posted at 4:15PM on Jul 23rd 2007 by Sadieface

28. Clive is an ass and a perfect example of why the music industry is going into the toilet these days. whats wrong with someone doing something a little different? everyone can't be a bunch of cookie cutter..i can barely sing but look at me shake my butt in a video wanna-be's. It makes me mad when these artists try to be true to who they are...he and so many in the industry try to stifle that. He's shut down more great artists than he has succeeded with.

Kelly thinks sometimes before she talks and maybe she shoulda edited herself more the first time, but i don't see anything wrong with her apoligizing now for her comments. We all say things we wish we could take back..fortunately ours aren't blasted in the press.

Posted at 4:34PM on Jul 23rd 2007 by liveandlearn

29. sniff......sniff
is that smoke I smell?
Kelly doesn't remember that you're not supposed to burn your bridges!

Posted at 4:42PM on Jul 23rd 2007 by maybuns2u

30. Kelly has no talent and she won't make it in the long run....like most she is a dime a dozen....unfortunately, she is trying to be someone she is not....she is not comfortable in her own skin.....sorry but the verdict is in....she is not going to go anywhere. End of story.

Posted at 4:43PM on Jul 23rd 2007 by mikey

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