Also here's a link to a downloadable file of the Reba-Kelly performance tonight. Ain't the internet great! :)
I love their performance. Simple, understated and moving. They both looked lovely, also. The amazing thing about 'Because of You' is that Kelly wrote it when she was just 16. Now it's a Grammy-winning pop smash and Kelly won a coveted ASCAP songwriter's Song of the Year award for it. And its on its way to becoming one of the true standards of our time, likely to be covered by many artists in years to come. I wonder how Country music fans will receive this beautiful duet. It isn't really true Country, although Reba gives it a twang.
Lastly, here's an interesting article from The Village Voice about Kelly's struggles with Clive Davis and RCA. Can you believe they wanted Kelly to put a cover of a lame Lindsay Lohan song on her new album? It's a song that was on LinLo's last album. That was confirmed by Kelly in a recent interview. No wonder Kelly fought so hard to do her own music. The album may succeed or fail, but at least she's not doing the usual airheaded commercial formulaic pap the record companies keep shoving out to the music-buying public. And then they wonder why music sales are falling. Un-frickin-believable! The music boards and entertainment media have been all a-twitter about this struggle with RCA. The LinLo thing about put everyone into a mental ward. ;-)
I know Carrie wants to do some writing or co-writing on her next album. I sure hope they don't put her through the same wringer.
As for Kelly, she said she's the one who has to sing the songs every day, so why shouldn't she at least sing something she likes. Also, she says she has enough money, so if her instincts are wrong on this album and it fails, at least she didn't sell out. Brave girl, 'cause the likes of Davis and RCA can squash her career like they were swatting flies.
If you haven't heard the news yet, Kelly will be on the AI finale this year.
I think country has evolved over the years and has enough branches on its tree to find a niche for post people. My mother complains that country isn't country anymore.
Can you believe they wanted Kelly to put a cover of a lame Lindsay Lohan song on her new album?
I didn't realize that Lohan was such a successful singer that Kelly should have to cover her. I would have thought it would be the other way around. Or perhaps that is the purpose, they want to legitimize Lohan by having Kelly cover her. Glad Kelly chose to fight it.
Un-frickin-believable!
LOL! I had the same reaction.
Lohan is a trainwreck, the complete opposite of Kelly. Why Clive and RCA would force her to sing that crap is .... well ... I was going to say it's beyond me, but it's not. They just want to make a quick buck off Kelly and to hell with her "career" or her own creativity.
Thanks so much for the cover art to her album--I like it! If I take my eyes out of focus, it looks like Kelly is a rose surrounded by thorns. Seems appropriate ;)
“Because of You” ~ sad, sad song.
