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Kelly Clarkson had some fighting words for Kanye West after Sunday night’s fiasco with the rapper and Taylor Swift at the VMAs and the American Idol alum took to her blog to say them. Kelly said “…I’ve seen you do some pretty shitty things, but you just keep amazing me with your tactless, asshole ways. It’s absolutely fascinating how much I don’t like you. I like everyone. I even like my asshole ex that cheated on me over you…which is pretty odd since I don’t even personally know you… Is winning a moon man that much of a life goal?? You can have mine if it will shut you up. Is it that important, really??” And that’s just half of the letter that she wrote.

Kelly Clarkson’s new music video for her single ‘I Do Not Hook Up’ has made its way out onto the internet. The song is the second single off of the original American Idol’s latest album ‘All I Ever Wanted’. The song was written by Greg Wells, Katy Perry and Kara DioGuardi. The 26-year old singer talked about the video in her blog saying “It’s hilarious! Watching me crawl across a table attempting to be sexy in a fantasy is pretty funny to say the least I hope y’all like it. Bryan Barber directed it and this was our second time to work together.”

Kelly Clarkson performed at the Shockwaves Album Chart show and also made an appearance at Radio One studios to perform on Jo Whiley’s ‘Live Lounge’ this past Tuesday in London, England. The 26-year old original American Idol champion’s new single ‘My Life Would Suck Without You’ has topped the charts at number one this week in the UK, beating out county singing cutie Taylor Swift’s ‘Love Story’. If they were the only two to choose from, the UK clearly has a win-win situation. They’ve got good taste. Maybe the complete leak of Kelly’s ‘All I Ever Wanted’ album helped her edge Taylor out.

It was reported that Kelly Clarkson’s entire new album was leaked last Friday onto the internet, a month before its official release. The culprit has been found out and surprisingly, it’s the people at iTunes Norway who are to blame. A glitch in their system allowed users to buy the album in its entirely and some of them decided to share their good fortune with the rest of the world wide web. I wonder if Apple has to pay up big bucks to Kelly and her record label for this mishap. What’s good about the album getting leaked though is that it’s good publicity with the fact that the album is really really good.

Women are totally ruling the music industry this year! Kelly Clarkson has made history on this week’s Billboard Hot 100 with her new single becoming the largest jump to the top spot in the chart’s 50-year history. The original American Idol’s ‘My Life Would Suck Without You’ went from number 97 to number 1 after selling over 280,000 downloads on its first week of release in the US. This is the second time she has set this record jump to number 1. Back in October 2002, Kelly’s victory song ‘A Moment Like This’ went from number 52 to number 1. Kelly just snatched back her title from its latest holder Britney Spears. Brit’s ‘Womanizer’ went from number 96 to number 1 last year.

Kelly Clarkson’s single ‘My Life Would Suck Without You’ just aired on Z100. The highly anticipated world premiere of the original American Idol has finally gone down! Woohoo! It’s not as great as the creative genius that is ‘Since U Been Gone’ but it’s leagues better than the songs from her last album ‘My December’. That’s good enough for me. On Wednesday morning, Kelly went live with the morning show chatting about her single and her taking part in Z100’s Party Plane to the Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas. Kelly’s upcoming album ‘All I Ever Wanted’ will be available on March 17th, Tuesday.

First we get the single, then we get the album. ‘Masquerade’ is said to be the name for Kelly Clarkson’s upcoming fourth studio album which is due out on March 17. On New Year’s the first ever American Idol champ released the heart lollipop cover for her new single off of the album ‘My Life Would Suck Without You’. The song is set to be released to radio on Monday, January 19. I wonder what the cover art for her album would be like. The single cover and her cover art for her last album ‘My December’ are such stark contrasts that I just don’t know what to expect anymore.

Kelly Clarkson celebrated the fourth of July by grabbing a quiet lunch at Toast Bakery Café with two of her close friends on Friday. In other Kelly news, 26-year old season one champion of American Idol is currently recording her fourth studio album. She has many collaborators working with her including Sam Watters, Louis Biancaniello and Ryan Tedder from OneRepublic. Sam and Louis may be recreating some magic as their written and produced song ‘Anytime’ appeared on Kelly’s debut album ‘Thankful’ in 2003. She’s got a great line up of collaborators. Let’s hope that reflects on her new album. She needs a success.

Kelly Clarkson recently had a concert in the UK and one might think that after reading the reviews of her concert earlier this week that you were reading a review of Avril Lavigne’s concert. The American Idol alum got slammed for her performances on the songs from her flop of a third album, the ill-advised rock album ‘My December’, but was praised pretty well for her bona fide hits in ‘Breakaway’ and ‘Since U Been Gone’. The poor thing needs a new album of good material out. We can’t let ‘My December’ follow her forever or she’ll get completely destroyed!