Kelly Clarkson just teased her next album that is heavily inspired by her 2022 split from ex-husband Brandon Blackstock and she is now ready to share some real details. During an Instagram Live Q&A session, Clarkson stated, “I have an album coming out this year, I swear. I know I’ve been talking about it. Look, I’m gonna be really honest with you … it took a minute for me to be able to release this album. ‘Cause I just had to be over it, through it, all around it, I had to get past it to be able to talk about it. Because I know people wanna ask me about the album, and songs, and I just feel like I was not, I needed a minute.”
Back in September of last year, she shared that many of the tracks were written when she had just gotten divorced and helped her to process her heartbreak. She went on to say that she is glad she waited to release the album, as some of her favorite songs on the album came from later on in the recording process.
Clarkson added, “We actually ended up writing, one of the last songs written for the album might be one of the singles that we come out with very soon, It’s really cool. [The album is] a great arc of a whole relationship: It’s not all sad or mad. But that’s in there.”
When the album does come out, it will mark her first full length release since 2017’s Meaning of Life.
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