When Christmas Comes Around... it can bring all kinds of emotions. Kelly Clarkson, my guest on today's episode of LOVE SOMEONE, speaks (or sings) to them all on her new holiday album. My favorite? It's got to be "Christmas Isn't Cancelled (Just You)"! Kelly puts heartache in the rearview with this one, and is moving forward with hope, happiness, and a strong belief in herself - creating some much needed inspiration for others facing down the holidays after a painful breakup. Join us as we chat about the album, about life, kids, (and napping in the make-up chair.) We had so much fun catching up, and I'm sure you'll enjoy it too! ~ Delilah
Christmas comes but once a year, and I can't believe that it's a rival is so imminent. The older I get, the faster the seasons, the years, The time seems to fly by, which is a very good reminder to savor every precious moment of every day that we've got. I've made so many amazing memories with my kids this past year. We've loved talking about the beach, going camping. Oh boy, we've done a lot of camping over the summer. We had water park adventures, trips to the fair harvest festivals, and all the cooking and canning that I did this pass ball. Now it's time to make more memories, to deck the halls and dig out our Christmas cheer out of the storage bins that we tucked it away from last year. We have a lot of fun traditions like matching footie pajamas and our Christmas Day scavenger hunt wearing our matching footie pajamas, and we love having new experiences like those were introduced to when someone new joins our family, or we're lucky enough to host guests that share their own cherish memories or foods traditions, recipes, their holiday activities, and Christmas can also be a tough time. It can, especially if you are missing a loved one, if you've lost somebody, if you've gone through a divorce, a breakup, if you've lost someone to COVID. That's why it's important to blend the old and the new. By keeping those traditions that remind us of where we came from and adding new ones that remind us that there is always something to look forward to, we're more likely to embrace change and all the wonderful opportunities that it brings our way. One new thing this holiday season has brought to us as some great new holiday music. I've been showcasing some of them here on Love Someone In. Today I get to introduce you to even more great new music, a whole new album of Christmas tunes from one of the most popular artists of our era, perhaps one of the most popular artists right now. Her star is Twinkling Bright. Today's Guest has had worldwide sales of more than twenty five million albums and forty million singles. You heard those numbers right. She was the winner of the first season of American Idol and her debut single, A Moment Like This quickly went to number one on Billboard's Hot one hundred. It would take me the entire thirty minutes that I dedicate to each podcast episode to run through her awards, her accolades, her Grammys, her am a IS, her Academy of Country Music Artist Awards. She's won them all and even two Daytime Emmy's. Now She's got her own daytime talk show. Is a judge on American Idol, has written two children's books, is a mom to to be Beautiful littles, And in addition to all of her writing, recording and sharing new music, she still has found time to drop by and spend time with us today and chat with us on Love Someone. We'll be back to talk to the endlessly energetic and eternally effervescent Kelly Clarkson. Just after I give props to today's podcast sponsor, I've just discovered a comfy, cozy brand of winner footwear. It's Lamo. That's l a m O Lamo Footwear. It's an active lifestyle brand offering amazing style, comfort and value. They have something for every person on your list this holiday season. Boots, slip ons, and slippers for everyone from infants to adults in both men and women's styles. Not only do they make stylish and oh so cozy footwear, Lamo is a company that gives back to They've don't at it over one thousand pair of shoes to nurses on the front lines of healthcare. To start shopping, visit Lambo Footwear dot com. That's l a m O. Lambo Footwear dot Com. Use promo code Holidays off your order with me on our podcast. Loves Someone is someone that everybody loves. Hello, Kelly, You're like you are like so adored and be loved and you always have been, but it's like your star is twinkling bright these days. I feel like I have a list to people that would disagree with you, but just think about a few of them and yourselfs. I'm just saying I feel like there's definitely like not everybody but no, but you know what, I think, my whole career, my whole life. Rather, I'm like, it's cool if you're not into it, but I'm just gonna like do me. If you like it, that's cool. If you don't, that's cool. I'd say there's many many meal in too like it, so that's cool. We'll focus on those Yeah, well on those alter life like that. So before we started the podcast, you said that you get really tired of being in hair and makeup, but it's like the TV show and the specials and the album, Like do they have people coming to do your hair when you're passing out at night? Now? Oh god, I always look at glow my makeup artists, like you think you could do this me laying down? It's like I just close my eyes while you do this. Yeah, it's hard enough for me to just sit still. I'm like a d H D. So um no, I try and focus so hard for them to stay and get it done, you know. And then like a little bit, I think it's like an hour and five team they usually have with me in the chair. I call it the chair as if it's like like the torture chamber, like the torture chair. Yeah, but but it is amazing, Like they're artists, right, So I come in and I mean, you're looking at me right now, like and I look fine, But I'm just saying I go out me and color is real different. Like it's like I come out and I'm like, I've call him Harry Potter. It's my Harry Potter squad um. But you know, I don't mind doing it for work. But yeah, I was telling you in the before we got on here, I was like, I have to be paid a pretty good amount of money to be putting hair makeup on. I'm glad that that you are all natural and uh, just your adorable self with me because white people's natural look. But do you know my husband likes it better when I don't have any makeup on. A lot of men are like that. I think it's cool to like both. You know, sometimes we like to get all dolled up and sometimes you know, we just like, I'm cool with my face, like as is I'm cool with your face. How old are your kids, Kelly? Five and seven? And in school? Are they doing in person school? Are they doing a hybrid? Are you home schooling? No? No, they're in school. My kids are like me, They're completely social, like creatures. They did not do well like I know a lot of kids do homeschool. My my sister's kids actually do homeschool, but and they thrive in that. But like my kids would never they look forward to friendships and and engaging with other kids and dance class and all that kind of stuff. So you know, they're in school and God bless, like we're all working hard to keep all our kids in school so they don't have to be because that's it really hard, especially on kids that learning to read, and like saying focus, Like those teachers a starting hard enough to get all those kids to focus in person, let alone on zoom. Yeah, like you I have way wicked bad a d D and so do all my kids. Yeah, my my boy is focused. But I was like, thank you God that there's in school this year at least for now, thank you, Oh God. Yeah, I mean, and it's one of those things too, it's like, look, we'd all been trained to be teachers like that. Actually you have to be educated to know how to educate people. It's like there's a lot going to be lost here in this generation, like because it takes, you know, someone who actually knows what they're doing. And I would know that My mom's a teacher and she was amazing at it um and we're not all you know, gifted with that, and it's it was really hard on a lot of people. I know, my Manny wanted to kill herself. Some of us are a lot less gifted than others with that. Oh my gosh, I actually love learning and I don't mind teaching. I just don't have that thing called patients. So you and I were like cut from the same cloth, only you've got talent and I don't. I have four that are still at home, and I am just so glad that from now we got you know, in person learning, and I'm praying that that continues through the years. And it's also like parents, like you know, dad's, mom's, all of us like and even nanny's caretakers. It's that it's your time to like get stuff done too, Like while they're at school, there's so much to get done. So and it didn't in my household get done. Oh my god. I was like, screw it, Like left and right. I was like, and that's on the back burner too. Yeah, everything was kind of on the back burner. Yeah. So Kelly Clarkson, we're gonna talk about your new Christmas album, which is just like chock full. If somebody wants to dance around the Christmas tree, like not sit and we're fuzzy mittens and drink hot cocoa all day, but like get up and and dance a little bit around the Christmas Tree. They need to get your new Christmas album because it is full of fun, fun songs. Yeah, I mean it definitely has a lot of energy to it. Um it it kind of I mean I ended up naming it when Christmas Comes Around. Well one, because it was a lyric I liked in one of the songs on the record, which actually isn't when you can dance to Merry Christmas is the wanted to know but um. But for the most part, it's got all these emotions and energies that one might be feeling around Christmas. I think we're all like engineered from childhood to be like, no, you must be happy. This is Christmas time. This is happy time. And it's not always a perfect moment for everyone. Um, and that's okay. And so you know, when Christmas comes around, it's there's kind of like a feeling on there. Like each song there's there's different vibes, but there definitely is it's more high energy than there's more like up tempos than you know, ballad and fun energy. You have to do that if it's Christmas too, like you have. I think it was also therapeutic for me, Like it was like I got out obviously some emotions, whether it was sarcastic with like the single Christmas or something, or I'm glad he admitted that because I'm listening to this going oh that was very therapeutic. Oh gosh, yes, yeah. Well honestly, I wrote the song like this is t m I, but I've I sometimes come up with ideas in the shower. So I was in actually most times, and I was just in there and I was maybe just crying a tiny bit. But crying in the shower is good because the tears mixed with the shower water. You know what happened, right, Yeah? You walk out, your eyes are red. You're like, no, I just got chempoo in my eyes. I wasn't the most allergies even in the shower. Um, No, I was just I was, you know, just going through something. I was just like, oh, and I just felt like the last two years my you know, everyone, not just my friends, but I feel like a lot of things been canceled and we always talk about it, and I'm like, you know what, I was like, I'm supposed to make this Christmas record, and I was like, I love Christmas music. So I was like, I don't know how to be happy, so maybe I could be sarcastic. So I ended up literally off of just a you know, everything might be canceled, you know, we might be canceled, but Christmas won't be. So I ended up writing it off that that whole thing anybody who's gone through a painful breakup the last couple of years. Thank god, I'm not on the list anymore, but Christmas isn't canceled, just to you. I don't know which I like more, the lyrics, the tune that gets stuck in your head all day, or the artwork that you use for it. Oh my gosh, are you talking about the lyric video? Yes? Oh my god. So the lyric video was so funny. So my, they were like, we have this idea, and they kind of brought up three different ones and I was like, Oh, this old movie poster thing. That's kind of cool because the whole sound is kind of vintage. There's like maybe one or two songs that aren't complete vintage sounding on the album, and so um, I like that. And then I didn't realize what they were gonna do, but that whole team put that together and I thought it was so funny how they played out the lyrics because I think they kind of played off the fact that no one's ever really released a breakup Christmas song before, because like, why would you? That's kind of messed up, but I did, so they kind of played off of that, here's the thing for for me and my job blaying dedications. Christmas can get really tough because, yeah, you know, people call and they're going through a breakup or they went through a breakup, and I'm like, all I had was Wham Last Christmas. That was it. That was the only hard Candy Christmas. Dolly Park the other one hard Oh my gosh, um No, that's such a great song. But other than like hard Candy Christmas or Last Christmas, there really aren't songs too you go to, especially like I like happy sounding music, Like I the juxtapositions of the message and how happy the vibe is is what I loved. I love that it sounds like it's a happy song. You nailed it with this, and and it is a happy song. It is a very happy, empowering song because what the song says is too bad for you Christmas doesn't again, well, I'm gonna put every damn light in the world on my house and I'm not gonna sit here and cry any more over you. That's about how it wins. Yeah, and God blessed. It's one of those things where I feel like it's it's a blessing to be able to like, it's hard to like put real stuff that happens to you in music, but I don't honestly know how to go any other way because I feel like we do all go through experiences to like share them and not feel so alone and then um and how eco centric to think you're alone and that obviously we all go through tough things. Um, but it was a very therapeutic album overall for me to make. Okay, So a question about another song that I have played more than once, Glow with Chris Stapleton. Oh, I love that one. Did you were you with him? Did you guys get to sing that together? Or did you know so well this song has had any lives? I feel like this song was actually a completely different song. It was slowed down, like a completely different vibe, um, different lyrics, different meaning like everything was different. And it was gonna go on my record, my actual album that we have, but I'm not releasing it. But anyway, and then I ended up point, you know what, that doesn't really fit with the whole vibe of what we're doing for my album. But I love the songs, which I love the the energy, I love the soulfulness of it. And so anyway, I ended up speeding it up and completely reworking the track with my musical director and also my producer, and I ended up writing Glow to it and changing the lyrics and some of the melodies, and the writers were really cool about it because I was like, dude, I know, I'm not trying to tear up the song. I just I love it so much, but I feel like it has a life and we haven't found the space for it yet. And so I ended up writing this Christmas on to it, and my makeup artist her name is Gloria, but we call her Glow. And I was like, you know what, there's only so many things you can say, and I've already written a whole other Christmas or you know, songs to that. So I was like, Glow. It was like, that's kind of really beautiful, like because some meant and so I ended up writing, even Christmas can't compete with your glow. That was the first line I kind of wrote for that, and I wrote it off my makeup artist name, and then so I ended up writing this whole song to it, and it was kind of sweet, which was kind of difficult because I definitely was not in that while writing this. But if you're vibing off the glow of your makeup artist, you can take your heart there. Yeah. Well, I was like, it was like her her name was just kind of cool, and I thought, I never really saying about that for Christmas, and so I wrote this whole song and God on his Truth. Chris Dimpleton is one of my favorite singers on Earth, and I've liked him before he blew up. I even said this. I mean, I like way before he was like with another band and he was doing this tribute with Rebelling years ago, and I was like, who the hell is this guy? His voice is just magical and I've just been a fan for so long, and I just never asked to sing with him because I just didn't want to hear no. So so I finally just was like, I was like, I'm just gonna ask him. I'm such a fan anyway, So I I ended up asking him and he said yes, So it's so magical. I love it. It is so magical. And when people get your your Christmas album, if they will listen to the lyrics, I mean, it's a fun song and a beautiful um you know, the melody and and all the instruments and Chris's voice, you know what. I don't drink and his voice makes me want to drink whiskey. His voice sounds like I can't say that on your show. It sounds like the best feeling you could ever possibly have. Sonically, yes, yeah, but sonically that's what it would sound like exactly. Yeah. Yeah, but the lyrics are so sweet and I was writing them down because Lights on the Tree can't compete with your glow. Yeah, I love that when you love someone to think that, to say that about you or maybe you have that. I just mean, like, it's just a really beautiful I love. I like create little movies in my head or I play movies that I love. I love actually always pops up because I love that movie. But I like play a little you know, MiNet through whatever I'm writing, And yeah, that would be awesome. So can I share something with you? Yes, When I was your age and even a little bit older, I never dreamed I would have somebody who thinks that about me, you know, because I had just train wreck after train wreck of relationships and failed marriages and you know that. Oh yeah, oh yeah. I don't know which I've been experienced more grief from being fired off the air or grief from being fired as a wife or a girlfriend. Oh my god, there's so many things I don't know about you that I'm finding out right now. What. Wow. And I was single and it was Christmas, and I was the mother of eight kids, and it was coming up on Christmas time and I was going through a horrible breakup. I mean, the hardest of my life because the relationship that I was in I wasn't supposed to be in, and so I couldn't even share with people. There were very few people in my inner circle who even knew what I was going through, and those who did know a few of them were doing the I Told you so dance because girlfriend, we tried to warn you this was going to happen. And anyway, man, thank you to my friends for not saying that. Yeah, well maybe I was just saying it in my head, but they were thinking it, I'm sure. Anyway, Um, I can tell you now, you know, several years down the road, fifteen years now with the man who thinks I glow, It's real and it exists, and God's got somebody so precious waiting for you. All the stuff that I went through, I had to go through to make me the woman that I am so I could be in the relationship that I'm in. Oh, and I agreed to, like, I don't I regret nothing, like I even like, you know, unfortunate things that happened in your life are hard things because we can do hard things. Glenn Doyle one of my favorites. Um, but also I feel like that's what shapes you, and it's what makes you a better person. It's what makes you recognize. Okay, I missed those red flags. I missed that, all right, ignore about the purpose. I missed road signs like bridge out stop. Now, I missed I missed those. You know. I almost called my next album red Flag Collector, Like like I was like, I mean, why are you just picking them up and sticking them like in a yeah, just collecting them a bag like a golf bag, just shoving the red legs. And I was apparently wanting to do some kind of exhibit with at a lot of them. Um. But but here's the thing, and not only about for other people, but yourself. It's like you don't recognize things like in yourself. But I you know, coming back to what you said, it's one of those things. So you know, because I've now been divorced for a minute but separated for well over a year, and it's one of those things that's so you didn't expect or anything. But at the same time, like people you have already had, I've already had people be like, let me know when you're you know, wanting to do, let me know what it's like. You know what, I don't think you have to have someone with you all the time. Like I really do enjoy my work, my kids, my creative you know self that sometimes I got stifled, like in relationships. It's hard to be as creative as I can because I wear my heart on my sleep. So I really enjoy and then maybe in the future, you know, you never know, well I do know I won't get married again, but I just mean, you never know about love. But it's one of those things where it's like I think we're engineered, especially from where I'm from, so like have to have that and I don't have that need. And I think that's also what you learned about yourself going through hard things. But I have had, you know, in my head and in my moment. I'm able to write those lyrics because I have had that where I thought, oh man, they think I glow and like, I have had that feeling and that's magical. To even have had that experience is amazing. Not everyone gets that, so but I, you know, I'm not one of those people is gonna like poopoo on like you know what was, because what was is what got me here, like you said, But I will say it's very therapeutic I going through divorce and going through hard times in your life, Like, I'm so happy I have writing and I'm so have music because that's that's my outlet. That's how I get through it and that's how I kind of figure out what's happening. And man, not having that, I don't know how I would have done that. For me. It's art. I paint or I draw or create something out of clay and it takes over my world for a minute. And uh, that's how that's how I work through working with their hands and that's when me too, I've turned to gardening. I just love my hands in the store like I love like gardening and stuff. Oh man, I want to just sit down and talk with you and get to know you more because I mean beyond this, because you are so delightful and I could teach you a lot about gardening. Oh my god. Really, I'm like a nerd. I ask everything, my brother laws of green thumb. I have apps. Okay, there's an app you gotta get. Let me see what is called. I think it's called picture this. Have you heard of this picture this? Yes? Yes, I literally was just using picture this in my friender because I was like, wait, I thought this tree was something else, and then I was using it and then I found out it was a simmon. So my personmetries are loaded this year. They are breaking, the branches are breaking tree. Yeah, little orange fruits. Yeah. So yeah, picture this. You know why I like it so much because it makes me sound smart. Well, and you get define out all the things about it and what you can use it for. Then you google, like what you know, does their healing properties? You're like all these other things. So it's like I find I'm a nerd. About stuff like that. So, uh, sorry, I got sidetracked when you said gardening, because I am a rabid gardener. But my peeps here are reminding me that we're supposed to be talking about your Christmas album. And I want to know I have a couple of favorites now that I've listened to it. What are your favorites? I know that's like saying which ile do you like the most? I know you can't there's no way answer I actually can. I can, um. I think honestly, my favorite, I mean, my favorite for a long long time was Christmas and canceled he does the first time I wrote for it. But actually, my my favorite UM is actually Merry Christmas to the one I used to know. And that's I just I love when I sit down and like a song just comes out of me in like fifteen minutes, because that that's bigger than me, and I love that feeling that it's like, oh, this wasn't just like me getting this out. This is like I was just like a vessel for it and it was just supposed to happen this whole time. I know that sounds like trippy. It sounds like you're an artist that God is using to share a message to people who need to hear it. That's what it sounds like. Yeah, and I do feel like it's it's that kind of thing. It's just bigger than me, and I feel like a lot of people have that. A lot of people go in relationships, especially, and you know, we create what we think is there, what we want to be there, or what we are fully in love, and we are fully in all those feelings. But you know, maybe maybe it's you're missing something that wasn't ever there or isn't there anymore, you know, And I think that that's it's it's a sad thing to say Merry Christmas to the one I used to know, but it's also a very real thing that happens to a lot of us, you know, because we're all changing and growing and on different paths and um anyway, that's my favorite song. It's such a sad song, you know, to the one I used to know. It's such a sad song. But I unfortunately, like a lot of us, sometimes you need that sad song. Sometimes you need that like to, like I said before, like to not feel alone and just to like sit with those feelings I feel, I feel like it's okay to feel that. It's okay too, because if you don't go through that those stages of grief, for that stage of loss or because even if it comes back around, even if that person gets over, even if that person, it's still happened. You know, even all that laws still happened, you still felt it, You still it was still there, and it's it's still validated. So it's just hard. Life can be really hard sometimes love that your Christmas album, though life can be hard, still has so much happiness. Oh yeah, you know Janie and I, my my bestie, UM and my sister and the other women that are closest to me in my life. We kind I feel like if you can't laugh, you're gonna go crazy, and so we all have a very dark, dark sense of humor me as well. Yeah, and it was like, oh that was so inappropriate, but that laughter felt so good. And I think, um, a couple of the songs on here, especially Christmas isn't canceled, but you know, just a few of them kind of have that tongue in cheek, sarcastic. Okay, it hurts, but we're gonna laugh and dance our way through it. Yeah, oh no, Mary Christmas Baby is one of those two. It's the first trick on the album. But it's kind of like, okay, it's you know, it's just says I have a lot of I'm my friend group is very similar to as well. And I find in general like if you can't it like sometimes you just have to laugh. Sometimes the laugh turns into hysterical tears and you're like, oh my gosh, but you still have to get it out, you know, and it still has to you know, it has to come out of your body. You want it in there. So there's definitely you know, every kind of feeling where I mean, honestly, you can listen to this album and it could be about one total relationship, you know, from the beginning to end, honestly. But because there's even sexy songs like there's you know, Santa Baby, we wanted to do something and it sounds very like Cellblock Tango Chicago Meet Santa Baby, you know, so it's like very more of like a sexy vibe and and something cute, and and then there's you know, love songs like Glow, and there's you know, there's a lot of different vibes. But yes, we need. I have to have humor. Um, And I do guys sadness with humor a lot of times, you know, but we do have to make sure you stop and feel it every once in a while. But sometimes it's just like, oh, let's just laugh this one off and not carry that in my backpack. Yeah, you gotta have a lot of laughter in life. So your kids a Rose and Remington's how can you even get mad adequately? Mom? Like, how can you really scream river Rose? Because it's so beautiful? Like, oh, I can, yeah, but just it's like my daughter named her little girl, she's got a Rosalie Bell. How can you even get mad and say Rosalie Bell because it's so musical river Rose? Same thing, so musical, so so cute. Like how do you how do you really let them know your pist? Mom? And yet it is it is possible, yeah, and yet it does happen. Um. No, I am blessed my kids are both. I was literally snubbled with them last night. And I have separate bedtimes with them both because they're both very different and I want that time with both of them. But um, but I was snuggling with them, and it's it's so funny because they can be and they are the most magical little beings and I feel super blessed and and I can't even because I never wanted children, So this is like a you know, definitely different at and I thought my life would be. But I can't imagine. And I know that's such a cliche, but you can't imagine your life without There's just so important. Everything revolves around there, so cool, and it's such a blessing to be in responsibility, to be able to like try and help mold these little creatures. But at the same time, oh girl, they can be demons, like they can fool and be like I'm like, oh my god, Like you're possessed right now, Like especially if you think you're gonna talk to me like that, you know, I'm I'm very much my big thing and my with anybody that surrounds my children, whether it be teachers, nanny's, like people I work with, um, anyone around them. I'm like, don't let them get get away with being unkind or unlovely. That is what I will not tolerate. Like I can you know that have to be the smartest kids in the class, don't have to be the you know, most talented don't have to be all those things, but kind and loving and respectful those are. That's a deal breaker, Like, you gotta You've got to have that, because I feel like you can accomplish anything in life if you have those three things. Um, you know, and especially as far as relationships, like you know, cultivating positive, healthy ones. So my that's my thing I work on with them. I'm like, look, you gotta be kind at the end of the day. And I tell them if I find out you're doing something like if you're mean to someone at school, whatever you do to that person, I'm definitely going to be doing to you. So I'm so excited about Kelly's new music and that she's here with us today talking about holidays and making it through breakups and moving forward. Will spend a little more time with this incredible artist right after I share some Christmas spirit from one of Today's podcast sponsors. I discovered Annie's Kit Clubs earlier this year, and their projects have been great for building skills, self esteem, mostly for family time together. Crafting gives my kids a much native break from school work. Annie is a subscription service. You sign up and then you receive these craft kits that come in the mail every month. 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That they've been different every year we've had chocolate chip, we've had sugar. I think we've done I seen one year we've they've been different every year, so I don't know. I think maybe we'll do like gingerbread Man or something like this year. I don't know, but we we change it up to impress Santa to entice for better gifts. Do you leave do you leave a few carrots for the reindeer? Oh my gosh, we we did that last year. I don't think we did that before last year. But I think because um, horses were involved in our family, especially my eldest who is my stepdaughter. She wrote horses, So I think because horses were in their their minds a lot, they we ended up doing that last year. Fun fun, Well, they're telling me I have to say goodbye to you, and I could talk to you all day, but I know you have like a TV show and a couple of jobs, a couple of jobs. I don't know how you do it, but you do it with grace and you do it with beauty. Kelly Clarkson, thank you for being here with us. Oh, thank you so much. Have a good one you too, have a blessed holiday YouTube bye bye. Thank you for carving out some time for us today, Kelly. I know you're so busy, and thank you for adding some great new music to our Christmas playlist, Christmas Isn't Canceled. I too have canceled a few participants in it over the years. However, just like you, change is inevitable. Sometimes it comes easily and sometimes with the force of a mac truck, but change does come, and, as Kelly set out to express with this new album, when Christmas Comes Around, there is simply no better time than Christmas to breathe hope into one's life and let possibilities wander. Kelly Clarkson is the first artist ever to top each of Billboard's charts, Adult, Contemporary, Country, and Dance charts, and there is a sampling of each of the genres on When Christmas Comes Around. The fun single Christmas Isn't Canceled Just You and empowering anthem to all those who refuse to give into remorse or regret after a breakup, but instead look forward to the future with hope and happiness in their hearts, even if they're stocking is kind of empty on Christmas Day. It's been out since September. The full album dropped in mid October, and if you haven't downloaded it yet, you want to as soon as you finished listening to this podcast episode. Catch up with Kelly Clarkson on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, and let her cheerful, cheerful spirit lift you up when you tune into her daytime Kelly Clarkson Show, and spend evenings with American idol. I hope your Christmas season has started out marry and bright, and I hope when you tune into my podcast or my radio program, your heart is filled with hope, happiness, light and love. God bless you and I'll talk to you soon. Bye bye