Kelly Clarkson is the queen of the breakup music, having penned the incomparable “Since U Been Gone” years earlier than devoting a whole album to her divorce from Brandon Blackstock. Now the artist is proving that her ex isn’t even protected from her beforehand launched materials. After altering the lyrics to hits by Billie Eilish and Gayle to take jabs at Blackstock throughout her standard Kellyoke performances, the artist simply leveled up by rewriting the phrases to one in every of her personal tunes, erasing her ex-husband’s presence from “Piece by Piece” and turning the music into an anthem of empowerment.
In promotion of her tenth studio album Chemistry, Kelly Clarkson has begun her Las Vegas residency, opening up her catalog for a extra intimate expertise with followers in lieu of happening a complete tour. Throughout her reveals, she’s continued to cowl different artists’ songs — a widely known fixture of The Kelly Clarkson Present — singing Harry Types’ “As It Was” and Gayle’s “abcdefu,” to which she added her personal topical, post-divorce twist. At her latest present she debuted a brand new model of the title monitor off her 2015 album Piece by Piece. Introducing the music, Clarkson instructed the viewers (per ET):
This music I initially wrote simply tremendous hopeful, proper? And nicely, generally hopeful turns into hopeless, so right here we go, ‘Piece by Piece.’
The music was reportedly written about Brandon Blackstock, praising him for being a greater father to their two kids than her father was, thus restoring her religion. Nonetheless, within the model she sang this weekend, “He collected me up … He crammed the holes that you simply burned in me,” grew to become “I collected me up … I crammed the holes,” taking again the credit score for her therapeutic. The traces, “He by no means walks away. He by no means asks for cash. He takes care of me. He loves me,” grew to become:
I simply stroll away after they ask for cash. I deal with me ’trigger I really like me.
Moreover, as an alternative of singing, “I’ll by no means depart her such as you left me, And she is going to by no means need to surprise her price, As a result of in contrast to you, I am gonna put her first. He’ll by no means stroll away. He’ll by no means break her coronary heart. He’ll deal with issues, he’ll love her. Piece by piece, he restored my religion {that a} man may be sort and the daddy ought to be nice,” the brand new model went:
I’ll by no means depart them such as you left me. They by no means need to surprise their price as a result of in contrast to you, I am gonna put them first. I by no means stroll away. I by no means break their hearts. I deal with issues while you depart scars. Piece by piece I restored my religion {that a} coronary heart can nonetheless beat even when it breaks.
These lyric tweaks won’t be as cathartic as belting, “Fuck you and your dad and the truth that you bought half,” in her cowl of Gayle’s hit, however there’s one thing so brutal about erasing Brandon Blackstock from a music about being father. Try one fan’s video of the efficiency under:
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Now I’ve to surprise if there are extra modifications coming to a few of her basic songs, and in the event that they’re as empowering as these, I can not wait to seek out out what’s subsequent. We’ll positively be preserving our eye on that, in addition to the 2023 TV schedule for when The Kelly Clarkson Present and your entire different favourite reveals are coming again.
