Topic: MD Album Info

[Zach]

Everything we know about the album is in this thread.

* The album is titled My December and will drop this summer.
* David Kahne produced the album.
* Kelly wrote (or co-wrote) the entire album.
* The album was mixed by Andy Wallace.
* Legendary punk bassist Mike Watt played on six tracks.
* Kelly did all the vocals on the album, including background vocals.
* The premiere single "Never Again" will hit radio April 11.

Mentioned song titles include:
(This is not mean they will necessarily be on the album.)
* Never Again (first single)
* One Minute (perfomed in Nascar Daytona 500 prerace concert)
* Maybe (perfomed on tour)
* Anymore (performed on tour)
* Yeah (performed on tour)
* Haunted (about suicide)
* Irvine (written in Irvine, California on tour about "lowest point in [her] life")
* Get Away
* Can I Have a Kiss
* Hole
* Judas
* How I Feel
* Sober
* This Perfect Day

Upcoming Appearances:
* 4/18 - ASCAP Awards
* 4/25 - American Idol "Idol Gives Back"
* 5/6 - Logie Awards in Australia
* 5/18 - Nascar Day
* 7/7 - Al Gore environmental concert

Quotes from David Kahne:
"I think it's perfect. Kelly is so happy about it. I hope when everyone hears it, they'll support her. It's funny and serious and very intense, and she sings her ass off. One of the best bridges she's ever done. It shows too the depth of emotion she can express, and is just the tip of the iceberg as far as the album goes. She'll need everyone to get behind her and help her show the world she's back.

I've never known anyone quite like her. Incredibly direct and
straightforward, fair, open-minded, and really hard worker. And of
course the voice and writing... wow. She's one of my true heroes..."

"Watt didn't play on Never Again. If you like Watt's playing, there's a track on the album that will blow your mind; one of the best guitar riffs I've ever had to work with, and Watt roars on that track. Never Again is amazing too. Kelly tells a story so powerfully, and sings a bridge that makes me get a chill every time I hear it, and I produced it..."

Rolling Stone excerpt:
Clarkson's previous album, 2004's Breakaway, sold nearly 6 million copies -- but the original American Idol winner still had higher aspirations for her latest release. "My first two albums are very scattered, with different producers and different writers," she says. "They're collections of songs, not albums by any means." Clarkson wanted her third album to be more cohesive, to tell the story of a tumultuous two years in her life -- during which she won two Grammys, went through a rough breakup, hit her mid-twenties and tried to grow up. Against her label's wishes, she opted to write most of the songs herself, with members of her touring band. The resulting album, produced by David Kahne (who worked on the Strokes' First Impressions of Earth), ranges from alt-country (she names Patty Griffin and Ryan Adams as influences) to Foo Fighters-style rock to bare-bones acoustic ballads. "Never Again" and "One Minute," the candidates for the first single, are both rockers; Clarkson calls the former, penned about the aforementioned breakup, "one of the most bitter songs I've ever written in my life." Kahne brought in an unlikely guest musician for about half the tracks: ex-Minutemen bassist Mike Watt."He played on the rock ones and also on some of the ones with a more singer-songwriter vibe," says Clarkson. "He's a badass on the bass -- he can play anything." (BRIAN HIATT)

[I-am-@ddicted]

wow this info is awesome!!! but you have made me even more excited about the album now when you would you classify summer, its more June ... ahh man we have ages to wait 

but anyway I am so looking forwad to 'Never Again' and I really wanna hear 'haunted' and 'Irvine' they sounded good! hope there on the album 

thanks for the info ... +Karma

[Ducka Dork]

wow awesome!!!!!!!!
thanks for posting!  +karma!!! 

[hyrpgmt]

wow cool!! I liked the rolling stones thing...thanks for posting!!

[kassandra-lee]

i'm so exited! i really want to hear the song haunted i dont know why i just really like the name.i read about that song in a magazine a while ago it looks great

[kelly_dork]

wow now Im even moore excited then before thanks for that info

[pam hearts KC 1324]

haha i liked that Rolling Stones article. thankss! +karma. 

[I-am-@ddicted]

wow OK so 'Never Again' is about her break-up (with Graham im guessing?) so this is going to be another SUBG but ahellova lot awesomer lol cannot wait now .. April 11th could not come sooner ... SWEET!

[Artamous]

Don't is another possibility, she even mentioned it might be going on her next album at a concert

[Ducka Dork]

^^
but she said that the album is the story of the past two years..and she wrote dont on the independent tour..so..

[dontbreakawayfromkelly]

wow OK so 'Never Again' is about her break-up (with Graham im guessing?) so this is going to be another SUBG but ahellova lot awesomer lol cannot wait now .. April 11th could not come sooner ... SWEET!

I don't understand why it would be about Graham if it's really bitter because I thought they were still on good terms... Maybe it's about how she shouldn't have broken up with him 

[I-am-@ddicted]

^^ thats what I meant sorry really unclear but I was guessing Graham because there is no other person within the last two years that she has been linked with? or i don't know of but yea like breaking up with him must have been hard on her because she did care for him ... thats what I meant

[Artamous]

I don't understand why it would be about Graham if it's really bitter because I thought they were still on good terms... Maybe it's about how she shouldn't have broken up with him 

"we departed (broke up) on good terms" usually means far from that, just like it was best for both of us. if it was best to break up they were not meant for each other.

[SuperNatural1901]

wow...
That was so cool and i can't wait for Kelly's new album I am so pumped.... lol well thanks so much for posting that was awesome

[HannahLuvsKelly]

thanks for posting, that's awesome! i really can't wait for MD i know it'll be a huge hit. but i didn't know "haunted" was about suicide? hmmm interesting.