After weeks of troubled news surrounding Kelly Clarkson?s third album, the first American Idol champion?s ?My December? is finally hitting record stores in the United States today. Following the cancellation of her summer tour, originally intended to promote the album, disappointed fans can now look forward to some much anticipated new music from the double Grammy Award winner. After publicly feuding with her record studio head, the legendary Clive Davis, over the content of the album, Clarkson gets some measure of validation for standing her ground with her choice of tracks to include in ?My December?.
Early reviews seem to be generally guarded and mixed but they do give credit to Clarkson?s choices. Entertainment Weekly, which gave ?My December? a rating of B+, said: ?…management changes and her canceled tour have furthered the assumption that December must be a train wreck. It’s not. There’s real artistry blossoming on this, the boldest and best effort ever by an Idol star. That’s not to say that Davis was off his rocker when he purportedly didn’t hear a hit, because the disc does lack even half as obvious a smash as ‘Since U Been Gone.’ There was subversive fun to be had in witnessing America’s sweetheart using ‘Never Again,’ the he-done-me-wrong first single, to reinvent herself as a banshee (wishing gangrene on an enemy, no less).?
For its part, Slant Magazine gave the album 3 ? stars out of 5 and had this to say about it: ?The press about the album, not to mention fans’ hysterical, hypercritical reaction to its lead single, ‘Never Again,’ which is a slightly harder, slightly less immediate version of almost every song on Breakaway, would have us believe that My December is some radical departure for Clarkson, but it’s really just a logical progression – if not exactly a refinement – of the fingerless-gloved rock-chick persona the singer has created for herself in the years since her crowning as the premier American Idol.?
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By: Groshan Fabiola
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