Kelly Clarkson Brian Bowen Smith
Kelly Clarkson is placing herself initially following her separation from Brandon Blackstock, and also she’s showing that in her verses.
The celebrity made visible modifications to her 2015 hit, “Piece by Piece,” throughout her Las Vegas residency efficiency on Saturday (Aug. 5), informing the group, “This song I initially wrote just super hopeful, right? And well, sometimes hopeful turns into hopeless, so here we go.”
In the initial tune, she belts in the carolers, “But piece by piece, he collected me up / Off the ground, where you abandoned things, yeah / Piece by piece, he filled the holes that you burned in me / At six years old.”
But in her current efficiency, Clarkson transformed the verses from “he” to “I,” according to ET and also video clips circulating on social media. Additionally, she changed, “He never walks away / He never asks for money / He takes care of me / He loves me,” with: “I just walk away / when they ask for money / I take care of me / ’cause I love me.”
Clarkson initially composed the track concerning her daddy, that deserted Clarkson’s family members when she was a child, and also her currently ex-husband Blackstock. In June 2020, nevertheless, Clarkson declared separation from Blackstock after 7 years of marital relationship, and also she directed the discomfort of the split right into her 10th workshop cd, Chemistry. She recommendations “Piece by Piece” in her track called after legendary star Rock Hudson.
“When I wrote ‘Piece by Piece,’ it was a very hopeful song,” the vocalist formerly informed The Hollywood Reporter. “I wasn’t able to say everything at the time. A lot of that song is about what I desired and what I hoped and what I saw in someone. And it turns out I might not be singing that song again. It turns out that I maybe did marry into what I didn’t want to do in the first place. So it’s OK now.”
She proceeded, “It wasn’t for a couple years, but I think that’s the thing about seeing red flags and seeing things that aren’t healthy and recognizing that and not holding on to hope and potential all the time in a relationship. So just a lot of lessons learned, which is, I guess, all you can hope for, getting that it wasn’t all for naught.”
