Kelly Clarkson participates in the 12th yearly NFL Honors at Symphony Hall on February 09, 2023 in Phoenix, Arizona. Ethan Miller/Getty Images
Back in 2015, Kelly Clarkson launched the psychological track “Piece by Piece” concerning 2 vital guys in her life — her daddy, that deserted Clarkson’s household when she was a child, as well as her currently ex-husband Brandon Blackstock.
“He never walks away / He never asks for money / He takes care of me / He loves me / Piece by piece, he restored my faith / That a man can be kind and a father could stay,” she sang of Blackstock in the track’s carolers.
In June 2020, nonetheless, Clarkson declared separation from Blackstock after 7 years of marital relationship, as well as she directed the discomfort of the split right into her forthcoming 10th workshop cd, Chemistry, out on Friday (June 23). She recommendations “Piece by Piece” in her track called after renowned star Rock Hudson.
“When I wrote ‘Piece by Piece,’ it was a very hopeful song,” the vocalist informed The Hollywood Reporter in a brand-new meeting. “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.”
Elsewhere in the meeting, Clarkson disclosed that she composed a great deal of Chemistry‘s verses on the aircraft after dropping her 2 kids off to Blackstock. “To be just frank,” she claimed, “there would be times I’d fly my kids to my ex and then I’d have to fly back and then wake back up hours later for work again. And I was exhausted physically, mentally, emotionally. On those flights back when I’m by myself, those were the really hard moments. And that’s when a lot of the songs were written because there’s so much that was going on and I was processing so much. Honestly, a lot of the songs were written in those moments on the way back.”
