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Kelly Clarkson‘s “Wide Awake” cover made fairly the impact on Katy Perry.
The Kelly Clarkson Show host done Perry‘s 2012 hit, removing it to simply piano and vocals, for a section of Kellyoke on Tuesday (March 19). She decreased the track, allowing her solid voice radiate throughout the ballad.
Fans were smitten by Clarkson’s plan — consisting of Perry herself.
“ok dang I can never sing that again,” Perry commented on a video clip published by the authorities Kelly Clarkson Show account on Instagram.
“I was in the dark/ I was falling hard/ With an open heart/ How did I read the stars so wrong?” Clarkson sings as the clip begins. “And now it’s clear to me/ That everything you see/ Ain’t always what it seems/ Yeah, I was dreaming for so long.”
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“Wide Awake,” the last solitary from Perry’s Teenage Dream cd cycle, was consisted of on the collection’s 2012 luxurious reissue, Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection. The track got to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, where it remained on the graph for 26 weeks in overall.
Previously, Clarkson has actually covered Perry’s “The One That Got Away” and “Roar” on her Daytime Emmy-winning talk program.
Perry just recently took a seat with Billboard at Women in Music 2024 to have a fast conversation concerning her approaching Rock in Rio efficiency and her love of dancing songs. On the red carpeting, she spoke about offering the exec of the year honor at the occasion, her love of Karol G and her choice to leave American Idol.
See the video clip of Clarkson’s variation of “Wide Awake” that Perry shared her ideas on below.
