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Last year’s platinum-selling My December was a product of a pissed off American Idol and a pissed of legendary record man. Most of you know of the drama that went on during the making of December and here is what Fox had to report: “>There was no bucking the system, and no going against Clive Davis. Sources tell me that Clarkson has agreed, through her wise new manager Narvel Blackstock, to make a pop album for release in 2008 with songs selected by Davis and his team.”
Next to Breakaway’s 11 million sales, My December is a flop and a no-hitter. These 4 new demos are allegedly products of her new “pop” record for 2008. The leaked demos include “Close Your Eyes”, “One Day”, “Ready”, and “With A Little Bit Of Luck”. It is clear these are demos and of shitty quality right-off-the-bat, but with the right tweaking and some “Since U Been Gone” magic, we have another megahit and we will all be ashamed to love. Watch out for “With a Little Bit of Luck”.
Kelly Clarkson – Close Your Eyes: Download | Link 2 | Link 3
Kelly Clarkson – One Day: Download | Link 2 | Link 3
Kelly Clarkson – Ready: Download | Link 2 | Link 3
Kelly Clarkson – With A Little Bit Of Luck: Download | Link 2 | Link 3
The support Kelly has from her fans is quite remarkable. Its still weird do bitch so much over a few demos…
But anyway, they’re down now.
UPDATE: PMA has washed their hands of this, but someone DID leave a little present in the comments.Â
Tags: Clive Davis, Kelly Clarkson
crazy kelly geek doesn’t know the difference between personal contact and being marketed to and is bordering on delusional.Have another drink and maybe follow it with a lithium chaser, you’ll feel better.It will stop the kelly voices in your head.
p.s I do respect artist and as soon as you find one let us know.
Kelly’s fans are complete retards. Those songs were leaked to create controversy. They’re fighting the PR leak like the idiots they are. Think about it guys. Do you really believe they were stolen in nice neat 30 second samples? It got you all talking didn’t it? Kelly is fat and ugly by the way. The guy that said she’s hot has got to be a street teamer.
Flop – No Hitter? lmfao. Do you have any idea what Clive Davis did to squash that album? He did everything in his power to stop radio from playing it. I work in the industry and everybody knows what Clive did. At a point, they considered investigating his sabotage, but no one had the balls to go through with it. There were 6 Radio hits on My December (songs that could have easily been on the Breakaway album). Find a clue before making such insipid comments.
p.s. I’m a huge Kelly fan and I couldn’t give a rats ass how many people hear these demos. Tough shit – they are out there now. Big f’ing deal. What do you all thinks gonna happen if these demos are heard? You guys don’t even know if those tracks will make the album. Pull your heads out of your butts and chillax.
First of all, a fan who runs a Brazilian fansite dedicated to Clarkson hacked some security protoccals within Aben Eubanks’ website and tok the demo’s, posting them on the Brazilian fansite. Eubanks discovered the security breach right away, and anyone who runss a website and has a server knows there are logs of all hits and access. It wasn’t hard to figure out who it was, which he did. The person from the fansite openly admitted to it, and the demo’s were removed, but not after a bunch of blogs had already found them and posted them (if you think this blog was the first, guess again, the demo’s were stolen and posted close to a month ago).
Secondly, Eubanks himself ha contacted many of the blogs, having the songs removed, as well as posting on several Clarkson fansites, in which he, and the rest of Kelly’s band (and some of her friends) visit very often, and participate in livechats and such, and have been doing so for years. He explained the security breach, and ask that the songs not be posted or shared. A few blogs which didn’t want to cooperate at first, have recently been sent legal forms from Clarkson’s lawyers, and they have removed all links to the songs now.
It’s a shame about what’s happened to the industry these days. Fortunatly for Clarkson fans, she actually does talk to her fans, through her official and fansites, before and after concerts and appearances, and via many of her close friends and her band, who frequent many of Clarksons fan run fansites. It’s been this way since Kelly won Idol, prior to having an official site, Clarkson herself posted often on fan run fansites. If you don’t want to believe it, that’s your choice, you only have to visit them and do some searches on them to see it all for yourself.
Some of you are so caught up in the high and mighty, out for themselves artists being shoved down everyones throats by label’s and producers, when a real person comes along int he industry who cares about ehr fans that keep her where she is, and has some decency to appreciate what fans do for her, ya’ll find it so hard to believe it’s real.
As for the demo’s, they are unfinished work, that was not released or leaked. They were in fact stolen. Clarkson does leak finished songs that she won’t be using on an album, and her early pre-Idol demo’s. The only people trying to cause contraversay over them are those who have no respect for anything or anyone and jsut want free music anyway they can get it.
Flop – No Hitter? lmfao. Do you have any idea what Clive Davis did to squash that album? He did everything in his power to stop radio from playing it. I work in the industry and everybody knows what Clive did. At a point, they considered investigating his sabotage, but no one had the balls to go through with it. There were 6 Radio hits on My December (songs that could have easily been on the Breakaway album). Find a clue before making such insipid comments.
I’m sure Clive Davis sabotaged this album just to toss away the 3 mil they invested Your a fucktard if you don’t think Clive Davis is all about the money and Kelly Clarkson is too The whole controversy thing was just a ill conceived marketing plan to generate free Hype.Too bad it backfired
Whoever created this blog has a definite right to stand up for themselves. If Clarkson were really angry about her personal property being “stolen” he would have received a cease and desist order already. Labels are concerned about releasing actual songs off the album early because it means they are no longer in control of publicity and because it means people might not feel the need to buy the album.
Rough, poor quality “stolen” demos don’t hurt profits, but they do generate a crapload of publicity about an artist who really needs their new album to do well.
You conservative AI fans don’t need to stand up for Kelly, if she really had a problem with her demos being out there, she’s got a million dollar corporate legal team to stand up for her. Believe me, she’s covered.
Dude PMA, sorry they made you take them down. Good thing they’re still up on Hype Machine!
Aben, you’re a tool. Social media controls everything today, if you can’t keep up with that then you might as well get out of the game. In the long run, hiding behind a pricey legal team will only stall the inevitable, it’s a shitty marketing strategy.
Legal is already sending out letters, which is the first step towards the lawsuits. Several blog owners have recieved them and posted so. For one thing, a secured private area was hacked into (which is illegal in itself), second, personal property was taken without permission (a felony offense), third, the person admitted to doing it.
Again some of the comments here, and excuses for sharing music ilelgally, is nothing but crap and an attempt to validate doing something that is wrong. Morally it’s extremely wrong, and disrespectful (and selfish).
Go tell all the people ordered to pay out tens of thousands per song they’ve obtained illegally or shared (some as far back as 7-8 years ago who are first now being sued for it and losing their case).. see if they tell you ‘it’s no big deal’. If you need video of some of these people from news broadcasts, it can be provided.
Ask Napster, Myspace, and Youtube about their huge lawsuits which they lost, simply for allowing people to upload illegal music and share links on their service. See if they tell ya ‘it’s ok, it’s going to happen’.
It’s easy to say ‘no biggie’ and ‘it will never happen to me’ until it does, and that can be at any time. No one thinks it will ever happent o them until it does, then they come up with every excuse in the world for it, which gets them no where.
Kelly Clarkson herself expressed to Billboard she was upset about the songs being out there unfinished. That seems to be ignored because of selfish reasons, with no regard to anyone elses feelings.
As for My December and Clive Davis.. you all really think Kelly sat on the phone with Clive argueing about the album? You think if it was such a flop, it would have been released? If Clive didn’t like it as much as reported, it would never have been released, and she may have been released from the label. Common sense simply eludes some of you. The ‘battle’ with the label over the album happens on every album, with every artist. The media twisted it into something it wasn’t, sice they enver have much to write about Kelly to sell their tabloid crap to morons who believe it all.
Babble on all you want, there is no justification for sharing music illegally (including stolen demo’s of unfinished work)
PMA download the legal letter in pdf and attach it to every download We’ll call it value added. Who knows,maybe they’ll be worth something on fleabay someday and we can sell them to pay for BMG’s bankruptcy attorney’s LOL
Me believe what you want to but you are being marketed to,so keep handing over your allowance to the people who go after the children’s market.I’m sure your parents are independently wealthy and don’t have to work very hard to support your habit.As for me no more posting on this or any other artist’s topic.Let the record labels pay for publicity. Just stop talking about them will hurt them more than any leaked audio.If you get sued blog it and ask for a boycott of the label and artist responsible You have to fight crazies with crazy
I love : Close Your Eyes and With A Little Luck, will be a pop hit.
My wife loves having threesomes while listening to these demos!
Kelly Clarkson is an Awesome artist.She has an AMAZING talent that she doesn’t have to share with the world.But she does because she loves it and her fans love it.
And it pisses me the fuck off that some dipshit would do this.Those songs are property of KELLY CLARKSON.Not some punk-ass hacker or shit for brains thief.
I know some people can’t wait for her album, I can’t ethier.
But please…Don’t be posting where the songs are for download.
It’s very very wrong that they are up there and it’s wrong that you would posted where they are here.
KELLY CLARKSON, YOU ROCK!!!! I LOVE YOU KELLY!!!
i think it sucks they got leaked, but they are good, so who cares? it can only garner good press.
watch it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BabfQruivOM
amazing.
and i agree. it was very wrong for these demos to be posted. they belong to kelly and if she wanted the public to hear them she would have said so herself. however these are stolen!
Lol, “Kelly doesn’t like the fact that her tracks were leaked”. It’s as if you hopeless media whores have a personal relationship with this celebrity sellout. American Idol is a subpar show that profits off morons like you. Most of the intelligent people I know refuse to watch much TV, mostly because it’s loaded with these crap “reality” shows. “OMG HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO KELLY!” Get a life.
Things I’ve learned from Kelly Clarkson fans on this blog:
Kelly is a genius, the only real artist in the music industry, & the only artist who appreciates fans.
Clive Davis didn’t want MY DECEMBER to make money & did everything in his power to squash it, even though he gave the greenlight to release it & spent millions on promotion.
Artists & labels don’t like the publicity that comes with leaked/”stolen” tracks.
MY DECEMBER was a hit-laden masterpiece.
Fat little, pug-faced Kelly is hot. (despite the pic above which is so badly photoshopped, she looks anorexic)
BWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK, seriously now, are all you people friggin’ morons????????????????????
“Lol, “Kelly doesn’t like the fact that her tracks were leakedâ€. It’s as if you hopeless media whores have a personal relationship with this celebrity sellout. American Idol is a subpar show that profits off morons like you. Most of the intelligent people I know refuse to watch much TV, mostly because it’s loaded with these crap “reality†shows. “OMG HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO KELLY!†Get a life.”
a moron calling others a moron?
first, Kelly hasn’t been associated with Idol since she left 19 as her management back in 2005. Her only dealing swith them since then are the same as every artist who appears on an Idol show anywhere in the world, as a guest.
As for Clarksons relationship with her fans, it actually is quite closer than most artists, as Kelly herself psots on her fansites, as do her band and her friends. In addition to her standard meet and greets before or after a concert, she very often spends time with fans at various appearances, and has even gone as far as to place phone calls to fans thanking them for presents and such they had sent to her.
Some of you are so caught up in what ‘hollywood’ dishes you, that when someone genuine does come along, you instantly group them into the bunch. Clarkson, like many in the country genre, go the extra mile for the fans who buy their merchandise, send them letters, etc.
Most of what Clarkson does for her fans, doesn’t even get in the media, for example, the childrens hosptial in Rhode Island Kely stopped at before a nearby concert she was doing, to meet some terminally ill children who had wrote her a latter, and were to ill to attend the concert. Kelly kept it a bit hush hush so the media wouldn’t invade her time with them, but spoke of it after (with images) afterwoods to her fans on her official, and non-official fansites. This is typical of her.
She’s also become very respected within the industry, having uch names as Steven Tyler, Martina McBride, Aretha Franklin, and many others attend her shows (without pre-announcement, but the pictures alays show up on the fansites).
She really is one of the few who hasn’t sold out. She was stuck in a 19 contract in the beginning, forced to make a movie (was part of the contract to be on Idol, all the contestants had it in the contract), and as soon as it was up, she was out of there. Now she’s managed by a trueicon, Reba McIntyre and her husband Narvel Blackstock with their Starstruck Entertainment.
Apparently, it’s all you ‘morons’ who dont ahve the slightest clue what your talking about, like many of the reviewers with their pethetic little blogs, who make up their own stories jsut to draw attention, not caring how much of it is true or not..
Sorry to burst the bubble on this blogs creator, but in spite of what the media is ahrping on, you weren’t the first to ‘leak’ the demo’s, they were stolen by, and first posted on a Brazilian fansite, who is paying the price for it. The songs first got out nearly a month, so your way behind the times. You jsut happened to get lucky and your blog made it to google alerts, so billboard picked it up. If you think that’s a good thing, in a way it is, you’ll be popular fo rthe time being, but on the other side of it, labels, management, and legal teams will be going over the blog with a fine toothed comb watching everything posted on it. You may have done yourself in on this one.
” “Lol, “Kelly doesn’t like the fact that her tracks were leakedâ€. It’s as if you hopeless media whores have a personal relationship with this celebrity sellout. American Idol is a subpar show that profits off morons like you. Most of the intelligent people I know refuse to watch much TV, mostly because it’s loaded with these crap “reality†shows. “OMG HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO KELLY!†Get a life.â€
a moron calling others a moron?
first, Kelly hasn’t been associated with Idol since she left 19 as her management back in 2005. Her only dealing swith them since then are the same as every artist who appears on an Idol show anywhere in the world, as a guest.
As for Clarksons relationship with her fans, it actually is quite closer than most artists, as Kelly herself psots on her fansites, as do her band and her friends. In addition to her standard meet and greets before or after a concert, she very often spends time with fans at various appearances, and has even gone as far as to place phone calls to fans thanking them for presents and such they had sent to her.
Some of you are so caught up in what ‘hollywood’ dishes you, that when someone genuine does come along, you instantly group them into the bunch. Clarkson, like many in the country genre, go the extra mile for the fans who buy their merchandise, send them letters, etc.
Most of what Clarkson does for her fans, doesn’t even get in the media, for example, the childrens hosptial in Rhode Island Kely stopped at before a nearby concert she was doing, to meet some terminally ill children who had wrote her a latter, and were to ill to attend the concert. Kelly kept it a bit hush hush so the media wouldn’t invade her time with them, but spoke of it after (with images) afterwoods to her fans on her official, and non-official fansites. This is typical of her.
She’s also become very respected within the industry, having uch names as Steven Tyler, Martina McBride, Aretha Franklin, and many others attend her shows (without pre-announcement, but the pictures alays show up on the fansites).
She really is one of the few who hasn’t sold out. She was stuck in a 19 contract in the beginning, forced to make a movie (was part of the contract to be on Idol, all the contestants had it in the contract), and as soon as it was up, she was out of there. Now she’s managed by a trueicon, Reba McIntyre and her husband Narvel Blackstock with their Starstruck Entertainment.
Apparently, it’s all you ‘morons’ who dont ahve the slightest clue what your talking about, like many of the reviewers with their pethetic little blogs, who make up their own stories jsut to draw attention, not caring how much of it is true or not..
Sorry to burst the bubble on this blogs creator, but in spite of what the media is ahrping on, you weren’t the first to ‘leak’ the demo’s, they were stolen by, and first posted on a Brazilian fansite, who is paying the price for it. The songs first got out nearly a month, so your way behind the times. You jsut happened to get lucky and your blog made it to google alerts, so billboard picked it up. If you think that’s a good thing, in a way it is, you’ll be popular fo rthe time being, but on the other side of it, labels, management, and legal teams will be going over the blog with a fine toothed comb watching everything posted on it. You may have done yourself in on this one.
Comment by me April 6, 2008@ 9:47 pm”
I TOTALLY agree with you, Me.
Kelly is so far from Idol.
Kelly is a Superstar.
Although some people can’t see it, Kelly Clarkson is a Worldwide Superstar.
She’s closer to her fans than any other artist I’ve ever seen.
And that’s what makes her stand out from the crowd of Lindsay’s and Parises.
She is actually REAL and not fake like most female celebs.
She proves to the whole world that you don’t need to be wearing skimpy and slutty clothes in her music videos, have a pair of huge boobs and a fake ass (which she doesn’t need at all.she’s got a really nice ass naturally) to be very sucessful is the music world.
She’s doesn’t need a sex tape, nude pictures, or to have an drinking problem to get attention.Kelly gets it by doing what she does best.
Being Herself!!
KELLY CLARKSON YOU ROCK AND I LOVE YOU!!!!
“†“Lol, “Kelly doesn’t like the fact that her tracks were leakedâ€. It’s as if you hopeless media whores have a personal relationship with this celebrity sellout. American Idol is a subpar show that profits off morons like you. Most of the intelligent people I know refuse to watch much TV, mostly because it’s loaded with these crap “reality†shows. “OMG HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO KELLY!†Get a life.—
I love people that claim to not watch reality or like these people but they troll around looking for websites, boards, blogs, etc., to post their rants. Fans of Kelly have a life, support her, and like her music. People that don’t like Kelly but post hate (free speech is free speech) are the ones that I feel sorry for, sitting at their computers, thinking of something rotten to say to rile people up. I guess it is whatever gets your jollies off!
Always a day late and a dollar short. Never know what’s going on until it’s too late. Would have loved to hear them.
I am soo excited for her new album- Kelly Clarkson is so talented- her music reaches out to soo many women, We all relate Kelly.
kelly’s amazing.end of.
why waste your time insulting and criticising someone who’s done nothing to you, only made amazing music that others can relate to and been an amazing role model.
if u dont like her,YOUR tough luck. stop wasting your time insulting other people and go find something better to do with your time.
The only reason the crazy Kelbots want is taken down is because it is further proof KC sucks as a songwriter, and a singer.
The demos sound like Sh*t!
First of all, a fan who runs a Brazilian fansite dedicated to Clarkson hacked some security protoccals within Aben Eubanks’ website and tok the demo’s, posting them on the Brazilian fansite. Eubanks discovered the security breach right away, and anyone who runss a website and has a server knows there are logs of all hits and access. It wasn’t hard to figure out who it was, which he did. The person from the fansite openly admitted to it, and the demo’s were removed, but not after a bunch of blogs had already found them and posted them (if you think this blog was the first, guess again, the demo’s were stolen and posted close to a month ago).
I all bullsh*t. Everyone knows Aben left his directory unprotected. No one “hacked” into the server. Why don’t the radid KC fans blame Aben instead of everyone else?
Why are you all arguing about the demos when you should be arguing about how photoshopped the above Kelly pic is above?
what’s there to argue about,except the number of days it took to complete the photoshopping
Oh merciful christ, will you’s get the fuck over it already?
The songs are down, the fact that they were ever put up is a complete and utter travesty; we get it.
Go discuss the horror of it all and Clive and Aben and Kelly’s feelings on the matter on a fan messageboard – it’s what they’re there for.
[No one actually gives a shite here.]
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It’s amazing how a few songs can stir up so much controversy. I am also a huge Kelly fan and I for one am glad I was able to find these here.
Thanks PMA!
So many opinions, so many comments…I can say was was amuzed by many of you guys! But now it’s time for me to give my opinion : let’s be honest people, the demos are all over the Internet and it’s not only because of this blog and yes buy the first guy to ever post them, and that will be Aben! Yeah, he was the one to first post them! A Brazilian blog found those demos in Aben’s website and thought ‘if they are here it’s because they are legal demos,right?’ and then boom the demos started to spread all over the Internet. Great story, ugh?
Aw
I came to the blog just to hear the new demos and they are gone. I’m very sad *tear*. I don’t see what the big deal is about leaked demos. They just make me even more excited to buy the CD when its released!
Congratulations on your blog! You allow demos leaking and people calling Kelly fat and stupid by morons who have never seen her in person. Bad person.
Am i supposed to babysit you guys? I don’t think so…
people say whatever they want, it has nothing to do with me.
but when i tell you you’re a prick… yeah, thats from me baby.
these are actually pretty damn good.
i really hope that they aren’t other people’s songs though
if kelly wrote this, i love it.
thanks to “the four demos”—-my december had much better hits! just not the play time on the air!
liked kelly more when she was singing such angry songs!
Kelly Clarkson’s music should of never been leaked. How do we know if this is the right song? She can change it before it comes out. People might make predictions to quickly and its not fair to her. So who ever leaked her music should be ashamed.
Dear Sir,
As an attorney practicing copyright law in Chicago, my daughter emailed me your blog and asked, “..if this was legal?†Frankly, after taking a look, I’m surprised you were not already sent a cease and desist letter, as had I been Clarkson’s counsel, I would already have been before a judge processing an injunction to remove the link. In my unsolicited opinion, you crossed over the line of reporting and freedom of speech, into the arena of receivership of stolen property. Running an innocent blog is one thing; damage done to an artist for lost revenue is another. You seriously might want to consider removing the posted comments link as well. This one might be expensive depending on intent to harm.
“Am i supposed to babysit you guys? I don’t think so…
people say whatever they want, it has nothing to do with me.
but when i tell you you’re a prick… yeah, thats from me baby.
by Luis [EDITOR] April 7, 2008 at 5:14 pm ”
Yes, you chose to ahve a blog, your responsable for it’s contents, whether you posted the content or not, it’s your blog. When you create the blog, you took on the responsability, if you don’t want that responsability, close down your blog, or as myself, and others have tried to warn you, it’s going to be a hard lesson for you in the long run. If you wish to take that chance, that’s your choice, you’ll ahve no one to blame but yourself.
hmmm… reality check. no one cares about these demos.
theyve been up for over a week and nothing big and bad happened to anyone…
You people should be ashamed of yourselves.
There are people…CHILDREN…dying all over the world and you are fussing over songs? Good greif. If you put as much energy into helping those kids as you do to bickering over this…there might be a few les children dying tonight.
I will destroy you!!!
My new album is being inspired by Lady Snowblood and Thriller: A Cruel Picture. There demos are far from what I have in mind.
My herd of lawyers and lackeys is NSA’ing y’all.
68.148.44.25 (Canada)
Dude, if Clive wanted so badly to sabotage My December, IT NEVER WOULD HAVE CAME OUT! Trish, my bet the reason why no one investigated him is because there was absolutely NO WARRANT to. No self respecting business person is going to put something out on the market, spend millions, and then sabotage it so it will fail.
Also, Trish, if you are such an industry insider, can you tell me exactly WHAT Clive did to sabotage My December?
Nice to hear the full version of “Ready” on the new CD (which I think is amazing btw!)