Kelly Clarkson.Photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Kelly Clarksonis calling back to a fan-favorite love song with her new single.
“I don’t need somebody to hold me / Don’t need somebody to love me / Don’t need somebody to pick these pieces up,” sang Clarkson, 40, in the a cappella clip. “I put together my broken / Let go of the pain I’ve been holdin' / Don’t need to need somebody / When I got me.”
“I guess you don’t realize something is missing until you feel it. I can’t imagine walking away from my little girl. I can’t imagine not having that love anymore,” she continued. “I didn’t know it was missing because I never had it. It was a revelation and that’s why I wrote that song. I think a lot of people go through that.”
“My sister and I can’t believe both of us have ended up with such great, loving, supportive men,” she said at the time. “We didn’t grow up with that. We’ve never really had that in our lives ever. ‘Piece By Piece’ is about that process, I didn’t have that foundation but I ended up finding it anyway.”
“It’s like the next chapter of ‘Because of You.’ Once you’ve worked through that and you find love and the kind of happiness you hoped for but didn’t really know was possible,” continued Clarkson. “It’s a happy song. And it has a happy ending, unlike ‘Because pf You.'”
“Piece By Piece” charted in the top 10 of theBillboardHot 100 after an emotional performance onAmerican Idol, during which the “Miss Independent” performer was pregnant with her second child, Remington Alexander, 6.
After nearly seven years of marriage, Clarksonfiled for divorce from Blackstock in 2020. She’s currently rolling out her new albumChemistry, which she’s described as chronicling “the arc of an entire relationship” — “the good, the bad, the ugly.”
“Me” will be released on April 14 alongside another single titled “Mine,” which sheteased via Instagramearlier this week, revealing the lyrics: “Someone’s gonna show you how a heart can be used / Like you used mine.”
source: people.com
