Katy Perry attends the 2024 Billboard Women In Music at YouTube Theater on March 06, 2024 in Inglewood, California. Kelly Clarkson attends the 66th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 04, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
Kelly Clarkson’s “Kellyoke” covers are so good they sometimes sound better than the original. For Katy Perry, when she heard Clarkson’s cover of “Wide Awake,” she laid down her arms.
Clarkson, who is known for her powerful vocal chops, posted a new video on the Kelly Clarkson Show‘s Instagram covering the 2012 Perry hit in a slower way. Perry acknowledged Clarkson’s beautiful rendition and commented on the post, “Ok dang I can never sing that again.” One fan hilariously offered Perry their condolences: “so sorry my sister Katy. what’s done is done.” Calling it back to Clarkson’s American Idol days as a contestant, one fan wrote: “After ever cover, I think of how worth it was being grounded for 3 months for skyrocketing my family’s cellphone bill during American Idol.”
Katy Perry has been a judge on American Idol for seven seasons. Perry joined Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie as judges in 2018 for the revival of the show on ABC after it ran for 15 seasons on Fox. Clarkson was a contestant on the singing competition’s very first season in 2002. With judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, and Randy Jackson, Clarkson was just 20 years old when she won.
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Following the Katy Perry cover, Clarkson covered “Beggin‘,” the Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons song made popular after Måneskin covered it on Eurovision in 2021. As one fan hilariously put it in the comments section, “So glad I’m not a singer. So I don’t have to worry about Kelly Clarkson covering one of my songs….” It seems as though Katy Perry isn’t the only one Clarkson’s covers that threatens to sound better than the original versions. Another fan wrote, “We need an album filled with these amazing covers ASAP.” (There is a Kellyoke EP of covers available.) A third fan stated: “There’s nobody in the world that has that cry in their voice like Kelly does. She is absolutely sublime [fire emoji].”
Kelly Clarkson's Best 'Kellyoke' Performances of 2023 (So Far)
Kelly Clarkson keeps cranking out amazing covers in her Kellyoke series. The singer and talk show host never fails to entertain with her genre-spanning covers. From Destiny’s Child to Lenny Kravitz to Chris Stapleton, you don’t know what song she will put her own spin on next.
Clarkson previously released an album of six of her covers from 2022 after “singing over 500” on The Kelly Clarkson Show, which she said was “near-impossible” to choose. The Kellyoke album was released in June of 2022 and features the following songs:
“Blue Bayou” by Linda Ronstadt
“Call Out My Name” by The Weeknd
“Happier Than Ever” by Billie Eilish
“Queen Of The Night” by Whitney Houston
“Trampoline” by SHAED and Zayn
“Fake Plastic Trees” by Radiohead
Announcing her upcoming 10th studio album, Chemistry, the singer said she didn’t want “everybody” to think that her emotions could just be simplified as angry or sad. She explained in a video, “This album is definitely the arc of an entire relationship, and a whole relationship shouldn’t be just brought down to one thing. So there’s the good, the bad, the ugly thing kinda going on in it.”
In addition to new music, Clarkson will also be heading to Las Vegas, singing fan favorites and new songs, for a 10-show residency starting July 28.
See our favorite Kellyoke performances of 2023 so far below:
Her performance of Chris De Burgh’s signature song from 1986 is simply beautiful.
Laila Abuelhawa is the Top 40 and Hip-Hop pop culture writer for Beasley Media Group. Being with the company for over three years, Laila's fierce and fabulous red-carpet rankings have earned her a feature on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert!' Her favorite stories are those surrounding the latest in celebrity fashion, television and film rankings, and how the world reacts to major celebrity news. With a background in journalism, Laila's stories ensure accuracy and offer background information on stars that you wouldn't have otherwise known. She prides herself in covering stories that inform the public about what is currently happening and what is to come in the ever-changing, ever-evolving media landscape.
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