kelly and clive off the rox

Reports are coming in that the love of my life, Kelly Clarkson, has been extended an olive branch by music mogul Clive Davis. And they are making peace.

In case you weren’t aware, Kelly’s last album, My December, was not exactly Clive Davis’ favorite thing in the world. Kely went off and wrote it, recorded it, and showed it to Davis. He didn’t think it was radio ready enough, and when he told Kelly to go pop it up, she basically told him to go fuck himself. This was the beginning of a lot of crap for Kelly: first she fired her manager, then she canceled her huge tour, her album wasn’t a gigantic success (went Gold though), and she signed on with Reba’s husband/manager in Nashville and went on a smaller national tour (which I saw and was amazing). Clive was not happy, and Kelly was even less happy.

But this seems good.

From Fox News:

Kelly Clarkson had a bad year last year, you may recall. Her album, called “My December,” was a dud. But before it was released, she wound up in an unfortunate war of words with legendary J Records label chief Clive Davis, who’s also the head of BMG North America.

But time heals all wounds. The magnanimous Davis has held out a very key olive branch to Clarkson by including her photo among just a few select acts in the glittery invite to his annual pre-Grammy dinner gala.

The swanky black and gold square-shaped invitation has four pages of past dinner performers. The book opens with Alicia Keys, and continues with such Davis stalwarts as Whitney Houston, Rod Stewart, Annie Lennox, Barry Manilow, Fantasia and Jennifer Hudson.

But it’s the fourth page that’s most interesting. Diana Ross in the upper left hand corner. Rob Thomas and Carlos Santana are next to her. Below that pair is Clarkson, by herself. And to Clarkson’s left is the duo of Usher and Kanye West.

 

~ by mrchevyceleb on February 5, 2008.