They are very different singers, both excellent. Carrie rides the strength of her voice and the melody of the song. Kellie Clarkson is a technical-as-shit singer who plays with the notes for fun without oversinging, and has Adele power. Yeah, they look different, but the voices are more than enough to tell them apart. One’s a balladeer and the other is a coloratura diva-quality singer. Just listen a bit.
When I was a kid, I kinda didn’t realize there were two, even three singers in the Beatles (Ringo didn’t count; I could hear Ringo). Then I realized there was John and Paul but I couldn’t really tell them apart. They were JohnPaul as far as I was concerned. Then I really started listening and it became obvious. So it goes.
Nah. I watched the first season of American Idol and for while, maybe from 2002-2007 Clarkson was everywhere. Then she had her artistic struggle with Clive Davis or whatever and seemed to be semi-banished, gained some weight, took some family time, and came back a little different. I saw her on some show the other night randomly. She kinda looks like my wife now.
Carrie, I know exactly how she looks and I’ve seen her pictures everywhere for award ceremonies and such, but I’ve only encountered 1 of her songs in life. I couldn’t hear “Jesus Takes the Wheel” and think, yeah that sounds like that chick that did “Since U Been Gone.” I’ve never heard a Kellie Pickler song, though I am very familiar with what she looks like.
I always thought that Carrie Underwood was a lot better looking than Kelly Clarkson. (Not that there’s anything wrong with Miss Clarkson, for sure.) Don’t really know their music, though…
OK, I’ll be honest. I listen to Top 40 radio almost every day, but I have no idea who is who when it comes to artists. Kelly Clarkson, Katie Perry, Carrie Underwood – I get them all mixed up in my head.
I did come across an article a few weeks ago about how Carrie Underwood had a freak accident at home that caused severe facial lacerations. She hasn’t been seen in public since. Hopefully she will recover fully.
Cultural difference, I guess, but I had no idea Carrie Underwood was anything to do with AI until very recently: I thought she was just a country singer. Kelly Clarkson was introduced as having been the winner of the American version of Pop Idol when Since You’ve Been Gone came out so yeah, I knew that…but confusing the two of them? There’s never been any real chance of that in the UK.
It still seems weird, incidentally, that it’s called American Idol. It started here as Pop Idol - nothing to do with Britain in the concept so nothing to do with Britain in the name. I can see why we would need to bother mentioning that the American version was American…but calling it American Idol in America seems a bit like calling it Chinese Food in China.
I’m thinking that calling it Pop Idol in American would make it sound like it is limited to one style of music. Although it does seem to be mostly pop music there have also been country and rock performers that have done well. Maybe the term has a different connotation here.
Almost definitely a different feel to the word. Top Of The Pops was *the * music show here for decades, and Pop Stars was the immediate forerunner of Pop Idol. Pop in the name of a music show has been the norm for decades. Plus, I guess, it’s far more common to salute the flag and talk about the greatness of the nation over there than it is in the UK, so it’s not as incongruous to hang a name like that on it as it would be here.
'tis a good point. Like the Boston Pops and whatnot…I’d forgotten about that.
“Proms music” isn’t a name in popular usage though - not in my experience anyway - you’d be more likely to use it descriptively than expecting it to be a recognised term. “Light classical” and the now rather anachronistic “popular song” are more what you’d find…and “popular song” is now more of a name than an accurate description.
By name only I get Trisha Yearwood and Carrie Underwood mixed up. Slight name overlap plus sort of similar looks messes up my verbal filing system. But given pics of both I can easily say which is which. (It helps that Mrs. FtG watches Yearwood’s cooking show.)
I don’t think of either of them often, but when Clarkson comes up, I still think of her as brunette. Yeah, that’a a bit variable when women in the entertainment fields come up but back when she was all over the TV far too much she sure wasn’t blonde at that time.