Kelly Clarkson, Oct. 18, Tower Theatre

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Kelly Clarkson, Oct. 18, Tower Theatre

POSTED: Thursday, October 25, 2007, 9:56 PM
Filed Under: Music Show
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Does it hurt to know i'll never be there / bet it sucks to see my face everywhere.

Kelly Clarkson asked the crowd at the Tower Theater to indulge her: she’d play some unfamiliar songs, and “then we’ll play some songs you all know.” Unfortunately, the songs Clarkson was introducing weren’t new or unreleased, but tracks from her months-old My December, the album her record label famously thought wasn’t good enough to release. The cookie-cutter angst of My D pales beside the unsettling vulnerability of Breakaway, but Clarkson needn’t have worried; when the band dropped out during the bridge of the new album’s “Never Again,” the audience was right there with her, shouting every note (and, apart from the iron-lunged Clarksonite behind me, actually hitting most of them). Clarkson likes to kick up a pseudo-grunge racket (even if her “musical director” lurks behind a bank of snyths), but it wasn’t the music you needed earplugs for. It was the fans.

See Also: More photos by Keys7901 (Flickr)

 
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