Listen to ‚Mine‘ and ‚Me‘, the first cuts from Kelly Clarkson’s upcoming album.
No divorce lawyers are needed: Kelly Clarkson was ready to discuss what was “mine” in the first song off of Chemistry, her upcoming album — while also addressing feelings in second song “me” (both dropped at the same time). Considered her “divorce album,” since it’s her biggest body of work since her split from her now ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock, Chemistry promises to cover “the arc of an entire relationship. With “mine,” the song Kelly, 40, dropped Friday (Apr. 14), she started with the end of love, and the feeling of a broken heart.
“You know I question every motive, everythin’ you say/Thought with you maybe my heart wasn’t meant to break/Can’t believe I let you in, I can’t believe I stayed/As long as I stayed, yeah,” she crooned on the first track. “I hope one day someone will take your heart and hold it tight/Make you feel like you’re invincible deep inside/And right when you think that it’s perfect, they cross a line/And steal your shine like you did mine,” she says in the song, seemingly believing karma will take course with her ex.
On “Me,” she gave fans more insight about her own experience in the marriage — but asserts her independence. “Buried myself into somebody else/Shut out some parts of me, did it so casually/I guess I needed that to be able to step back/I lived my life without me, I never allowed me to,” she said in the extremely personal song.
