Kelly Clarkson starts on July 11, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada, new Las Vegas Residency “Kelly Clarkson: Studio Sessions” in the Colosseum in Caesars Palace. – Credit: Denise Truscello/Getty Images/Live Nation Las Vegas
Last week Kelly Clarkson shifted the rest of her residence data for August in Las Vegas and revealed that her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock was sick. Just a day later, the music manager, with whom she shares two children, died after a three -year fight against cancer at the age of 48. While Clarkson kept this family matter privately, the cracks showed themselves in their armor in particularly emotional performances in the weeks before Blackstock's death.
At the end of July, Clarkson came through the ballad “piece by piece”, which was written on Blackstock and published in 2015. “I've never rewritten a song and I will probably never do it,” she said on stage. “I wrote this song with a lot of hope and projection for happiness and better than what happened. And then, well, life, and I had to change the lyrics. Everyone said: 'Wait, why don't you sing this song?' And I said: “Did you hear the texts?”
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Clarkson and Blackstock completed their divorce in 2022, nine years after they had bound the knot. Clarkson first submitted in 2020, citing incompatible differences. At that time, the singer began to update the texts to “piece by piece”, on which she originally sang “piece by piece again. On the updated version, she sang:” And you know/I just go away if you ask for money/I take care of me because I love myself/piece by piece, I have restored my faith/that a heart can still beat. “
“I changed the texts. We did it once, I did a residence here and then I said: 'You know what, that sounded a little angry,” continued Clarkson. “So I just wanted to explain how it feels now. I am 43. I did therapy and have now changed the texts and I think it's perfect. I promise it. I won't change it again. “
In the latest version she had premiere at the Residency, she called the “healed version 2.0”, Clarkson: “And you know/I learn every day, how you love me/I let go of the shame that you taught me/piece by piece, I have restored my faith/that a heart can still beat, even if it breaks.” “
“I have the feeling that we are growing up, right? And that's the more adult version of it,” Clarkson told the audience of the final change, with tears pouring over. “I'm really trying to pull it together. Fuck it, just let us sing it. That is 'piece by piece'.”
During a show in August, she held her performance from “Rope” of the piece by piece Album too new.
“We share the news with great sadness that Brandon Blackstock died. Brandon fought for cancer for more than three years,” said Blackstock's family in a statement last week. “He died peacefully and was surrounded by the family. We thank you for your thoughts and prayers and ask everyone to respect the family privacy in this very difficult time.”
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