Talk about taking your power back: Do you remember the Kelly Clarkson song “Piece By Piece” from a few years ago? (2015, to be exact.) The original version of the song—a follow up, if you will, to her 2004 hit “Because of You,” which talks about her feelings after her parents’ divorce—features lyrics praising ex-husband Brandon Blackstock (though not by name) for not making the same mistakes in raising their daughter that Clarkson’s own father did with her. (“But piece by piece, he collected me up off the ground where you abandoned things / Piece by piece he filled the holes that you burned in me at six years old / And you know, he never walks away, he never asks for money / He takes care of me, he loves me / Piece by piece, he restored my faith that a man can be kind and a father could stay.”)
