Kelly Clarkson’s fans have been looking forward to hearing her new music, which she has said will have listeners traveling the entire arc of a relationship. After writing tons of songs amidst her divorce from Brandon Blackstock — and then weeding out the “angry” songs that went too far — the American Idol winner has begun to drop singles from her 10th studio album Chemistry, which will be released later this month. Her latest — “i hate love” — features the talented Steve Martin on the banjo, and it’s probably a collaboration that Alexandra Daddario would be able to get behind, given her own recent admissions.
The new single “i hate love” is an upbeat anti-love anthem, and while the Emmy-winning daytime talk show host promised her album wouldn’t be full of divorce music, this one certainly pulls no punches, saying love is “a bitch sometimes,” leaving her “on the ground” and “empty now,” as comedy legend Steve Martin expertly accompanies her on the banjo. In celebration of the drop, Kelly Clarkson posted to her Instagram Stories:
