Kelly Clarkson will forever be a fan of Taylor Swift.
In an interview with Andy Cohen for a SiriusXM Town Hall special on Wednesday, the TV personality and fellow musician, 41, opened up about advising Swift, 33, to re-record her music amid her 2019 legal battle with Scooter Braun and her former record label, Big Machine Records.
“I knew it was important to her, so I thought, ‘Why don’t you just re-record them? Your fans will support you.’ Literally, she’s a genius,” explained Clarkson. “Not only did she re-record it, she planned this Eras Tour — like, this woman is brilliant.”
Fans may remember that The Kelly Clarkson Show host offered Swift the advice in a viral tweet after the celebrity manager closed a $300 million deal with her former label, allowing him to gain control of her musical catalog.
“All I heard was, ‘Man, I really want to own,’ and I was like, ‘Man, that song.’ She writes everything! It’s so important to her. She’s a businesswoman. It felt wrong that she didn’t have the opportunity. Right? That’s the thing. If you have the opportunity and you choose to not pay that much money, that’s one thing, but to not have the opportunity to own something that is really important to you … I’m not that artist. I don’t care like what I own,” she continued. “I’m not a businesswoman at all.”
Clarkson added that she wasn’t “thanked” by Swift for the advice but continues to have nothing but praise for the performer.
“I think she is brilliant,” she said. “She would’ve come up with that on her own and she maybe already had before I even tweeted it.”
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