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Citation :It’s said that TV cameras can flatter. Or make you look fatter.

But during season five of “American Idol,” they made Kellie Pickler appear, well, trashy.

True, the budding country songstress - who performs Saturday at the Tweeter Center on a bill with headliner Brad Paisley - looked cute as a button under the hot lights. Buther mix of deep South naivete and natural blond beauty got the North Carolina native stereotyped as ditzy faster than she could say “sal-mon” (instead of salmon) or “caly-mary” (instead of calamari).

“I don’t have regrets about it, no,” Pickler said while traveling through Moline, Ill.“I still consider (“Idol”) a positive experience. But in retrospect it seems like they chose to showcase certain aspects of my personality more than my creative abilities. So, without the proper balance, what you see is a distorted image.”

Ironically, Pickler’s clueless TV persona continues to charm: Fox has inked a sitcom deal pairing her with “That 70’s Show” creators Chris Peterson and Bryan Moore. The show casts Pickler as - what else? - a naive Southern gal whose long-lost biological dad turns out to be the state governor.

But for right now, being on the road with an arena favorite such as Paisley is thrilling enough.

“I get to sleep plenty, which is delightful since ‘Idol’ was pretty rigorous,” said Pickler, who turns 21 on June 28. “You don’t get any days off and everyone becomes drained and exhausted. But that’s the gig. At least this way I can rest.

And the exposure is huge - Brad sells out every show.”
Pickler’s humble background fuels her stamina. Prior to “Idol” she’d been a fast-food worker at a Sonic Drive-In, daydreaming about a music career and participating in beauty pageants.

The rumors about Pickler’s family turned out mainly to be true, yet she speaks of them with surprising candor. Her parents separated when she was 2, and in 1989, after a check-fraud bust and a conviction for forging a drug prescrïption, her mom disappeared from her life. Pickler was a teenager when her father landed in jail on aggravated assault and battery charges, the result of a stabbing incident in 2003.

“He got released literally just days after I got kicked off the show,” she said with palpable sadness. “We saw each other a few times, but we’ll never be as close as we were before. My dad’s always had problems with drinking and drugs. I just don’t know if it’ll ever get better for him.
“It was all over the news when he got locked up again earlier this year,” she continued. “He’s out now, but, honestly, I can’t get wrapped up in it. I have to remain focused and positive about my career.”

Happily, there’s plenty to remain positive about. Her debut CD, “Small Town Girl,” was recently certified gold, making it 2006’s best-selling release by a new solo country artist. Its success has Pickler already thinking about her follow-up.

“I’ve started writing new songs, but I may pitch them to other singers before recording them myself,” the budding songwriter said. “My next CD will be an inner reflection of what’s going on with me at that time. I want my fans to be able to get to know me on a more intimate level.”

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http://theedge.bostonherald.com/musicNe ... id=1005129

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Citation :Saturday, 06/09/07
Outspoken, spunky Pickler lives dream
Hard-luck past drives her desire to be role model

By PETER COOPER
Staff Writer

Kellie Pickler was a kid in a trailer in Albermarle, N.C.

She would sit and look through magazines and point at the kind of mansion she wanted to own when she grew up. Bored with that, she'd look through car magazines and decide on the color of Mercedes-Benz she'd like to own.


"I thought she was full of it, to tell you the truth," said her sister, Courtney Pickler. "I never thought it was going to happen, but she used to talk about it all the time. I remember when we were in the back of our grandparents' Suburban and we were singing 'I Will Always Love You' by Dolly Parton, and Kellie said, 'I'm going to be famous one day.' I was like, 'Yeah, OK.' "

There's no mansion yet, but Pickler has the Mercedes. It's black. She's 20, and famous enough to record music, make videos, be criticized and approved of by strangers and sing Sunday night to an expected LP Field crowd of more than 30,000 for the final night of CMA Music Festival.

Pickler's Small Town Girl album has sold 550,000 copies since its release last Halloween. She's been known to millions since 2005, when she finished sixth on American Idol.

"A lot of people compared me and Carrie Underwood in the beginning," Pickler said. "But then once I opened my mouth, people were like, 'OK, they're nothing alike.'"

And they aren't. Underwood weighs her words before she says them. Pickler sometimes speaks before she thinks, a trait that earned her praise and criticism during and after her Idol time. On the show, she was laughed at for being ignorant to the world. She pronounced "salmon" as "sal-man," for instance.

And of late, she has set tongues to wagging by being seen (gasp) down on Lower Broadway having (double gasp) fun.

"Some people have said, 'Aw, Kellie's changed. She parties.' I'm 20 years old. I just moved to Nashville. I'm just now out on my own. I'm not hurting anyone, or doing anything any other 20-year-old isn't doing. If this is the worst I've done, I think I've done pretty well … considering the circumstances."

Rough edges are key

Record labels tend to prefer the Underwood model, but Sony/BMG chief Joe Galante — also Underwood's label boss — saw value in Pickler's quirk.

"The attempt to round off the edges is the one thing that's dangerous to her," Galante said. "You've got to leave her heart alone. That honesty is what people find refreshing. People gravitate towards Kellie because they see the life she's had and the lady she's turned out to be. That honesty has been her survival mechanism, to get through life."

Pickler is the daughter of a convict and a mother who abandoned her at age 2. She grew up around her grandparents, worked at a Sonic drive-in and dreamed of mansions.

"You have to visualize your future and really see yourself accomplishing your goals for them to actually come true," she said. "What did I have to lose? Nothing."

She worked on a way out

As an elementary student, Pickler would tell classmates that her dad wasn't around because he was on a business trip, not because he was incarcerated. Later, she stopped trying to cover up and began working on a way out. There were beauty contests and singing contests, and then there was Idol. And then there was the aftermath of Idol, which involved a record deal and the need to write an album. She co-wrote songs and recorded Small Town Girl while touring with other Idol contestants.

"I was writing on the phone at 4 a.m. with Aimee Mayo," she said. "I'd never even met Aimee, but we started talking and our personalities are similar. We're both loud and obnoxious and open about our feelings and emotions."

Those were the first songs Pickler wrote, and telephone co-writes at 4 a.m. aren't generally considered the best way to learn the craft. But Pickler and Mayo (and the album's other co-writers) succeeded in offering up lyrics that are often quite revealing. One of the songs, "I Wonder," is now in the top 20 of the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts. That one is about growing up without a mother.

Support, don't judge

"You can either learn from bad choices or become part of your environment," Pickler said. "I have such a huge opportunity to help young girls and young boys that might be experiencing the same things I have. To not share my life story could be meaning that they are missing out on a blessing."

Though American Idol at times feeds on negativity, sarcasm and criticism, Pickler isn't enamored of such pop culture staples.

"All you hear about lately is Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton and these girls' addictions," she said. "I get disgusted when I turn on the television and see them getting made fun-of. (Sister) Courtney and I both struggled because our parents are drug addicts. Our father is in jail right now because of drug addiction and alcoholism. If anything, we should be trying to uplift these people, not put them down. The biggest thing is we're not supposed to judge each other. We're sitting around pointing fingers, laughing and being judgmental and being hypocrites.

"That's ignorant, to me."

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Citation :Small town girl Pickler poised for stardom
By Christopher John Treacy/ Music
Sunday, June 10, 2007 - Updated: 01:19 PM EST

With all the sticky sweet gloss now coating commercial country, it’s easy to forget the earnestness that once defined the genre.
   But at a nearly full Tweeter Center last night, Brad Paisley’s Bonfires & Amplifiers Tour confirmed that not only is quality country being made, its performers are charismatic and charming.
   With Taylor Swift apparently ill, “American Idol” Season 5 top-six contestant Kellie Pickler opened in a sexy red top and skin-tight jeans.
   In addition to selections from her impressive “Small Town Girl,” Pickler served up a slow, saucy cover of Patsy Cline’s “Walking After Midnight” and a hammed-up version of Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5.”


   During “I Wonder,” a song about being estranged from her mother, she began to cry; a well-deserved standing ovation followed.
   Hook-laden tunes such as “Red High Heels” are proof that Pickler’s career is just getting started.
   Jack Ingram wasn’t quite as entertaining.
   The Texan singer/songwriter has plenty of bad-boy charm. But his music - solid barroom rock -although decent enough, is no match for Pickler’s or Paisley’s. And his cover of Hinder’s “Lips of an Angel” has got to go.
   Paisley started with “Online,” the first of four new tunes from “5th Gear,” due June 19. The song’s self-deprecating sensibility is part of Paisley’s image and he wears it well.
   During the rollicking “Me Neither,” he unveiled surprising guitar mastery through multiple nimble-fingered solos.
   For the moving duet “Whiskey Lullaby,” Paisley added a simulated video image of Alison Krauss.
   Above all, Paisley’s a showman. Despite the bright lights and over-the-top stage set, his stance is unassuming: He’s just a guy like any other, albeit one who happens to make a lot of dough playing music.
   And he’s pretty good at it too.

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Petit potin... anodin!!!

Citation :Ex-'Idol' finalist Kellie Pickler and new beau each other's biggest fans

By Christopher Rocchio, 06/13/2007

Opposites attract, and it doesn't get much more different than American Idol fifth-season finalist Kellie Pickler's native Albermarle, NC and the hometown of her new boyfriend Jordin Tootoo, a professional hockey player from Churchill, Manitoba in Canada's Northwest Territories.

"We're from real different places, but they're both small town so we're a lot alike too," Pickler told People on Wednesday.

The 20-year-old Idol 5 sixth-place finisher and 24-year-old right wing for the NHL's Nashville Predators began their relationship as friends in January when each purchased condos in the same Nashville complex.  Tootoo asked for Pickler's phone number, according to People, and she said their first date was something familiar to him but foreign for her.

"We had a little communication problem at first," Pickler told People of Tootoo, who has Inuit Eskimo lineage.  "And I had never been to a hockey game - we didn't have hockey in Albermarle.  I had no idea what was going on, but I loved it anyway.  It's so fast and exciting!"

By the spring, Pickler said her relationship with Tootoo had grown into a romantic one and the two became an item despite their dissimilar backgrounds.

"We're each other's biggest fans," she told People.  "We let each other shine in our moments and are so proud of each other.  I go to games and I'm the fan in the Predators jersey, screaming my head off.  He comes to my concert with a Pickler t-shirt and he does the same."

With the 2006-2007 NHL season officially in the books, People reported Pickler plans to take a break from her current "Bonfires and Amplifiers" tour with fellow country musician Brad Paisley to spend a week with Tootoo and his family in Canada.

"I'm just so excited about seeing where he is from," Pickler told People. "It will be a totally different culture and I'm fascinated by other cultures. I have no idea what to expect. I know they do a lot of hunting and fishing and they eat what they kill. It's not like there's a Subway down the street. It's also been snowing up there, so I'm going to learn to drive a snowmobile. If it's anything like 4-wheelin', I'm set!"

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Citation : Kellie Pickler Gets a Taste of Canada
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June 22, 2007 — The tiny village of Rankin Inlet in Northern Canada has been abuzz this week with sightings of Kellie Pickler, who is visiting the family of her boyfriend, hometown hockey hero Jordin Tootoo.

Kellie tells CBC News that her trip to the North has been a welcome break from her hectic schedule back home. Most of her time has been spent at the Tootoo cabin, far from noisy gadgets and her condo in Nashville.

"[There's] no cell phone service here, so that's a big plus," she says. "No one probably knows what a cell phone is here, do they?" she joked.

Jordin, a forward with the Nashville Predators, said he's pleased to introduce his girlfriend to his hometown and his Inuit roots. "It's great to have people from other parts of the world come and experience what I do when I come home."

Kellie has never been to Canada before, and the Tootoo family is making sure she goes home with her share of truly northern experiences, like fishing and sampling local food. "I've had different types of food that I never in my wildest dreams ever thought I'd try... raw caribou and whale blubber," she says. "You've got to salt everything."

Kellie said besides ketchup chips, which aren't available in the United States, her favorite part of the trip has been the people. "I've never felt so welcome anywhere like I have here. As soon as I got off the plane, everyone was waiting for me at the airport, just to welcome me to the community. Everyone's been so nice."

Kellie will be spending the rest of her summer performing around the United States. She resumes her tour on Saturday.

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Citation :Nashville, TN (06/25/07) -- As we all know by now Kellie fell ill a few days ago and had to cancel a few tour stops of the Bonfires & Amplifiers tour. She recently went to Canada with her man Jordin Tootoo who introduced her to his family, and where she tried some local delicacies, like raw caribou and whale blubber.

Her publicist, Wes Vause, told KelliesMusic.com she's doing much better now and will be back on the tour in time for the Friday gig in San Diego. And about why Kellie got ill, Vause said "She ate very little and got very low blood sugar and dehydrated. Her blood sugar level has returned to normal, and she has regained her strength."

Kellie Pickler will be celebrating her 21st birthday this coming June 28. If you plan to send her get-well and birthday cards (or some shoes) the best time to do so would be now.

Best place to send her a card, according to her publicist, would be to her managment company:

Kellie Pickler
c/o Fitzgerald Hartley
1908 Wedgewood Avenue
Nashville, TN 37212

Demande spéciale à Kellie

Citation :Iraq
Hi Kellie, My name is Brenda, i wanted to tell you that i love your songs. They have so much meaning to them. My husband was killed in Iraq and i know how you love true meanings to your songs so i was just wondering if you do any or would like to make a song on a fallen soldier. My husband was a true american soldier. He wasn't the type to go to church and he did get saved while he was in Iraq. His time in Iraq was just unreal. He was killed by a road side bomb. Their is just so much to tell about this man and i would love to share it in a song... I'm not for sure if you do this kind of stuff but it would be a dream come true to be able to do this. He will be gone from us 4 years aug 20th. He was 38 years old. He left a son (19) and a daughter(15) behind. We have found life again but it was just so hard to move on. We don't want to forget him or let the world forget about our men over in Iraq. Thanks Kellie.
Brenda Franklin
brendagfranklin@hotmail.com

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Kellie dans le Grand Nord canadien en juin dernier.

Citation :CMT HOT DISH: All the Country Music News Is on the Road
Nashville's Finest Are Working Hard During the Summer Concert Season
By: Hazel Smith

Just 23 shows into his Bonfires & Amplifiers tour, Brad Paisley has already played to more than 250,000 fans. That, my friends, is a 42 percent increase from last year's attendance for his Time Well Wasted tour.

Get up early on July 23 if you want to see and hear that cute Kellie Pickler perform "I Wonder" on ABC's Good Morning America.



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Citation :Beyond the Blond
''Idol'' season 5's Kellie Pickler talks about wigging out, dealing with rumors, the Kelly Clarkson controversy, and regrets for ''Small Town Girl''

By Chris Willman
Chris Willman is a senior music writer for Entertainment Weekly

Kellie Pickler is living proof that ''polarizing'' works. There's something to be said for the fact that so far, she's the lowest-ranking American Idol finalist to have a gold album. Her small-town-Southerner persona — which she freely describes as ''obnoxious'' — is the kind that was destined to inspire heated love and impassioned dislike almost from the start, as was her choice of genre, country. But the season-5 viewers who did fall for her couldn't help but feel she was their new best friend. And she made good on that trust with Small Town Girl, an album with an unusually strong selection of savvy country material that belies how hurriedly the whole thing was recorded.

Her current single, which is just about to break into the country top 10, is ''I Wonder,'' a ballad about growing up without the mother who abandoned her when she was still a toddler. It's an honest tearjerker, even if you don't know its autobiographical truth — but who with basic cable doesn't? Pickler's life has rarely been without some kind of family drama, and there may be more in the offing. In this interview, she alluded to more that might be about to appear in the news — and sure enough, days after this interview was conducted, the National Enquirer published a story about how the singer's long-estranged mother is looking to reunite with her. Perhaps Pickler's sophomore album will have an ''I Wonder, Part II'' that picks up that story.

In the meantime, though, she's out on the road opening shows for Brad Paisley, with performances that evidence real star power. ''People relate to [her] honesty and the fact that there's no pretense,'' says SonyBMG Nashville chairman Joe Galante, who's guiding her career as well as Carrie Underwood's. ''And the fact is, by the end of this year, she'll have a platinum record. On the Paisley tour, she's hitting 12,000 people, and doing 70 to 80 dates. That's almost a million folks.''

During a week off from the tour, Pickler sat down in her label's Nashville offices to discuss the making of her album, what she hopes to do even better on the next one, the hazards of returning to Idol, and what, exactly, she has in common with Britney Spears.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: When you went in to meet with the SonyBMG people after the Idol season ended last year, do you think anything about you surprised them?
KELLIE PICKLER: They saw exactly what they saw on TV, but a lot more, because I was just so loud and excited. [Laughs] I was more obnoxious in person than I was on television, so I think they were a little like, Whoa! The greatest compliment that Joe [Galante] has ever given me was that he kind of sees a little Dolly in me. And that means the world to me, because I've always been the biggest Dolly Parton fan. She's my definition of an American idol. When I was little, one of my best friends from home gave me this nickname Picklebutt — oh, I hated my last name with a passion — but now I'm like, Thank you, Lord, that my last name starts with a P, because when I go into Best Buy, I'm right beside Dolly Parton on the shelf! That's the greatest thing ever.

You were hustled into the studio practically overnight, right?
You can ask any Idol that was on tour with me last summer — I didn't sleep at all on that tour. We had 60 shows in less than 90 days, so we were booking it to the next city after each show. And every day we had off I was songwriting or recording. Sometimes I would go to the studio after a concert, if [there was an appropriate facility] in that city, and record till 2 or 3 or 4 in the morning, then get right back up and [on the road] with the Idols. Because we set a date that the record was gonna come out, Oct. 31, and everything had to be done at least two months before. I was literally writing on the phone with songwriters back in Nashville, before I even met them. It was nuts: ''I don't know you, but I'm gonna pour my heart and my soul out to you on the phone, and we're gonna write a kick-ass song.''

NEXT PAGE: ''There's a lot of songs that I really liked and didn't put on the record, because I was so worried about what other people were gonna think, and I regret it.''

How happy are you with Small Town Girl — did it get the reaction you wanted?
You can't go through life expecting to please everyone, because you're gonna be let down. You have to ultimately be happy with what you see in the mirror. Yes, the fans are the ones that keep us employed. They voted me to where I am today, and I give them so much credit. But when I had songs pitched to me, I was so worried about certain lyrics in particular songs — like, ''How is this mom gonna feel about her 5-year-old listening to this song?'' There's a lot of songs that I really liked and didn't put on the record, because I was so worried about what other people were gonna think, and I regret it.

It's funny... We were riding in the car a while back, and out of nowhere my 7-year-old brother said, ''Kellie, there's a cuss word in your song.'' And I'm sitting there thinking, What in the world is he talking about? I said, ''Honey, there is not a cuss word in 'Red High Heels.''' He said, ''It's not that one. You know which one it is.'' I'm sitting here, literally singing through my whole record... Finally I said, ''What word is it?'' And he goes ''I'm not sayin' it.'' This went on a while. And I said, ''Well, what song is it?'' And he said, ''No. 4 ['Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You']. '' And I was like, ''Ohhhhh, there's a part in there where I say the D-word.'' And he said, ''Yeah.'' Just like, I'm a little disappointed. I'm like, Okay, thanks, I guess I'm grounded now!

So you think about that kind of stuff, and you don't want to upset anyone. But I do have some regrets about some songs I didn't put on there. Maybe as I grow and make more records, my fans will grow with me and give me the chance to show certain sides of me that Idol didn't. Everything on this record is honest, every song on there I relate to, even if I didn't write it. But I do want this next one to be a complete spin around, like, ''Wow, I didn't know this about her.'' I want people to leave in shock — to think, Really? I'm all about that. I like controversy.

One thing I've seen some fans say about you on message boards is that you've gotten too glamorous now.
Too glamorous? I'm wearing jeans with holes in them! Ask anyone in this building. Glamorous? Phhhfft. I mean, tell that person thank you, that's a compliment, because I've never been called that before. Usually it's like, ''Are you sure you're not a man?'' Because I belch and fart like a man, better than any of 'em.

What kind of material are you thinking about for your next record?
I just really want to get more in-depth, how I really feel about things. This record came out last October. There's so much that's happened to me in this past year that will definitely make it on the next album that I think a lot of people will be shocked [about]. I've got one heck of a life to write about, that's for sure. I'm sure you've read the papers, and there's so much that doesn't make the papers, which is probably a good thing. And I'm sure it won't be too much longer before [the other stuff] makes it, too. It is what it is. But yeah, less filtered [on the next album]. I think I'm gonna just go in and [say], ''Here I am, this is me — the other side. The dark side!'' I'm kidding.

You'll come back with dark hair, maybe?
Gothic all the way. Voodoo dolls and all. It's funny you say that. Because I have this dark wig that I put on, auburn-colored… I've always wanted red hair. Reba McEntire — I love her hair. At shows, after I sing, I put my wig on and I change clothes, and I go out and I'm actually in the audience on the front row singing with the fans, as a fan, and I watch Brad's show. It took three shows for Brad to realize that it was me down there. Because he was like, ''God, this girl keeps coming to all the shows and she's wearing the same thing.''

You get a kick out of being in disguise?
I was at the concession stand, buying a hot dog, and I had my wig on, and the guy behind the counter was like, ''Has anyone ever told you you look like Kellie Pickler?'' And I went, ''Who? Never heard of her.'' He got [indignant], like, ''Well, she just played!'' I've even been in my sweats... This sounds really mean, I shouldn't have done this. I just wanted to go in and — I'll be honest with you — buy a box of tampons and get out of there. [Laughs] I'm back home in Albemarle, North Carolina, and the last time I was in the store, it was freakin' nuts. It was like they announced over the intercom, ''She's in aisle 3! Sic her!'' So I go in there, I have a box of tampons in one hand, and this little boy is running up to me wanting my autograph. So I signed it — on the box of tampons. This little boy is gonna have a complex! [Laughs] And then I'm starting to walk down the aisle to check out, and this lady who works there, she's like, ''Gosh, you look just like Kellie Pickler!'' I went, ''Who?'' [And] she just wrung me out: ''Well, you're in Albemarle, you should know who she is.'' I just ran and checked out and went home. I should have said yes, but I just didn't feel like it that day. Cramps and all — I'm like, just leave me alone and let me go home! That's probably the meanest I've ever been.

What was it like going back on Idol this year to sing ''I Wonder''? Sometimes it's hard after being on that show for artists to come back and present themselves in a new way.
I missed everybody so much that it was good to catch up. But it is a little scary, because it's been a year since everyone saw you, and everybody expects you to look and be exactly the way that you were when you left. A lot's happened in a year. I went from working at Sonic Drive-in, where I made $2.15 an hour, roller-skating burgers out for a living, hoping tips would be good that day, nobody caring about me — all they wanted was their food. And overnight, you're on 40 million TV sets. You think someone's not gonna change when that happens to them? You're automatically gonna put your guard up. I'm very flattered that people actually are interested in me. But I went from nobody knowing anything about me... Yeah, everyone in Albemarle knew my mom wasn't around and that my dad was always in trouble, but nobody cared. Now it's on the front page of every paper: Kellie Pickler's dad is going to court tomorrow. Now all of a sudden people are interested in it. Of course I'm gonna change as a person when I have to deal with the fact that my 7-year-old brother goes to school and has kids come up to him now saying, ''We just saw your daddy, he was on the front page of the paper, he's back in jail.'' I try to respect my family, and I don't want to hurt them. I don't want them to disown me. I've been saying since the beginning, you can't make everybody happy — but I'm still guilty of trying.

Yeah, going back on the show, people are gonna say great things about you, and people are gonna say bad things about you.
Reading all those horrible comments that people made about me — it hurt my feelings, but at the end of the day it was like, I didn't do anything wrong. I'm just growing. I'm just developing into a woman.

There were a lot of negative comments?
Oh yeah, there were so many mean things, like ''Oh, she's so fat now, she's gained 20 pounds.'' It was so judgmental. How can you say such horrible things about someone? I couldn't sleep at night knowing that I gave someone a complex like that. I could never say anything bad about Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan or the girls you see that are being completely scrutinized in the press. You just never know the situation. I have people saying I have an eating disorder because I've lost weight. I did gain 20 pounds last year, but [after losing it] I'm not even as small as I was when I auditioned for Idol. Then there were rumors that I was pregnant.... There are some mean people out there that don't have anything better to do than talk bad about other people. Yeah, it hurts.

There was also just this big thing [in the Enquirer]: ''Kellie and Jessica Simpson are new BFFs!'' [It said] we were out at a club in Dallas — on a night I was actually playing in New York with Brad — and she was pouring her heart out to me about John Mayer, and I told her that he hit on me. I've never even met either one of them! So if I'm ever bored with my life, I can just pick up a magazine and go, ''Actually I just went partying with Jessica Simpson last night!''

How do you feel about the Kelly Clarkson controversy? It seems like there are a lot of people rooting for her to fail right now, for some reason.
I'm honestly a really big Kelly Clarkson fan. And I love how she stands her ground. I respect the fact that she said, ''I really want to do it my way this time. I just want to see what it'd be like to put out my music the way I want it to be.'' She could have done a record the exact way that the record label wanted her to do it — there's still gonna be people out there that don't like it. Either way, you can't win for losing. We've got more important things going on in the world today than whether or not you like somebody's song on their album. There's a freakin' war going on.... [but world issues] are not being given half as much attention as Britney Spears for not wearing panties. Who cares? If the girl doesn't want to wear panties, leave her alone. I'd rather focus on my troops that are dying for me so that I can actually sit here and have this conversation with you, and homeless kids that are in shelters, than whether or not Britney has panties on. To tell you the truth, I don't even have any panties on right now. I don't care! Let's focus on things that are important, and let people be happy. Let Kelly absorb — she just made a record, let her enjoy that moment of being able to turn on the radio and hear her song. Let her enjoy her work and her passion.

I wouldn't want my little brother to grow up and be one of those people that points fingers at everybody. I want him to be someone that prays for everybody. You know? And he does. I wish people could be more like my 7-year-old brother

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http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,2000716 ... 51,00.html

Karaoke sur "I wonder".

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LFnVdNpyQwg

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3Y2cYpPlVEY

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yBBDpdAKUKk

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iPpPS8Zr2Cw

Proctorville - Lawrence County Fair OH Concert 7/12/07  

chanson inédite qui ne se trouve pas sur son album

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-98hVa1VXg8