Kelly Clarkson Suddenly Remembers That Time She Gave Up Co-Writing Credits With Dr. Luke

Retroactive virtue signaling and right side moral bandwagon is like the regular brand, only far more convenient since you can basically make up stories from a decade or more ago to prove your bona fides. It’s largely the female version of high school football glory day tales. Did you really score the winning touchdown at homecoming at an Indiana high school back in ’94? Fuck if I know. We work together delivering Arrowhead in San Bernardino. If you say so.

Lots of female celebrities are suddenly remembering harrowing experiences at the hands of tawdry famous guys in the news. None that they will name. Or simply the fact that their chubby first time sex in high school was technically rape since permission slips were not countersigned and they’d consumed two Bartles and Jaymes. 

Kelly Clarkson is now recalling that time she refused to have her name on writing credits for her 2009 hit ‘My Life Would Suck Without You”, because primary credits went to Dr. Luke and she didn’t want her name appearing next to his. He never raped or drugged her as Keisha falsely claimed in court but everybody secretly continues to pretend was confirmed, but Clarkson claimed he wasn’t kind to talent and he often lied. Or, every single music producer ever. Except in this case, a guy who turned a bunch of commodity pop music talent into stars.

Clarkson claims that not taking writing credits end up costing her hundreds of thousands or more in royalties from the song. Apparently she knew that Dr. Luke would one day be accused of rape.

“I was making a point to the people working with me going, ‘This is how much I didn’t want to do this. I don’t care about the money… that’s not what holds weight in my life.”

Clarkson’s own recounting admits that she never wrote the song, but that because she “changed it up” to make it personal when she recorded, she believes she could have asked for writing credits. I’d talk to ASCAP about that assertion. Actors personalize lines in their movies, they don’t receive writing credits. It’s highly unlikely performers of these highly produced hit singles receive writing credit for modifying some lyrics during record.

Dr. Luke was also responsible for Clarkson’s 2004 hit, ‘Since You Been Gone’. Clarkson now claims her label tricked her into working with him back then too. Why? Because he would make you a star but you’d have to put up with him being a jerk for a month in the studio? Have you never had a boss before in the real world? People put up with shitty bosses for twenty bucks an hour. Twenty grand an hour ought to provide more leeway.

Dr. Luke is likely a complete asshole to the people he works with. He’s also a monster hit maker for a female singer who happens to fit the superficial qualities needed to make it work. Even in your retelling of history entirely from your own perspective, you’re not a victim. The true recounting of the facts probably lean further against you. There are a thousand ladies who would’ve killed for your spot. You’re 35, fat and rich.This is the Devil’s Deal.

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