Kelly Clarkson's new single I Hate Love features Steve Martin on the banjo
Kelly Clarkson's long-awaited new album Chemistry - which is about the emotions she went through during her divorce from Brandon Blackstock - drops on June 23.
She released a new single called I Hate Love which features a reference to the Steve Martin film It's Complicated and also has him playing banjo on the track.
'I hate love, and The Notebook lied,' she sings. 'It's Complicated is more like what happens, so you can keep Gosling and I'll take Steve Martin.'
The Before He Cheats singer, 41, saw Martin play banjo on live streamed videos during the early days of the pandemic and talked to her record producer about it
'I was like, "I know that sounds crazy,"' the American Idol alum recalled. 'Jesse Shatkin was like, "I think it sounds rad."'
New music: Kelly Clarkson's long-awaited new album Chemistry - which is about the emotions she went through during her divorce from Brandon Blackstock - drops on June 23; seen in March
Banjo: She released a new single called I Hate Love which features a reference to the Steve Martin film It's Complicated and also has him playing banjo on the track; seen in 2009
In an interview with Billboard, the Since U Been Gone singer explained, 'One is the beginning, when everything is bright and shiny, and It's Complicated is more the reality.'
She said the 2009 Nancy Meyers romantic comedy starring Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin is one of her favorite films - but she didn't set out to have Martin play on the song inspired by it.
The Favorite Kind of High singer referenced Baldwin's cheating on his spouse character versus Martin's affable architect and said 'This is what you should be looking for and what you deserve.'
'I generally don't ask because I get very nervous about bothering people,' the Behind These Hazel Eyes hitmaker said.
'But literally, within hours, my producer got an answer: 'Oh my God, he'd love to, when are you recording it?''
'I just love the idea of things happening organically,' Clarkson added. 'So many things had to happen in order for that to occur.'
And she'd love to have the Only Murders in the Building star on her talk show.
'My ideal moment is him coming on my show and then us performing it — but I'll take just him coming on my show so we can talk and hang out so I can, like, meet him,' she said.
The Breakaway songstress wrote most of the new tracks while navigating her divorce from Blackstock, 46, after seven years of marriage. The couple share daughter River, eight and son Remington, seven.
Lyrics: 'I hate love, and The Notebook lied,' she sings. 'It's Complicated is more like what happens, so you can keep Gosling and I'll take Steve Martin'; seen in March
The Miss Independent singer sat down for an interview with Nancy O' Dell on TalkShopLive to talk about her album, saying: 'Having chemistry with someone is an incredible, and overwhelming, feeling. It's like you have no choice in the matter.'
'You are just drawn to each other. This can be good and bad. This album takes you down every path that chemistry could lead you down,' she added.
The Mr. Know It All singer revealed that she never experienced that kind of take your breath away chemistry until she met her music manager ex-husband.
'I never really connected before my ex-husband. And I never connected with anybody like that,' she said.
New chapter: The Breakaway songstress wrote most of the new tracks while navigating her divorce from Brandon Blackstock, 46, after seven years of marriage; seen in February
Music man: The Before He Cheats singer, 41, saw Martin play banjo on live streamed videos during the early days of the pandemic and talked to her record producer about it
'I'd never felt that. That just kind of chemical... that level of just chemical reaction, I just never felt that and I just remembered the first time we even met, I was like, 'Woah.' I just felt something.'
But not all chemistry is good, which the Grammy winner experienced as she was divorcing.
'And then it can go very poorly, chemistry. You can have amazing chemistry with somebody who you really shouldn't be with, you know. Not that one person is good or bad, whatever. It's just not a healthy environment.'
'I just feel like chemistry is a beautiful and amazing thing, but it's powerful for the good and the bad. Makes you do stupid stuff.'
Source: Daily Mail
