The newest phase kicked off as a ballad earlier than reworking into an upbeat pop occasion
Kelly Clarkson is identified to run via a strong ballad in the course of the “Kellyoke” phase on her discuss present. However on the most recent episode of The Kelly Clarkson Present, the singer delivered a band-backed efficiency of Cher’s faux-ballad “Sturdy Sufficient,” beginning off easy sufficient on a piano earlier than launching right into a full-blown disco occasion.
The change doesn’t come till almost 40 seconds into the tune, with the stage lighting indicating the uptick in vitality. “Trigger I’m robust sufficient to dwell with out you/Sturdy sufficient and I stop crying/Lengthy sufficient, now I’m robust sufficient/To know you gotta go,” Clarkson belted out, lending her personal vocal distinctions to the tune so enormously outlined by Cher’s unmissable tone.
Simply prior to now few weeks, Clarkson has carried out dwell renditions of Prince’s “1999,” Adele’s “Set Hearth to the Rain,” Pleasure Oladokun’s “Breathe Once more,” Ruth B.’s “Dandelions,” and extra from The Pixies and Whitesnake to Lucius and Taylor Swift and Chris Stapleton.
Cher appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Present towards the top of final 12 months in promotion of her decade-themed fragrance assortment. Throughout their dialog, the pair traded tales about nation musician Willie Nelson’s smoke-filled tour bus, which Clarkson was stunned to seek out out was not the inspiring scent behind the Seventies version of the fragrance.
“Oh my God, I’ve been on Willie Nelson’s bus, it smells precisely like marijuana,” Cher laughed, describing it as “a horrible previous bus” and including: “However he was nice. And simply … medication in all places.”