I don't think its about ego at all. The BS the "Idol" winners have to put up with after they win is incredible. All artistic integrity is taken away and their contracts are like straight jackets. The only reason Kelly has been so successful is because she has moved away from it. I don't blame her at all. "A Moment Like This" was dreadful.

Carrie may be doing alright, but she's just another pretty girl, with a decent voice singing already-done schmaltzy Country songs. "Jesus, Take The Wheel" is a complete rip off of Martina McBride's "Concrete Angel"...she is completely unoriginal...but again, people gobble that stuff up with a spoon.

I don't think its about ego at all. The BS the "Idol" winners have to put up with after they win is incredible. All artistic integrity is taken away and their contracts are like straight jackets. The only reason Kelly has been so successful is because she has moved away from it. I don't blame her at all. "A Moment Like This" was dreadful.

Carrie may be doing alright, but she's just another pretty girl, with a decent voice singing already-done schmaltzy Country songs. "Jesus, Take The Wheel" is a complete rip off of Martina McBride's "Concrete Angel"...she is completely unoriginal...but again, people gobble that stuff up with a spoon.

Um, okay, I know BOTH songs and I see no similarities, whatsoever, between "Jesus Take the Wheel," (which is FABULOUS, by the way!!) and McBride's "Concrete Angel." Please elaborate, because Carrie Underwood ROCKS MY [!@#$%^&*] SOCKS off!!

First off, I want to say that there is no reason to call Kelly a bitch. There are many singers who don't want their music used on the show. It's there right. Kelly is trying to distance herself from the show. She's not turning her back because it was the fans who voted her to win. Why do you think she didn't appear on the show last year?

When she won, she basically signed away all creative control and look what it got her. A failed movie (which they forced her to do), a commercially successful album w/ everyone saying she wouldn't have a successful second one. But she proved them wrong. She left her management and joined a new team who put her first. She put effort into her songs (she co-wrote damn near all of the songs on Breakaway).

I respect Kelly for having the balls to say or her management to say "Thanks for the offer, but no thanks". She's not getting a big head or turning her back on American Idol. It's not like she said "I'd be here without American Idol" or anything like that. She's not pissing on the show. We don't know if she herself said no or whether it was her management or record company.

It amazes me how fans can sing the praises of someone one week and turn on them the next. Kelly's done her time with AI. She has repeatedly said that she is greatful for the opportunity that American Idol has given her. She has lasted longer than what people have thought. She was expected to fade away after the first season but she didn't. She managed to shed the stigma away from being a "contest winner" and has proved herself to be a credible artist. Give her a break.

I don't see why this is such a big deal about this. So she won't let them use her songs, so what? That's her choice. It's not like she's dissing Idol or anything.

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - One day after "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell slammed

Kelly Clarkson for refusing to let the TV talent contest that launched her career use her hits, a spokesman for the pop star denied there was ever a dispute over song rights.

"Kelly Clarkson was happy to hear her song, 'Since U Been Gone,' on American Idol last night and as far as she's concerned there is no conflict between her and the TV show," her publicist, Roger Widynowski, said.

"She intended all along to license additional material to the show and will do so when asked and within reason," he said of Clarkson, now a pop superstar in her own right and by far the biggest "Idol" success story.

A contestant on the hit show's season premiere warbled Clarkson's massive hit "Since U Been Gone" in the first few minutes of the program.

Cowell, speaking to a gathering of TV critics on Tuesday, said that Clarkson would be making a "big mistake" if she barred "Idol" from using her songs after the show catapulted her to stardom.

"No matter how talented Kelly Clarkson is, she would not be in the position she's in now without winning this show," he said. "It's the public who bothered to pick up the phone and vote for her. If she refuses to give songs to be used on the show, it's like saying to every person who voted for you, 'You know what? Thank you. I'm not interested in you anymore."'

"Idol" must get permission from the owners of song licenses, Clarkson included, before broadcasting the material. Some artists, including the Beatles, have been notoriously reluctant to grant permission.

Clarkson's representatives say they were in standard negotiations over those rights and that Cowell's remarks took them by surprise. "Kelly is fine with her songs being used on the show. There was never an issue," Widynowski said.

A spokesman for "Idol" agreed that negotiations were in progress and said it was not clear if Clarkson was ever personally involved in those talks.

The first "Idol" champion, Clarkson has gone on to earn a Grammy nomination and sell nearly 7 million U.S. copies of her first two albums, "Thankful" and "Breakaway," becoming one of pop music's biggest stars.

Is she still a bitch? Is she still still pissing on the show that made her famous? I don't think so.

Um, okay, I know BOTH songs and I see no similarities, whatsoever, between "Jesus Take the Wheel," (which is FABULOUS, by the way!!) and McBride's "Concrete Angel." Please elaborate, because Carrie Underwood ROCKS MY [!@#$%^&*] SOCKS off!!

Thematically, it is a rip off and even the way the song is structured. The music doesn't sound alike. To each his own. Carrie Underwood, like Faith Hill, is completely boring to me. She brings nothing to the table except she's just furthering the awful state that Country music is in. I don't think it's her fault, she's probably being controlled behind the scenes like every other AI winner.

I think Mariah doesn't allow her songs either right?

Kelly just wants to shed the American Idol tag that has always been on her, though she has never said that she wants to forget how she is where she is today. That is why she didn't perform on last year's finale.

If she doesn't want to let her songs be sung, then its her right. I'd say the same thing if Fantasia or Ruben or Carrie didn't let their songs be sung on Idol either, even though I'm not a fan of either Fantasia or Ruben

Wow look at how quick things changed once this went public .

I don't think Kelly was behind this because she always acknowledges AI as her start. I think this was her management and they were being really stringent and I think maybe once this got out she talked it over and didn't like the negative publicity. I don't blame Kelly for this at all but I do blame her manangement. Oh well crisis over .

I don't see why this is such a big deal about this. So she won't let them use her songs, so what? That's her choice. It's not like she's dissing Idol or anything.

I agree.

Also, one thing Kelly is not is a !@#$%^&*] or a snot or ignorant about her past. She's very forthcoming about her beginnings. And she mentions AI and current competitiors in a lot of interviews too. She's even been back to perform a lot.

I really feel like this is the record company's doing.

I don't blame Kelly in the least. Breakaway was her own doing. She has every right to deny AI from using her songs. Yes, they gave her her chance, four years ago. Most of the Idols have since disappeared, while Kelly has remained by taking her career out of the hands of AI and into her own. The results? A kick-ass album and much deserved success.

As an Idol herself, why would she want other Idols, her potential competition in the business, to get famous and recognition by singing one of her songs? Her actions may come off as classless and she herself, a !@#$%^&*], but it's her own right and I support her in it.

She is an artist in the music industry now, and regardless of where and how she got her start, she has the right just as any other artist does in making a decision to allow American Idol to use her material.

Yeah, there's my two cents...lol

I think Simon's reaction is purely bitter. Kelly never had massive success until she broke away from the show, so if she did decide to do this, I'd say, you go girl! Did it get her exposure? Sure it did. Her winnign has nothing to do with her success, though.

Thematically, it is a rip off and even the way the song is structured. The music doesn't sound alike. To each his own. Carrie Underwood, like Faith Hill, is completely boring to me. She brings nothing to the table except she's just furthering the awful state that Country music is in. I don't think it's her fault, she's probably being controlled behind the scenes like every other AI winner.

Wow, we'll just have to agree to disagree about the two songs being anything at all alike. AND that Faith Hill, of ALL people in the industry, "brings nothing to the table." Goodness gracious!

Well, she HAS agreed to let them use her music, soooo.....

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Is she still a !@#$%^&*]? Is she still still pissing on the show that made her famous? I don't think so.

LOL Well said, Ryan.

I dont see why people are looking so negatively on her. If I was in her position, I'd do the same thing