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The power ballad appears on the digital edition of Cyrus's eighth studio album Endless Summer Vacation  Kelly Clarkson took on Miley Cyrus‘ summer hit “Used to Be Young” for Wednesday’s Kellyoke segment, delivering an impassioned rendition. The track, which reflects on the perceptions Cyrus faced as a teenager in the spotlight, released in August and followed the success of her chart-toping song “Flowers.” Clarkson eased into the power ballad, before soaring into the chorus: “I know I used to be…

In truth, when pop music in 2023 comes to be considered by history, it will probably just be remembered as the Year of Taylor Swift. It’s hard to think of a moment in recent pop history when a single artist has so dominated music sales and the media alike, certainly not a pop artist 17 years and 10 albums into her career. At one juncture in July, she had 11 albums on the US chart, four of them in the Top 10, including the No 1 slot; her current Eras tour is the first in history to surpass $1bn in revenue; the accompanying…

The singer chose the title track from the band’s 1973 album for her latest Kellyoke performance Kelly Clarkson soared during her rendition of the Eagle’s “Desperado,” the title track from the band’s 1973 album and one of their most enduring tracks. For the cover, the The Kelly Clarkson Show host took the stage for Friday’s episode alongside her music director Jason Halbert at the piano. While the beginning of the song stays close to the original’s structure, towards the end, Clarkson elevates…

When Arctic Monkeys sprang into the charts 16 years ago, they did so with a hurtling energy and an album name borrowed from Alan Sillitoe’s novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. At the time, the band’s lead singer, Alex Turner, explained their reasoning: the record’s stories were similarly drawn from the threshold of the weekend – one foot in the hopeful glamour of the previous night, the other in the plain reality of the morning after. In the years since, it’s been hard not to also regard the title of Whatever People…