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Kelly Clarkson Hits Back on Taylor Swift's Boss



By Dhipa Palanimally
07 February 2010 @ 10:40 pm AEST

The war of words between Taylor Swift's label Chief Executive Officer, Scott Borchetta, also the manager of Big Machine Records took sides when the winner of the first American Idol began to slash back. Last week, the CEO reacted to negative comments from critics when Swift's high-pitched performance did not quite fit the bill at the Grammy Awards.


Singer Kelly Clarkson arrives at the 2009 American Music Awards in Los Angeles REUTERS/Danny Moloshok
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According to the Associated Press, Borchetta fired back at the critics, with the statement, 'This is not American Idol. This is not the competition of getting up and seeing who can see the highest note.' Kelly Clarkson wrote a letter to the big guy from the major music label, in which she expressed her dissatisfaction about the insensitive remark about the country's most popular singing contest. Clarkson has said that she owes her success to the reality show. The comment made by Borchetta was definitely was uncalled for and Clarkson has made it known publicly in a statement, "We don't only hit the high notes but the 'right' notes as well". 

A few days later, Clarkson tweeted 'I buy her albums and cover her songs. Obviously I am a fan,' in an effort to declare that she is not against Swift or her work. Winner of the seventh season, David Cook, tweeted a post ' Kudos @ kelly_clarkson. Love it' in support of Clarkson's defense for AI. 

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February
15th, 2010
10:43am

LOVE YOU KELLY CLARKSON :)good work.

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February
10th, 2010
11:49pm

Taylor Swift is what you called "America Sweetheart". She never does anything wrong and her album are simple to sing to. As for the singer, Taylor can't sing at all. The only reason she got more famous because of Kanye West who told America the truth, but went about a different way. She can't act either and she is trying to be this multi talented person when she sucks. I can't stand her and if you noticed all her songs does not have any high notes. She is so fake at the Grammy too and pretend that when she was in the second grade, kids dreamed of winning the Grammy. Please, don't be so fake!!! I don't think about winning the Grammy at that age. I can't stand her and if you ever see her live, she sang flat.

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February
9th, 2010
1:43am

Taylor Swift needs to stick to songwriting. She is not a singer. And, for her to win all these "vocalist" awards over Carrie Underwood and Martina McBride shows how stupid the music industry and listeners really are.

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February
8th, 2010
3:08am

The funniest thing is that Borchetta uses "American Idol" as his example of what a really good performer is. That just shows you how utterly out of touch the music industry is with understanding real musical talent.Correct, Mr. Borchetta, Taylor Swift isn't good enough to be on American Idol, and also correct, she can't sing. What else have you got?

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February
7th, 2010
3:49pm

Kelly Clarkson rocks my world. The guy was out of line, and should not have dragged anyone else into this mess. Taylor is not that good live, and he should have just admitted that her performance was week.

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