Just when you thought Kelly Clarkson could sing anything, she's been taken down by a Jon Bon Jovi song. On June 6, "The Kelly Clarkson Show" shared of its host repeatedly mixing up the lyrics to Bon Jovi's 1990 hit "Blaze of Glory" for a "Kellyoke" segment. "That is the song that almost killed me," Clarkson jokes in the video's intro.
"Not even because I can't sing it, I just can't read." Clarkson goes on to explain that the song's high notes weren't the problem. Its lyrics? That's another story.
"Here's the thing. I grew up on that song, I know that song. But in rehearsal, I messed it up, like, a gazillion times," says the Grammy winner.
"Not even because I wasn't hitting the notes. I just couldn't read. I just kept saying the wrong words.
" The situation became "so ridiculous," says Clarkson, that she had to "let it go like Elsa," referring to the "Frozen" character's signature song. "And then I had someone come rescue me," she adds. The hilarious video then shows Clarkson mangling her way through the lyrics of "Blaze of Glory" while performing it with her backing band.
The first time she blunders, Clarkson stops and tells her studio audience, "Oh, man, my learning disability kicked in and I said, 'Let the boy like die a man.' Yep. And it's definitely not that.
" After another mistake moments later, she raises her hand in frustration, uttering an obscenity. Clarkson pauses to work out her frustration by emitting a blood-curdling scream before diving back into the song ..
.. on.
