Kelly Clarkson reveals the quickest tune she's ever written

16 June 2025

Kelly Clarkson as soon as wrote a tune between ordering sushi and her meals arriving.

Kelly Clarkson has named the quickest tune she’s ever written

The 43-year-old pop star has revealed that she wrote Beneath the Tree – which options on her 2013 Christmas album, Wrapped in Purple – whereas she was ready for her meals to reach.

Requested which tune took her the shortest period of time to write down, she informed The Kelly Clarkson Present’s YouTube channel: “A Christmas tune. It was Beneath the Tree. I used to be working with Greg Kurstin within the studio.

“I ordered sushi and when it arrived I had written it.”

Kelly admitted that she finds it very easy to write down Christmas songs, as a result of she’s an enormous fan of the festive season.

She stated: “I believe as a result of I actually love Christmas I write them actually rapidly for Christmas — as a result of they really feel good, since you could be a little tacky, you recognize? You don’t have to fret about being cool, which truthfully that’s not a priority typically ever as a result of I’m not.”

Kelly grew to become the inaugural winner of American Idol again in 2002. Nevertheless, the pop star just lately claimed that she did not realise American Idol was a TV present previous to auditioning.

The Behind These Hazel Eyes hitmaker stated on the Not Gonna Lie podcast: “For all of us in that first season, we actually did not … I did not even realize it was a TV present till my third audition.

“Like, we had been actually attempting to pay our payments. We’re like, ‘Oh, this would possibly work. I’d meet somebody or no matter.’ No one knew it was gonna quantity to something.

“We had been actually, like, children – you recognize, 19 years previous simply attempting to pay my electrical invoice y’all. You recognize, and afford the deductible on my automobile that was bashed in that I could not afford. So it was a special factor.”

Kelly’s American Idol expertise propelled her in the direction of stardom. However the pop singer recalled feeling remoted on the time.

The chart-topping star – who has hosted her personal TV chat-show since 2019 – stated: “I had nobody. I used to be the primary winner. It was arduous. To not sound like, no matter, it was actually arduous.”