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Due to the demands of our beloved readers, the enjoyment of reading is not limited to online;
We now present you our premiere print issue: Swankglossy Magazine Collection Issue
January 2009.
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In 2004, while recovering from a breakup, I heard (and seen the video of) the song ‘Since U Been Gone’ on a music channel, I’ve always wondered how it would sound if I heard it live on a Kelly Clarkson concert. I wondered if I would jump up and down like the people in the concert scene of the video, I wondered if I would feel the rush of that post-heartbreak anthem, I wondered if I would act like a grunge kid in the ‘90s in a Nirvana concert. When the first strums of the guitar intro of the song played, I did not just scream, I shrieked in total happiness that my favorite Kelly Clarkson song was playing live in front of me and making me eardrums hurt AND Kelly Clarkson herself was the one leading the whole crowd into a jumping frenzy. Well, I didn’t end up being that ‘90s grunge kid but that’s how I feel when I was amongst the throngs of other Kelly Clarkson fans when she stopped by Jakarta in her ‘All I Ever Wanted’ Tour on the 29th of April 2010 - a concert that was brought to Kelly fans in Indonesia by JAVA Musikindo.

Dressed in a Pink Floyd t-shirt and a pair of jeans that she probably feels her most comfortable, she delivered every line, every note, every chorus, every verse with passionate gusto. To serious music critics, music lovers, or even professional concert goers (if there was ever one), her performance would, at best, be called “flawed” because something that’s called technicality, but as a fan of Kelly Clarkson since her ‘Miss Independent’ days, I was thoroughly entertained – from the first beat of the song ‘All I Ever Wanted’ to the last note . Her voice is as her albums has promised; powerful, enthralling, and a reminder why she has become the artist known as the first winner of a certain popular television show about a singing competition. I remembered that when many of my favorite songs of Kelly were playing, I lifted my both of my hands up high and raised my thumb, index and pinky finger – an homage that she truly rocked! Even when she was singing ‘Seven Nation Army’ a song from The White Stripes and ‘Lies’ by a band called the Black Keys – she sang it with the same appreciation to the people who would listen it as she appreciates the original artist herself. Her Texan twang and her cheerful giggles between songs reminded all of us that as a musical artist, you don’t have to have crazy costumes, elaborate sets, or energy draining dance routines that would end up making the singer mime the song with their lips; Kelly only needed her band to play the music, her voice to sing the song and pretty much nothing else. As a fan, her performance made me think that MY life would suck without Kelly Clarkson. [Photos courtesy of JAVA Musikindo]

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