{"id":285,"date":"2025-09-05T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/good-worldwide.go-vip.net\/upworthy\/2025\/09\/05\/american-idol-discovers-kelly-clarkson-on-the-first-try\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:57:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:57:00","slug":"american-idol-discovers-kelly-clarkson-on-the-first-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodinc.com\/qa-upworthy\/2025\/09\/05\/american-idol-discovers-kelly-clarkson-on-the-first-try\/","title":{"rendered":"The mystery of how ‘American Idol’ found the legendary Kelly Clarkson on its first try"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kelly Clarkson<\/a> can literally sing anything. That’s simply undisputed fact at this point, as the Pop Princess continues to wow the world on pretty much a weekly basis with her powerful vocals. The woman takes hard songs, makes them harder to sing<\/a>, and then knocks them out of the park every time. She’s more than earned her rank among the world’s greatest singers<\/a>, which is remarkable considering how she initially rose to fame. <\/p>

Some of us are old enough to remember seeing Kelly Clarkson<\/a> for the first time 24 years ago, when she was just a 20-year-old aspiring singer and cocktail waitress auditioning for a new TV show in a dress she made herself. American Idol <\/em>promised to find America’s best singer from among the masses, but surely the likelihood of that really happening was slim, right? It’s funny now to look back and recall how that first season of American Idol<\/em> <\/a>went down. Obviously, people know Kelly Clarkson won, but what people might not know or remember is that she didn’t really stand out among the competition at the very beginning.<\/a><\/p>

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