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Expect 'huge surprises' on Clarkson's tour

Sandy Cohen | The Associated Press
Posted June 30, 2006
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May 31, 2006

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CULVER CITY, Calif. -- Kelly Clarkson is decked out in black: skintight pants, jeweled stilleto-heeled boots and a blouse that plunges dangerously low. Camera-wielding fans buzz about as the singer sweeps past a velvet rope and disappears into a happening nightclub.

"OK, let's do that again," a photographer says. Clarkson and the camera-wielders back up and resume their spots.

It's midday, midweek and Clarkson isn't out clubbing. She's posing for photos to promote her new partnership with a brand of vitamin-enhanced water. The daylong shoot is wedged between cutting demos for her new record and preparing for her national summer tour, which begins tonight in West Palm Beach. [She plays Tampa's Ford Amphitheatre on Saturday.]

When Clarkson does get free time, she's not one to hit the clubs, she says.

"I'm like 80 in my mind," says the spunky 24-year-old who talks like an auctioneer on caffeine. "My downtime is literally downtime."

It's been a whirlwind four years for the pop star, who became instantly famous in 2002 when she won the first American Idol title.

Clarkson's debut album, Thankful, earned double-platinum status, and her multiplatinum follow-up, Breakaway, netted two Grammy awards this year. She's at work on her third album, due in early 2007.

The album in progress, she says, is a departure from her last two records, with more soulful smoothness and a rock 'n' roll edge.

"It's like a throwback to Janis Joplin, Sly, some of [the new songs] are a little Prince-ish," Clarkson says. "It's still got the whole rock-pop vibe, but it's kind of got certain songs, too, that have an extreme amount of soul in them as well."

The actual assembly of the album will have to wait, though. "Addicted," Clarkson's tour, will be like nothing she's ever done before, she promises. Expect "huge surprises," she says.

"People are going to be floored," she says. "It's a more musical show, like I always do, but the things we're bringing in, like all the video stuff and different things, are major ones."

Clarkson plans to perform tracks from her forthcoming record, where she "explores a more straight-ahead rock side," says her manager, Jeff Rabhan.

Before the tour starts, however, Clarkson has other obligations to tend to -- like this day's photo shoot. She joined forces with Glaceau's vitaminwater to promote her favorite flavor ("Focus, the pink one.") and encourage young people to make healthier choices.

With her success, she says, she feels she wants to also focus on work that helps others.

Besides vitaminwater, Clarkson works with the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. She'll donate a portion of her "Addicted" ticket sales to Komen's Race for the Cure initiative.

"I've done well enough to where I'm fine for the rest of my life," Clarkson says. "So my whole goal now is I just want to be part of things that are positive and make a difference."