Kelly Clarkson praises Mariah Carey's songwriting skills: "Financially, she’s rocking it"

“People don’t give her enough credit,” Clarkson said. “People give her credit as, like, a singer. I don’t think people give her credit as a writer. I don’t think people realise. She wrote all that shit. Financially, she’s rocking it because of what she’s done. I think people think of her as a songbird and they don’t think of her as the writer that she is. We talk about Carole King, we talk about James Taylor – those are all amazing people, yes, but I’m just saying.”

Kelly Clarkson is in the midst of a promotional run to support her forthcoming tenth studio album, Chemistry.

Speaking of the album's origins and how she came to choose the title, she says: "This album is the arc of an entire relationship and a whole relationship shouldn't be brought down to just one thing. There's the good, the bad, and the ugly kind of thing going on. Chemistry can be a really amazing, sexy, cool, fun thing but it can also be very bad for you."