I’m back! I noticed that our page for Kelly Clarkson’s “Piece By Piece” is hot, since she performed it on American Idol. Unfortunately our page for it is in all red.

https://genius.com/Kelly-clarkson-piece-by-piece-lyrics

Can anyone confirm that it’s indeed about her father and husband?

Glamour had interviewed Kelly Clarkson about “Piece By Piece” in March 2015. Clarkson does indeed mention about her husband’s early fatherhood. Here are some of the excerpts:

The title track, “Piece by Piece,” is such a raw, emotional song. How did it come together, and what was your mind-set writing it?
Kelly Clarkson: I had [my daughter] River, and even from holding her the first day, I was like, how could anyone walk away from that? Then I started thinking that my husband [Brandon Blackstock] is such a great father. He’s not an audience guy—he is onstage doing the work with me. He changes diapers, he stays up, and if I’ve had a late night, he’ll wake up with her in the morning. We’re definite partners, and I felt so lucky.

I was talking to my sister on the phone about how sometimes girls with daddy issues don’t find men like that! You find men who are all you knew, and I just feel so lucky. Maybe it’s because I waited and worked through my 20s. It’s a positive song, even though I know it sounds sad. I don’t know what my father went through as a child, and I don’t know why he left and made the decisions he made, but everyone’s human. I don’t understand it for me, but I understand the depth of what that is—having a child—now, and he’s made me want to be that much more present in my family.

Was it a difficult song to write and put those feelings out there?
Kelly: It wasn’t a hard song to write, but we have been rehearsing it, and I have yet to get through it—emotionally, I don’t mean vocally. I haven’t gone through it yet once, so that will prove to be interesting. It’s not even sad tears; it’s just such a beautiful thing that I have found. It’s completely magical because there’s a little part of me that didn’t even know that it existed. I knew that this kind of love existed and that other people found it, but it’s such a breathtaking moment. I’m going to just have to deaden myself and not listen to the words that I’m singing. [Laughs] I’m an emotional singer anyway, so it’s easy for me to get lost in any story that I’m the vessel for at that moment.

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