My December

Lo recibí en las fechas estimadas por la web. Todo muy correcto. Recomendable la compra de musica en la web

This album is very good. The voice, the melodies, everything is excellent. I recommand it. I also add that all her other albums are very good.

彼女はパワフルで歌がうまい。しかし13番目の曲（ＩＲＶＩＮＥ）はこれまでの曲とはまったく異なっている。歌がうまい人は、このような歌い方ができるんだなと、改めて感心しました。

Eccellente CD ma purtroppo il più sottovalutato della Clarkson. Tracce tutte valide ma se proprio dovessi sceglierne una, allora direi che Haunted è la mia preferita!

This is my first serious exposure to Kelly's music. I've heard her hits on the radio, and liked most of them, but I was never drawn to her enough to buy a CD until an unusual string of events led me to this one. I'm glad, because what I heard from the previous albums didn't come close to this. We all know she has a good voice - that's why she is where she is today - but it's what she can do with it that counts. For one thing, she's the first singer I've heard in a long time to actually ROCK in the classic rock tradition, like Pat Benatar and Ann Wilson of Heart. At the same time, her musicians, on the "harder" tracks, are doing modern (as in Linkin Park), sometimes grunge-like rock, with some decorative sounds thrown in by production, and Kelly's voice fits it like a glove. Examples: "Never Again", "One Minute", "Hole" and "How I Feel". Of course, there's more on this CD than hard rock, but even the ballad "Sober" is more like a power ballad than a pop ballad. Her lyrics show a strength associated with rock icons. In some songs, she lets her hurt show but also confronts and accuses the cad that is hurting her. Compare this to Pat's "Stop Using Sex As a Weapon", Heart's "Barracuda", and "You Oughta Know" by Alanis. For a complete change of pace, in "Be Still" Kelly is gentle and assuring, fair and reasonable. The soft music reflects this quiet confidence. Then there's "Maybe", which begins quietly with "I'm strong, but I break...", but develops into another song of hope and power. "Yeah" is a very interesting track in which she uses both high-pitched urgings and softer whispers to make her lover see things her way. Same for "Can I Have a Kiss". These 2 songs have something else in common: both stress the details of physicality, touching, kissing. The final track "Irvine" showcases Kelly's voice in a very intimate way, a moving song very much like a folk cabaret song, with acoustic guitar and subtle production. It also has a quality of cosmic pathos, as she wearily ponders, "Are you there, are you watching me...will you stay, stay till the darkness leaves...Can you feel how cold I am, do you cry as I do?" She sounds as "Torn" as Natalie Imbruglia was. More than any other, this track shows how Kelly has matured in her writing and in her performance. It is followed by a "hidden" track, similar in style but not as spiritual (not even close!). Taken as a whole, this CD is a rainbow of artistic statement, and I'm happy to say, "Ladies and Gentlemen, Kelly Clarkson has arrived!"