Once upon a time Kelly Clarkson was a little too perky and happy for me. I think it was around the time she won the very first season of ‘American Idol’ – but that was my own jaded refusal to simply enjoy anyone having a good time. These days, her infectious spirit and spunk is precisely what the world needs, which may account for the wildly successful results of her talk show, ‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’. I didn’t need to watch to know how well she relates to the viewer, and I always knew she could cover songs, sometimes in a finer fashion than their originators (see Kellyoke). Today she earns her first Dazzler of the Day for a career that shows no signs of slowing down.
