- Are there more people that look like
you where you're from? (Kelly chuckling)
(audience laughing)
Just asking for a friend.
- I'm gonna get so much money for this on Ebay!
(Kelly laughing)
You guys!
I'm dead! (audience laughing)
- I'm literally like,
I can't believe my life! (Garth laughing)
(upbeat pop music)
- But I got to tell you this, cause I was like,
oh my God, he's gonna do The Dance.
So this, okay! So I'm going through divorce,
and there's been like a lot of,
I don't know, like books and people always give you stuff
to like help, especially when you have kids and stuff.
And I know that you've been divorced as well.
And I was like,
man, there's so much like shame and guilt,
and everybody kind of sends you stuff.
And I was like, I dunno,
I was just kind of working through it.
And I couldn't,
I couldn't quite nail down like the feeling.
I was like, well, I'm not like,
you don't want to crap on it.
Like, you don't want to say like,
that didn't count or matter. - Right.
- But you don't know what to put in it.
Cause it didn't work out how you wanted.
And so anyway,
I kid you not,
I was listening to my playlist
and The Dance came on.
And I was like, no, that's the thing.
- That's it. - That's it.
- So I literally,
it's not like your song, like a ripoff,
but it's, I literally wrote this whole thing,
like therapeutically for me.
And it's actually on my next album.
And it's the whole like, kind of come around.
Like the little tag part is like,
♪ Even though my heart is broken, ♪
♪ It was worth the dance anyway. ♪
And it's like this whole thing, but it,
I was like, I never,
I think what's interesting about it is,
I sang that song from childhood and I,
it never hit me.
- That's a great song right there.
- Oh my God.
- That's the character of a great song.
- Yeah! And it hit me.
I was literally like bawling in my own.
I was like, I mean it's not so bad!
I was like, it was worth it! (audience laughing)
I was like, and I literally was like, because it is true.
I think a lot of people that go through such a devastating,
there's a lot of grief with it, a lot of loss.
And a lot of change, especially with kids.
So it was like one of those things I couldn't like,
all the books were helpful,
but it's so funny, I guess, cause I'm a musician,
but I was listening in my room and I was just like,
(Kelly mimicking crying)
And I was listening to The Dance and that's,
it that's like the one hook of it,
but it was like the whole, the whole point.
I got the point. - Amen.
- And I don't, I think like,
sometimes that's so crazy. Like you,
you don't know that's gonna happen.
And you're like, you've known this song your entire life.
And you freak out when it actually is a direct impact.
(upbeat rock music)
Well, congratulations on your engagement.
- Thank you! Woo! (audience clapping)
- And the reason why I bring it up as well is,
I asked him,
I was like, well, how did you propose?
And I didn't know if you mind,
but do you mind telling everybody how it happened?
It was beautiful.
- Oh! No, we didn't, I had no idea.
Obviously.
I just was like, in fact, we,
I was trying to get out of going back to Oklahoma
because it was getting too complicated with COVID
- Yeah. - and the family.
And I'm like, I think we should just cancel trip.
You know? It was like one of those, like,
- Yeah.
- And then we got it all together and we ended up going.
And so his sister and her family, they were there.
My kids were there and my brother and his family.
We were all there. - Yeah.
- We always are all there.
And we were going to go see, we're building a house there.
So we were going to go from the one part of the land,
to the other part of the land to go see the house.
And meanwhile, I guess Blake had had this ring,
like ready to go for like a couple of weeks.
And he had, nobody knew, like nobody knew.
My dad knew because on my birthday
he had showed my dad and said he was going to do it,
or whatever.
- Oh my God, he's so old fashioned.
He totally talked to your dad first.
- Well, I had my birthday party and it wasn't a party.
It was a birthday COVID moment in my house
when I turned, whatever it was I turned.
(Kelly laughing) - 29.
- And, and then anyways,
so we got there and everybody was like,
no, we got to get back.
We're cooking like a hobo stew on the fire.
And we can't let it burn.
And my son was like, no, I gotta go to the bathroom.
I don't want to go.
And like, it was like all these like things happening.
And I walked in
and my son was like sitting right by this, like fireplace
and Blake basically like was getting down on his knees
to do a fire.
And he goes, "Hey, can you look in that cabinet over there
and get me a Firestarter."
So I opened the cabinet and there was like a ring and a box.
And I was like, ah!
What! - Aww!
- Are you serious?
- That's sweet.
- So everybody like came running around.
So I guess they heard us screaming or whatever and crying.
So there was no video.
It was just like my sister-in-law to be,
was just like shooting pictures.
And that's that photo that we put out.
So, it was a pretty magical moment.
- It's kinda cool that it's not on video.
I mean, I know you might want it, but at the same time,
I feel like our lives are always videoed
and always have, - Kelly,
it's not cool that it's not on video.
- Oh, I kind think, - I'm just kidding.
(Gwen laughing) - I think it's special!
But it was amazing.
And are you aware that your fiance now,
- This is so, I feel like I'm having like a weird moment,
like, I'm on your show. We're talking about my engagement.
Like it's just like, what?
- No. - What?
- And here's the thing you're engaged to this guy
who was a beautiful pageant queen, or king!
- Aww. (women laughing)
- That was a Freudian slip.
- Freudian slip! (Gwen laughing)
So a pageant King.
You, this is your, this is your love. Look at that!
- Oh, isn't he,
oh my god, he's so cute! - Look at that!
Oh my God. That's funny.
That's my nickname. Turbo. He's wearing a turbojet.
That's so funny. I didn't know this. That part.
- Really? - Yeah,
well, my brother named me Turbo
because I never shut up and I talk a lot.
- Oh okay, that makes, - It stuck. So,
(upbeat pop music)
I am so excited to meet you!
(audience cheering)
- I'm excited to meet you, as well.
- I know,
I know you know about the tweet from like a decade ago,
but like, I stand by the tweet.
Like even right now.
Like my, this is my question, Kyle.
For all humans out there looking,
are there more people that look like you where you're from?
(Kelly chuckling) (audience laughing)
Just asking for a friend.
No,
I just know that Men's Journal, I'll tell you what,
I think I was like the dentist,
or I was somewhere and all of a sudden I looked over
and I was like, who?
I was like, who looks like this?
And just walking around is so rude.
I was like, it's like, you are a beautiful man.
That's all I'm saying.
And I know you're happily married 25 years.
No weirdness, just saying you're a very beautiful man.
But I wish you could,
I wish you could be here to see our Christmas set though.
We did this for you, Kyle.
We did this for you.
- It looks beautiful. I didn't want to interrupt you,
because I don't want to interrupt an intro like that.
(Kelly laughing)
I did, I've got something.
I wonder if, I got something for you.
- Oh!
- And if maybe you put this under the tree.
- Okay!
- Here's one of your people now.
Would you come put that under the tree please?
- Okay. - Thank you.
Thank you, friend. - Okay.
Yes, I'll take it,.
- Put that under there.
- Is it like Mary Poppins?
Is like another you going to come out of the box?
(Kelly laughing)
I'm just kidding. (audience laughing)
I'm just kidding.
(upbeat rock music)
Well, I heard that you claimed credit
for one of my songs.
Now that we're, we've talked about you liking us.
- Oh.
- Can we see that video please?
- Thanks to you, now I get,
I get what I want.
Since you been gone. (snapping)
- That's pretty good.
- Yeah?
Thanks.
I've been working all night on it.
- Really? - Yeah.
I'm gonna call it Since You've Been Gone.
- That's pretty good. (audience laughing)
This is my favorite thing.
So he'd just never heard the song.
And I was just like, all right.
- Oh, he had never heard it.
And I shot a full music video and edited it
and I'm putting it on Instagram. It is hilarious.
It is hilarious.
Here's the deal,
is like you guys crept into my heart on treadmills.
I'm a big runner.
Okay. - Yeah.
- And you guys write songs
that are started at 3.5 on a treadmill.
All your songs start at 3.5,
and then build to a seven.
Since You've Been Gone, right?
- Okay, okay.
(Bert humming melody) - Yeah.
- There's a 3.5 right there, - Yeah.
- Since you've been gone! It's a seven, okay?
- Yep, yep. - Spiderweb.
Walking through a spiderweb, - Oh I love that song!
(Bert humming melody) (Gwen laughing)
- Oh my god! (Gwen laughing)
- For the longest time,
- Somebody needs to video on the trip!
- Oh, I will shoot that video and send it
to me dancing to, Hella Good.
Do not run to Stronger, that's, I'll tell you right now.
(Kelly and Gwen laughing)
Stronger is one where you're going to have a heart attack.
I wish that Hollaback Girl could connect more with me.
- Okay. (audience laughing)
- Or, you know, like, I'm just a girl.
Doesn't work either. - I know, I know.
- I have a hard time, but great music.
Great music. - Thank you.
- Yeah. For the longest time,
my answering machine was,
"Sorry. I'm not home right now.
I'm walking into spider webs,
said, leave a message and I'll call you back."
(Gwen laughing)
Unlikely story! (Bert singing melody)
(audience laughing)
(upbeat rock music)
- Here's the thing,
I heard that you were concerned about colors
and which color to wear.
So you're going to look great in this next number
because, (Whitney giggling)
it's your fourth time here.
And so every time someone comes,
- Wild.
- And so this is going to be a really egocentric gift,
get ready.
But I just think you're going to,
- Which, by the way, - So excited about.
- Can I tell you something about Kelly Clarkson?
Can I tell you something about Kelly Clarkson?
- Oh no.
- Every talk show gives gift bags,
these big gift bags with the mug and the this and the this,
and it's all very informal and they don't even know
they're giving it to you, and it's sponsored, and it's free.
And it's informal, it's like impersonal,
not intimate at all.
Kelly gives a record.
- A vinyl record that I pick out!
- A vinyl record that she picks out, folks.
Red, Hot Chili Peppers, for me.
Alanis Morissette was one,
which I think made me like bawl my eyes out.
And then a,
mug. - I just give you Christmas,
I just gave you Christmas one, too.
- And I haven't opened it yet.
- Oh, I gave you a Christmas one.
- cause I was in a frazzled state.
- I think it was Beach Boys Christmas I gave you this one.
- And she signs it herself.
No one in this business has ever done it.
- Oh! - Never done it.
- Oh, I didn't know that actually.
(audience clapping)
- Never done it.
- Oh.
- Have you ever gone on a show and gotten that
from anyone? (audience clapping)
- Nope. I don't,
I guess I didn't really think about it, I guess.
Yeah. I just,
- That's all I think about!
- I'm super Southern, so I.
Well now this is,
now everything, I'm glad you sent me up like that because
this gift is well, it's kind of vain.
Um, (Kelly laughing)
Okay. I don't know if you can touch it.
- Oh my god!
Oh my god! I love you!
(Kelly laughing)
Are you single?
- I am single! look at my shirt.
Do you like gas stations?
(audience and Kelly laughing)
- Oh! By the way, I did have to cut this.
(audience laughing)
- I do too!
Do you do it for the same reason?
Because of the lines. - Because it's,
No, it'll be like stuffed in. - Yes!
- And it looks just like a weird, like, pup tent.
- Yes. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
(audience and Kelly laughing)
So I had to cut it like at this stage,
I was like doing this with scissors.
And they were like, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am!
- I do that. I also do that cause I'm always like,
- I have a short torso. - I've had children.
I have a long torso, but I've had children.
So I don't need any more poof there.
- Oh my god.
- So yeah, so I cut them as well.
- It's so, anyway. - But you're gonna
look fabulous in this Team Kelly jacket.
- Is it a? It's a!
(Whitney squealing in excitement)
My god! - And purple!
That's an accepted color for everyone.
- Have you even in, (Kelly laughing)
I am going to get so much money for this on Ebay!
(audience laughing)
You guys!
Dead! (Kelly laughing)
I am going to crush! - No because here's the thing,
I have these jackets.
I was like, man, what should I do with them? And then,
and cause we don't want to give,
now you're officially Team Kelly.
Sorry, Blake. - I'm dead.
Sorry, John. - I'm dead.
(upbeat rock music)
- Well let's talk about some favorites.
So what inspired The Dance?
- I was sitting at the Blue Bird,
there was probably seven or eight of us.
Guy named Tony Errata was sitting there playing,
and Tony starts in on this song.
And when he gets done with it, I'm just,
I'm just amazed.
And nobody else in the room seems be
getting the same reaction that I'm getting.
- Hmm.
- And so I take it to Allen Reynolds.
Allen Reynolds says he loves it,
and we keep waiting and keep waiting.
And finally, Allen goes,
"How come we haven't cut The Dance yet?"
Cause the album was almost over.
I said, I'm not sure that it's country enough.
- What?
- You know? Cause I mean just being from Oklahoma,
and it had piano in it.
Which you know,
I moved to Nashville didn't know what a piano was
cause you know, it's always just steels and fiddles.
- Yes, but your voice is country music.
- Thank you. Very sweet. - You tie it in, yeah.
- It's funny that cause that's what he said.
And he told me, he said, "Pal, I'm to tell you right now."
He always used the word pal.
He says, "If you don't cut The Dance,
if you don't record that song,
it'll be the biggest hit you never had."
- Oh wow. - What he said. Yeah.
- It's cool.
- Oh, challenge accepted.
- Oh it's just, yeah,
it's just a, (guitar strumming)
what's the,
oh, thank you.
♪ Looking back ♪
Oh, quit. Don't do that! - I have to do it.
(Garth and audience laughing)
I literally, like I can't believe my life!
(Garth and audience laughing)
- Like, Mike, April, Beck, and Mary McConnell,
all my friends from childhood, hate me right now.
(audience laughing)
I'm so sorry, April.
She's the one who introduce you to me!
And I'm like,
I feel like I'm stealing her moment.
(upbeat rock music)
I have to ask you about this photo.
So here, I'm gonna put it up for you.
This is awesome. (audience chuckling)
So, here's the thing,
I love about this picture.
My kids naturally, they gravitate towards Ursula,
not little mermaid.
They gravitate towards Gaston, not the beast.
I don't know what's wrong with them.
But does yours gravitate towards the Grinch,
instead of Santa?
- He just loves kind of the creepy, like aspect of things.
- Yeah. - So he would like,
like Nightmare Before Christmas,
which is, you know, a Christmas movie.
- Yeah.
- But he likes like the creepiness of it.
I mean he loves Santa. He has the sweetest heart.
- Yeah.
- He, I don't know.
He is my child.
I like scary movies and the creepy stuff too.
I swear I have not imposed any of my stuff onto him.
- Yeah!
- This is just what he likes going for.
So he loves the Grinch.
- It's so funny, cause I'm opposite.
Like I don't like anything scary
and my kids love it.
Like I'm the one sitting on the couch going,
why can't we just like watch like something really happy?
Like, why does anything have to scare me?
Here, speaking of children though,
Isaiah, so you sang a duet with him on the record,
and I saw in the special as well,
there's video footage of him as well.
So was he excited to hear himself on the record?
- He was.
I had no idea what was going to happen.
You know, he's never been in that kind of situation before.
I don't think he's even been like in the studio
with me ever before.
- Oh!
- He probably, I don't know if he knows what I do at all.
But I just thought I could hear his voice on it,
in my head, when I was singing it in the studio.
And I just thought I'd ask him and see if he might want to.
And he did such a great job.
And listening back,
like I feel like he's just so proud of himself.
And he went to school and he's like,
"Hey, my song's out. Wanna hear my song?"
- My song's out.
- And they were like listening to it in his class.
- I think it's adorable.
And it's cool. I think that when we're singers,
that our kids take some kind of interest in what we do.
That's kinda cool.
Cause we work a lot.
(upbeat rock music)