September 18, 2009
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Clarkson reworks Beyonce ‘rip-off’


Kelly Clarkson. (WENN.COM)

Kelly Clarkson is desperate to silence critics accusing her of "ripping off" Beyonce’s hit Halo - she is reworking the offending song on her live tour.

The Since U Been Gone hitmaker claimed songwriter/producer Ryan Tedder sent her the track that became Halo without telling her he'd already offered it to Beyonce.

Clarkson later came under fire after Sony Music bosses released her version, Already Gone, as a single - despite her desperate pleas to shelve it.

But the American Idol winner is making the best of the situation by altering the arrangement for fans who come to see her on her upcoming tour.

She tells MTV.com, "Unfortunately, it comes out where a lot of songs sound similar and, I don't know, I want to sound a little authentic, so we changed it. It's a little acoustic, and then it breaks out into this big, beautiful, diva-esque thing."

The 27 year old has since set aside her differences with Tedder: "I have a lot of songs that I've done with Ryan, and they all sound very different. It's just, unfortunately, in that situation, they sound exactly the same. But our melodies are different. Beyonce and my melodies are different (on the songs)."


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