Kelly Clarkson has openly praised fellow singer Taylor Swift, emphasizing that the “Lover” hitmaker possesses a distinctive class of her own.
During her concert in Las Vegas on Friday, the 43-year-old singer shared insights into how Taylor’s tours stand apart from those of other artists.
“When you tour, like, you have to take everything in trucks. So, you have to pay for all that,” she explained, as reported by Us Weekly.
The “Stronger” songstress continued, “You can’t really pay for seven guitars on stage ‘cause you make no money.”
“Unless you’re Taylor Swift, then you can do whatever the f*** you want. For the rest of us minions, [it doesn’t] work,” Kelly added, highlighting Swift’s unique financial capacity for tour production.
In December 2024, Taylor Swift concluded her monumental Eras Tour, which shattered numerous records.
“There were so many stadium tours this summer, but the only ones that were compared were me and Beyoncé,” the “Bad Blood” singer told TIME in 2023, drawing a comparison between her Eras Tour and Beyoncé’s Renaissance Tour.
She further elaborated, “Clearly it’s very lucrative for the media and stan culture to pit two women against each other, even when those two artists in question refuse to participate in that discussion.”
Taylor also remarked, “If we have to speak stereotypically about the feminine and the masculine, women have been fed the message that what we naturally gravitate toward … girlhood, feelings, love, breakups, analyzing those feelings, talking about them nonstop, glitter [and] sequins. We’ve been taught that those things are more frivolous than the things that stereotypically gendered men gravitate toward, right?”
