Kelly Clarksondoesn’t play around when it comes to her favorite musical artists.
In a new Instagram video taken backstage on set of The Kelly Clarkson Show, the talk show host and singer gave fans a tour of all the legendary artists that she has on the walls in her greenroom, including the three albums that are her favorites “of all time.”
Kelly Clarkson Jokes: ‘If You Don’t Like This Album, You’re an Idiot’
In the clip uploaded to her show’s official Instagram page, Clarkson named a number of influential albums, but she gave a special shoutout to three records in particular that have had “major impacts” on her music.
For her no. 3 top album, Clarkson, 43, raved about Lauryn Hill‘s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. She even joked to her followers, “If you don’t like this album, you’re an idiot.”
For her no. 2 spot, Clarkson named U2’s compilation album,The Best of 1980-1990, which houses some of the band’s biggest hits, like “With or Without You,” “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” and “Pride (In the Name of Love).”
Further praising the 1998 album from Hill, the “Since U Been Gone” singer said she used to listen to the album on her Walkman, and that it is a bona-fide “anti-skip” record.
Adding that she spent her own money to buy the album, Clarkson said, “I stayed in my house just listening to it. I was like, ‘This is the coolest thing.'”
She also praised Hill as an “incredible vocalist,” while praising the album’s lyrics as “real” and “authentic.”
“If anybody was like, ‘Hey who’s U2’ and they have been living under a rock, this would be an album to give them because there’s so many great songs on here,” Clarkson said, while identifying herself as a “big, big fan” of the Irish rock band.
As for the album that has the no. 1 spot in Clarkson’s heart, she named Patty Griffin‘s 2002 record 1000 Kisses.
Declaring Griffin her favorite singer-songwriter “in all of the lands,” Clarkson went on to praise the “Let Him Fly” artist for “her voice, her tone, her range, her musicianship.”
“She just does everything so beautiful,” Clarkson gushed.
Kelly Clarkson Names George Strait, Aretha Franklin and More as Some of Her Favorite Artists
Also during Saturday’s video, Clarkson named more artists framed on the doors in the greenroom, all of whom she said have been some of her biggest musical inspirations.
Some of the names on the doors include country legend George Strait and of course, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin.
Clarkson also gave a shoutout to the 1994 debut album from the band Toadies, as well as Annie Lennox‘s 1992 album Diva and Alanis Morissette‘s Jagged Little Pill from 1995.
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