{"id":2028588,"date":"2025-09-17T10:18:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T10:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2028588"},"modified":"2025-09-17T10:18:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T10:18:35","slug":"the-celebs-behind-kelly-clarksons-song-where-have-you-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-celebs-behind-kelly-clarksons-song-where-have-you-been\/","title":{"rendered":"The Celebs Behind Kelly Clarkson&#8217;s Song &#8220;Where Have You Been&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/nbc-insider\/people\/kelly-clarkson\">Kelly Clarkson<\/a> has two people to thank for the inspiration behind her latest single, &#8220;Where Have You Been,&#8221; which just dropped on May 2: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/nbc-insider\/martin-short-opens-up-about-his-1-year-as-an-snl-cast-member\">Martin Short<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/nbc-insider\/snl50-close-encounters-meryl-streep-jon-hamm-pedro-pascal\">Meryl Streep<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"embedded-entity how-to-watch\" id=\"blog-post-how-to-watch\">\n<h3>How to Watch<\/h3>\n<div class=\"copy__container\">\n<div class=\"copy__text-wrapper\">\n<p>Check your local listings for <i>The Kelly Clarkson Show.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>During a May 1 appearance on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.siriusxm.com\/blog\/kelly-clarkson-where-have-you-been\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">her SiriusXM channel, The Kelly Clarkson Connection<\/a>\u00a0the 43-year-old revealed she had a revelation while watching Only Murders in the Building, the comedy-mystery series starring Short and Streep. One scene in particular gave her all the inspiration she needed to write &#8220;Where Have You Been&#8221; \u2014 as she hilariously explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve rarely done something like this but I was watching Only Murders in the Building \u2014 it&#8217;s Martin Short&#8217;s face. He says to Meryl Streep&#8217;s character in the show, &#8216;Where have you been?'&#8221; Clarkson said.<\/p>\n<p>At that moment, Clarkson decided to pen a song that she wasn&#8217;t sure had ever been written before. She credits the on-screen romance between the two stars as the catalyst for creating the new tune.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s like, in awe, and I was like, &#8216;Has there been a\u2014 has anyone written a song?'&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Because the song is happy. It&#8217;s like you found something that you thought was almost basically a unicorn and did not exist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>RELATED:\u00a0<\/b><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/nbc-insider\/kelly-clarkson-iconic-tweet-that-led-to-taylors-version\">Kelly Clarkson\u2019s Iconic 2019 Tweet to Taylor Swift Was Inspired By a Country Icon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So there you have it: We can credit two of the most iconic people in show business for being partially responsible for a new Clarkson track!<\/p>\n<p>Fans can listen to Clarkson&#8217;s newest song here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Where Have You Been\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yC_PXpNOpkI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The host of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/nbc-insider\/show\/the-kelly-clarkson-show\">The Kelly Clarkson Show<\/a> doesn&#8217;t shy away from her fandom of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zs3cHtcnn9I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Only Murders in the Building<\/a> and Short himself. The decorated comedic actor even played the banjo on Clarkson&#8217;s 2023 track, &#8220;I Hate Love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Kelly Clarkson reminisces about discovering her singing ability<\/h2>\n<p>How does someone like Clarkson realize they have a gift? Sometimes, all it takes is for someone to push you in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>During <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/nbc-insider\/when-kelly-clarkson-first-realized-she-could-sing\">a November 2017 appearance<\/a> on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/nbc-insider\/show\/the-tonight-show-starring-jimmy-fallon\">The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/a>, Clarkson spoke about her childhood, specifically when she discovered she was blessed with such an amazing voice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When did you first realize you could sing?&#8221; <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/nbc-insider\/people\/jimmy-fallon\">Jimmy Fallon<\/a> asked Clarkson, who&#8217;d just joined Season 14 of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/nbc-insider\/show\/the-voice\">The Voice<\/a> at the time \u2014 a Season she <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/nbc-insider\/the-voice-how-many-wins-does-each-coach-have\">would eventually win<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED:\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/nbc-insider\/kelly-clarkson-uptown-girl-billy-joel-cover\">Kelly Clarkson Expertly Belted Sunshine Rays Singing Billy Joel&#8217;s &#8220;Uptown Girl&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know what? Everybody says, &#8216;Oh, when I was a baby, I knew.&#8217; I didn&#8217;t,&#8221; she admitted to Fallon, adding with a laugh that she thinks it&#8217;s &#8220;total crap&#8221; when people claim to have sensed their singing talents from infancy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[I didn&#8217;t know I could sing] until I was like, 13,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I was actually singing in a hallway and this teacher was like, &#8216;You should try out for choir,'&#8221; she recalled. &#8220;And I was like, &#8216;That&#8217;s for nerds.&#8217; And then I was like, &#8216;Well, if the shoe fits!&#8217; So I joined.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was the best decision Clarkson could&#8217;ve made.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nbc.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Clarkson has two people to thank for the inspiration behind her latest single, &#8220;Where Have You Been,&#8221; which just dropped on May 2: Martin Short and Meryl Streep. How to Watch Check your local listings for The Kelly Clarkson Show. During a May 1 appearance on her SiriusXM channel, The Kelly Clarkson Connection\u00a0the 43-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2028589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[355611,306387,22530,21738,361715,306229,24734],"class_list":["post-2028588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-behind-the-scenes","tag-career","tag-kelly-clarkson","tag-news","tag-the-kelly-clarkson-show","tag-the-voice","tag-trending"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Celebs-Behind-Kelly-Clarksons-Song-Where-Have-You-Been.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2028589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}