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Before Your Love/A Moment Like This

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It is obvious why America chose Miss Kelly Clarkson as the first American Idol. Her stunning voice was the best of the competition and she puts it to use in her first 2 songs. A Moment Like This and Before Your Love. The songs are very sweet and to the point, but with Kellys vocals they become soaring powerhouse ballads. Her voice is so beautiful, natural, and effortless. We have not had such a lovely voice in music in quite a while and the songs here are a nice change of pace from the rap/hip-hop/rock music getting airplay. Hopefully her entire album will be just as wonderful, and hopefully the industry won't snub her come Grammy time just because she was the product of a television show. In my opinion Kelly should win Best Female Vocal Performance. A wonderful new talent that deserves all the success that comes her way.

Kelly Clarkson is an amazing talent. It really irritates me to hear people talking about her like she is just a product of television. This girl has a voice that rivals even Whitney and Mariah. I think it's great that she got this oppertunity, and got the exposure she might have had to work for years to get. America obviously knew she deserved it now. She can really belt 'em out. Both songs on this single are powerful ballads, which wouldn't have nearly the same impact if it wasn't for her strong and beautiful vocals. What I love about Kelly is that she can sing just as good live, if not better, then what's on this single. Most artists today, like Britney and Christina, can't sing nearly as good as what's on their albums, and lipsync most of the time. As Paula Abdul said, Kelly is the real deal. Even though she got her fame so fast, she certainly has the talent to back it up. She also seems like a very sweet and humble girl, who I think will always stay true to who she is, and not develop a 'diva' complex. I'm sure she's gonna have a long and happy career ahead of her.

One glorious voice turns two sappy love longs into something still worth-listening. No, I don't care about either For A Moment Like This or Before Your Love, and I still want to give it 5 stars. For heaven's sake, somebody please write a decent song for Kelly to really show off her great voice. Will I buy this CD? Yes, she's simply amazing. This girl can sing!

Kelly Clarkson, the winner of American Idol 2002, sounds phenomenal on this CD single. I have been a fan of hers all summer, and couldn't wait to get this today. The songs are kinda low-bid love songs. Very generic, very wedding-appropriate (which is not necessarily a bad thing). But the fans of AI have been talking about how poor the songs are. All I have to say is this: They may be poorly written songs, but Kelly sings them really well. She sounds extraordinary; she makes you feel her joy when she sings. Her voice is powerful and strong to make you sit up and listen, but also soft and tender enough to put you at ease, to relax and enjoy.

But this CD. The songs as they are written are not the greatest. Diane Warren formula love songs. But Diane Warren has been mega-successful sticking to what she does best. And she has hit it again with these songs. Diane could not have asked for a better singer than Kelly to interpret these songs.

If you don't like sappy pop love songs, then this isn't the CD for you. But if you are an AI fan, or just enjoy excellent vocalists, pick this up. It's cheap, no big investment. Get your feet wet with Kelly. You won't be disappointed.

One shouldn't be fooled by the seeming cheesiness of the show. It accomplished exactly what it was supposed to do. It found a woman with a phenomenal voice who is sure to be America's newest chart topping success. Only a few of the other contestants on the show had what it took to be a popstar (namely Tamyra Gray and Christina Christian) but it came down to Justin and Kelly. The clear choice was the shy little girl with the powerhouse voice who can command 'Respect' like Aretha.

Now on to the songs themselves. 'A Moment Like This' is in fact a cheesy pop song. Why it was the one serviced to radio I will never know. The great thing about it is Kelly. She rises above the substandard material and delivers a fine performance. On the contrary to this, "Before Your Love" is a perfect record. It showcases both her voice and grade A material. In my opinion, that is the song that should have been serviced to radio. Though either song will prove to help Kelly achieve an iconic status.

In all, this cd single is a great buy. Look for Kelly Clarkson at the top of the Billboard charts. That's precisely where that woman belongs!

Ok, so I watched a few shows of American Idol, but only to see if any of the contestants could actually sing. Kelly Clarkson showed everyone that she had an amazing voice and plenty of style when she sang R&B classics like "Respect" and "Natural Woman," but now she is suddenly forced to sing two awful singles barely distinguishable from each other. I've gotten the idea from a few things I've read about her that Kelly has written plenty of her own songs, but it doesn't look like she is being given to have any opportunity to use them. American Idol has already given her a pre-packaged song, meaning that they obviously were counting on the winner of the show not having any talent and feeling that they would have to have everything ready ahead of time so the singer's own personal style wouldn't be able to come out at all. I only hope that Kelly's full length CD has more of her own material and less pre-manufactured unoriginal pop.

This single is amazing! It shows off her voice so much! I totally love it! I wish though that Kelly's album showed off her voice as much as this single dose! But Kelly Clarkson is one true Diva! I want her to win a grammy so bad! And she should have won that Grammy she was up for! Kelly Clarkson will always be a diva of American Idol, and beyond! I give her single 5 stars, and her album 5 stars!

For all of Kelly Clarkson's considerable talent, there's not much good to say about her first single. Not even Clarkson's powerful voice and natural charisma can save Z-grade material, and on this, her first release, that's precisely what she's been stuck with. Let's hope that when the time comes for her first album, "Before Your Love" and "A Moment Like This" are nowhere to be found.

Blame the top-drawer songwriters for phoning it in, blame the producers for agreeing to mass produce it, but "Before Your Love" and "A Moment Like This" are the lowest grade of pop rock material around. "Before Your Love" is marginally the better of the two. It manages to sound like filler material for a Jessica Simpson album; hardly high praise, but at least it's plausible that, outside of the craze of 'American Idol,' this song might have still seen wide release on an incredibly poor CD.

There's really no excuse for "A Moment Like This," which manages to sound virtually identical to "Before Your Love" while at the same time being even worse. Annoyingly repetitious and obviously plagarizing the basic refrain of Lonestar's "Already There," "A Moment Like This" is astoundingly terrible, enough so that it's hard to sit through it just one time. Repeat listenings do not improve the experience, instead making it almost excruciating.

Both songs are slow, generic ballads. Part of Clarkson's appeal was her ability to belt out power ballads while at the same time tossing strong sass into renditions of songs like "Respect." She should've been given greater variety in her material. Even if these songs were written before a winner was chosen (which was most likely the case), that's still no excuse. Did anyone want to hear Justin or Nikki or even Tamrya sing two indistinguishable ballads without ever once having them break out the funk?

Pass on Kelly Clarkson's first single, and wait for her to be given music worthy of her skills.

I just received this single yesterday (9/22/02). Kelly Clarkson is a wonderful singer, but she is brought down by cheesy songwriting. I don't think she does lovesongs very well. She shines in songs that she performed in the American Idol Series, such as RESPECT. The cheesy song 'moment like this' does not allow Kelly's awesome singing ability to come through. Now, if I could get a cd quality recording of all the songs she performed on her way to winning, I would buy that in a heartbeat.

I watched the show. I love the song. But I think that I like this CD because I like the journey that Kelly Clarkson took to get this single released. My girlfriend likes the song and we play it because it's a pop love song. Let's bring this whole American Idol thing back to reality. Kelly is a great person and I personally hope that she will endure in a very competitive music industry. Score one for the average young lady with a great singing voice. But I would wait until her full length CD comes out in time for Christmas, they will probably include these two songs on it. It also looks as if the American Idol greatest hits has these two songs on it, plus "Natural Woman" which Kelly just rocked during the show. Did I buy this CD? I sure did! Was it a waste of money? It sure was! Only because I'm also going to buy the Greatest Hits and Kelly's full length. Did FOX Network get me to buy into the hype? They sure did.