Inspired by the streaming episodic series ‘Only Murders In The Building,’ Kelly Clarkson’s new song is titled ‘Where Have You Been.’
During her SiriusXM show, the now 43-years old superstar singer/songwriter confirmed that she was so taken by the on-screen romance between Martin Short’s character Oliver Putnam and Meryl Streep’s alter-ego Loretta Durkin that she decided to pen a song about the couple, stating:
“It’s Martin Short’s face. He says to Meryl Streep’s character in the show, ‘Where have you been?’ “He’s like in awe, and I was like, ‘Has anyone written a song?’ Because the song is happy, because it’s like you found something that you thought was almost basically a unicorn and did not exist.”
In the ballad, Kelly sings “Where have you been?/ What took so long?/ I thought I’d found you/ Found out I was wrong. I almost gave up/ My light was so dim/ And now, here you are/ Where have you been?”
Not the first time, Clarkson’s been tangentially involved with an ‘Only Murders …’ actor, it was in 2023 that Steve Martin played the banjo on her song ‘I Hate Love’ from the album ‘Chemistry.’ And during her own concert, she said: “I’m a huge Steve Martin fan because I’m alive and breathing. I had this crazy idea, I was telling Jesse Shatkin, my producer, I was like, ‘Do you think he’d play on it, because he’s like a b***** musician?’ And I really wanted banjo. He said yes!”
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Author: Al Denté
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