Kelly Clarkson Ignores Same Red Flags As Olivia Rodrigo 'Bad Idea Right?' Cover

Olivia Rodrigo's single “Bad Idea Right?” it turns red flags everywhere green — or at least an inexplicable shade of gray. Kelly Clarkson is the latest to ignore the warning signs about letting an ex back into orbit as she made the record during a recent Kellyoke segment on The Kelly Clarkson Show.

Clarkson performed “Bad Idea Right?” with My Band Y'all and two backing vocalists creating the layered harmonies on the song. The singer enhanced her performance with some acrobatic vocal runs, but also by showing off her Texas accent in the pre-chorus.

By now, Clarkson has performed quite a bit of Rodrigo's music The Kelly Clarkson Show to create her own EP Olivia Rodrigo (Kelly's Version). In 2021, during the second season of the show, the pop veteran performed 'Drivers License', Rodrigo's historic debut single. During season four, Clarkson covered the heartbreak Get angry ballad “Traitor”. The latest cover marks Rodrigo's third song to be performed in the show's fifth season, following the vengeful Offal single “Vampire” and “Can't Catch Me Now” from its soundtrack The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.

Rodrigo stopped by The Kelly Clarkson Show as a guest earlier this year, and the pair spent several minutes of the interview gushing about their mutual musical idol, Alanis Morisette. “I'm so proud of you!” Clarkson told her. “Because you're 20. I'm sure somebody has it somewhere, but when Sour came out, I was like 'oh, this chick is like the new Alanis for her generation.' You are like the new Alanis for your generation. That was his impact [record].”

One of the biggest lessons Rodrigo learned from listening to Morissette was that he has the freedom to say whatever he wants without asking permission. This realization opened up her range as a songwriter on both of her albums, but mostly Offal. In “Bad Idea Right?” she unabashedly declares, “I haven't heard from you in a few months/But I'm out right now and I'm crazy.” And elsewhere on the album, on the darkly deep track 'Making the Bed', he admits: “Sometimes I feel like I don't want to be where I am/Getting drunk in a club with my friends in good weather.”

Last year, to her Rolling rock On the cover, Rodrigo shared, “I have a lot of young girl fans and I'm very aware of it. But also, it's real. All my standards are my standards because they are unapologetic about who they are. I can't choose parts of myself to express. And if that's the worst thing I do, then I think I'm doing pretty good.”