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Halo/Already Gone songwriter hits out at Clarkson claims
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 30 July 2009
American songwriter and producer Ryan Tedder, who co-wrote Beyonce’s recent hit ‘Halo’ and the new Kelly Clarkson track ‘Already Gone’, has hit out at claims by the former American Idol that he basically sold both singers the same song.
Clarkson was responding to criticism that her song, which is getting a single release, is a rip off of Beyonce’s single from the start of the year. She reckons Tedder provided both her and Beyonce with basically the same music for their respective tracks, and that has led to the similarities. Speaking to a Canadian radio station she said: “No one’s gonna be sitting at home, thinking, ‘Man, Ryan Tedder gave Beyonce and Kelly the same track to write to’. No, they’re just gonna be saying I ripped someone off. I called Ryan and said ‘I don’t understand. Why would you do that?'”
But Tedder has hit back, saying Clarkson’s remarks are “hurtful and absurd”. He continued: “‘Already Gone’ is one of the best songs I’ve written or produced since [Leona Lewis hit] ‘Bleeding Love’ and stands tall on its own merits apart from ‘Halo’. They are two entirely different songs conceptually, melodically and lyrically and I would never try to dupe an artist such as Kelly Clarkson or Beyonce into recording over the same musical track”.
