KPop Demon Hunters just got a “Kelly-Pop” revamp with Kelly Clarkson‘s latest Kellyoke performance on The Kelly Clarkson Show.
In the cover posted Tuesday (Jan. 13), the talk-show host put her own spin on one of fictional girl group HUNTR/X’s fan-favorite songs from the Netflix animated film’s soundtrack. Taking the stage alongside her backup band, Clarkson channeled her inner-demon hunter to slay the performance, vocally giving the lyrics the amount of emotion they command.
“I broke into a million pieces, and I can’t go back/ But now I’m seeing all the beauty in the broken glass,” she belted fiercely, doing the song originally sung by trio EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI justice. “The scars are part of me, darkness and harmony/ My voice without the lies, this is what it sounds like.”
“What It Sounds Like” is one of several songs on the hit KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack, reaching No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 in September while the full album reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200. It’s biggest hit, “Golden,” spent eight weeks atop the Hot 100 in 2025 and won best original song at the Golden Globes two days prior to Clarkson’s cover.
The Kelly Clarkson Show is on its seventh season. She recently welcomed Arden Cho — who voiced Rumi in Demon Hunters — as a guest on the program.
In a recent Q&A segment posted on the talk show’s YouTube channel, Clarkson shared an update on how she and her two children have been faring in the wake of her late ex-husband Brandon Blackstock’s death. “There’s been a lot for our family recently, and so I have allowed my kids to sleep with me quite a bit,” she said at the time. “It’s my two dogs, my two kids and me. It’s a lot. It’s been really special, though, because the conversations you have during that time are pretty cute. So that’s probably my favorite time of day.”
The American Idol alum last dropped an album in 2023. That year, Chemistry debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200.
Watch Clarkson’s performance of “What It Sounds Like” above.
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