Kelly Clarkson is taking the high road. On her latest Kellyoke performance for her daytime program The Kelly Clarkson Show Tuesday (March 29), the 39-year-old vocalist put her spin on Kacey Musgraves brutally honest country-pop track “High Horse.”
Accompanied by her band Y’all, the American Song Contest host was washed in sunny orange light for most of the performance, a fitting choice for a track off an album titled Golden Hour. Backup singers added layers of harmony to each of Clarkson’s giddy-ups, while an electric guitar perfectly mimicked her riffs every time she sang the “high horse” hook.
This is not the first time the Voice coach has tackled a Musgraves song for Kellyoke. In February, she treated her audience to a soulful take on “Breadwinner,” a fan-favorite Star-Crossed track. Recent Kellyoke performances include covers of Billie Eilish and Khalid’s “Lovely” and the Black Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling,” preceded by a stretch earlier this month where she dusted off a few gems in her own discography.
Golden Hour was a major success for Musgraves after it came out in 2018. In addition to snagging album of the year at the 2019 Grammys, it peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and spent 94 weeks on the chart. And though “High Horse” is a dig at a condescending person in her life, many of the tracks on Golden Hour are love songs — written for her now ex-husband Ruston Kelly.
