Did Kelly Clarkson sing a LIVE WHISTLE in 2024? (The truth)

[@addictedtovocals]

To all the people saying Kelly hasn’t got an airy and light whistle side. Within the lower range of your whistle register, it tends to sound softer and quieter, that’s talking about natural vocal effects, bring up Mariah, Chante, Morisette, ANY whistle singer, within their lower ranges sounds light and airy.

[@doctorits]

YOU KNOW THE D4MN THING 😭😭 the last clip proving AGAIN that this person doesn’t know kelly’s voice… (ADELE’S LAUGH HAHSHKAHSDJ) nice video 🫶🫶

[@addictedtovocals]

I'm a clarkstan, OF COURSE I know the d@mn th1ng!

[@doctorits]

@@addictedtovocals YES LMAO

[@addictedtovocals]

Yall are constantly trying to make up new reasons that Kelly belted out that Eb5, the biggest clownery I’ve ever heard 💀

[@zach4274]

“Your case is dismissed” 😂

[@kendrabryant4738]

Preach! 👏 I get irritated with people acting like her range isn’t as good as it actually is. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Also, the person saying that she hadn’t done a whistle note since AI is totally wrong in general. I can recall the live one that she did on carpool karaoke off the top of my head & I’ve just become a Clarkstan in the last year or two.

[@______-xh4pn]

I think it’s sort of pointless to argue about tbh. An Eb6 is well within Kelly’s wheelhouse. Even if it was an Eb5 with an Eb6 overtone, she still technically hit an Eb6. Also, I can think of at least two examples off the top of my head where Kelly went into whistle register since American Idol lol

[@doctorits]

EXACTLY

[@augustmoments]

Before this video I couldn’t hear the eb5 at all but that isolated vocal actually made me hear what others are talking about 😭 idk if it’s just some sort of overtone or what the explanation is,but I hear a much more clear eb5 in a light airy head voice. Like unmistakably clear. Not saying Kelly couldn’t actually do an eb6 there,but I’m afraid she didn’t 😭

[@augustmoments]

Idk if there’s anywhere I can send a clip,but I put that moment of the performance in a voice isolation program and messed around with the key and I feel like it helps you hear the head voice part more clearly. I’d love to be able to send it 🦔

[@addictedtovocals]

@@augustmomentsif ur on insta, u can send it at @addictedtovocals

[@tasosGRvocals]

Go Kelly!!! ❤🎉

[@aliabdeldjaber3556]

But Why is it so debatable Eb6 isn't like out of Kelly's range or something 😂

[@addictedtovocals]

Exactly 😭😭

[@mattymariah]

I love you for this.

[@AMLP94]

she sang a whole album years ago with whistle notes . Love so soft. But here I think it's like the mariah effect when mimi sang that one song stand up to cancer where subtlety which way you perceive it had two different tones same note different octave. As kellys voice has two different tones here but it was a eb5 note because how resonant it was and light and of course like mariah her voice is supernatural because it's not like something you hear everyday when first hearing either of their voices. It sounds like a whistle but not atleast imo , so I agree with other commenter's saying it's her head voice. Polyphonic

[@AvatarKociMax]

HELPPPP GUYS 😭😭😭

[@perolamantovani4705]

And they wanted to have last word lol

[@MultiGarythesnail]

I'd say it is an Eb5. The Eb5 head voice note used here for comparison is not the best, because it was sung on a different vowel and a slightly different placement, that's why it sounds different, but the pitch checks out. The reason you can hear higher frequencies is cause of their voices blending together.

[@despairingleonardo]

It sounds like a eb5 belt and whistle eb6 I slowed down the video to 0.25 speed. It started with eb5 and at the end somehow eb6 came out,

[@addictedtovocals]

She flipped registers.

[@mihriah]

⁠Here are the notes: say (Bb4) it (G#4) ain’t (G#4) so (G#4-Bb4-G#4-G4-Eb5) She jumps a minor 6th to an Eb5, which makes perfect sense musically. Kelly has shown that she can transition from chest to whistle fairly quickly (Natural Woman), but that vocal wouldn’t really make sense in the context of this duet given the style of the song - remember, Kelly is a good musician. The Eb6 is just an artifact from Kelly and Rivers’ voices blending in octave unison (Eb4 and Eb5), which brings out the overtone very strongly. However, this does NOT detract from the fact that she certainly does have the ability to sing in that register, which is rare and special.

[@addictedtovocals]

It’s not that she lacks practice lol, she chooses not to, and she does transition from chest to whistle as early as her iconic F#6 in American idol. Kelly is known as a belter and she loves it, not as a whistler.

[@mihriah]

@@addictedtovocals Exactly. If you don’t use it, you lose it.

[@doctorits]

@@mihriah once u were born with whistle register you have it to the rest of your life. kelly is a belter but she still uses her whistle register btw

[@mihriah]

@@doctorits U can learn to whistle it’s not like this magical thing that you can only be born with 😭 that’s such a strange thing to say

[@doctorits]

@@mihriah i don’t think u understood what i said

[@_brunoduarte_06]

Period, i loved this!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣😍

[@willmassey5991]

She does have a whistle register, I’ve heard it a few times. I think she doesn’t use it very much because it may cause her to strain to hit that note and may damage her voice to where she needs extra rest. She’s just being smart about how she uses her gift. Her head voice is great as well. Especially in Favorite kind of High.

[@addictedtovocals]

Kelly has sung MANY whistles throughout her career, a lot of them aren't shown on the big picture.

[@princexl2783]

Lol you are Doctor Its are consistent. I'll give you that. I won't debate the E flat, because that definitely sounded like a 6th octave. That "D7", however, is still just C natural. Anyway, nicely defended.

[@princexl2783]

@@Queves9292 probably do

[@addictedtovocals]

If you learn music theory and practice scales and learn your notes. You can practically become pitch perfect

[@princexl2783]

@@Queves9292 nothing to be ashamed of. I'm still learning little rules myself haha

[@BunnyPlays651]

As a Kelly Stan that was a whistle. Also watch, next they are going to try something else 😭😭😭 they don’t know Kelly’s voice like her Stan’s do

[@doctorits]

E X A C T L Y

[@BunnyPlays651]

@@doctorits OMG HIIIIII

[@ladydsi4051]

Lol sounds like me when I scream

[@addictedtovocals]

Me when I lie

[@Michael-mp9xr]

this whole performance is so pitch corrected it's hard to say what that is.

[@addictedtovocals]

it's televised and she can literally sing like watch her vegas residency 😭😭😭

[@Michael-mp9xr]

Oh I’m aware. I’m a huge fan. I just don’t like how they pitch correct the show vocals. Like why?

[@maryhaunny944]

definitely an overtone. stans of artists that don’t normally hit whistles always reaching. the mic feed literally sounds like an EB5

[@addictedtovocals]

She sung whistle notes consistently throughout her career, she’s just doesn’t sing it because it’s not part of her style

[@rydbthatsme]

It’s a whistle but an improper unsupported one

[@addictedtovocals]

You can’t support a whistle.

[@onepleiadian]

Oh that’s not- this is definitely an overtone. Eb5.