Kelly Clarkson admittedly crashed and burned when she attempted to sing Jon Bon Jovi‘s “Blaze of Glory” on the latest edition of Kellyoke on Thursday (June 6). And to make matters worse, the Bon Jovi frontman himself was in the building and witnessed the entire thing.
In a new blooper reel from The Kelly Clarkson Show segment, the “Stronger” singer describes the 1990 hit as “the song that almost killed me.” “I just can’t read, whatever,” she adds. “I know that song, but in rehearsal, I messed it up like a gazillion times.”
The video then cuts to a montage of Clarkson singing incorrect lyrics over and over again, getting increasingly frustrated with each botched take. “My learning disability kicked in,” she quips at one point.
At the end, Bon Jovi — who was a guest on the talk show’s latest episode — comes out and gives the pop star a big hug. “I can’t say the right words!” she tells him, flustered.
Written for Young Guns II, “Blaze of Glory” reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 the year it was released. The album of the same name peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200.
Bon Jovi and his band are just one day away from dropping their new LP Forever. During a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, the 62-year-old rock star said he was inspired to record the project after recovering from vocal cord surgery, even though he’d previously thought he was done making albums. “I went into this surgery and I had a lot of time on my hands — all I could really do was sit around and start to think about songs,” he told the outlet. “I started to feel joy again. And we — the collective we, who lived through COVID — we’d all come out of that fog, and we were interacting again. There was a new appreciation for life. And I was having this new appreciation for my body. And it led to all these songs.”
Watch Clarkson’s “Blaze of Glory” blooper reel below.
