Kelly Clarkson Sings The Dermot Kennedy Ballad, 'Better Days'

Kelly Clarkson is back with yet another cover on her show, ‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’! She took to the stage with her band Y’all to sing Dermot Kennedy’s upbeat ballad ‘Better Days’ for the Kellyoke segment of her show. 

She melodiously sang the chorus of the song, “I know you’ve been hurtin’ / Waitin’ on a train that just won’t come / The rain, it ain’t permanent / And soon, we’ll be dancin’ in the sun / We’ll be dancin’ in the sun.”

‘Better Days’ is a song from Kennedy’s album, ‘Sonder’.

“I found the word ‘sonder’ a few years ago, the meaning being just the awareness that everybody is living a life just as important and as complex as your own,” he said about his sophomore LP’s title. “At that point, I didn’t really have any part of my life or career to attach it to, so it was just a word that I appreciated and it meant something to me.”

‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’ began in 2019, and ever since then, Clarkson’s performances have become widely popular. She first released an EP featuring recordings of six Kellyoke-ified songs in 2019. This included songs like Whitney Houston’s ‘Queen of the Night’, Billie Eilish’s ‘Happier Than Ever’ and The Weeknd’s ‘Call Out My Name’ among others. 

– Riya Sohini