Jordin Sparks at the Clive Davis Grammy Party for Katie Couric (VIDEO)

By On 02/19/2013 · 68 Comments · In American Idol, Jordin Sparks

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Jordin Sparks takes us inside the big Clive Davis Grammy Party for the Katie show. Today, Katie Couric devoted her entire afternoon talk show to Clive and his book. At one point, Clive revealed he was bisexual, and has had relationships with men since the 1980s. I didn’t realize this was such a big secret? It’s not, right?

Anyway, there was a ton of ass-kissing, with Usher dropping by to pay his respects. Jordin was their not only to laud Clive, but to talk about the late Whitney Houston, who died the day of Clive’s 2012 Grammy party.

Here’s a clip of Jordin interviewing celebrities such as Dave Grohl, Carly Rae Jepsen, Whiz Kahlifa and John Legend. After the clip, Jordin sat down with Katie to discuss Clive and share her memories of Whitney.

The last 25 minutes of the show were devoted to an Idol-like competition featuring 3 young singers (none of which were very good). Jordin and Clive served as judges.

Watch Jordin at the Clive Davis Grammy partyL

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  • HermeticallySealed

     About what? 

  • elliegrll

    What I find funny about this is that poor Kelly,  has went on twitter to blow Clive out for lying about her and being a big bad bully, only one Idol has even wasted a minute out of his day to tweet his support. The rest are staying out of it. I wonder why?

    Maybe because they have lives of their own, and don’t have time to get involved in something that they know nothing about.  Many of them never had the opportunity to work with Clive Davis, while others may not even know  Kelly personally.

  • elliegrll

    Clive was in charge of the idols at the time, no matter what label they were on.  But, it was during that season, with Blake and Jordin that he was being forced out of his position with Sony, which is something that Blake has pointed to to explain why his debut album launch didn’t go well.

  • fuzzywuzzy

    “ Clive wrote a book about his life and a very small part was about Kelly. If she’s upset, then problem is hers.”

    I don’t think that the size of the part in Clive’s book discussing Kelly is the issue. It’s the content, which is totally at odds with what Kelly recalls. Clearly, it’s important to Kelly to address what she regards as Clive’s total misrepresentation of the events, and I can understand that.

  • bridgette12

     I have to give it to J Hud for not being afraid to state her opinion. It goes to show that many people have worked with Clive and there are some who are happy and proud of their association with the man. 

  • bridgette12

    He gave his version and I don’t think he’s going to change it now. Kelly remembered something entirely different and has now publicly stated, so what happens now. He’s going to be talking about this book for a while and her name is going to come up even more and he’s going to keep stating what is already in the book. If it bothers Kelly so much, maybe she needs to do her own press tour and call him out. That’s up to her and if she wants to spend her time rehashing her past with Clive and giving him even more attention, then more power to her. The more she talks about this, the more smiling Clive will be doing these interviews with one of his divas by his side stating what a wonderful guy and mentor he is. 

  • fuzzywuzzy

    lol Why does JHud deserve any “credit” for publicly slobbering all over Clive? Especially, when he’s in charge of her career at SONY? That doesn’t require any courage or integrity at all.

  • fuzzywuzzy

    Well, of course Clive isn’t going to retract anything. lol The part of his defense of his version of the events that I find hilarious is the “5 independent individuals” who allegedly verified those events. lol 

    I simply understand why anyone (not just Kelly) would object to a person in power publicly writing about events in a way that bear little to no resemblance to the way that person recalls them, while at the same time portraying themselves as some kind of kind and caring fatherly figure, which is at odds with reports about Clive over the years. Given Kelly’s history of speaking out candidly, I can understand why she feels so strongly about setting the record straight. This may not end up being beneficial to her, but from her POV, it appears to be important.

  • chillj

    About Clive being bisexual.  He wasn’t exactly avant-garde in his declaration… he had been married a couple of times and was almost sixty. I can’t believe this blip in his sexuality is news. This blip about anyone would be no news, but about him, even less. Now if he had declared that in 1969, well, maybe.

  • HermeticallySealed

    I wasn’t the one making a big deal about it, so not sure why it was me that you responded, then.  I would agree with you.  It isn’t a big deal, which is why I thought the notion he was somehow lying about it was a bit trivial.

  • suenigma

    “Do you know who is on Clive’s and RCA’s label? Alicia Keys IS relevant. She not only writes for herself, she writes for others. She produces movies. She’s another rich Beootch! ”
    I did come back immediately and admit that Alicia Keys was relevant, once I remembered that he discovered her. But today? Right now? She is simply not having the Pop, sales or award success that Kelly has had this era. That is a fact.

  • elliegrll

    She is simply not having the Pop, sales or award success that Kelly has had this era. That is a fact.

    Alicia is an r&b singer, so her home format wouldn’t be pop stations, especially since they are not playing her type of r&b right now.  It would be fairer to say that Alicia’s last two albums haven’t been as successful in the Urban markets as Kelly’s have been in the pop market.

    Bringing it back to Clive, I think that J Records was folded into RCA, just like Jive. Both Fantasia and Jennifer Hudson were signed to J, but now they are listed under RCA’s banner.

  • girlygirltoo

    I don’t think the more recent Idols have had much contact with Clive Davis, outside of possibly attending his pre-Grammy parties, so maybe they don’t feel they know enough about him to comment one way or the other. It’s not like they really know Kelly, either — outside of the Idol finales and red carpet events, it’s not like the ex-Idols hang around with each other on a regular basis. 

  • suenigma

    “Alicia is an r&b singer, so her home format wouldn’t be pop stations, especially since they are not playing her type of r&b right now.  It would be fairer to say that Alicia’s last two albums haven’t been as successful in the Urban markets as Kelly’s have been in the pop market.”

    Exactly! My point wasn’t to diss Alicia, it was to point out why Clive might have chosen to highlight his “problems” with Kelly to promote his book. She is his most currently, widely relevant “discovery”, or as he might like to say, “creation”. 

  • http://twitter.com/RonnieDRocks Ronnie D

     I listen to Pop radio all of the time, and Girl is On Fire is played constantly.

  • Mateja Praznik

    Didn’t Alicia’s last album sell gold so far and “Girl on Fire” is double platinum? And her previous album didn’t produce any pop hits, but it still sold platinum.

  • http://twitter.com/tinawinabina Tinawina

    It would make sense that Clive would get along well with a JHud or a Whitney, since both see themselves primarlity as singers and while they may have dabbled in writing, neither seemed particularly adamant about it. Ther’s nothing wrong with that, it was a good fit. Clive worked hard to find the appropriate hits and the singer strived to sing them well.

    Problems only happened when he felt his territoty as the hit sniffer was being encroached by someone that he did not feel deserved a seat at the table. If he signed you for your writing fine, but if he didn’t he wanted proof you could do it. And apparently he has a history of being nasty in those situations. But JHud wouldn’t have experienced that or Jordin for that matter.

  • chillj

    I know you weren’t.  I wasn’t trying to be critical or snarky; I guess it just came out that way, anyway.

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