Kelly Clarkson’s Rock Vocals Are ‘Too Sweet’ on New Kellyoke Hozier Cover

Kelly Clarkson is back with another Kellyoke cover, and it’s a sweet one.

Taking the Kelly Clarkson Show stage on Tuesday (Jan. 7), the vocalist performed Hozier‘s smash “Too Sweet” for her live audience in New York City. Surrounded by members of her in-house band and dressed in all-black, Clarkson’s famous powerhouse vocals gave the soft-rock track an extra kick.

“I think I’ll take my whiskey neat/ My coffee black and my bed at 3,” she sang. “You’re too sweet for me.”

Released in March on the Irish singer/songwriter’s EP Unheard, “Too Sweet” became Hozier’s first-ever No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 when the track ascended to the top of the chart in April last year. His previous peak on the chart had been at No. 2 in 2014 with “Take Me to Church.”

“It kind of just put wind in the sails of a ship that was already sort of moving,” he recently told Billboard of the 2024 track’s success. “It was just like this thing that happened, and it’s been like a cherry on the cake.”

Clarkson’s cover marks just her second Kellyoke performance of the new year on YouTube, with the star also nailing St. Lucia’s “Dancing on Glass” during the Jan. 6 episode of the American Idol champion’s talk show. The “Since U Been Gone” singer added yet another Daytime Emmy to her belt in 2024, with The Kelly Clarkson Show taking home outstanding daytime talk series for the fourth consecutive year at the June ceremony.

Watch Clarkson perform “Too Sweet” for Kellyoke above.