Kelly Clarkson has the uncanny talent to get the soul pocket in just about any tune. Look at, for occasion, her rumble by way of Metallica‘s “Sad But True” through the Kellyoke phase on Monday’s (Could possibly six) episode of her eponymous daytime talk about present.

Confident, the 1991 initial from the band’s crushing self-titled album is a dark mediation on the “shadow self” and the battle versus a darkish drive attempting to obtain command of your soul. But, someway, Clarkson identified the faint sliver of light in that if not dim forest of turgid inner turmoil.

“Hey, I’m you every day living/ I’m the one particular who commonly requires you there/ Hey, I’m your existence, I’m the one particular who cares,” Clarkson sang in excess of a sparse, ominous piano to commence the basic overall performance. When components commenced to get crucial with strains about the “only appropriate friend” who surely cares warning you about betrayal, Clarkson’s voice accomplished into a bigger sign up as she crooned, “I’m your aspiration, make you actual/ I’m your eyes when you have to steal/ I’m your suffering when you can not really feel.”

And then, when she strike the title line Clarkson shot up into her signature stratospheric array, belting the phrase “true” as if her lifetime depended on it when her house band shifted into daytime metallic beast process and the arrangement took on a extra sinister rock process. “You, you are my mask/ You are my address, my shelter,” Clarkson snarled about the chugging arrangement as the phase flashed in crimson and white.

“Sad But True” was the fifth and previous one particular from 1991’s Metallica, topping out at No. 98 on the Billboard Sizzling one hundred.

Watch Clarkson’s deal with of “Sad But True” underneath.