Kelly Clarkson recently debuted her new single “Mine” during a live performance, sharing that the song was written during a difficult time post-divorce. Describing the track, Clarkson revealed she was both “angry and sad,” emotions reflected in the song’s lyrics and tone. The powerful ballad touches on heartbreak, loss, and personal recovery, themes closely tied to her split from ex-husband Brandon Blackstock.

“But it’s not just all sad and angry, I swear,” she says of her upcoming album Chemistry. “It’s like a whole arc of an entire relationship, and you can’t diminish something to just one feeling.”

Kelly Clarkson. Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Kelly Clarkson admits she was “feeling all the feelings” while writing her upcoming post-divorce album Chemistry.

The original American Idol released the first two singles from it, “Me” and “Mine,” last week and kicked off Tuesday’s episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show with the first public performance of the emotional latter song.

“I’m losing hope in love / and I’ve lost all in faith,” Clarkson sings on the track, echoing sentiments the Grammy winner has previously expressed about having no intention of marrying again after finalizing her divorce last March following seven years of marriage to Brandon Blackstock, who served as the loving inspiration for her 2015 hit “Piece by Piece”.

After her performance on Tuesday, Clarkson started to discuss the song before admitting, “Well, I don’t really need to explain it because you know the lyrics are, well, they’re pretty self-evident at this point. Yeah, I was feeling all the feelings when I wrote that one.”

Clarkson went on to explain she wanted “Mine” to be one of the first singles off Chemistry (out June 23) because “I’ve never really done anything like that on a chorus, and never changed tempo on a song. It was just a different vibe for me overall, so I was very excited about it — but obviously was also just very angry and sad.”

But the writing process allowed her to “let it out and I feel great now, and it’s just fun I get to sing it.”

Clarkson promised that Chemistry — which contains tracks featuring Steve Martin and Sheila E. — “is not just all sad and angry, I swear. It’s like a whole arc of an entire relationship because you can’t diminish something to just one feeling.”