Kelly Clarkson wrote her new album after turning down her label's offers to record songs rejected by other artists. Clarkson admits she was put under pressure by her record label to use a team of writers and some songs already offered to other singers - but she was determined to create My December herself.

The singer - who recently defended the LP from claims label bosses at RCA and Sony BMG were unimpressed with her songwriting attempts - tells MTV.tv, "Everybody always wants me to go in different directions. Obviously they're a record label so they need to sell records. They want the formula writers and the formula producers that do everybody else's stuff, and while I love some of those people... and I don't mind working with that... I just don't like working with someone that gives you a song and is like, 'Oh, I wrote this for you.' But you find out that they've given it to every other artist and they turned it down, you know?

"My label literally sent me a Lindsay Lohan track from her last album and wanted me to record it for my new album. And while I like Lindsay Lohan, like I'm cool with her and I think she sings the song well... it's already been on an album.

"They were just sending me stuff that was like almost insulting. I'm like, 'You can't even find new songs? You don't want me to write my album but you're sending me hand me downs?' So, I ended up writing the entire thing with the people that I write well with."

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