{"id":371298,"date":"2026-10-12T20:50:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T20:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/371298\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T20:50:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T20:50:49","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-kelly-clarkson-calls-brooklyn-store-owner-a-liar-in-viral-feud-over-15k-singing-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/371298\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Kelly Clarkson Calls Brooklyn Store Owner A Liar In Viral Feud Over 15k Singing Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A dispute between hit singer Kelly Clarkson and Brooklyn shop Art of Play is drawing national attention after both sides publicly accused the other of misrepresenting what happened during a weekend shopping trip. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Clarkson first posted on X that she felt judged while visiting the store and claimed an employee suggested finding something more affordable after she inquired about a $15,000 item. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">She compared the experience to Julia Roberts&#8217; character in &#8220;Pretty Woman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The store responded on Instagram, saying Clarkson had asked about &#8220;Molly,&#8221; a one-of-a-kind singing bird automaton that is permanently attached to the wall and not for sale. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Clarkson fired back, calling the store owner a &#8220;liar&#8221; and insisting she had been told the bird was for sale for $15,000 before an employee offered to show her something comparable.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">On Monday, the store issued another statement, saying there had been a misunderstanding. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to the shop, a nearly identical bird owned by Seattle artist Bliss Kolb could be purchased for $15,000, while another singing bird available in the store cost about $2,000.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The business says it has reached out to Clarkson directly in hopes of resolving the dispute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dispute between hit singer Kelly Clarkson and Brooklyn shop Art of Play is drawing national attention after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-371298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}