Question: Was Clarkson's "stronger" received well by the critics?
About the article "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)", section "Critical response".

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"Dark Side" is a song by American recording artist Kelly Clarkson, written by busbee and Alexander Geringas, and produced by Greg Kurstin.
The song was released by RCA Records on June 5, 2012 as the third and final single from Clarkson's fifth studio album, "Stronger" (2011).
"Dark Side" is a mid-tempo synthpop song that incorporates a vigorous music box melody with up-tempo beats in choruses, with its lyrics containing the theme of acceptance, recovery, and inner-beauty.
"Dark Side" has received generally positive reviews from music critics who considered the song as a good successor to "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)", Clarkson's previous single.
Critics also praised Clarkson's vocal performance blending with the song's melody.
It became her second consecutive song to top the "Billboard" Hot Dance Club Songs chart.
The song's accompanying music video was directed by Shane Drake, who also directed "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" and premiered on May 24, 2012 with positive reviews.
It was nominated for a MTV Video Music Award for Best Video with a Message at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards.
Clarkson has performed "Dark Side" during several live appearances, most notably during the 2012 "Billboard" Music Awards and included the song as the opening performance in the set list during the North American leg of her Stronger Tour. 
Stronger is the fifth studio album by American recording artist Kelly Clarkson.
The album was released on October 21, 2011 in Australia and October 24, 2011 in the United States and the United Kingdom through RCA Records.
The thirteen-song set (seventeen on the deluxe edition) features Clarkson collaborating with new musicians Greg Kurstin, Steve Jordan, Rodney Jerkins, Toby Gad, Brian Kennedy and Ester Dean, as well as recording with longtime collaborator Howard Benson.
Wanting to stray away sonically from her previous albums, Clarkson's main objective was to record her vocal performances as it is heard in her live sets, and used as little auto-tune processing as possible.
The album also marked the first release by Clarkson that did not cause a conflict with RCA; her previous records, most notably "My December", were released amidst conflict and controversy.
Clarkson began writing new material for the album in November 2009 while touring and finished recording in February 2011.
For the recording sessions, Clarkson drew inspiration from Tina Turner, Prince, Radiohead, and Sheryl Crow among others.
Clarkson also mixed R&B, country, urban, dance-pop and soul with her established pop rock character to develop a more diverse pop music material.
The album's lyrical content mainly explores themes about heartbreak, vengeance, forgiveness and empowerment using metaphors about Clarkson's relationships around people.
The record is predominantly a pop rock album, with several music critics noting the predominant R&B and country influences Clarkson explored in "Thankful" and "All I Ever Wanted" as well as dance-pop themes which Clarkson has newly developed.
Originally planned to be released in late 2010, the release date of the album was pushed back several times.
Upon its release, "Stronger" received mostly favorable reviews from critics, who noted the album's lack of progression unlike her previous albums but notably praising Clarkson's vocal performance.
The album became a commercial success.
In the United States, the album debuted at number two on the "Billboard" 200 and has sustained commercial longevity for over a year, eventually becoming her first record to be certified platinum in five years by the Recording Industry Association of America since "My December".
Internationally, it debuted within the top-ten in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
"Stronger" has produced three singles, including the international hits "Mr. Know It All" and "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)".
"Mr. Know It All" topped the charts in Australia and South Korea and has attained top-ten positions in four countries, including "Billboard" Hot 100 in the United States.
"Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" became the album's most successful release and Clarkson's most successful single overall.
It topped the charts in the United States, Poland, Denmark, and Slovakia and has attained top-ten positions in over twenty countries around the world.
The final single, "Dark Side", was released to moderate success, attaining a top-ten position in three countries.
Clarkson has promoted "Stronger" in two concert tours, the Stronger Tour and the 2012 Summer Tour with the American alternative rock band The Fray.
"Stronger" received four nominations at the 55th Grammy Awards: It won the Best Pop Vocal Album and was nominated for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Solo Performance for "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)". 
"I Forgive You" is a song by American recording artist Kelly Clarkson, included on her fifth studio album "Stronger" (2011).
It was written by Darkchild, Andre Lindal, and Lauren Christy; with Darkchild and Lindal handling the production and Christy providing additional background vocals.
Musically, "I Forgive You" is a pop rock song with influences of power pop and synthpop.
The song has received generally positive reviews from music critics.
Due to digital sales after the album's release, the song charted at number 1 in South Korea, becoming Clarkson's second number one song after "Mr. Know It All". 
"Breakaway" is a song recorded by American singer Kelly Clarkson.
The song, written by Matthew Gerrard, Bridget Benenate and Avril Lavigne, was originally intended for Lavigne's debut studio album, "Let Go" (2002).
After being deemed unsuitable for the album, it was passed to Clarkson to be recorded as a soundtrack for the film "".
Clarkson, who was finishing her second studio album at that time, recorded "Breakaway" to tide her fans over until the first single from her new album was released.
However, the song's success prompted its inclusion on Clarkson's second album where she decided to name the album after the song.
"Breakaway" was first released by Walt Disney Records as the first single from on July 19, 2004.
"Breakaway" was positively received by music critics, who complimented the song's universal message and its simple lyrics where people could relate to.
It incorporates acoustic guitars and airy drums which are interspersed with Clarkson's controlled voice.
The lyrics narrate Clarkson's journey as a girl growing up in a small town who follows her dream for self-improvement.
"Breakaway" was a commercial success outside of the United States, where it peaked within the top 20 of multiple European countries, and in the top 10 in Australia, Belgium, Hungary and the Netherlands.
In the US, the song peaked at number six on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart and became her third top ten song in the chart.
It also topped the US Adult Contemporary for twenty-one non-consecutive weeks, a record that is now shared between herself and Celine Dion's "A New Day Has Come".
Directed by Dave Meyers, the accompanying music video for "Breakaway" portrays Clarkson as a young girl from a small town who follows her dream and becomes an international star.
It also contained scenes interspersed from "The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement".
Clarkson acted out most of the lyrics in the music video because she felt that the song was autobiographical.
Critics responded positively to the music video for being faithful to the central theme shared by the song, the film, and Clarkson's personal biography.
Clarkson performed the song in a series of live appearances such as television shows "Saturday Night Live", "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno".
She has performed the song in her concert tours, including the Stronger Tour.
"Breakaway" has also been covered by many contestants from reality television singing competitions, notably Katie Stevens, a contestant in the ninth season of "American Idol", as well as an English pop duo, Belle Amie who finished eleventh in the seventh season of "The X Factor". 
"Stronger" received generally positive reviews from music critics.
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 62, based on 11 reviews.
Mikael Wood of "Spin" wrote that, although ""Stronger" isn't Clarkson's long-promised Nashville album", she "delivers tunes like 'Einstein' and the disco-glam title track with a country singer's earthy conviction."
Melissa Maerz of "Entertainment Weekly" dubbed it Clarkson's "older-better-tougher-smarter album" and complimented the songs' "finger-wagging, rafter-reaching power".
Allison Stewart of "The Washington Post" wrote that "Clarkson has two moods — scrappy and morose — and "Stronger" works every possible combination of both", and called it "a good album by a great vocalist who, it’s easy to still hope, is capable of a lot more."
Allmusic's senior editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine attributed the album's success "entirely" to Clarkson, "whose personality and professionalism turn it into her best album since her "Breakaway" breakthrough in 2004".
Jon Caramanica of "The New York Times" asserted that "Ms. Clarkson is turning into the Mary J. Blige of pop: so good at being wounded that no one wants to let her heal."
Slant Magazine's Jonathan Keefe felt that, with the exception of "Mr. Know It All"s "obvious electronic manipulation", Clarkson's performances are "more consistently lived-in and evocative than on any of her previous efforts.
"In a mixed review, "Rolling Stone" editor Jody Rosen wrote that "Clarkson remains a slightly wearying one-note artist--she's a wounded lover, bellowing her pain and scorching the earth.
But wow--that voice."
"The A.V.
Club" was more critical, writing that "the album suffers from a heavily produced electro-sheen, and ends up feeling more manufactured than magical".
Sputnikmusic was ambivalent towards Clarkson's attempt at "something with a deeper purpose" and questioned, "what do you listen to Kelly Clarkson for: the integrity of the songs, or the hooks?"
Andy Gill of "The Independent" found no "development" in Clarkson's singing and panned its music as "an overlong string of standard putdown R&B and bogus emotional turmoil, the songs blitzed with generic power-ballad overkill."