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Nine slightly less aggro tweets from Kelly Clarkson fans who've now heard the new single

Kelly ClarksonOn Friday, we ran 'Ten slightly passive aggress­ive tweets from Kelly Clarkson fans awaiting a song snippet', a post assessing the hysteria, sorrow and anger sur­round­ing an hour-late Kelly Clarkson song clip.

Fans had been invited by Kelly to share details of forth­com­ing single 'Heartbeat Song', but even though they'd met their target within the required time, the song clip was nowhere to be seen.

Things got pretty ugly, albeit in a polite Kelly Clarkson fan sort of way. But once the song even­tu­ally appeared, how did those fans change their tune?

Let's find out. (There are only nine tweets here because we included one fan twice.)

1. "DIVINE LISTENING"

On Friday, @KCFColombia had been dis­ap­poin­ted by the lack of pro­fes­sion­al­ism shown by Kelly's team. "Next time we hope for the team to be more accurate," they noted.

Their reaction when it appeared:

That's three hearts there —  a decent response.

2. QUOTING LYRICS HAS TO BE A GOOD THING

During those dark hours when a teaser clip seemed increas­ingly unlikely and doubts began to form regarding Kelly Clarkson's very existence, @JusticeGrande noted that she was "just gonna wait patiently". There was an aggress­ive, some might say murderous subtext to that tweet.

When the song appeared?

We'd say that's a positive reaction.

3. BEHIND THESE RAVIOLIS

@Joseph_Riz was annoyed that waiting for the clip to appear was inter­fer­ing with his studies.

Within a matter of days, those woes had been forgotten, as Joseph acknow­ledged via a pho­to­graph of some pasta.

https://twitter.com/Joseph_Riz/status/554682339582685184

Some wor­ry­ingly uneven mushroom dis­tri­bu­tion there Joseph — please pay more attention to this in future.

4. 10x PLAYS = CAUTIOUS THUMBS UP

On Friday afternoon, @KellyClarksonAl was very annoyed that Kelly's social media team didn't have a YouTube clip uploaded and set to private in anti­cip­a­tion of the big reveal.

Within days, they were able to overlook the pain they once felt.

5. STILL ANGRY

On Friday, @Vickyweaver7 was waiting impatiently.

She's since heard the clip, but she's still waiting.

6. THAT $0.0003 SPOTIFY PAYOUT IS IN THE BAG

On Friday, @mvgomez20 was getting twitchy. "Watch them be like 'y'all didn't share enough," he wrote.

Something tells us he didn't have to worry about Kelly's play counts.

7. "KELLY IS BACK"

On Friday, as the minutes turned to hours, music blogger @josepvinaixa tweeted Kelly to tell her she'd forgotten to set her alarm clock. Here at Popjustice we think Josep crossed a line there, and brought journ­al­ism into disrepute for almost forty minutes, but we under­stand that it's easy to become hot-headed when you're refresh­ing a VEVO page every three seconds.

Anyway, Josep was able to overlook his troubles by the time the full stream rolled around.

https://twitter.com/josepvinaixa/status/554519396455301120

8. THE FINAL STRAW

On Friday, it looked like @rileylange had finally had enough of Kelly's arsing around. Here's his original tweet:

He may well have had enough: after the song appeared, Riley didn't mention it once. (Give it a spin, Lango, it's quite good.)

9. WHAT A RELIEF

Finally on Friday, tweet-embedding content provider Popjustice was feeling hungry, and asked Kelly if there was time to go and buy a Twix before the song appeared.

When the song did indeed appear?

What have we learned?

Fans don't like being dicked around, but at the same time they're not really that bothered if the song they've been waiting for turns out to be half amazing.