The quoted material is an excerpt from a larger article: http://blogs.tennessean.c...plays-bridgestone-arena/
There's a bit about Brandon, nothing new really, but I thought it might be nice to include in this thread. I've bolded it, but also included other parts about Kelly's Nashville residence for the purposes of keeping it in context, because being in a relationship isn't the sole force behind her move to Tennessee. Anyway...

Kelly Clarkson has a nickname for her midtown Nashville condo building: “The Pop Star Place.”

Every time the singer walks down the hall, she spots a famous neighbor she didn’t know she had, from rock guitarists to country superstars and big-time producers.

“Every star known to man has a condo there,” Clarkson tells The Tennessean. “(Living there) is the first step of, ‘OK, I really like Nashville, but I don’t know where I want to live yet, so let’s live here for right now.’ And then everybody ends up getting a place.”

Count Clarkson among the converted. Now, nearly six years after the inaugural “American Idol” champion made Music City a part-time home, it’s about to turn into her full-time one. Clarkson is selling her ranch in her home state of Texas and preparing to buy a house just outside of Nashville.

She’ll play her biggest concert yet in her new hometown Saturday night, as her co-headlining tour with pop/rockers The Fray comes to a close at Bridgestone Arena.

Calling Nashville home makes plenty of business sense for Clarkson — much of her Nashville-based band and team will have a short drive home after the concert — but she had other reasons for picking it over the likes of New York and Los Angeles.

“It’s like Texas, but I can get work done, as well,” she says. “Everybody’s kind of the same speed as Texans, and everybody’s really nice and welcoming.” And, she adds with a laugh, “there’s a Target close by.”

Settling in

Music City’s speed also has allowed Clarkson to merge her musical and personal life — something she didn’t do in her first years of post “Idol” fame. One of the reasons she’s looking to buy a house in the area, she says, is that she’s “dating someone I’m pretty in love with” — Nashville-based artist manager Brandon Blackstock, who’s the son of Clarkson’s manager, Narvel Blackstock, and stepson of Reba McEntire.

And just in the past five years, Clarkson says, she’s started making new friends, other than the people she’d grown up with in Texas.

“And they’re all in the country world,” she says with a laugh. “But I think it’s just because, I don’t know, I do love pop music, but I think I have more of a Southern mentality. Even just emotionally, I’m more that girl. So I get along better with the Mirandas and the Blakes and the Jennifers and Rebas.”