Kelly Clarkson and her RCA record label did not appear to have made beautiful music together – with the first-season American Idol winner taking offense when she was asked to mimic Lindsay Lohan.

"My label literally sent me a Lindsay Lohan track from her last album and wanted me to record it for my new album," Clarkson, 25, tells MTV News.

"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. I don't care what pop star it is."

Though completed last January for producer Clive Davis, Clarkson's latest CD – to be called My December – will now not hit stores until July 24.

"They were just sending me stuff that was like almost insulting. I'm like, 'You can't even find new songs?'" says Clarkson, who ended up holding her ground. "I ended up writing the entire thing with the people that I write well with."

Clarkson also tells MTV, "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?"

After winning Idol in 2002, Clarkson's 2003 debut album, Thankful, was certified both gold and platinum for sales of more than 1 million copies. In 2004, she released Breakaway, which also went multi-platinum and won her two Grammys.