After months of silence on the issue, I can finally reveal the project I’ve been working on for the last few months. I can also explain why you might find an unusual amount of Kelly Clarkson music on my iPod, and why I know every word of some of her songs. (It even explains why three geeks from Rain were bouncing up and down like little girls at her concert in Orem, singing along.)

Kelly Clarkson: Open Mic is finally live in the iTunes App Store! Rain and Sony Music have been working on this app for a while now, and have really wanted to keep it quiet until it launched. This is our first iPhone application, and we’re incredibly excited to finally get it out into the wild.

The app challenges your singing abilities by asking you to sing along with Kelly Clarkson on songs from her latest album, All I Ever Wanted, and sing them right. This game monitors both the pitch and timing of your singing. If you sing well enough, you might even win the chance to sing with Kelly’s band during the soundcheck at an upcoming show, and go to a special meet & greet with Kelly!

This app has been a blast to work on, and everyone at Rain has done a fantastic job on it, coding, testing, or just cheering each other on. Special thanks go out to Aaron, for sitting at the desk next to me, and snickering every time I would sing into my phone to do some debugging. (Or singing along, depending on the mood he was in.)

So, if you haven’t already got it by now, buy it, sing with it, and love it. Because your life will suck without this app.

(Oh and for the record, we were approved to the app store on our first submission – I guess that means we know what we’re doing after all. ;)