Kelly Clarkson defends Clay's Career

Kelly did a call-in radio interview this morning with WNCI, Columbus Ohio. I was listening on my way to work. Apparently she's in London doing promo work for her album.

The DJ who did the interview congratulated Kelly on all her success and said something like, "Kelly, your career has really taken off and you're on the top of the world, whereas Clay's career has been kind of 'meh' and Ruben's career has been kind of 'meh'." Kelly thanked him but also went out of her way to stick up for Aiken, saying something like, "Clay's career may be kind of meh in terms of radioplay, but in terms of record sales and having a strong fanbase, he's doing great." She also pointed out that Clay's first single outsold her first single.