Tidbits 5/28

• Above: a new shot of Clay with AI5 semi-finalist Will Makar at Wednesday's Idol finale.
  
• RealityTV Magazine mentions Clay's search buzz on Yahoo: "The Yahoo Buzz Index shows the American Idol Tour as one of the most searched for Summer tours. As far as overall Yahoo Buzz Index searches, the American Idols are dominating the charts. American Idol related terms occupy four of the top five overall search spots currently. Making the top five list are American Idol, Katharine McPhee, Taylor Hicks, and Clay Aiken."
• Ottawa Citizen article about "teenboppers"... "Pop culture/music writer Kristen Kidder examines the phenomenon of teenyboppers -- those young girls who scream, swoon, gush and faint at concerts starring the likes of the Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync and Clay Aiken (and, more than 60 years ago, the original pop star, Frank Sinatra). One woman she spoke to admitted to almost killing herself in 1989, only to be dissuaded upon hearing the New Kids On the Block singing "Please Don't Go, Girl" on the radio. Funny, I only considered killing myself AFTER hearing it."
• Salt Lake City Tribune: AI finale was lackluster... "Heck, even past "Idol" star Clay Aiken was better than Hicks and McPhee."
• MySanAntonio: Clay mention in sports column. Not very nice.
• MJ's big blog offers a recap of last week's American Idol finale:

  It's time for another "Golden Idol". This time it's
  "Best Impersonation" and we get to see the dude from Boston who sang a dead-ringer impersonation of Cher, A Micheal Jackson wannabe and Michael Sandecki, also from Boston, who had this nutty idea that he sounded just like Clay Aiken. Micheal wins the "award". He's there and they shuffle him out to sing 'Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me'--you know--just like Clay Aiken. Micheal looks like he snuck into Pauler's stash before the show--he's got some serious twitching going on.
  
  Just as I'm thinking "Ugh, get this guy off my TV," out from behind the stage walks... Clay Aiken? Uhhm, in a wig? He's got this black mop-top do and it looks really strange. At first I think the hair is part of the joke. I spend several seconds trying to figure it out. Finally I realize that the hair is...errr...like...some sort of new look. Then I spend more time thinking Clay should fire his stylist. Seriously. It's not a good look. I'm really distracted.
  
  Oh, Clay is singing. Once I'm able to focus again, I listen to Clay's voice, and I remember why I enjoyed him so much as a contestant Season 2. That boy can sing. He really can.

• WebMetricsGuru talks about "Idle" demographics -- "Clay Aiken, who we can almost say won AI 2, has many more woman searching for him on the web than men - and after 51 years of age, it's 10:1 woman over men."
• In case any of you could'nt play the Larry King video from yesterday in our CDD Video on Demand player, CNN has posted a handy transcript of the show here.
• Small Clay mention on TV Guide last night. Referred briefly to Clay's AI appearance.
• Nice article from Incense & Spices's Diane Sprugue. Talks about the rejuvination of the Clay nation.
• Boston Herald: celebrity gossip blogs turning a profit. (mentions the fact one of them first broke the Clay on AI story). PLEASE ONLY READ THE ARTICLE... DO NOT VISIT THE BLOGS... THEY'RE NASTY.
• Montgomery Advertiser: Where the idols are from... (nothing big. Just says Clay's from NC)
• INQ7 News: more American Idol stuff... "Clay Aiken (sporting a new Beatle-esque hairdo that is a shade darker--'AI' fanatics were divided as to whether the mop was cool or alarming), walking onstage to join [Sandecki] for the famous Aiken rendition of 'Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me' was an absolute surprise."
• If CDD's "New look" wallpaper is not your taste, try these ones at Best of Clay.
  

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