Anticipation Builds For New Album

The frenzy around the yet to be titled and released sophomore album is building. The CH's resident music insider Calleik offered another teaser for us last night (read some of Calleik's posts from last week):

I know.

The speculation is maddening. The wait is excruciating.

The hopes, the dreams, are expansive.

Believe me...okay, some will, some won't, some will fall in between...but we're on the verge of a major shift. And a huge HUGE outbreak.

I wish I could put into words why I know this. But all I can do for now is echo the vestiges of that night.

And again, tell you...compel you...to look into those eyes. They really tell the story of what's to come.

Don't you see the fireworks? They're there.

Don't you see the confidence? He's not worried.

Don't you see the deliverance? It's done.

Now it's all about the timing.

We want it NOW. We'll get it when it's all just right.

There's something comforting in the knowledge that a bigger plan is at play and he's at the wheel. Those who live and breathe this have seen and known and spoken. We only need to listen. And experience.

It will be hot and soon and pack a wallop that will resound. In astonishing numbers. In pretty pages. On amazing stages. It's coming. The next wave is rolling toward us. Better brace.

And here's what another reliable source, the OFC's renybc is saying:

Calliek does have her own way of conveying thoughts and, as someone who tends to wax rhapsodic on a semi-regular basis, I have no arguments with anybody's writing style.

Even my normally distressingly prosaic friend was, for him, overly descriptive when he was describing his and other's he knows in the recording industry's reaction to Clay's AI appearance. It seems to have been an event that opened both his eyes and thesaurus. I kind of enjoyed listening to him trying to find ways to express what he was thinking and hearing.

Fortunately, it only seemed to be discussion of Clay himself and his talent which brought on the verbal gymnastics, when he was talking about what he would do and would he suggested we would be seeing, the language was a lot more direct. He made it clear he expects we will get the first single "quite soon" (is this a term they teach in Music Industry 101?) and that over July and August we will see Clay everywhere, magazines, tv and radio. Pretty much all the Clay we can eat and I am looking forward to that all Clay buffet.

Amusingly, he seemed to think that by Fall we might even feel like we've had our fill. He actually said "by the time the tour starts you may need a break". Poor boy just doesn't realize that when it comes to Clay, there's never enough to satisfy our hunger completely and we will always keep coming back for more (especially if it's live Clay, eye debacles and all).

P.S. Much as I'd like to see something like a movie soundtrack song, I think we can rule out anything this summer or fall as we would have heard about that by now. A movie studio doesn't care much about any RCA shock and awe campaign, they only care about promoting their movie and the soundtrack is a big part of that. I'm hopeful that the look, new sound and promotion will spark interest in having Clay on a soundtrack in future since, without that the only way for him to get one would be if his label actively marketed him to studios. "Active" and "Clay Aiken" don't seem to be terms that have gone together in RCA's vocabulary in the past. I am still hopeful this may also change in future.

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