Calleik: Clay Ready to Take on International Market

The CH's music insider calleik has updated us on the status of the sophomore album. Read some of calleik's older posts: 6/12 6/9 6/1 5/27

She has some exciting news to share with us, but isn't very specific:
This may be the last quiet moment for a while. Savor it.

Oh, I know, we're all ready for everything to break loose. But hold it and feel it. Things are going to launch very soon and it will be jubilantly chaotic. We are going to see the conventional and the very unconventional. We are going to see him in the usual, comfortable places...and some places we would have never dreamed.

Tonight, Quiana with her new baby. A proud and happy Clay.

But he's bursting at the seams with his own excitement because his time is about to come. He--and we--have been waiting for what seems like forever. But he's been busy. We don't know everything, but we will soon see the results of his efforts.

The vibes are out there...we aren't hearing or feeling because they've been kept under wraps on purpose. Personally, I like this. It's all been very strategic and the timing has been closely worked...and reworked.

It's interesting because things have been heard...and yet kept secret. This excites me. I think we are in for incredible surprises.

I've been told: "There is more power in this than you can imagine. We are waiting to watch it unfold."

Yes, we are, too...but we are participants in what will happen, so there's even more excitement.

Projections are scary...I so want them to be right. Something tells me we have nothing to worry about.

And very soon is...very soon. Not quite...but very.

And just think...it may be our last look at the Clay we have known. Soon, he will be our Clay with a new image, our Clay with a new CD and tour...but he will be Clay for a whole new demographic. And, I believe, the international market will be discovering him.

Tonight, I savor...because tomorrow our Clay will be out there...and he will be seen by people who have never really "seen" him.

Changing the landscape...people have asked me about this. Yes, I think he will. I really do. The pure pop sound reborn...but in a way that is all his own. He is not Manilow. He is not Buble or Grobin. He is not the Beatles or Elvis. He is Clay Aiken. And Clay Aiken has a mark to make. And he WILL make it. There are some heavyweight believers out there. But I don't need to hear what they say. I already believe. I believed it when I heard the first notes.

Savor the now. What we've known is almost over.

I, for one, am thrilled to have been there to see the beginning. So, I savor. Tonight. Tomorrow is going to be something of our wildest dreams.

Break out, Clay...we're beyond ready.

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