Tidbits 6/1

It's been over a week now since AI and we're still getting a few AI articles.

• Wire Image has several pictures of Clay from AI5, including one with David Foster. Put in "Clay Aiken" under "Search" (left side of page) to find the pictures.
• TV.com: Taylor Hicks signs on to Arista/19. Mentions success of past idols. Blogcritics also has an article similar to this.
  
• Real GM Football: very nice Clay mention in this football article -- "Most of the contestants on Idol will fade back into everyday life in a few months, while winning the whole thing doesn't secure anything but a record deal that could very well fail. A few years ago a very large man by the name of Ruben Studdard beat Clay Aiken in the annual competition. That didn't stop Ruben from fading, and Clay from ultimately excelling."
• As we reported yesterday, Clay was the highest gainer on Google last week-- Internet Ad Sales
• Pop Matters has a reality check for Clay's copy-cat Michael Sandecki: "One perfect example from this season of this phenomenon was the annoying, wiry young man who entered the studio claiming he was the second coming of Clay Aiken. After he performed part of truly horrible rendition of some song, Simon stopped him. When the potential Idol whined about how he was Season Five's Aiken, Simon Cowell responded acerbically, 'But Clay Aiken could sing.' With this one line, he perfectly encapsulated the problem with Idol."
• Carlisle Sentinel: Idols' futures are bright. "Even non-winners such as Clay Aiken have released their own CDs after their time on the show expired."
• Daily Texan's article on season finales. Mentions Clay on AI finale.
• Wicked Chop Poker: small mention of CDD affilate ClayReport.com
• TVGasm.com: "And to all you American Idol fans who chose to watch Clay Aiken's new hairstyle instead of what had to be the best two hours of television in years, all I can say is you can McSuck it."
• Kansas City Star's review of Michael Bolton's new CD... "he ought to be 'swinging' mere mortals, like Andy Williams or Clay Aiken."
• MediaFiends: The 58 best AI performances according to Jlynn206... Clay -- #52 Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch; #34 Unchained Melody; #14 This Is The Night; #3 Bridge Over Troubled Water
• Uh... we're not sure what the folks over at Canoe.ca were thinking when writing this one up.
• Clay's name was mentioned on a recent episode of The WB's new show Pepper Dennis... The main star mentioned how she "voted for Clay like 300 times".
  

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