Tidbits 7/12

• Clay's May 2005 "Wildrest Dreams" episode of Oprah (he sang a BEAUTIFUL acoustic version of IWCY) will be repeated on Wednesday, July 19. Check local listings.
  
• YAY! Clay moves up to #33 on the Lycos50. Keep searching Claymates!
  
• The Pulse (Chatanooga's Weekly Alternative)- "Future Not Bleak" by Blair Hickman, an article about a group called Five Star Iris, says "Jimmy Page might rip out Clay Aiken’s hair and Robert Plant might squeeze Ruben Studdard until he explodes. Zep would be the hands down winner. Why? Because the classic rock greats are simply made of a proverbial higher quality of musical clay." Hmmmm, I don't necessarily agree with that!
• San Antonio Express-News - In article entitled "American Idol Auditions to Land in S.A." by Hector Saldano, it says, "The rest of the winners, and popular runners-up like Clay Aiken and Bo Bice, are all from the South."
• Wilkes Barre Times Leader.com (NE Pennsylvania's Home Page) - In "Our Own American Idol Words" by Katie Gross, Ms. Gross says, "I’ll admit that I am a Kelly Clarkson, Clay Aiken, Bo Bice, Taylor Hicks kind of girl. American Idol is, in my mind, the best reality television show to hit the airwaves, since Star Search in 1983-1985."
• ...and another one from the Times Leader calls Clay a "bona fide popstar"... "American Idol, which recently completed its fifth season, remains an enormous pop culture phenomenon. It has helped produce a bona fide pop star in Clay Aiken, a Grammy winner in Kelly Clarkson."
• Blogcritics: Taylor Hicks article asks 'Ruben who'? "...the big dude who won a while back whose name I completely forget because he's done absolutely nothing since winning, while the little pixie Clay Aiken who came in second actually had an entire career since then."
• Star Gazette.com - The article, "Idol Finalists Rock Mall", by Molly McCarthy, is about a local competition where the winner will compete "for the opportunity to win an all-expenses-paid trip to an upcoming audition of the Fox Network's "American Idol," which has made household names of acclaimed singers like Kelly Clarkson, Clay Aiken and Ruben Studdard, and arguably less talented vocalists like William Hung."
• WSOC TV - No NC Idol stop... "Raleigh's Clay Aiken drew huge concert crowds just by coming in second the year before."
• Antimusic: who will be the "next Clay Aiken?"
• New Times: Taylor Hicks "just another Clay Aiken" (???)
• TV Guide: Rock Star Supernova contestants should avoid this: "auditioning to be a backup singer for Clay Aiken"
• Clay's backing vocalist Angela Fisher has a new messageboard. Check it out.
• Rolling Stone blog refers to Clay's hair in Chris Daughtry blog... "Meanwhile, Clay Aiken continues to look eerily like Thom Yorke."
• USA Today Idol blog's comments include: "I would like to see Diana DeGarmo and Clay Aiken record more. They are better than the 3 I just named."
  

• A new blog called Back For More has a very detailed "analysis" of the song of the same name...When and where would you expect Harry Potter, Clay Aiken and Mountians at the same place? Weird, but thought provoking.
  

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