Tidbits 10/18

Meeghan's Quote of the Day: "Hard work is not a value you enjoy as you acquire it. But it is a value you come to appreciate later- and to disdain the absence of in others." ~ Clay Aiken

• Final HDD numbers for ATDW this week - 23,353. (not bad!)
  
• Newsday: Clay remakes Sedaka classic -- "'Solitaire', a Sedaka song that "American Idol's" Clay Aiken turned into a hit again"
• Some more Clay mentions in several Ruben articles - AP article (in case you missed it yesterday).
• Canoe.ca - tabloids- fact or fiction? "Why, if we were to take the rumour mill as gospel, we'd all believe that Clay Aiken is gay"
• Post Chronicle- Clay will be on NBC's Days of Our Lives soon. (this is not new information and article may offend some audiences)
• Long Island Press ATDW review- "In a bid to become his generation’s Michael Bolton, Clay Aiken goes the tried-and-true route of squeaky-clean troubadour. Aiken is in full-ballad, all-covers mode on A Thousand Different Ways, and while there’s nothing wrong with interpreting other people’s material, not all catalogs are created equal."
• Syracuse.com - Some interesting thoughts about Clay and ATDW from Donna Reynolds, of Idol Thoughts:

  Clay did the rounds of the talk shows and proved that he's still got his sense of humor, and that's a good thing. He's going to need it once the critics have finished reviewing this one. So far, the album has sold around 323,000 copies, dropping from #2 to #20 in three weeks. Skeptics are wondering if this one will even go gold. I don't think that's a problem, but I doubt it will go platinum any time soon. And that's too bad. I think Clay deserves better than this, and have this mental image of him throwing a tantrum when he found out the "new direction" Clive had in mind for this album. Shoot, the title doesn't even make any sense.

• River Cities' Reader- remember that doodle Clay did a long time ago for charity? That doodle thing is happening again this year. This article has a small Clay mention.
• Daily Eastern News- random Clay mention.
  

• Chexxy- a thousand different questions about ATDW, Clay and RCA. (I totally agree!!!)
  
• Southern Girl - celebrating, uh, National Pasta Day. (non Clay and no, we're not joking)
• ConCLAYve: Revisiting the Genome Music Project post-ATDW release.
• Debunking The Myth of Claymates- why journalists 'target' Claymates.
  

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