Tidbits 10/23

Competition? What competition? Clay Aiken rules this week's Promosquad Top 20 charts. Congrats Clay - nice job everyone!

• Billboard - Fred Bronson makes a small Clay mention in his answer to a Mario Vasquez question.
  
• Rocky Mountain Collegian -article about an AI style talent contest - "OriginIdol" trumps American Idol - "And although my heart melts whenever I hear Clay Aiken's rendition of Heatwave's hit "Forever and Always," CSU students displayed true original talent on Friday night."
• Times Tribune- mention of Christmas concert
• Burlington Free Press - this is weird - article about coyotes & hunting - "Aren't coyotes responsible for everything vile like Act 60, global warming and the new Clay Aiken CD?"
  
• The American Street - not sure what this is. Mentions: "I dunno about you, but I think Clay Aiken will save us all."
• QNotes- music class of Fall 2006 - "Clay Aiken: Drama club president. (Even though he can come up with “A Thousand Different Ways” to explain why he doesn’t have a girlfriend, everybody knows the deal.)" (what???????)

Mee-ghan's Quote of The Day
"Everything you are. Everywhere you've been. The sinner, and the saint that fight the battle within. Everyplace you go. Everybody knows. Shadows fall across the sun sometimes. Shine. Your gonna shine."

-Clay Aiken- from the song, "Shine"

• Taking A Moment's halloween post (and no, it's not too early. I've seen "Season's Greetings" signs up around my town already. LOL.)
• Christian blog H-n-T: Clay mention in a little section about "You Were There" - a controversial Christian song Clay performed during 2004's Not-A-Tour.

  I was working on a story about Clay Aiken sometime ago, and was struck by something he did. He asked to put a worship song into his concert set, and he was amazed when his sponsor agreed. He said he'd deliberately chosen to become a mainstream artist rather than a Christian artist because he knew he'd get big opportunities to share his faith in small ways. Now, if Clay had performed solely Christian contemporary songs, surely some people who weren't believers would have gone to his concerts. But I'm guessing his choice gives him better access to the unbelieving world. Cynical me might think, Well, Clay's just in it for the money. In my spirit, I know this: He doesn't have to sing any songs about God or Jesus. The fact he's made that choice and takes that risk suggests he's one of those missionaries in Hollywood. There may not be a zillion of them, but I do believe there are Christian missionaries in the entertainment industry.

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