Palm Beach Post : Clay "really talented, kinda sorta sexy"
There are those eureka moments we all feel when a reviewer just plain gets it... kind of like that Billboard review from earlier this month. Even though this review of Clay's West Palm Beach concert was not nearly as long as that Billboard review, it is another eureka moment... this reviewer just gets it!
Here is a snippet of the review... make sure you give the Palm Beach Post lots of hits for this... as a thank you for their fantastic coverage of the concert over the past 4 days.
Aiken more than singer he's a showman... and while we're at it, here are some shots from last night's concert in West Palm Beach, FL:
By LESLIE GRAY STREETER
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 19, 2007
WEST PALM BEACH — Clay Aiken, whether or not you are a fan of his, is pretty much considered a good singer by most people who have ears.
But even the uninitiated would have to be blind not to see that Aiken - who has an amazing range and was vocally flawless - is that rare celebrity who is both a singer and a performer, equally, even though, as he pointed out, "I am not cool."
But here are three things that Clay Aiken is:
• Clay Aiken is a funny guy. Whether leading the crowd through a medley of television theme songs, including Diff'rent Strokes and Growing Pains, or mocking his uncoolness with OPP or SexyBack (yeah, you read that right), the boy's got a comedian's timing and deft touch with a zinger.
• Clay Aiken is really talented. He is not just a whiz at the questionably sappy original songs like Into These Arms. Aiken breathed new life into I Wanna Know What Love Is, a song that hasn't been fresh since 1984, and made the theme to Perfect Strangers, which was never really all that fresh, revelatory.
• Clay Aiken is kinda sorta sexy. I'll let you chew on that.
But because Aiken revels in that, he transcends even the goofy moments into genuine entertainment, like with his cover of Bad English's When I See You Smile. He is so uncool that he sort of is. And that's a talent.
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