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Posts: 826 (11/07/09 1:46 PM) Registered user |
Chexxxx wrote: Maybe if he sang it on helium while gyrating and groping around his package you'd be able to feel it more.[/quote] 
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Posts: 5306 (11/07/09 2:31 PM) Registered user |
the mates are in full force today... |
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Posts: 3045 (11/07/09 4:15 PM) Fantardus Überdramaticus |
EllieTay wrote:
y'all shouldn't post videos of Clay singing if you don't want people giving their opinion... How a real singer connects to a song
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Posts: 141 (11/07/09 7:31 PM) Registered User |
EllieTay wrote:Maybe if you were a guy Adam would let you grope his package. Remember however, if he gets drunk enough, he might kiss a woman. Clay packs plenty of emotion into his songs. He makes them so believable. Fans see and feel what they want, and obviously there will be some uneducated, tone deaf people who will decide before they even hear a note. Adam looks like a clown on meth. Oh wait, where is that picture of him smoking weed? |
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Posts: 3053 (11/07/09 7:59 PM) Fantardus Überdramaticus |
Fans see and feel what they want that is the key right there. FANS see and feel what THEY want... so even if the emotion isn't there you feel it anyway because you love Clay and that's not a bad thing... the point is Clay didn't move me, as a "non-fan" in a way that makes me believe that HE believes what he's singing. Like he's never longed for anyone the way that song speaks about. This is just an opinion of course and really not any more important than anyone else's here... just saying what I feel when I listened to him that song. THISsong he connects with beautifully.... |
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Willow137 |
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Posts: 143 (11/07/09 8:29 PM) Registered User |
eraserhead19 wrote:I think he is presently in love and must miss his boyfriend very much. Because they are both in the entertainment field, it must hurt very much to be apart. I can hear his longing for his loved one quite clearly. THISsong he connects with beautifully....Because he had not yet come out and longed for love, the lonliness and agony are very well portrayed in that performance of "Lover All Alone". I also felt that when he sang "I Survived You" he was singing it to Simon and all the rest of the haters who were so critical of Clay. He is STILL surviving to this day and seems very happy with his life. |
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Posts: 3054 (11/07/09 9:00 PM) Fantardus Überdramaticus |
Because he had not yet come out and longed for love, the lonliness and agony are very well portrayed in that performance of "Lover All Alone". YES! That's the emotion I'm hearing.. that he wants more than what he was able to have in that moment. It's such a beautiful yet heartbreaking song. I also felt that when he sang "I Survived You" he was singing it to Simon and all the rest of the haters who were so critical of Clay. I always felt he was singing that about his father and step father who supposedly weren't very nice to him growing up. |
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Posts: 144 (11/07/09 9:21 PM) Registered User |
eraserhead19 wrote: Yes, I sort of include his father and step father with those who were so critical. It's amazing Clay is still able to laugh and sing with all that has happened to him. I'd be curled up in a corner trying to die if it had been me. Maybe "I Survived You" was a big f-you to everyone who had treated him so badly. It is no wonder he named his charity "National INCLUSION Project". I'm sure he did not feel included in much of his life. |
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Posts: 3057 (11/07/09 9:41 PM) Fantardus Überdramaticus |
yeah.. he had it pretty shitty growing up... I'm always surprised that his mother didn't seem to do more to protect him from the emotional abuse
heaped on him by his father and step father....
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Posts: 1270 (11/08/09 10:14 PM) |
EllieTay wrote:The video taker calls the video clack. Only claymates call it clack. I remember the days well. |
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Posts: 1271 (11/08/09 10:21 PM) |
Clay packs plenty of emotion into his songs. He makes them so believable. Fans see and feel what they want, and obviously there will be some uneducated, tone deaf people who will decide before they even hear a note. Adam looks like a clown on meth. Oh wait, where is that picture of him smoking weed?Some people may have perfectly good hearing and great taste in music and not care for Clay's delivery. It is an acquired taste. Let's face it, subtle he is not (usually). I am not a fan of the glory note but despite that I did enjoy Clay for a good amount of time after idol ended. He did always seem a bit detached from the songs he was singing but I blame that on the quality of the song and Clay hiding so much. Now that he is out and able to just be himself I am looking forward to his new cd. With the right label and the right people guiding him he could do quite well for himself once again. I'm not sure where he would fit on radio except for adult contemporary but he could reign supreme in that format with the right material. I would say Clay's voice is not at the quality it was on idol but he is still arguably one of the best, if not the best, male singers to come from idol. He's certainly in the top 3 anyway. |
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EllieTay |
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Posts: 830 (11/08/09 11:30 PM) Registered user |
quickstart wrote: You are correct, the one that took the video is a Clay fan, but she was surprised that he was there that night. There were a few more Clay fans in the crowd. None of them expected to see Clay but lucky for us, they got clack. Clay's voice is kind of out of shape. There is another video that shows his face a bit more clearly and he appears to wince at one point when his voice cracks. Honestly, I think it surprised and dismayed him. Hopefully he'll exercise those vocal chords quite a bit over the coming months. I think he'll be back in great voice soon enough. Use it or lose it, as they say. |
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Posts: 850 (11/12/09 4:37 PM) Registered user |
I wonder if this is true. Some PR firm blogged this.
November 12th, 2009 Studdard will also head out on tour this Spring/Summer with former American Idol competitor Clay Aiken for the first time since their friendly competition for the crown. |
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KayTard |
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Posts: 232 (11/12/09 5:43 PM) Registered user |
Clay blogged and he's full of news.
Table Scraps 11/12/09 So, it has been brought to my attention that I haven't blogged recently. True! I have been really bad. So sorry. I think sometimes I don't have anything to say, and then by the time I do have something to say there's just so much that I can't figure out what exactly to talk about. So here are the table scraps that have been piling up in my brain for the last several weeks Thanks SOOOOOO much to all of you who were able to attend the NIP Champions Gala. It was great fun and a real success. I think we raised the bar this year and i look forward to making it a huge hit in years to come. What happened to Wake County Schools?!?1 Now that i have a kid i am so much more invested and I am EXTREMELY disappointed that so many selfish idiots ran and won seats on the school board. i hope we can get rid of them as soon as possible before they ruin my school system. Idiots. Been traveling a lot lately to work on the album. I am very excited about it. Recording orchestras in London. Working on song arrangements and such in New York. Will be headed back to london and then on to Germany in the coming weeks to do more orchestra stuff and to do vocals. I am quite happy with what we are doing this time, and extremely satisfied with the direction we are headed in on this album. It is going to be fun. Looking at trying to do a PBS special for next year to go along with this album. I think it may work out. That will be fun, and it will target an audience that I really hope to target this time. We'll keep you up to date. While in London last time, I went with Hannah, to see Sister Act: the Musical. I went because I thought it would be a disaster and I wanted to see how bad it would be. I was SOOO WRONG. It was incredible. REALLY great. The sets were some of the most amazing I have EVER seen on a stage and the music was SPECTACULAR. Alan Menken, who wrote Aladdin and Beauty and The Beast and MUCH more, wrote the music for this... it was SOOO good. Makes me REALLY want to do hunchback of Notre Dame (which he also wrote) on Broadway. Anyone know anyone at Disney Theatricals? Wanna pull some strings? ;-) -I also saw Precious (the movie)... UNBELIEVABLE. It was so real and so gritty and so horrifying. Yet, at the same time, there were amazing glimpses of light in it. Several times the entire audience laughed out loud. It was really great. When it opens in your city, you must go! Mo'Nique MUST win the Oscar for supporting actress. You will NOT have a dry eye when you see this film. Yippee! The News & Observer is now on my Kindle! One of my contacts fell out today and it took forever to put it back in. Then, once I got it in, it hurt. So, I tried to take it back out and it didn't want to come out. What is that all about? Why do they fall out when you want them in, and stay stuck in when you want them out? ? ? So now my eye is all red, and I'm on to glasses again for a while. Did you see Larry King last night? Carrie Prejean is a complete dumbass! That's all my brain can regurgitate for now. Miss y'all. See ya soon! c
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Posts: 233 (11/12/09 9:02 PM) Registered user |
EllieTay wrote: From twitter: AmeeS32: WOW how awesome is that? @RubenStuddard and @clayaiken on the same stage once again!!!!! BRING ON 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RubenStuddard: @AmeeS32 it's really awesome !!!" |
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2sunami |
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Posts: 338 (11/12/09 9:07 PM) Registered User |
Clay saying Dumbass just made my life! |
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Posts: 5512 (11/12/09 10:29 PM) Registered user |
the sad thing is .... u totally meant every word u just said
kill yourself yw |
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Posts: 3202 (11/12/09 11:28 PM) Fantardus Überdramaticus |
Did you see Larry King last night? Carrie Prejean is a complete dumbass! wait.. does Clay calling this girl a dumbass make him a douche? just curious... cuz I doubt she's said anything directly to or about Clay himself and yet he feels he has the right to insult her? hmmmm bet the mates are peeing themselves over this bit a "snark" |
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2sunami |
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Posts: 339 (11/13/09 2:08 AM) Registered User |
eraserhead19 wrote: No honey, it isn't snark when you're just telling the unvarnished truth. You know, the same thing as that courageous honesty and unfiltered mouth you love about the glittery one? Clay gets to be as honest and blunt as he likes too. No double standards please. If your boy gets a free pass, so does mine. Did you watch her on Larry King last night? I didn't think so. Do you even know who she is and what she stands for? |
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Posts: 1283 (11/13/09 6:05 PM) Registered user |
2sunami wrote:Carrie Prejean just said Clay calling her dumbass was inappropriate.
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