I dunno… it’s one thing to occassionaly jam to Transformers the Movie: Sountrack, but it’s quite another to pay money to talk about it online with peers…
Clay needed the company.
You wish you had a creepy psycho stalker for a son?
That’s putting it mildly. However, some people are in violent denial.
I wonder about that too, except change “young teenage girls” to “Jesus-bracelet wearing, homeschooling/ed, fundies”, since, if I understand correctly, they outnumber star-struck tweens in his fan base. If he’s gay (I don’t agree that it’s “absolute”, but who knows), will they reject him, or, will it inspire them to (greater) tolerance of homosexuals?
I mean, I spent an evening a couple years ago looking at one of his fan sites. MIL wanted to watch Miss America (she knew somebody who knew somebody who was related to Miss West Virginia, who unfortunately didn’t even place) and His Clayness performed. So I decided to check and see what comments the Claymates had, and they were livid, on account of while he was singing “There She Is…” the network ran a voiceover about upcoming shows and you couldn’t hear him. I mean, they were composing irate letters to the producers, and condemning the pageant and who knows what all. Then I checked out some other threads, and it was scary. Summing it up was a thread in which one poster suggested that the other fans ease back and stop doing stuff like hold their baby up at meet’n’greets so Clay could touch it as if he was going to heal it, and following the tour bus to the hotel, and so forth. Either she or someone else said, “C’mon, guys; he wasn’t born in a manger!”
So my point is, if he did come out, assuming he has someplace to come out from, which would upset their worldview less: rejecting him entirely, or admitting the possibility that a person can still have all the supermessiah qualities they think he has and be gay at the same time?
As they say about TV reruns, if you didn’t catch it on the first go-round, it’s new to you. Believe it or not, I’ve never given Clay Aiken (or his sexuality, or his career, or his messiahlike abilities to heal) a whole lot of thought.
Anyway, I just find it sociologically interesting, that the same thing should recur 50 years or so later, what that says about us as a society.
From his Wikipedia article, and damn you for leading me to look it up:
Ouch. Sorry. I owe you one. Next gnat extraction is on me.
I think Clay Aiken has a great voice. There, I’ve said it.
I am not crazy about the material he does on his records (er, CDs) but his voice is awesome.
I’m 41, married, and don’t care if he’s gay or not.
I have a lot of embarrassing stuff in my music collection, and shan’t cast stones.
I only read the fan sites for amusement. Most of the internet fans scare me. However, I think that the majority of people who secretly listen to Clay’s music really don’t care if he’s gay. BTW, his new CD comes out on 9/19, if you happen to like covers of cheesy 1980’s power ballads (like me). Oh, and I only joined the fan club to get better concert tickets.
And all the while, Ruben Studdard is howling “But Ah won Idol, not that little cracker fairy! Ah won! Where’s *mah * fan club?” Well, between gasps for breath and mouthfuls of barbecue, that is.
If he was invisible…wait, he already is! Watch out, psychobunny! He’s gonna kill you for saying that about his fellow Claymates!
You mean he’s Eoin McLove from Father Ted?
Is it okay to dislike Clay Aiken because he (or rather a metric shitload of psycho Claymates) made it in-fucking-possible to go to my Brother-in-law’s graduation?
Oh yeah, I also think he looks like a poor man’s Martin Short.
I saw Clay Aiken sing the national anthem at a NASCAR race (either in '05 or '04).
I still consider that pretty odd.
I’d be interested in seeing just how much money some of psychobunny’s fellow psychos ran through. . .“Gotta get it renewed. Gotta get it renewed. Gotta get it renewed NOW, goddammit. I’m at my LIMIT??? FUCK. I just blew my chances with Clay.”
You know what? He really is! I don’t know if anyone, in an unusual move, has actually made him a cake with a jumper in it, but they might as well have.
Clay is the perfect crush. He’s safe and as sexually innocous as a newly neutered puppy. The perfect match for pre-sexual girls and asexual women. Not the most happening fan club in town, but perhaps no wierder than wanting to get intimate with an anime character. I consider them equally, if differently, deviant.
Now that you’ve brought anime into it, I have to post this pair.
C’mon, I can’t be the only one who sees it!
I thought the first link was Sandy Duncan for a minute. I hope I’m not the only one who sees it.
Fuuuuuuuuuck… I don’t know WHAT I just saw. Thanks for the link (not).