hey! I didn't know where to post this, so I just made a new thread. If any of you have good articles about Clay, post them here! What I wanted to show you all is a part of the article about Ruben from when he was on the cover of Rolling Stone. This isnt the whole article, but it's the part in which Clay is mentioned, and they make Ruben look like a bad guy. It's weird, considering it was HIS time to shine... he was on the cover... anyways, here it is:
The other black Idol guys on the tour, Rickey Smith and Charlie Grigsby, stroll into the dressing room and soon are laughing with Studdard about the days when their families were on welfare and they had to eat government cheese. A discussion about how hard it was to grill the government cheese moves on to government bologna, government cornflakes and government peanut butter. In walks Clay Aiken. His eyes twinkle even when his brow is furrowed. He's the only white male in the group, and he has no idea what they're talking about. Studdard explains to him that welfare isn't just food stamps, it's also foodstuffs. "That's the best cheese ever," Studdard says. "It don't wanna melt, though. It stay hard, but that's good eatin'."
By 7:20, the dressing room is empty except for Studdard. He goes onstage last, so he doesn't start getting dressed until Grigsby, the first performer, hits the stage. Everyone else is ready to go, but Studdard is lying on the couch with his personal DVD player, singing along with Kirk Franklin in concert like he's back in a pew. Aiken smooths in wearing a white dress shirt and brown pants and says, "Ruben, I need you." Studdard glances up, and without a word hoists himself up from the couch, stands face to face with Aiken and carefully knots Aiken's purple tie like a helpful older brother. This happens every night. "I can tie my tie," Aiken says later, "but I just can't do the small knot. I make a huge knot. We were on the show, and he was trying to teach me, and I couldn't get it, so he said, 'Fine, let me just do it.' So now it's a ritual, and we don't do the show without it."
Once Studdard is dressed, the bodyguards come back to lead him out to the stage. Studdard pulls one of them to the side. "There's too many sports teams in this town for there not to be fine women," he says in a low, conspiratorial voice.
"What're you looking for?" the bodyguard says. "Gimme a description."
"I like 'em fine. Remember the girl I brought back in Columbus?"
"You want light-skinned?"
"Remember the girl from the party? Like that."
"I understand." But no girls end up backstage tonight.
it's weird, like it was an article about HIM. He was on the cover... you'd think they would try to flatter him in it and not make him out to be a woman user and make him sound lazy.
and even through making ruben look bad in his own article, they make clay look good... as ruben is laughing about his welfare food, "In walks Clay Aiken. His eyes twinkle even when his brow is furrowed. He's the only white male in the group, and he has no idea what they're talking about."
He can perform at stadiums and in front of millions on TV, but don't ask Clay Aiken to hear himself speak.
"I can listen to myself sing, but to listen to myself talk makes me cringe. I don't even like to hear myself on an answering machine,"says the North Carolina native, who nevertheless agreed to narrate new audio versions of the popular Arthur Adventure Series children's books. His audience may not know the storyteller.
"I don't think kids would recognize my voice unless I sang the book," says Aiken, 25. "They're going to say 'Mama, who is this kid with the country accent?' Most moms will recognize me, only because I sound like such a big hick."
4m me:
I would....I love his hick country accent.....
People also has an article on Josh Gracin but it doesn't say much about idol...but that when they were living in the mansion they were no regular hours and junk food at the ready....
Diana DeGarmo came in second on American Idol but her chances of igniting a singer career may be pretty good, judging from teh success of another AI number two, Clay Aiken
Personality Type
Clay Aiken: Loner, who seems to spend most time with his bodyguard
Diana DeGarmo: Bubbly 17-year-old whose friends keep her grounded
Popularity contest
Clay: 33.7 millon watched him lose to Ruben Studdard
Diana: 31.4 million watched her lose to Fantasia Barrino
Record deal
His Album, MOAM, has reportly sold 3 million copies
Diana: Is abou tot sign a deal with RCA and hopes to release an album this year
Sweet smell of success?
Red-hot Clay will being this first tour as a headlining act on July 6 in Dismarck, N.d. (which we all know was moved to July 8...the article is kinda old)
Diana's first single, Dreams, was released June 29 and she will join the AI tour on July 14 in Salt Lake City
Hum, they sound pretty evenly matched, now we have to go out and buy buy buy Diana's cd if it comes out, to all who like Diana, you HAVE TO BUY HER CD!
I really wish I could hear part of that story being read. I bet I'd recognize his voice, how could you not?