Jim Farber of The New York Daily News reviewed Clay Aiken’s new album ‘On My Way Here’, and was less than impressed with the ‘American Idol’ season two runner-up’s latest effort, giving it only 1 out of 5 stars, and catching immediate heat from the legions of loyal Claymates in comments posted at the newspaper’s web site. “Most of the songs Aiken chose present him as a lonely and longing figure, a role meant to make him even more sympathetic to a certain sect,” Farber writes. “Essentially, they’re the latter-day equivalents to those who clung to ‘The Lawrence Welk Show’ long after it lost its cultural resonance in the late ’60s. To those folks – the last ostriches of the sexual revolution – Aiken remains an island of sanity, a final bastion of proud, neutered uncool.” Read more, including the angry reaction, here.
