Clay Aiken Fans Equated With Late ’60s ‘Lawrence Welk Show’ Viewers
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.
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