‘On My Way Here’ Becomes A Theme For Clay Aiken

Clay Aiken spoke with Ricardo Baca of the Denver Post about his new single and title track off his new album, ‘On My Way Here’, a track written by OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder. Aiken said when he and producer Jaymes came across the track, it made such an impact with the ‘American Idol’ season two runner-up that they scrapped most of the previous songs they’d demoed. “When we heard that one a year ago, we changed the whole direction of the record,” Aiken said. “We had no theme before. We were just going to make an album. But with this song, everything rang so true. Right there we started looking for songs that talked about something that I had experienced in the last five years or something that explored a feeling I’d had.” Read more.