Why Do We Have To Fight

Today I made a comment on my home Clay Aiken board an within minutes I had the usual suspects telling me my opinion is wrong. It's funny. It's always the same people. The people who think nothing is wrong in Clayland.

In Clayland we have two extreme ends of his fandom. Then we have the rest of us who are really the majority but in most cases are afraid to say anything. We have the "haters" on one side. They spend their life trying to bring Clay down. They discuss him 24/7 and no matter what he does find fault with him. They talk about his music, his looks, and his humanitarian work. They call him evil incarnate.

Then you have the extreme opposite. The "do-goers". Their "job" is to defend Clay even though he has told them to stop it and ignore all the crap that is said about him. They engage the "haters", the media and fans. They attack any fan that goes against their agenda. They call you a bad fan. They have a wall of shame. I'm sure I'm on it having been banned at one time.

Most of us fall somewhere in between. We support Clay and his projects. He has brought awareness of the plight of children in many areas of the world and the misconception that most people have about children with disabilities. We support his music. We love to go the concerts, many time more than once because of the friendships we have made though our Clay fandom.

Do I believe that Clay is perfect? No. He has his faults and his fallacies. Don't we all. He was thrust into the limelight. Every word that he has uttered publicly has been dissected to pieces. Things he said five years ago are still used against him. He is no longer the naive young man that we saw in 2003 but a man whose life has been torn asunder.

This summer bought us new gossip. We haven't heard from either principles but yet everyone feels they know the truth. We have several more weeks before the expected event and I hope at that time the principles will share their reasons and feelings. It's their private life and they have every right not to, but that would be the first step in healing this fandom. Many people just want to hear from Clay. Let the fans leave if they can't accept Clay as he is and not try to make him fit their perception.

I have said before that Clay had me at "take" and I am here for the long run. My love for Clay is unconditional.

Just Me!

A McCain Tribute

Yesterday morning I decided to start this blog because of something that happen on the message board that I frequent. There has been a YouTube video of Obama and his wife and a person was posting the hit numbers followed by a dancing banana. Doesn't seem like much but it set several of us off. I told the person posting that it seemed that they were pushing their own political agenda onto the board which is a no no. Of course their answer to me was that it was just viral marketing of Clay Aiken so that the not just us fans can hear his music. They could be right.

I also said in all fairness then where is the John McCain video to Clay's music on YouTube? Well today there is one. It's a beautiful tribute to Mr McCain set to my favorite song off of Clay Aiken's new CD ON MY WAY HERE. The song is Ashes. You can listen to it here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK5S-3IMBQA

Let's give it YouTube hits.

Thanks for reading,

Just Me

It's Just Me

In 2003 I was a computer illiterate. I didn't even know how to log onto to the Internet. My family had banned me from using the computer if they were not around since I had locked everyone out of the Internet.

Then came the summer of 2003 and a runner-up from a reality show came into my life and my life hasn't been the same since. My computer skills have greatly improved. I can now surf the web. Do my banking online. Book vacations and communicate with all my family and friends. This doesn't sound like much to some of you but to a middle-aged women it's quite an accomplishment.

I have been a member of several message boards and lately I have been disillusioned. It's seem you can only post what a few chosen members want to hear otherwise you are attacked viciously and told that your opinion is wrong. Post are deleted, post are edited and the reprimand from an administrator and the post that say your opinion is wrong follows. Where can I go to voice my opinion? Why here. This is the reason that I decided to start this blog. You can agree with me or not but here I don't care. This is my blog.

Yes I am a fan a Clay Aiken. He had me from the moment when he sang "take". I voted throughout the season and was disappointed when he was not "allowed" to win. Why, we will never know but many people think he did. The day after the "anomaly" as it is called in Claydom I started looking for information on this remarkable young man with the beautiful voice. My computer days began.

I have followed his career and with my husband and family have attended many concerts and this past spring Spamalot. I have met many wonderful people though my fandom. But then again there are the over the top fans that embarrass us all. I don't consider myself one of them. They are just are clueless that they do more harm to Clay's career than good. They give the hate bloggers and talk show host fodder of making jokes at Clay's expense. They respond to every negative mention or appeared diss of Clay causing more fuel to the fire. I am tired of being ridiculed by these people because of these few over-top-fans.

Why all the hate? Why so much time hating on the man. I have read where they say Clay only stays in 5 star hotels when he travels with UNICEF. But in an interview from yesterday from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel http://www.sun-sentinel.com/travel/sfl-0706celebtravel,0,6215686.story he tell about while visiting Afghanistan he stayed in a bare bones hut with no toilets or running water. Today he posted about his trip last month to Somalia. You can read it here. http://fieldnotes.unicefusa.org/field_visit/.

I wish there were more people in the world like Clay Aiken. I seems that he is doing and living his life his way. He is trying to make a difference in this world. Not trying to make a buck.

In the future I will not always blog about Clay but hope to voice my thoughts about other subjects. Thanks for reading.

Just me!