Nothing Has Changed!!

It has been 6 months since I last blogged so what has changed. The economy now sucks, many people have lost their jobs, Waterford Crystal has declared bankruptcy and Spamalot has closed. But the one thing that remains the same is the Clay Nation.

The shock of the news that there would be a Baby Aiken brought the Clay Nation to a stop. We sat by our computers waiting to hear from the man himself. We were ignored. Then the baby was born to a 50 year old women and a closeted gay man. The meticulous timing to have that baby born at 8:08 on 8/8/08 must have taken quite some planning. We heard the news from Clay himself then waited patiently for pictures and further detail.

Then the introduction of this baby to us on the cover of "People" where his father announced to the world he was gay was to some of the "holier then thou" Clay Nation the biggest shock and deal breaker with them. But to most of the fans "finally" the Clay Nation was able to discuss the true Clay or so we thought. The angst and the bitterness was rampant on Clay's own fan site. The fire was fuel when Baby Aiken's mother posted to the fans which alienated the nation even more. Her "ding ding ding" really made me dislike like her more than I already did.

The mother is Clay's Executive Producer of his last two CDs of which neither was highly acclaimed or successful. He says she is his Best Friend. Before the baby news was leaked in May there had been quite a discussion that she was a lousy EP and that she had to go. After finding out her role in the baby making I guess she will always be around holding Clay and his music back in the past, the forties, fifties, seventies and eighties. When she stepped into his personal life she should have stepped out of his professional life. To me she took the hottest music commodity of 2004 "Clay Aiken" and brought him to what he is today, a fuel for tabloid gossip who cannot even sell his CDs or get radio play. Is the best yet to come as she said or has the ship sailed? With no news down the road except maybe baby #2 what does the Clay Nation have to look forward to?

Clay avoids the Clay Nation. He doesn't blog on his fan site. I'm still waiting for a Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, thanks for buying my CD or thanks for coming to see me in Spamalot blogs. For someone who is constantly on his computer this seems a strange way to treat the people who pay his bills. He inconsistently did the stage door during Spamalot disappointing many fans who traveled far to see him. He spent an entire 30 seconds above Shubert Alley on his closing night and was gone before many fans could even spot him.

In December we told by a tabloid that Clay has a "friend". Was the leak several days before the "Star" intentional so we could get know him. I feel so. Many fans fell a little in love with the quite talented and good looking "flying monkey". He left his My Space open so we could get to know him. Now again we are shut out of Clay's life.

Clay has not shown his fans a picture of his "family" recently. The family he would not have if there had been no Clay Nation. The Special Ed Teacher in North Carolina would never have met the Sainted Executive Producer from California if it wasn't for America Voting.

Do we have a "right" to know is not the question. Of course we have no "right". But as someone who needs his Clay Nation for his work, it would be nice to interact with his fans more than he does.

Someone has started a new blog who wanted to share things with the Clay Nation. Again we find we have the "haves" the secret behind the scene message boards who have tons of clack of Clay and the "have nots". We have the fan police trying bully this blogger. We have people attacked because they said they didn't like a outfit worn by Clay. Nothing has changed. The Clay Nation itself has made it difficult for people who want to be fans to come on board and the media who is just tired of the constant harassing they receive whenever then mention Clay.

Time will only tell what lies ahead in Clay land. But as of now it looks like it will be bleak.

Just Me!