Clay Aiken – News, Views, and More – Part 2

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Monday, March 19th, 2012

Seems like there is a lot of articles about Celebrity Apprentice and the O’Cedar Mop episode.  The following are some of the reviews that were posted on Monday.

Philly 2 Philly

Lou Ferrigno Shines After Clay Steps Up To Penn

Things came to a head between Clay Aiken and Penn Gillette. Clay finally got fed up with Penn’s pompous attitude and unwillingness to give any of Lou’s ideas a chance. This was a turning point for the men’s team who have been looking to get rid of Lou for a few weeks now. Arsenio and Clay stuck up for Lou and helped him during the video shoot.

Suffice it to say, Lou did a hell of a job with his performance in the men’s video. They filmed him with an apron on while dancing with the mop. And, his opening line was “I’ll mop the floor with you.” It was cute, clever, quick, and to the point.

Aubrey O’Day Is The Cancer on the Women’s Team

It was clear that the women weren’t so sold on Tia’s leadership. Aubrey O’Day who is the cancer on the women’s team, made a comment about how this was a perfect project for Tia to lead since the company is “100 years old, like Tia.”

You can read the entire article at PHILLY

 

Writing Shares.com

The Celebrity Apprentice: Season 12, Week5:  Tia Carrere Gets Fired

Like Clay Aiken said, Tia probably would not have been fired if she had just fought. For me, it matters not who wins or whether someone wants to stay on the show and fight it out 100%. But for the sake of the charity, it seems very selfish to admit defeat on Celebrity Apprentice. If you are going to go on a show that is mostly about winning money for charity, at least fight for the cause.

….I thought Penn Gillette was a favorite, but he seems to be getting on people’s nerves. Penn has always been very opinionated on a variety of issues, but it seems like sly little Clay Aiken is crafting a strategy to get rid of Penn because he knows he’s strong competition. There’s nothing wrong with stating your opinion as a team member, and it’s up to the project manager to get someone back on the straight and narrow if a member is getting too disrespectful.

WRITINGSHARES  is the link to the entire review.

 

Another interesting take on last night….and with a YouTube. The site is iTricks.com – magic news

Why Did Penn Jillette’s Crew Laugh in His Face?

We long picked up on the simmering freinemy rivalry between Celebrity Apprentice cast members Clay Aiken and Penn Jillette. By and large, to this point, it’s been the larger, louder half of P&T using the American Idol runner-up as a punchline in interviews or discussing their relationship on his new hit podcast Penn’s Sunday School.

This week however, was he first time that Penn and Clay really matched wits on the reality competition. And lo, came the commentary from Penn’s podcast pulpit.

Specifically, how trivial and stupid his side of the feud was found to be by his long-time crew.  Here is the link for the entire article.  iTRICKS

 

Celebrity News and Style

Celebrity Apprentice 2012 Recap:  Tia Throws Herself Under a Bus

Lou wanted to use a superhero aspect but Penn Jillette disagrees, constantly being negative. Clay Aiken didn’t like that and spoke up about people “setting up Lou to fail” and being condescending. This earned Arsenio Hall’s respect. They wanted to win for Lou’s sake, which I liked.

Paul Sr. came up with the phrase, “I’ll mop the floor with you.”

The link for this site is CELEBRITY

 

NewsObserver.com – Happiness Is A Warm TV

Celebrity Apprentice’: Clay Aiken takes on Penn Jillette

Finally, there was a little Clay Drama in last night’s “Celebrity Apprentice.”

In this photo, Clay Aiken is in the act of telling off Penn Jillette. During a brainstorming session, Penn was critical of the ideas of project manager Lou Ferrigno, and it got on Clay’s last nerve. Clay went off, telling Penn he believed he was setting Lou up to fail and calling Penn’s attitude “condescending.” Penn listened quietly as Clay clenched his fists and exclaimed, “It’s frustrating the hell out of me!”

As “Celebrity Apprentice” face-offs go, it was pretty lowkey, perhaps because Penn didn’t really engage, he just sat and listened with a scary look on his face. But apparently, the men are intimidated by the Vegas magician so they were impressed that Clay stood up to him on behalf of Lou. Arsenio Hall was especially impressed, commenting that Clay was “handling his business.” Lou was also grateful and commended Clay for “putting Penn in his place.”

Lou also compared Penn to the devil, so …
Clay also helped Lou with his enunciation after he had trouble with his lines. Clay pointed out that before his singing career, he worked helping kids with speech problems. His tips seemed to help. And it looked like Clay and Arsenio did a lot of the directing for the video and Dee Snider helped with editing.

And then there was Clay’s awwwwkwaarrrd talk with Penn to try to patch things up. Turns out “condescending” is a trigger word for Penn and he was still very upset by Clay’s lecture. “I have never felt more set-up in my life,” Penn told him. They talked but didn’t get anywhere and things were definitely not “patched.”

Clay told the camera that with Penn, he “tried to find a silver lining and cannot.”

In the boardroom …

Lou told Donald Trump that he believed his team won because they gave 110% (drink now) and Clay said this time it was more like 120%.

There was no bickering. It was mostly Trump asking people questions and then interrupting them when they tried to answer, and Trump praising Lou for being so Incredible. Trump also asked Clay if “Celebrity Apprentice” was harder than “American Idol” and Clay said yes. Trump then told Clay that he thought he should have won “Idol.” I guess that means Ruben Studdard won’t be invited to the cast next season…

The men won the challenge, which meant the women had to stick around and fight it out in the boardroom……

The entire review can be found at NEWSOBSERVER

 

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Clay Aiken – When Clay Speaks, People Listen!

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Thursday, February 16th, 2012

Another day full of great promotion for Clay Aiken. I know I can’t get it all, but I will do what I can.

There seemed to be two different topics of comments. First, Clay’s comments about North Carolina’s proposed Amendment 1 seems to be everywhere. And, of course, there is a great deal of promotion for Celebrity Apprentice that starts next Sunday.

Here are a few of the mentions about North Carolina’s Amendment 1.

• The Advocate.com:

Clay Aiken Speaks Out Against Marriage Ban
Entertainer Clay Aiken is speaking out against North Carolina’s proposed Amendment 1, which will ban same-sex marriage, say it will hurt children by potentially taking away their health care.
Aiken, who came out publicaly as gay in 2008 and lives in North Carolina with his 3-year-old son, says the amendment goes too far, changing the state’s constitution to deny recognition to any union other than a heterosexual marriage….

You can read the entire article and see the video at ADVOCATE

• Charlotte Observer – Opinions

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012
Idol’s Clay Aiken blasts gay marriage amendment
Raleigh’s Clay Aiken, who rose to stardom on “American Idol” in 2003, is speaking out against the proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in North Carolina.

In a video posted to YouTube on Monday, Aiken says there’s no one right kind of family.

“Families look different. They always have looked different,” Aiken says. “You have single parent families, you have families with parents of different races, you have families with parents of different religions. And no matter what we might want a family to look like, we can’t put into a constitution — a document that’s supposed to protect our rights — one narrow definition. And I think that an amendment like this goes way too far.”
Aiken, a UNC Charlotte graduate, announced he was gay in 2008 and has a son with his friend, Jaymes Foster, the sister of record producer David Foster. Aiken recorded the spot for a group called The Coalition to Protect North Carolina Families.

Amendment One will be on the ballot on May 8. It would define marriage in the N.C. Constitution as being between one man and one woman. Gay marriage is already illegal in North Carolina.

We can’t name a single song Aiken sings, but he’s using his voice well on this issue. While other states, such as Washington, are moving toward equality, North Carolina could move away from it.

I have found at least 30 more articles that have posted Clay’s comments and the video. When Clay speaks…people listen!!

• Celebrity Apprentice 
Global TV.com:
If you can’t read the small print, be sure a click on the picture to increase the size.

• Bloomberg.com

This is an interview with Andretti. The following is the Clay info!

Trump’s Hair Is Real, Says ‘Apprentice’ Racer Michael Andretti: Interview

When Michael Andretti started taping the “Celebrity Apprentice” season last October, he did so on 24 hours’ notice.

He was a stand-in for his son, Marco, who the day before, Oct. 16, was involved in a 15-car crash at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway that claimed the life of 2011 Indy 500 winner Dan Wheldon.

Marco, 24, was too shaken to travel to New York, so his dad stepped in.

“I was thrown to the lions,” says Andretti, 49. “It was literally off the plane, put on a mic and ‘Here ya go!’ I didn’t even know what the task was.”

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Fans won’t know how Andretti’s luck plays out until the U.S. television season starts, as secrecy is paramount, but from a conversation with the racing driver and IndyCar team owner, it’s clear that he survives the first episode, airing on Feb. 19. Other contestants in a cast of 18 include Clay Aiken, Cheryl Tiegs and Arsenio Hall.

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Clash: Which contestants did you get along best with?

Andretti: You watch personalities change as time goes on. Some are fakes, then the real stuff comes out. I didn’t go in with a facade, so what you see is what you get. Dee Snider (Twisted Sister), Penn (Jillette) from Penn & Teller and Arsenio (Hall) are all cool guys. Clay (Aiken) was good, but he had his own mission so you had to watch him. Lou Ferrigno to your face was nice, but he’d throw you under the bus in the boardroom.

You can read the entire article at BLOOMBERG

* Penn, Lisa, and Mr. Trump have all had interviews on Wednesday. I am sure there will be more today!

The following is the new promotion for Celebrity Apprentice. There are some screen-caps and then the YouTube. Lots of fun!!

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Clay Aiken – “He Is So Unbelievably Talented”

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Monday, February 13th, 2012
Today, you can catch Clay Aiken on TV.  The Comedy Channel is broadcasting a re-run of Scrubs: “My Life in Four Cameras”  According to their schedule, the show can be seen at 2pm.
Originally broadcast on February 15, 2005, this particular episode received a great deal of publicity.  The popular Clay Aiken was a guest on the show and the director was using a new concept for filming the show.  The director chose to use multiple cameras instead of the usual one camera for this episode.  It was also the only time the show filmed in front of a live audience.
 Clay played the role of a nerdy cafeteria worker named Kenny. Although Kenny is a hard worker, he is about to lose his job because of budget troubles and cutbacks. However, before he leaves he wins the hospital talent contest. Clay performed the Stevie Wonder hit, Isn’t She Lovely on the talent show.
The publicity came from all different sources.   The following are a few of the articles that were written about the show.
USA Today
Aiken dons ‘Scrubs’
Americal Idol runner-up Clay Aiken will guest on a part-live audience taping of NBC comedy SCRUBS, usually a single-camera, closed-set show. The episode (Feb 15, 9pm ET) will poke fun at traditional sitcoms by portraying them as an unrealistic fantasy world with a laugh track.
Entertainment Weekly

Small-Screen ‘Idol’
Clay Aiken will guest-star on ”Scrubs.” ”American Idol” runner-up to appear on episode that makes fun of sitcoms by Michael SlezakApparently, Will & Grace isn’t the only NBC sitcom relying on singing sensations to boost its ratings. American Idol’s Season 2 runner-up Clay Aiken will play a cafeteria worker named Kenny in the Feb. 15 episode of Scrubs, which is titled ”My Life in Four Cameras,” and will reportedly ridicule such standard sitcom conventions as the laugh track, an NBC spokesperson confirmed.While Scrubs is typically filmed on a closed set, Aiken’s episode will be taped in part before a live audience. No word on whether the carrot-topped crooner will break into song during his Scrubs stint.
mtv.com

As an “American Idol” alum, Clay Aiken knows what it’s like to perform with a lot at stake, and next week fans will see him sing like his job’s on the line – his job as a cafeteria worker.
Aiken stars as Kenny, a cafeteria employee who likes to pick hair out of the meatloaf. Like many episodes of “Scrubs,” “My Life in Four Cameras” centers on daydreaming doctor J.D., played by Zach Braff, and this one features the “longest fantasy sequence of all time,” taking over the entire second act, according to co-star Sarah Chalke (who plays Elliott).

It starts when J.D. has to give a sitcom writer the bad news that he only has a few weeks to live, and then he wonders how the lives of everyone at Sacred Heart Hospital would turn out if left in the hands of the writer.

J.D. says to himself, “Sometimes, I think we all wish life was like a sitcom,” and then suddenly, life is a sitcom, as the show transforms into a mockup of traditional sitcoms, down to its own structure. Where “Scrubs” is normally shot with only one camera and no studio audience, there are now four cameras and a live audience. Their responses surprise J.D. at first, making him wonder just where the laughter is coming from.

“In the sitcom, it’s a joke that there’s always a big guest star, and they walk out and the audience goes, ‘Woo!’ ” Braff said. “And we needed to have that, and Clay was nice enough to be our ‘woo!’ ”

“I guess I have a little experience with live audiences,” Aiken said, “so they said, ‘Why not come out and give it a shot?’ ”

Kenny’s cafeteria job is on the line, but his natural singing ability comes in handy since a hospital talent show is just around the corner — a device that would only work in sitcom world. “They have to fire someone in the cafeteria,” Aiken said, “and my character is the one with the least seniority, so it looks like I’m about to be fired. But through the magic of television and sitcoms, my job is saved.”

“He is so unbelievably talented,” Chalke said. “He has this insanely sick voice. And he was so cool, he came and sang for the audience at the end.”

It wasn’t easy for the cast members to adjust — learning to hold for laughs, for one thing — but they liked the energy of doing the show live for a change.

“When you have the safety of being in an insular, creepy, invented hospital in the Valley,” Chalke said, “the crew becomes our live audience when we’re rehearsing. So if they don’t laugh, we just go to the writers and come up with something else.”

“But the crew is a little over our jokes after four years,” Braff said. “And the audience laughing at our jokes makes us think for a second that we’re actually funny.

If you don’t get the Comedy Channel on your TV, you can see some of the show right here.  There are plenty of screencaps and the YouTube shows Clay acting in this funny show!

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Clay Aiken – 13 Things To Do Today!

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Friday, January 13th, 2012

Today is the first Friday the 13th of 2012, but it won’t be the last. The superstitiously unlucky day is set to creep up two more times in 2012, so if you suffer from friggatriskaidekaphobia (that’s fear of Friday the 13th), maybe it’s best to stay indoors and find something else to do.

About 17 million to 21 million Americans have an irrational fear of the ill-fated day, according to the History Channel. There is some good news, though. The date can only appear a maximum of three times during a calendar year. This year, the inauspicious day will make two more appearances in April and July.

Although the fear might just be based on superstition, to this day, most buildings don’t have a thirteenth floor, and many airports don’t have a thirteenth gate. And apparently the economy tends to suffer a bit each time the foreboding day rolls around.  Donald Dossey is the founder of the stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, NC.  He says:

“It’s been estimated that $800 or $900 million is lost in business on this day, because people will not fly or do business they would normally do.”

Well, I’m not sure how I feel about Friday The 13th.  I never thought I was superstitious, but I wonder if I don’t think about it without even realizing I am!!

Instead of spending the day in fear of black cats, lets make it a fun Friday with these 13 ideas you can do as a Clay Aiken Fan!!.

 

  1. Read chapter 13 of Clay’s book, Learning To Sing.  Titled, Aim For The High Notes, I am sure you will feel better after this short read.
  2. Take A Thirteen Minute Walk With Clay:  It may only take you around the block, but a walk with your iPod filled with Clay songs will put a smile on your face.  See how far walking for thirteen minutes in one direction will take you from your house.
  3. Watch 13 Clay Aiken YouTubes.  Check out your favorites or follow a theme.  Now, you know you want to do this!!
  4. Gift 13 copies of Bring Back My Love.  You know if someone hears it, they will love it.  So…sign in to iTunes or Amazon and get to work!
  5. Download thirteen songs by Clay Aiken:  Wait…too easy… they must all be under three minutes and thirteen seconds.
  6. Copy 13 photos of Clay Aiken:  Pile all the photos together and make a small Friday the 13th album just for you.
  7. Donate $13.00 to The National Inclusion Project.  If we all did that today, we could send a child to camp!
  8. Make a 13-song CD of Clay’s Music.  Do you have 13 friends to give it to?  If not, why not take a few to an Assisted Living Facility or a hospital in your area?
  9. Mark 13 Dream Destinations on A Map.  Pull out a world map, or a globe if you have one and see if you can pick 13 places where you would love to see Clay perform.  (We can pretend we can afford any city.)
  10. Spend 13 Minutes without any distractions:  Turn off the phone, the computer and the TV.  Take 13 minutes to listen to Clay Aiken music!!
  11. Grab a Dictionary or Thesaurus.  Find 13 new words that describe Clay Aiken.  It’s fun and you have added some new words to your a vocabulary.
  12. Sign on To Your Computer.  Go into your saved pictures and choose  the top 13 pictures of Clay.  After a few hours, take a break and then try again!
  13. Send 13 E-mails.  Ask 13 of your Clay friends if they have requested Bring Back Your Love at their local AC radio station.

Yes…this is a fun day!!  I would rather spend my day enjoying my fandom than worrying about black cats, or 13 floors in a building.  Lets have fun!

Have you any other ideas for today?

 

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Clay Aiken – A Real Gem

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Friday, December 23rd, 2011

In December, 2007, Clay Aiken  sang in Minneapolis for a two night run of his Christmas in the Heartland Tour.

One of the showstoppers of the tour was Clay’s medley of beautiful Christmas songs from the 40’s. The arrangement of the hits was beautifully crafted by Jesse Vargas and featured the beauty of Clay’s voice and the romantic feeling of the songs. The first song in the medley was “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.”

On October 4, 1943, Bing Crosby recorded “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra for Decca Records. It instantly topped the charts as one of America’s most popular holiday songs. Within about a month of it being copyrighted, the song hit the music charts and remained there for eleven weeks, peaking at number three.

Walter Kent composed the music and James Gannon wrote the beautiful lyrics. Most of their fans thought the song was as beautiful as White Christmas, another Bing Crosby holiday song.

The following year, the song reached number nineteen on the charts. It touched a tender place in the hearts of Americans, both soldiers and civilians, who were then in the depths of World War II, and it earned Crosby his fifth gold record. “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” became the most requested song at Christmas U.S.O. shows in both Europe and the Pacific. Yank, the GI magazine, said Crosby accomplished more for military morale than anyone else of that era.

In December 1965, when the astronauts Frank Borman and James Lovell were returning to Earth after setting a record for the longest flight in the US space program aboard Gemini 7 spacecraft, they requested this carol to be played for them.

I had forgotten how wonderful this medley was until I watched this video on YouTube last night. Clay Aiken is a genius to put this romantic medley in his program. Jesse Vargas is also a amazing. This arrangement, written for Clay and the orchestra, is a real gem. I hope you enjoy the video.

 

I’ll be home for Christmas;

You can count on me.

Please have snow and mistletoe

And presents on the tree.

~

Christmas Eve will find me

Where the love-light gleams.

I’ll be home for Christmas

If only in my dreams.

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Clay Aiken – New York!

By musicfan123 · Comments (10)
Monday, December 5th, 2011

Hello from the exciting city of New York.  This Californian is certainly enjoying the city.

I am still in awe of Clay Aiken’s performance Sunday at the Home For The Holidays Concert.  No one sings My Grown Up Christmas List like Clay.  It was almost prayer-like and everyone seemed to stop and listen to every word.  And, another “shout-out” to Ben Cohn.  His arrangement of this song was amazing.  I am so glad that Ben and Clay work so well together.

I am so glad that there are at least 3 different videos of Sunday’s performance.  I know many of you have already seen this You-Tube, but I thought I should post it here too.  It is always fun to watch Clay performances and so, just stop and and watch again.

The following pictures are a few that I have taken while walking around New York.  I love my new iPhone, even if I can’t crop or edit until I get home.

I tried to take some pictures of places that have been mentioned recently.  It seems they were a part of Clay’s project in New York.

Trump Tower

Columbus Circle

Is this the right location?

Lord & Taylor Window Display

What Year Did Clay Sing Here?

Are you counting the days until the Gala?  We have so much to look forward to.

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Clay Aiken – About Being Different

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Friday, October 21st, 2011

So…what was Clay Aiken doing on Thursday?  Was he baking cookies?  Selling Wedding dresses? Working on a brochure for an advertising Campaign?  Well, we don’t know.

It seems that Celebrity Apprentice has moved into a secure location and maybe we won’t get anymore great pictures or cryptic messages.  The next few weeks could end up seeming like forever.  I just hope Clay is having a wonderful time and that his team is working well to make lots of money for charity.

So…life goes on and there are others things we can discuss, even if it isn’t as much fun as news about Clay.

Everytime I read about the music industry, I relate what I read to Clay Aiken.  It is fun to agree, ponder, cheer and sometimes just shake my head.

Last Monday, Bob Lefsetz wrote an interesting blog titled I Want My MTV.  In this article, Bob reminds his readers about how MTV changed the music industry and goes on to suggest some of the influence the Internet will have on music.

Lefsetz says of MTV:

MTV changed music. I’m not talking about the music business, but the music itself. Suddenly how you looked was important. And you had to fit the genre the station was promoting… Suddenly, music was all about the heavily-promoted, the heavily-marketed, it was made by beautiful people for everyone, and the people who weren’t beautiful, who’d lived a life of rejection, who considered music their own private playground, tuned out….Either you were on MTV or you were history. Either you were monstrous or you were irrelevant.

In the MTV era the music came first. If it wasn’t an approved genre, you were SOL. Sure, you had to look good and have money behind you, but if you didn’t sound like what MTV was playing, you had no chance. Now just the opposite is true. The way you connect with your fans comes first. The bond is the initial attraction. The music comes last. The point is the music can sound like anything, there are no limits, no rules, no genres you must fall into. You’ve just got to have a relationship with your fans and consistently honor it, put them ahead of all other interests.

Bob goes on to say that to day, online music is about being different…people are tired of the clones and want someone who is unique.  Lefsetz wrote seven suggestions for todays musician.

1. Dream small.

This is the opposite of the MTV era aspiration, when it was about getting on television and reaching everybody. Today your goal is to reach somebody, a single person, and then have the word spread from there. You can build something completely new or tap into a niche, but if you’re playing for everybody online doesn’t want you. Online is about the site that only appeals to you. Mass is a lucky accident after the fact.

2. Success is bidirectional.

You must know your audience and listen to it. If you’re playing to everybody you’re gonna reach nobody. Try to excite one listener who will spread the word. And it doesn’t matter what age you are, oldsters are the fastest growing demo on Facebook, they’ve got iPhones too.

3. The music is important.

But it’s not the only thing. If you’re waiting for someone to write you a check so you can stay at home and create and they can sell, you’re missing the point. You rehearse in public. People weigh in on you along the way. You grow with your audience. And money comes at the end of the game. Instead of going for a big advance, be your audience’s friend, they’ll end up giving you all their money via Kickstarter and concert tickets and merch sales thereafter.

4. The music must be available.

Never say no to your music being exposed online. Unless it’s tied in with a product or pitch. Yes to YouTube, yes to Spotify, yes to iTunes. With so much information out there, it’s hard to get noticed, don’t be your own worst enemy.

5. Creativity is king!

It’s the sixties all over again. The era of Frank Zappa has returned. You want people to check out your music to see what you have to say, to marvel at the insight, the outrageousness. One striking concept is more important than tens of thousands of dollars in promotion.

6. Different is a badge of honor.

People embrace the outlier. Music has become foreground once again. Unlike the hits du jour which are used as dance club fodder and workout inspirers, people are now paying attention to what you have to say. You can’t do skin deep unless you’re purveying irony. You’ve got to go for the heart and mind.


7. Growth curves are different.

In the MTV era you were a hit overnight. If you’re a hit overnight today, you’re gone tomorrow. That’s what a YouTube phenomenon is about, that’s Rebecca Black. If you’ve got millions of views, you’re on your way to irrelevancy. You’re better off with fewer hits generated over a period of years. Your stuff is always available online, you never know when a new fan will encounter you and decide to check out your entire output. They don’t have to sit in front of the TV and wait for your video, it’s all sitting there online, like a land mine…

…Don’t forget that the music business was in the doldrums prior to MTV. It was rescued by something the established players did not understand.

The same thing is happening today. Not tomorrow, but right now.

If you want to have a career, play to the Web audience, don’t care what the mainstream says, don’t release music based on holidays and other arcane data. If you wrote it at midnight, have it out tomorrow. Even if it’s Sunday. Your audience is online. Ready.

Do it for them.

They’ll do it for you.

What do you think of what Bob wrote?  Do you agree with him or are you rolling your eyes?

You can read all of Bob Lefsetz at his interesting site.  Please click on his site and read the entire blog.

BobLefsetz

Now…do you think we will hear about Celebrity Apprentice today?  That would be lots of fun.

 

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Clay Aiken – Beautiful Melodies and Touching Lyrics

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Friday, August 12th, 2011

I got a bit off schedule last night.  It seems I got lost watching YouTubes of Clay Aiken.  I found one YouTube that, although it is not too old, I had forgotten about.  It was a video of Clay and Lauren Kennedy performing together at the Bringing Broadway Home Concert in Raleigh.  Held on June 21, 2010 at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium, the concert was a benefit for the North Carolina Theatre.

Lauren and Clay joined together to sing a beautiful song titled In Whatever Time We Have.  The song was unfamiliar to me, but it was beautiful and I decided to learn more about it.

In Whatever Time We Have is a song from the two-act musical play titled Children of Eden.  Stephen Schwartz wrote the music and lyrics.  The musical is based on the Book of Genesis.  The play had a short run on London’s West End, but never made it to Broadway.

It was interesting to read more about Stephen Schwartz.  Schwartz has been an accomplished composer for over 40 years.  Some of the musicals he has written are Godspell, Pippin, and the very popular Wicked.  At one time he had three award winning shows all running on Broadway at the same time.

Schwartz then began working in film.  He collaborated with composer Alan Menken on the scores for Pocahontas and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.  He most recently collaborated with Alan Menken on the songs for Disney’s movie, ENCHANTED.

Schwartz has won almost every major award in his field, including three Oscars, four Grammys, four Drama Desk Awards, one Golden Globe Award, and the Richard Rodgers Award for Excellence in Musical Theater.  He has also received six Tony Award nominations. Mr. Schwartz was recently given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

OK…no wonder I liked the song!!  Schwartz is an amazing talent.  There are few people who can write both beautiful melodies and touching lyrics.

The following are the lyrics of In Whatever Time We Have.  It is worth reading the words.  Then, watch and listen to Clay and Lauren as they perform this beautiful song.  It seems to be a perfect match.

In whatever time we have
For as long as we are living
We can face whatever comes
If we face it now as one
I could make it on my own
Now I know that I don’t have to
No one really wants to be alone
In whatever time we have

In whatever time we have
After all this time without you
It’s not easy to be sure
It’s not easy to believe

All we know for sure is this
Though the world could end tomorrow
You and I will be together
In whatever time we have

We know life can be a battlefield
But we won’t run
And we won’t heel
You’ll be my fortress
And I will be your shield
No one really wants to be alone
In whatever time we have

If at times we are afraid
With so little to believe in
It’s alright to feel afraid
I will hold you in the dark

We could live a hundred years
Or the world could end tomorrow
But we know we’ll be together
In whatever time

From this day forward nights won’t seem so black
From this day forward we will never look back
In whatever time we have
We will make the most of time
And at least we’ll be together
In whatever time we have

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