So over on the other blog I write for -- the sports one -- I was lamenting the fact that my local team is actually choosing one of their players via reality TV. Seriously.The players with the top four vote totals get to the final round, where the top player will be chosen by "a distinguished panel of judges." Who I assume will not include Paula, Simon, or Randy.
But toward the end, so I wouldn't be completely negative, I said something along the lines of:
And audience participation does get people genuinely interested and invested in the outcome. How else would somebody like Clay Aiken become a national star?
Which I thought was a pretty neutral quote. Right? So imagine my surprise when the first two comments came from rabid Clay Aiken fans taking me to task for implying that he wouldn't have made it big without American Idol. Like this:
Clay could have become a huge star without AI if he went to the right people-and he was ’spiffed’ up a little the way AI stylists spiffed him up, also. He did record two demo tapes, at age 19!!, that were incredible (you can d/l the songs from clackunlimited.com - most of his covers are better than the originals - songs from several different genres!!)-his voice was perfection and so was the production. His mother sold them to whomever she met up with. His fans just wished they landed in the right hands back then.
Okay, then. I'm thinking, "Wow. Who knew there was this kind of overlap between soccer fans and hardcore Aiken fans? I kind of would have thought they'd be mutually exclusive groups."
Then one of our regular commenters said:
hahah.
methinks some folks have “clay aiken” google alerts, and defend him in all corners of the internet.
Aha. I get it now.
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