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People with safe, inoffensive personalities and average talent tend to win these shows. Look at X Factor 2011. The safest, most inoffensive people are Rachel and Marcus. Melanie dared to expose her accent, Chris is too hiphop, and let's face it Josh looks like a serial killer and sings too aggressively. I'm looking to Marcus to win even though personally I don't like him that much.
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This song, this performance, was the night I became a Clay Aiken fan.
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There's like..... no one on here, notice, who can say a bad thing about his voice. Why? Because it's a gem. He is excellent, and will always be the true American Idol.
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My jaw just dropped open when Clay sang that last note. Incredible, just incredible. Clay Aiken is my all-time favourite American Idol contestant. His voice is just so unique and beautiful. Pure talent.
8 months ago 2
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@shejean Ruben--to this day does NOT 'fit' the picture' of a 'popstar'. He never became one, did he??? Clay has much more stage presence and talent. He has SOLO toured more than all the other finalists put together! He did not lose because people 'thought he was gay'---if that was true--he would never have gotten to the finals and been as popular as he is. AI picked CLAY to narrate AI2 Rewind and they also chose him to emcee the Xmas special in 2003. NOT the so-called 'winner'-Ruben.
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Ruben didn't get more votes than Clay. Clay was receiving 80 percent of the vote EVERY SINGLE WEEK HE WAS ON-----that was quoted by TWO producers when asked why they thought Clay 'lost'. The one phoneline and two hours of voting time was NOT enough to garner all the millions of votes MORE than Ruben Clay's fans were trying to get in. The very next season, and ever since, all finalists are given 2 phone lines and four hours of voting time. Clay had/has many more accolades and fans than Ruben.
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LOL @ all the conspiracy theories... It's pretty simple why Clay lost. Whenever the finale has a safe, likeable finalist and a polarizing love-em-or-hate-em contestant, the safe one wins, because those who hate the polarizing one will cast their votes to the safe one on finale nite. No one was really anti-Rueben, but many were anti-Clay, so they cast their votes to Ruben regardless of whether they really were Rueben fans. Same thing happened to Adam Lambert and Crystal Bowersox.
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What a killer glory note!!! Perfection!!!!
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Simon was wright he pulled it out ahead when he sang Mack the Knife on AI but not his new version on his CD, it's kind of boring for me
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The gay white boy got outvoted by the machinery, not by the people. Ruben? Really? LOL
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til this very DAY i'm bewildered by the fact that ruben won. i honestly just don't get it.
kacn28 3 years ago 50
clay is seriously one of the best singers i have EVER HEARD in my life. amazing control, never off key, and original.
redcs13ab 2 years ago 42