Game Over
For now, anyway.
My beloved Clay didn’t win “American Idol,” but I do wish Ruben well. If only I’d voted 1,300 more times. …
Yeah, I’m bumming. I hate it when my guy doesn’t win. I’m so damn competitive, and it wasn’t even my victory to claim. 😉 I really, really wanted him to win. I know he’ll still have a fabulous career, no matter what happens, though. But he’ll always be a winner to me. 😉
UPDATE: ‘Idol’ to recount votes. Clay for President, anyone?!?! 😉
This morning, when I went to purchase Clay and Ruben’s singles off Amazon.com, Clay’s was the No. 1 seller and Ruben’s was No. 28. I figured that Clay would win “AI,” based on that alone. But I guess with Barry White on his deathbed, people are scrambling to see to it that he’s replaced.
At any rate, Amazon will ship Ruben’s single on June 5, and Clay’s on June 10. I hope they ship them together and earlier. I will be in dire need of a Clay fix soon!!!
Some coffee to go with my bitter? 😉
The real deal
Oh, hell, I’ll say what I’m really thinking. I spent upward of $30 in votes this season, so I have a right to throw in another two cents for good measure. 🙂
I don’t think America voted Ruben as its winner. All of my friends were voting for Kimberley Locke and Clay Aiken. Not saying that Ruben isn’t talented, because he is, but I wondered, too, after the public outcry that Tamyra didn’t win last season, if this were a wee bit rigged this year.
At one point in the season, Ruben was placed in the “Bottom Three” for elimination — I think that was a move strategically done by Fox to get people outraged enough to stop voting for their real favorites and to vote to ensure that Ruben stayed on. Clay never once was in the “Bottom Three,” and not to mention, but the reason Clay even got into the Top 12 was because they had a wild card show in which the public could choose someone whom the judges didn’t choose to push through to the finals.
At any rate, based on this alone, Clay would’ve won the competition. The CD-singles sales figures support this theory. The same people who voted for Idol were buying the CDs, right?
All I can say at this point is that I hope Ruben really doesn’t become the next Biggie Smalls and do gangsta rap — people wanted him because he’s the next Barry White or Isaac Hayes or whatever. At any rate, the talent was supreme this year, and I am pleased that every shape, size and color was represented in the finals. But it still stumps me that, given how racist a lot of America still is, that a clean-cut cute little white boy like Clay didn’t win by America’s supposed vote.
If there is a finding that the competition was rigged, though, the show is over. At this point, they should just be saying that the results stand as-is; and we all know who the winner should have been. 😉