(antiMusic) A quick follow-up to yesterday's story about Clay Aiken's gay accuser John Paulus; In his blog post, Paulus claimed that the day after he told his story of a one-night-stand with the Idol runner-up to the National Enquirer, he had second thoughts and even went as far as having an attorney send a cease-and-desist letter to the paper's parent company. However, the Enquirer remembers it quite differently. MSNBC's The Scoop columnist Jeannette Walls spoke with National Enquirer editor David Perel about Paulus' claims about trying to kill the story and how the story leaked out from there. Here is part of that report: "Our reporter couldn't get him off the phone," Perel told The Scoop. Perel says he doesn't remember Paulus having a legal letter sent, but says even if there was one, Paulus is "completely distorting" the story. "It's not a situation where he told the story one time," Perel said. "He engaged in multiple conversations with our reporter. He couldn't stop talking, and then he talked to reporters after it was out." [see the full story link for yesterday's story] - Click here for the Full Story
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Posted by LOVE CLAY:
I DON'T CARE I love his voice and will be buying his new CD and going to the concert.
Posted by N'est-ce pas, eh?:
Posted by SheShe: Clayita Aiken is a fag. Case Closed!
Sheshe is a fag! Case Closed!
See how factual that sounds. Now, put it in every paper in the US, Canada and overseas. Announce it to the world from every radio and TV station for 6 months (or longer). Lose your friends, job, personal integrity and millions of dollars! Wait, it doesn't end there. No, siree! Thousands of paparazzi follow you endlessly, striving to milk every dollar they can out of your personal pain and loss. Smile, now, you know you're a fag. You know you really want to come out of the closet. Let me tell everyone for you.
Sheshe, you probably are a fag and that's why you use stories like this one to drag Clay through the mud with you. Dang, if you want to go it alone.
If you're so sure Clay is a fag, put your name on this post. You shouldn't be afraid to be associated with your post....if it can be proven to be true.
Posted by N'est-ce pas, eh?:
But your conspiracy theory is pretty funny, even more whacked than this guy saying he hooked up with your little pin up boy.
lol, AG, an indirect confirmation that J.P. hasn't convinced everyone about his allegations....You also didn't read my post properly...read it again. I never, for a moment, said I depended on Billboard or Fox etc. to influence my Clay purchases.
The gist of my two posts is:
a) J.P. is managing to reinforce his toxic rantings about Clay and his fans in a devious, more indirect manner.
b) Those who mock Clay using the contents of his song 'Invisible' are petty, immature and simply looking for a way, any way possible, to discredit him.
c)Those who seem 'moral' and 'righteous' enough to judge Clay's character based on this trivial song, obviously don't have the wherewithall to know just what really is important in life.
D) If what you state is true, that volume of records puchased ultimately determines what is played on the radio, you're living in a different world than the rest of us. If that's the case, it shouldn't matter if RCA pays to playclay or not.Sales of 4+ million should have helped Clay get air time a lot more than it did.
If you all think J.P. is apologizing for hurting Clay and his fans, guess again. He's managed to throw out that these same fans have discredited J.P. for 'no apparant reason'. Thus, J.P. felt justified in retaliating them. See how J.P. has made himself the victim..rather than the perpetrator. Talk about denial and refusal to clear Clay's name.
Posted by What the hell?:
this ladies and gentleman is the future of our world! give yourselves a hand! SHESHE your parents must be so proud. I can understand fans defending, but SHESHE? what is your purpose. I will be buying his cd, I don't care, as a matter of fact thanks to SHESHE I'll buy two.
Posted by SheShe:
Clayita Aiken is a fag. Case Closed!
Posted by Ya think:
What? JP is lying? I think we all Knew that already.
Posted by The Equalizer:
For the real truth I would go to The-Equalizers Blogspot or the Truth Rules Blogspot. There was never a tryst.
Posted by Journalistic integrity is dead:
OH.and one more thing,(I know shut up already) I apreciate music,I an not likely to care where it came from,smokey Bars, Indie bands, Hell My favorite Elvis tried a few talent shows too, It's not how you got there it's whether the talent is there and the big breaks put you there. For now my Clay CD rests in between my AC/DC cd's and my aerosmyth and bonjovi cd's. I'm alphabetical, Vivaldi is at the end.
Posted by journalistic integrity is dead:
ok, it's late and my spelling sucks, I apologize for the spelling errors in my post
Posted by journalistic integrity is dead:
I am refering to all the false stories unrelated to Clay. The journalists of today have lost a lot of integrity, and lies and rumour are what is taking over. Not involving Clay but in all aspects of journalim. And I'm not sure why liking Clay has any less bearing on me, my opinions or my own morals and integrity. I am merely stating that I find jounalists using the internet as a means of information are not getting the most accurate information, far from it. I seem to recall many instances wher stories are innaccurate. I'm merely implying that the same effort that "journalists" used before was less liklely to be as inaccurate as they had to work to get a story. Today it's ruled by POINT/CLICK stories. Anyone can write lies on the internet and have some idiot believe them.(right paulas). So too can journalists skew a stoy with something they heard on a blog, or a website. It's become too easy to be fooled.Not to mention it makes them LAZY.
Posted by haha:
A Clay Aiken fan talking about integrity! What a laugh. Musical integrity isn't dead despite "tv made" stars.
Posted by journalist integrity is dead:
good to see you reported the rest of the story out there. should've been done sooner. Point/click journalism has given Internet journalists a serious case of LAZY and alot of FALSE information. about a lot of things.
Posted by yup:
Clay aiken didn't even really like the song either, he didn't have much of a chioce. RCA makes the decisions don't they.
Posted by PS:
I think Blender made a pretty good case against "Invisible" when they named it the 11th worst song of all time.
"It's not just the schmaltzy play for loser pity ("If I was invisible - wait, I already am"). It's not just the ridiculously purple lyrics. And it's not just the thought of Aiken's eternally asymmetrical porcupine 'do quivering as he soars into a high note. It's the whole hey-girl-I-want- to-watch-you-while- you-think-you're- alone-in-your-bedroom thing that transforms this song from a merely mediocre ballad to a disturbing voyeur fantasy, filling your head with images of Aiken downloading porn and thinking bad things about that girl from homeroom. What lurks in the hearts of lonely geeks? Clay Aiken knows, and it's not pretty."
Posted by aG:
Thanks for the comedy N'est, that was some of the funniest things I've read in a long long while. The real reason the jocks didn't play it? RCA didn't pay them to. But your conspiracy theory is pretty funny, even more whacked than this guy saying he hooked up with your little pin up boy. Ultimately, you decide what you want by buying it. If you look to Billboard, Fox TV shows or radio to make up your mind, you are a very sad shallow person. PS you missed the entire meaning of antiMusic.
Posted by N'est-ce pas, eh?:
And, since the name of this site is Anti-Music, I'd like to rant about something anti-music.
What gives with all the thousands of radio stations, industry music publications such as Billboard etc. who just can't get it through their heads that Clay's song "Invisible' is just that...a song...a clean song, unlike anything Rap or Eminem or ..or...or. Even Rod Stewart's 'Downtown Train' in which he sings of watching school girls getting off the subway daily and going into their apartments etc. and having 'little heart attacks'hasn't got one word of bad press. What gives?
I'll answer that myself...all the people who write these columns and run these radio stations are overage, out of shape jocks who can't understand why we women like a gorgeous slim young lad like Clay. They resent the fact that their wife and/or daughters spend hours listening to his music and following his career.They figure that what women older than 16 want to hear is unimportant and that they'll all decide what we should hear or read.
The reason John Paulus can spend 6 months spreading his sick innuendoes so easily is because all the men who control the music industry have already decided that they a) don't like Clay and b)we don't have the right to listen to Clay because we're too old to attract advertising revenue. And, they all salute J.P. for putting Clay in such a bad light they now have a logical reason to ban his music.
Obviously, we have hundreds of males in the music industry who never were teenagers, dreaming of beautiful girls, dying to get up close to them so they could be noticed and hopefully , get a date. Obviously, they never were kids and wished for the impossible; the Kids' Wish Foundation just appeared by magic on the whim that there may be one or two kids out there who'd like to hear...maybe.. Clay sing...(and I have a video of such a wish coming true.)
John Paulus has given so many people, radio and entertainment jocks,what they think is a good reason to not play Clay. They pick on any crumb, such as his alledged sex life or his song 'Invisible', to justify their pettiness. And, the sad part of it all is, there are now a lot of women out there who sound just like their male counterparts in the industry and on J.P.'s blog.
Red Deer Alberta Canada
Posted by N'est-ce pas, eh?:
No matter what he says, John Paulus is making sure his name and his allegations stay fresh in everyone's mind. If Clay went to the bathroom twice, J.P. would say he went three times, just to outdo him.
A court case would last five minutes based on the info J.P. hasn't even substantiated; J.P. 's extremely hurtful rantings have lasted almost six months. Give me a break!
J.P. has been posting files from other claysites and smearing and denigrating everyone who professes to like Clay Aiken. No site is safe from his antics. He's even posted personal pictures of fans and their children to disparage them. He's now threatening to sue Clay's fans for comments they didn't even write. Come on, how many of Clay's fans can you actually prove are posting under the name 'Anonymous'?
Maybe National Enquirer should volunteer to do a retration about this whole story. There was nothing credible about J.P. from the beginning and the NE should accept responsibility for publishing unfounded facts like this, in the first place.
Clay's life is his own business. He's a wonderful and talented singer and a deeply caring individual. Nothing else matters. The longer this slander persists, the longer Clay's fans will stand with him. What did such a nice person do to deserve this? And, why is the whole world so interested in one person's sex life? It's probably getting as much coverage as the bible.