Clay Aiken is missing and it's been tough to find something new to write about on a daily basis! So I was up early, perusing the Internet, and ran across this article on The Clay Aiken News Network
The part of the article about Dancing With the Stars and, in particular, the video of Randi & Evan dancing to Clay Aiken's Everything I Don't Need got me thinking. Where else would Clay's music fit?
Ice Skating?
How about a classic Movie Soundtrack?
Or even an Animated Classic?
What am I forgetting? Let me know, okay?
Well, I'm forgetting promos, news events and documentaries!! But you'll find them here All That Is Clay Aiken
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Clay Aiken - The Real Me
Clay Aiken's new CD, On My Way Here, includes the song written by Dove Award winner Natalie Grant - The Real Me.
The lyrics read like a poem, and the song is poetically interpreted by Clay:
Clay has challenged us to listen to the songs on On My Way Here and interpret them as they apply to our life experiences.
For me, The Real Me speaks to the soul of a person - the REAL person - not the outer wrapping. Clay has said that this song is about God for him, and I can absolutely hear that.
But, for me, this song epitomizes the real Clay - someone who truly does not judge others on the outer wrappings but sees the inner beauty.
In his 2005 book, Learning to Sing, Clay wrote about a Meet & Greet that he was attending in Atlanta. During this Meet & Greet, a woman approached him and she was sobbing. Clay did what Clay does best - tried to help her laugh a little, to feel better. This woman went on to tell him about how his video to Invisible changed her life....
This is one of the many things that I admire about Clay Aiken - "Her weight never crossed my mind. She was a normal girl." and I know that he means this. He accepts people as they are for who they are.
and now, here's my interpretation of The Real Me, hope you enjoy:
The lyrics read like a poem, and the song is poetically interpreted by Clay:
Foolish heart looks like we're here again
Same old game of plastic smile
Don't let anybody in
Hiding my heartache, will this glass house break
How much will they take before I'm empty
Do I let it show, does anybody know?
But you see the real me
Hiding in my skin, broken from within
Reveal me completely
I'm loosening my grasp
No need to hold back my frailty
Oh, cause you see the real me
Painted on, life is behind a mask
Self-inflicted circus clown
I'm tired of the song and dance
Living a charade, always on parade
What a mess I've made of my existence
But you love me even now
And still I see somehow
That you see the real me
Hiding in my skin, broken from within
Reveal me completely
I'm loosening my grasp
There's no need to hold back my frailty
Oh, cause you see the real me
Shadows of shattered dreams
They follow me
They've haunted me
But you've taken the broken pieces of my life
and helped me to believe.
Cause you see the real me
Hiding in my skin, broken from within
Reveal me completely
I'm loosening my grasp
There's no need to hold back my frailty
Oh, cause you see the real me
Clay has challenged us to listen to the songs on On My Way Here and interpret them as they apply to our life experiences.
For me, The Real Me speaks to the soul of a person - the REAL person - not the outer wrapping. Clay has said that this song is about God for him, and I can absolutely hear that.
But, for me, this song epitomizes the real Clay - someone who truly does not judge others on the outer wrappings but sees the inner beauty.
In his 2005 book, Learning to Sing, Clay wrote about a Meet & Greet that he was attending in Atlanta. During this Meet & Greet, a woman approached him and she was sobbing. Clay did what Clay does best - tried to help her laugh a little, to feel better. This woman went on to tell him about how his video to Invisible changed her life....
"and then she said "I used to weigh two hundred and fifty pounds. And I hated myself for so long. And it meant so much to me to see that you had an overweight girl in your video."
I had to think about it, because I didn't remember any overweight girls in the video. She told me she meant the girl who climbed onstage as I sang to her.
Then I remembered the girl. I remembered her because she was from New Jersey and was visiting L.A. for her birthday. She came to California because she heard I was going to be on Jay Leno's show, and she just happened to be riding the bus past the site for the video shoot. She hopped off the bus and cheered and clapped so loudly that the director decided it would be fun to put her up onstage.
Her weight never crossed my mind. She was a normal girl. But her being normal and being in a video had brought on a wave of comfort for this woman in Atlanta.
"I wish I had seen a video like that when I was younger," she explained. "It would have saved me a world of hurt. I only hope that some other heavy girls watched it and realized they don't have to look like rail-thin models. They don't have to hate themselves."
This is one of the many things that I admire about Clay Aiken - "Her weight never crossed my mind. She was a normal girl." and I know that he means this. He accepts people as they are for who they are.
and now, here's my interpretation of The Real Me, hope you enjoy:
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