BACKTRACK! Clay Aiken (Sort Of) Apologizes To Adam Lambert

NEW YORK — Clay Aiken says blood didn't truly pour forth from his ears when he heard runner-up Adam Lambert sing "Ring of Fire" _ and hey, he's sorry for his "colorful choice of words."

The former Idol contestant writes in a blog on his Web site dated Friday that "I obviously meant it as a colorful statement to imply that I did not enjoy what I heard." He also says he didn't mean it as "a 'slam' on Adam as a person."

He had blasted Lambert's take on the classic Johnny Cash tune as "contrived," "awful" and "slightly frightening." Aiken says he hopes Lambert can forgive him _ but adds Lambert probably doesn't care about what he said.

Aiken lost out to Ruben Studdard in 2003. He's since released several albums, appeared on Broadway and publicly confirmed he's gay.

Comments

[jimmy19]

Clay, time for a new set of caps and a manicure. Us girls need to keep our selves together!

[AuntiepoppyCock]

Shouldn't Clay be raising his child instead of hating on Adam?

Everyone is a critic!

[William1950]

i really liked ring of fire as sung be lambert... one of the best he has done.

[CapableOne]

Me too...

[Bostongirl1]

me three - I thought it was s.ex.y as h.ell - the studio version rocks!

[BigHeadTodd]

It must be difficult for Clay to watch his relevance slip away.

[ReelBusy]

He saw that in 2004.

[cnick]

jealous jealous jealous jealous jealous!!!!!!!

[swingerofbirches]

He kind of looks like cynthia nixon, john edwards, and kirstie alley rolled into one disturbing image. Plus it looks like he's had plastic surgery on his nose. Poor guy.

[HesDanTheMan]

OMG! YES!

[bonnywide]

Who cares if Aiken "asks forgiveness"? My gosh! Gag. I'm sure Lambert doesn't care. He'll be selling millions more albums than Aiken. Aiken's "music" is trite sentimental soda crackers for 12-yr-old girls like himself. Clay, in response to your blog, judges appear bias because they're "judges" and that's their job. Get a life.

[BikeFreak]

I think it's kinda cute how this Clay Aiken guy thinks he's relevant.

[psbintl]

He doesn't.

His blog was to his fans in response to a question to him from his fans.

[learntofly]

Too late Aiken. The train has already left the station.

[progressivelady]

caddy, and snap

[JDRNYC]

The main thing that is "awful and slightly frightening" is that photo of Aiken.

[Lovelydaze]

CLAY AIKEN: Oh no, ya'll! I didn't mean what I said about Adam Lambert at all. So sorry.

CLAY AIKEN WHISPERING TO PUBLICIST: Okay. I hope that saved my failure of a career......

[abmabardy]

AI will sink with this evidence of voter fraud.

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/realityrocks/215180/aikens-lambert-rant-claymate-turns-to-clayhate/?page=309#comments

6178. excerpt:
The ONLY reason Kris won is because of the 38 million votes cast by the State of Arkansas. ... Here's how it happened...

... hundreds of pre-paid AT&T cell phones given out by organized Kris Allen supporters with West Coast area codes to vote long after the lines were closed in their time zone. ... It's actually possible to text your vote approximately 40 times within one minute using one of the new "smart phones" which equals about 2,400 votes within an hour. .... Multiply that by the extra 2 hours for the cheating phones and you get over 14,000 votes by one individual provided they keep at it non stop the entire time, and believe me there are plenty of tweenagers and college students who can do this.

Once the voting officially ended in Arkansas they switched to the phones with the west coast area codes for the remaining 2 hours. .... You only need about 1,500 people to accomplish the amount of power text votes Kris received in addition to those around the rest of the country and the state of Arkansas who voted for him by phoning in their vote. If you remove the organizers from the equation and the number is the more realistic 60% - 40% margin that was originally predicted in Adam's favor.

[aznurse]

So? It all depends on which records get sold.

[mscg]

That's how races are won, organization! Don't hate, commemorate, after all it is Memorial day weekend. I love it when people are outwitted.

[Charity]

by organized cheating? wow. like bush?

[trisha08]

Aiken trying to grab a little publicity?

[Ellyllon]

This is just embarrassing.