America’s Favorite Loser: Why It’s Time to Take Clay Aiken Seriously [View all]

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America’s Favorite Loser: Why It’s Time to Take Clay Aiken Seriously

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/03/america-s-favorite-loser-why-it-s-time-to-take-clay-aiken-seriously.html

Twelve years and a run for Congress haven’t helped Clay Aiken shed the ghost of ‘Idol.’ But as a new documentary on that political bid proves, there can be glory in second place.
Clay Aiken says “fuck” a lot.

Maybe more than you do. Certainly more than you’d expect him to. He says it within the first 20 seconds of The Runner-Up, a four-part documentary premiering on the Esquire network April 7 about his failed bid for Congress. And he says it many, many times after that.

It’s startling the first few times you hear it, and then becomes endearing. Clay Aiken, it turns out, is not who you expect him to be.

The former second-place finisher of American Idol and your aunt’s favorite pop star is now a straight-talking, politically minded policy wonk more interested in using his microphone to shame change-indifferent career politicians and crusade for education reform and veterans’ rights. And he’s at that glorious stage of a celebrity’s career, the one that not many public personas actually get to.

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gonna' admit it... I love Clay.