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Clay Aiken Returns to Music: ‘American Idol’ Star on Why the Reality Singing Series Got Too Soft, Shawn Mendes and His Hope for Donald Trump
After a stint in politics, ‘American Idol’ breakout Clay Aiken is returning to music with a Christmas album.
The album marks Aiken’s first since 2004’s chart-topper “Merry Christmas With Love.” In between, the 45-year-old competed on “Celebrity Apprentice” in 2012, ran (and lost) twice for Congress and toured with “American Idol” winner Ruben Studdard. If you’re told by someone in front of 40 million viewers live on national TV that they prefer you with their eyes closed, you eventually learn to not let things bother you as much. I really believe his whole refusal to accept the real outcome of the 2020 election was his unwillingness, his pathological inability, to concede that the majority of Americans didn’t like him.
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