I swear! I'm not a Claymate

So, I was watching American Idol rewind yesteday, and let me first say, I am by no means, a Claymate. I didn't start watching American Idol until Season 5, so I never really saw Clay Aiken or Ruben or any of the others. I didn't even watch Kelly Clarkson's or Carrie Underwood's seasons, even though I love them both.

Well, I was watching AI rewind and they had the rejects up. They called it the last chance or final chance or something episode. They brought back people they had already sent home and each judge picked one person to come back, after an audition, and then a final 4th person would be chosen by the audience. So, all these people get up. There are like 10 or so. Carmen Rassmussen comes up and she is HORRIBLE, then it's Kimberly Caldwell, who sounds really, just okay, and then a girl named Temeka who sounds good, but keeps making strange faces and then anyway, all these non-memorable people and they can't sing, at least not professionally, and then Clay Aiken comes on to sing "Sun Going Down on Me" and he sings like he is a paid professional, doing it all the time, and his voice is as clear and effortless, and flawless as a CD, but Simon says he doesn't "look" like a pop star, although, he was the only one of the 10 who sang with confidence and really held himself like a "star". Simon chooses Carmen Rasmussen, because she's cute, Randy chose Kimberly Caldwell, and "Pauler" chooses Temeka. Well, of course, we all know America chose Clay, but omg. I just started laughing, because there was no competition. That's the same thing that happened to Elliott in Season 5. It was clear that Elliott had the best voice and should have won, but because he wasn't "pretty", he lost out to Taylor Hicks and Katharine McPhee.

Anyway, I just go to thinking, that's it's really unfair that people who are "pretty" are able to go further than people with great voices. I mean, Barbara Streisand, Stevie Wonder, Celine Dion, Aretha Franklin...none of these people are particularly good looking, and yet, they have some of the best voices in the industry.

Anyway, I don't know why I found it so amusing, but I did. I was home all alone, laughing at my t.v. screen, and afterwards I felt a little silly, but it really amazed me, that there was ever a question that Clay wouldn't be able to produce a CD.