Review: Clay Aiken 'A Thousand Different Ways'

Review: Clay Aiken 'A Thousand Different Ways'

Clay Aiken 'A Thousand Different Ways': Aidin Vaziri | There is a line to be drawn with bad pop music. If it's not at hearing high-pitched "American Idol" runner-up Clay Aiken debase and disembowel songs that didn't have that much going for them in the first place, then where? His debut album, 2003's "Measure of a Man," mainlined lite-rock cliches. Here, Aiken and his new hairdo simply set the controls for sappy and come up with their personal "Now That's What I Call the Worst Music Ever 14," with covers of Richard Marx's "Right Here Waiting," Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is," Mr. Mister's "Broken Wings," Bryan Adams' "Everything I Do (I Do It for You)" and Celine Dion's "Because You Loved Me." It's going to take years of therapy and 500 consecutive hours of Dinosaur Jr. to get over this one.