I'm so glad he's getting blasted for his behavior at the finale.

When I actually watched it "live" (west coast) I didn't really hear it. My brain went into Charlie-Brown-in school mode, I just heard "blah blah blah blah."

But when I went back and watched it again, I was just floored by how obviously he trashed Kelly.

This is the latest, NY Post:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/05302007/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm

It starts like this:

May 30, 2007 -- NOTE to music industry legend Clive Davis: Stop trashing Kelly Clarkson - you are making yourself look bad.

"Clive is furious because Kelly has assumed total artistic control over her new album and refuses his suggestions," according to an insider at Sony BMG, the parent of Clarkson's label, RCA.

Davis, who runs Sony BMG, slammed Clarkson at a company retreat in April, saying she can't produce hits.

And music industry insiders were dumbfounded when Davis took the stage during the "American Idol" finale to plug Taylor Hicks and Katharine McPhee's new singles, but failed to mention Clarkson's third album, "My December," which debuts in June. Instead, Davis promoted the songwriters for one of Clarkson's hits, "Since U Been Gone."

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watch it here:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wBh1Yo4pd7I

check out Simon's face at 1:45. he even twitches, lol.

>watch it here:
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>http://youtube.com/watch?v=wBh1Yo4pd7I
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>check out Simon's face at 1:45.
> he even twitches, lol.
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The video was removed.

The snide comments about Taylor Hicks (who performed, I think) and Katherine McPhee (who wasn't even invited, which is pretty absurd IMO) are two more things which made this speech absurd. Seriously, this made me turn off the finale, and then Sanjaya came on and I missed it.

His comments on the finale, and rumored fights with Kelly, kind of explains why for the first time he wasn't invited as a judge for the final 3.

geekboy

I love puppies! S. Cowell

...but he was absolutely 100% correct about Kelly's album, even though Kelly threw every tantrum in her power in her effort to deny that he knew what he was talking about.

And Kelly finally ended up apologizing to Clive, as her album has already fallen out of the Top 10. It may not outsell Taylor Hicks' album -- a HUGE collapse from an artist that sold 6 million copies of her last album in the US.

Clive has been wrong about a lot of artists during his career. But he's been right about a lot more. And he was right about Kelly.