Got his album last night, instead of Joaquin's Quills I originally went out to search for.
I bet I'm one of the first in Indonesia to get his album! Measure of a fan! This is the return of teenage idolisation.
It's yet to be distributed here, probably never. So even though "Imported" stamped across Clay's face meant insanely high priced, I whipped out my card like I was Richie Rich and be done with it. (There goes some of the first real money I've ever made.)
It wasn't a surprise that I found it worth every cent. Jesus, this guy somehow convinced God to give him one of the few, finest voice ever graced the world.
My personal favorite is I Survived You. It could turn out to be one of those songs resembling Dianne Warren's but a shade mediocre, but Clay twists it a bit at the beginning of the reffrain, "I survived the crash, I survived the burn, I survived the worst yeah, baby, but I learn." When he first crooned it through my speakers, I keeled over and fainted.
(By now the maids are so sick of the song, they'd probably commit axe murder had they known what axe is!)
Another one, which I first heard while cleaning my room - thus making me danced around the room with the broom - is When You Say You Love Me. It's so good that I flipped over the cover to see who wrote it. No surprise, it's my man, Darren Hayes.
They did haul in all the best talents they could find. Steve Mac, Wayne Hector and (eYiK!!! --later addition-- and S'ley!) Enrique Iglesias. Enrique co-written The Way which sounds a bit like the best of the 50s. Good job!
Measure of A Man came up quite below Robert Frost's. The arrangement's terrible, it could've definitely been better. I mean it really kills everything to have him repeat: "Is that, is that, is that how you measure a man?" Had it been someone else singing it, they'd be sure to have a copy of The Order of Phoenix thrown at.
-- another later addition -- Ah, to tell the truth, I love every single track inside the album.