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May 27 09 11:37 AM
Maum and Psychotic, great reviews! (Wednesday AI withdrawal here). I thought Allison's duet with Cyndi and the dulcimer rocked, but Cyndi's spread legs were somewhat disconcerting. Mrs. Allen's dress was something to behold, lol. I understand I will have zero company here, but I liked Danny's duet with Lionel; a shame he can't find a way to turn back time and not come off as a smarmy pig. Blonde-haired Cookie love! Two excellent interviews with Adam. I thought he was perfect, but it appears he has terrible taste in female entertainers. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30961468/
Adam keen on Queen but won't rock exclusively 'Idol' runner-up would like to perform with band but still do his own thing updated 8:36 a.m. MT, Wed., May 27, 2009 NEW YORK - Will he, will he rock you? Adam Lambert won't rule out a stint as the new frontman of Queen, but don't let that fool you into thinking the "American Idol" runner-up will make his living on the classic rock station. The legendary band has expressed interest in employing his formidable vocal skills, and Lambert is a big fan of the group once fronted by the late Freddie Mercury. But the 27-year-old California native said Tuesday that he'd feel torn about joining the band. "That's a tough question because, honestly, how do you say no to being in Queen?" said Lambert, sporting his trademark dark nail polish and blue-streaked hair. "I mean, that's unbelievable. But at the same time, I do have my own thing to do right now, and that's my goal. So if I could, I would try to do both. That's the honest question. I would try to do both. I would love to perform with them anytime they wanted me to but I also have my record to do. So, we'll see." Lambert, a former theater actor, has ambitious plans for his post-"Idol" debut album. "My record will be kind of a rock-pop-electronic-dance thing," he said. "I don't know how to describe it. I think it's gonna take on a life of its own, as far as genre goes." The album is in the very early stages and Lambert aims to co-write much of the material. On "Idol," Lambert was the resident glam rocker, staging elaborate, over-the-top performances and daring to don goth-inspired outfits (with guyliner) on an otherwise family-style show. "There's a way to take the glam rock of the '70s and the classic rock of the '70s and kind of modernize it. ... I want it to be produced in a very very current, almost futuristic, way. So we're going to come up with something really fresh," he said. The musical mix will include "sexy, dance-y, vibe-y" numbers and more emotional songs that "appeal to people that are going through a hard time or don't believe in themselves," he said. Click for related content Queen's Brian May eager to work with Lambert "I want to communicate the liberation that is being comfortable in your own skin and that is being your own person," said Lambert, who has largely kept his personal life under wraps. "And the spirit of being different, and how strong that can make you feel." Any dream collaborators? "Madonna would be amazing," he gushes. "I'd love to work with Madonna - I think she's a genius. She has great ideas. Lady GaGa is brilliant. She's got her finger on the pulse. She's the hot thing right now. Katy Perry's amazing, absolutely amazing."
NEW YORK - Will he, will he rock you?
Adam Lambert won't rule out a stint as the new frontman of Queen, but don't let that fool you into thinking the "American Idol" runner-up will make his living on the classic rock station. The legendary band has expressed interest in employing his formidable vocal skills, and Lambert is a big fan of the group once fronted by the late Freddie Mercury.
But the 27-year-old California native said Tuesday that he'd feel torn about joining the band.
"That's a tough question because, honestly, how do you say no to being in Queen?" said Lambert, sporting his trademark dark nail polish and blue-streaked hair. "I mean, that's unbelievable. But at the same time, I do have my own thing to do right now, and that's my goal. So if I could, I would try to do both. That's the honest question. I would try to do both. I would love to perform with them anytime they wanted me to but I also have my record to do. So, we'll see."
Lambert, a former theater actor, has ambitious plans for his post-"Idol" debut album.
"My record will be kind of a rock-pop-electronic-dance thing," he said. "I don't know how to describe it. I think it's gonna take on a life of its own, as far as genre goes."
The album is in the very early stages and Lambert aims to co-write much of the material. On "Idol," Lambert was the resident glam rocker, staging elaborate, over-the-top performances and daring to don goth-inspired outfits (with guyliner) on an otherwise family-style show.
"There's a way to take the glam rock of the '70s and the classic rock of the '70s and kind of modernize it. ... I want it to be produced in a very very current, almost futuristic, way. So we're going to come up with something really fresh," he said.
The musical mix will include "sexy, dance-y, vibe-y" numbers and more emotional songs that "appeal to people that are going through a hard time or don't believe in themselves," he said.
"I want to communicate the liberation that is being comfortable in your own skin and that is being your own person," said Lambert, who has largely kept his personal life under wraps. "And the spirit of being different, and how strong that can make you feel."
Any dream collaborators?
"Madonna would be amazing," he gushes. "I'd love to work with Madonna - I think she's a genius. She has great ideas. Lady GaGa is brilliant. She's got her finger on the pulse. She's the hot thing right now. Katy Perry's amazing, absolutely amazing."
"American Idol" 's Adam Lambert on Sexing Up Johnny Cash and Getting on His Soapbox 5/26/09, 7:04 pm EST Photo: Gilkas/FilmMagic Adam Lambert didn't win American Idol, but he's the first real rock star the show has produced in its eight-year run (apologies to Chris Daughtry and David Cook). Brian Hiatt talked with the man Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield dubbed a glam-rock sex god about his controversial "Ring of Fire" cover, conversations with Brian May and the culture war surrounding the finale. (Check out photos from Lambert's Idol run.) What is your goal? What do you want for your career? I want to make records. I want to be an entertainer, you know. I want to help people escape and just dance and have a great time and party and love each other, and I want to be able to raise awareness on a couple of things. You know, soapbox about it. Maybe pushing peoples buttons for a little bit. Always with a little wink at the audience with a little camp. With a little seriousness in it, but I don't want to take myself too seriously. I want to upset people, I want to make people think, I want to keep people interested. A lot of people are trying to figure out what happened when you lost. Do you have a theory? Danny had a very strong following and when Danny was out of the competition I had a feeling that his fans were probably quicker to default to Kris than to me, you know just because of the kind of artist that he is. So I think that also might have had something to do with it. Like a red state blue state thing? I can see why people would see it as a red state blue state kind of thing. Conservative versus liberal kind of thing but I just want to believe, I may just be being an idealist, but I want to believe that its more about the music which is not always the case. I think that it shouldn't matter what your religious beliefs are for instance, or your gender or anything else should come into play. But it's a reality show and that's what it does. I wish it didn't but it kind of does. You sang with Queen last week. (Don't miss photos from the Idol finale.) I know! I couldn't believe it. Like Brian May was brushing my shoulder, it was so surreal and not only was it a personal victory for me but also with Kris up there, I mean Kris and I became really good friends on this. We were roommates and looking at him across the way singing the lyric "We are the Champions" I felt very connected to him at that moment and it was the perfect symbolic ending to this whole journey and it really felt like it put the period at the end of the sentence. And for me at that point, whoever won at that point it didn't matter after that, that was the winning moment for me I don't know, you know what I mean, I didn't feel like I was competing with him at all. Brian May seemed pretty impressed with you. Did you get a chance to talk to him? Yeah. He was just such a gentleman. He has such a warm, positive philosophy on life. I liked his outlook a lot. He said, "I just flew on a plane overnight and I woke up this morning and I looked out my window and I just realized how lucky I was to be alive." I don't know, it was just so inspiring to hear that come from his mouth. That's kind of something that I've been focusing on personally, the past year of my life, is just positive thought. And there's a reason Idol came along for me this year and I decided to audition and it worked out cause it came at a time in my life when I really started to try to change my perception you know what I mean. Rock is a much bigger part of Idol now, why do you think that is? I think maybe early on it had to do with the judge's opinion. I think the judges tended to favor the R&B singers 'cause they felt like that was showing more vocal prowess. I feel like early on they dismissed some of the rock singers. And even Kelly Clarkson who was first year's winner sang her soul and R&B stuff and now she's a pop/rock singer. I think they felt that the Whitney Houston route was more of a competitive type of vocal maybe. The finale was mostly a rock night, with Kiss and Queen. That was so much fun, I was just so excited to be able to play dress up. That's a really big part of me as a performer, it always has been and I hadn't really gotten to show myself doing my underground club kid thing on Idol cause the songs that I was singing never really felt appropriate to do that. But when I found out that Kiss was on the show I was like, 'OK, this is my chance to kind of do that other thing that I do' so I don't know I had a blast putting on that costume and rocking out with them. I think probably your most out-there performance was "Ring Of Fire." What are your thoughts on that one now? I loved it. I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds. I heard the version by a woman named Dilana, who was on Rock Star: Supernova, I found it hypnotic and really cool. It was country week and I don't really like country music, I'm going to be honest. The first song that came to mind was a country song was the Johnny Cash song "Ring of Fire." It's a cool song. It's sexy. So I was like I'll do something sexy. So I figured why not. Is any part of you disappointed with America? I have to say it was a little bit of social pressure projected on me by just trying to be the quote un quote "different one" - all the supposed insights into my sexuality and my alternativeness and all my what have you, I think there were some people who were kind of like, "Well, he's changing your Idol' and all this hype and pressure to make a change for America. It kind of got overhyped a little bit.
5/26/09, 7:04 pm EST
Photo: Gilkas/FilmMagic Adam Lambert didn't win American Idol, but he's the first real rock star the show has produced in its eight-year run (apologies to Chris Daughtry and David Cook). Brian Hiatt talked with the man Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield dubbed a glam-rock sex god about his controversial "Ring of Fire" cover, conversations with Brian May and the culture war surrounding the finale. (Check out photos from Lambert's Idol run.)
What is your goal? What do you want for your career? I want to make records. I want to be an entertainer, you know. I want to help people escape and just dance and have a great time and party and love each other, and I want to be able to raise awareness on a couple of things. You know, soapbox about it. Maybe pushing peoples buttons for a little bit. Always with a little wink at the audience with a little camp. With a little seriousness in it, but I don't want to take myself too seriously. I want to upset people, I want to make people think, I want to keep people interested.
A lot of people are trying to figure out what happened when you lost. Do you have a theory? Danny had a very strong following and when Danny was out of the competition I had a feeling that his fans were probably quicker to default to Kris than to me, you know just because of the kind of artist that he is. So I think that also might have had something to do with it.
Like a red state blue state thing? I can see why people would see it as a red state blue state kind of thing. Conservative versus liberal kind of thing but I just want to believe, I may just be being an idealist, but I want to believe that its more about the music which is not always the case. I think that it shouldn't matter what your religious beliefs are for instance, or your gender or anything else should come into play. But it's a reality show and that's what it does. I wish it didn't but it kind of does.
You sang with Queen last week. (Don't miss photos from the Idol finale.) I know! I couldn't believe it. Like Brian May was brushing my shoulder, it was so surreal and not only was it a personal victory for me but also with Kris up there, I mean Kris and I became really good friends on this. We were roommates and looking at him across the way singing the lyric "We are the Champions" I felt very connected to him at that moment and it was the perfect symbolic ending to this whole journey and it really felt like it put the period at the end of the sentence. And for me at that point, whoever won at that point it didn't matter after that, that was the winning moment for me I don't know, you know what I mean, I didn't feel like I was competing with him at all.
Brian May seemed pretty impressed with you. Did you get a chance to talk to him? Yeah. He was just such a gentleman. He has such a warm, positive philosophy on life. I liked his outlook a lot. He said, "I just flew on a plane overnight and I woke up this morning and I looked out my window and I just realized how lucky I was to be alive." I don't know, it was just so inspiring to hear that come from his mouth. That's kind of something that I've been focusing on personally, the past year of my life, is just positive thought. And there's a reason Idol came along for me this year and I decided to audition and it worked out cause it came at a time in my life when I really started to try to change my perception you know what I mean.
Rock is a much bigger part of Idol now, why do you think that is? I think maybe early on it had to do with the judge's opinion. I think the judges tended to favor the R&B singers 'cause they felt like that was showing more vocal prowess. I feel like early on they dismissed some of the rock singers. And even Kelly Clarkson who was first year's winner sang her soul and R&B stuff and now she's a pop/rock singer. I think they felt that the Whitney Houston route was more of a competitive type of vocal maybe.
The finale was mostly a rock night, with Kiss and Queen. That was so much fun, I was just so excited to be able to play dress up. That's a really big part of me as a performer, it always has been and I hadn't really gotten to show myself doing my underground club kid thing on Idol cause the songs that I was singing never really felt appropriate to do that. But when I found out that Kiss was on the show I was like, 'OK, this is my chance to kind of do that other thing that I do' so I don't know I had a blast putting on that costume and rocking out with them.
I think probably your most out-there performance was "Ring Of Fire." What are your thoughts on that one now? I loved it. I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds. I heard the version by a woman named Dilana, who was on Rock Star: Supernova, I found it hypnotic and really cool. It was country week and I don't really like country music, I'm going to be honest. The first song that came to mind was a country song was the Johnny Cash song "Ring of Fire." It's a cool song. It's sexy. So I was like I'll do something sexy. So I figured why not.
Is any part of you disappointed with America? I have to say it was a little bit of social pressure projected on me by just trying to be the quote un quote "different one" - all the supposed insights into my sexuality and my alternativeness and all my what have you, I think there were some people who were kind of like, "Well, he's changing your Idol' and all this hype and pressure to make a change for America. It kind of got overhyped a little bit.
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