1.29.15 Q+AL Cologne, Germany
Jan 30, 2015 21:37:13 GMT -5
Post by Jablea on Jan 30, 2015 21:37:13 GMT -5
ondemand-mp3.dradio.de/file/dradio/2015/01/30/dlf_20150130_1517_2ed7302f.mp3
This one is kind of 'interesting', more in a work dynamic kind of way, rather than anything that has to do with the concert. It would be too long to translate line by line, so here a summary/sample paraphrasing what is going on. It's a dialog between a junior reporter, who went to the concert in Koeln and the senior reporter who is hosting the show and did not see the show. So he invites Junior in to report back from the concert.
This is kind of a 30 second short version of what happens in the 5 minutes :
Senior: Introduces Adam with Trespassing, calls it nice pop music, says he has a good solo career, but now he is also stepping in to the lead singer for Queen role. He introduces Junior...
Senior: So you went to the QAL concert, how was it?
Junior: Great, Adam does a convincing job filling the difficult...great voice, fits better than Paul Rogers, can do rock, pop, folk, funk, all you need for Queen...
Senior: interrupts....but doing Queen is more than having a good voice...Freddie was a presence, a show...
Junior: well Freddie was his own show in many ways, but Adam does not imitate him, but pulls from many different influences, like...
Senior: interrupts again...influences, sure, so he is an imitator, which is what you would expect from a casting show candidate... It was clear this could never really work, ...
Junior: No, it was done in a good way. ....now he starts stumbling, noticing that he cannot get through, he wants to say 'star', does not dare to say it anymore, talks about "star imitation"...etc., more looking like Prince, fumbles around, contradicts his own introduction, then trying to get his footing back: He has star power, but he is not Freddie. But it was even holding his own, in the direct comparisons, when Freddie was on screen in the background. And the audience loved it. It was sold out, lots of applause...
Senior: ...of course it is, they love tribute shows, they are always a draw.
Senior: Glad a good show was had by all, and musical sensitivities were not harmed.
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Off camera, you know he lectured Junior about not being so naive and gullible, and probably told him to try to be a more arts oriented journalist, requiring originality rather than imitation, etc...
It never occurred to the senior, that maybe he was off, and that junior had it right.
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Very frustrating for the junior journalist, I am sure.
And I don't want to know, in how many media outlets across the globe, this same scenario has played itself out, in the past, leading to some of the non-favorable critiques that we have read, where we have wondered, whether the journalist was even at the same concert that we were at. Just usually, we don't get to be live witnesses of this dynamic in action.
That is why it is so difficult to make a paradigm shift, for any artist. And that is why an artist who brings new ideas and skills forward takes so much longer to solidify his career, compared to somebody who just follows the trodden path.
Interestingly, a huge part of the UK, seems to have taken that leap now and made that shift towards Adam, probably because the signal from the BBC and a few other lead opinion makers had changed course. In Germany, we have to expect more reports similar to what we have seen in the past (prior to UK).
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I am glad to hear though, that Senior felt positive about Adam's solo career. So, that is a big plus going forward.