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Post by melliemom on Feb 16, 2016 15:00:15 GMT -5
This will likely quickly get buried but given last thread discussion about Gagas performance I wanted to post as a point for continuing discussion... I'm currently reading the altogether sublime "The Art of Asking" by Amanda Palmer - this passage just jumped out at me: "There's a difference between wanting to be looked at and wanting to be seen. When you are looked at, your eyes can stay blissfully closed. You suck energy, you steal the spotlight. When you are seen, your eyes must be open, as you are seeing and recognizing your witness. You accept energy and you generate energy. You create light. One is exhibitionism, the other is connection..."
Gaga has always struck me as someone who wants to be looked at. David Bowie wanted to be seen. And I think Adam also wants to be seen. Very enlightening, thank you. After watching the Gaga performance on YT last night, I felt quite a "disconnect" and no need to go back. I think she was quite the "exhibitionist" last night, which was probably the goal, but I was missing something. I guess there's no need to elaborate how I feel when Adam performs... Somehow I like her a lot when she is Stephanie with Tony and as Julie Andrews.. I really dislike Gaga when I think It's all about her.I don't believe her when she is Gaga.. not authentic to me.As For the Grammys, Not even a picture of David Bowie.. .. Adam and Queen showed how to honor Freddie by including him in the show.. He was part of it in voice and image.Bowie deserved better IMHO.
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Post by Jablea on Feb 16, 2016 15:00:45 GMT -5
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Post by shimoli710 on Feb 16, 2016 15:06:32 GMT -5
Please help us vote for Adam on Music Awards of Evropa 2. He is nominated in two categories, 'Zpěvák/zahraniční' (Foreign singer) and 'Písnička/zahraniční' (Foreign song) - Ghost Town. Scroll on Adam's pictures and click on thumbs up under his pics. Thank you! www.evropa2.cz/hudebni-ceny
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Post by cheriemelissa on Feb 16, 2016 15:10:28 GMT -5
More thoughts on Gaga performance. Since I've only stanned one musician I have to bring it back to him. This Gaga/Bowie performance was most like Adam's FYE AMAs performance. Both were overstaged, overthought, over wrought, over caricaturized, over hyped. I don't know that at award shows if anyone is safe from trying to be over the top and even our Adam the last time he did an award show tribute - EMAs with Queen was over the top and trying to hard. That's why things didn't "click" until the Ihearts. VERY good point! I think they did click, that's why they came back for more!!!!
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Post by melliemom on Feb 16, 2016 15:11:07 GMT -5
https://www.instagram.com/p/BB2y3QBuNF6 I think Adam is heading ,in the next couple of years, into the movies,not TV but Hollywood movies..He has the looks and comedic timing of a young Clark Cable for sure..He wants it from what he says .. so knowing his drive.. It will happen ... So gorgeous here...
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Post by sizzling63 on Feb 16, 2016 15:13:17 GMT -5
I watched the Lady Gaga tribute for Bowie. What did you guys think of it? I loved the start with the facial projection, very original and beautifully done. The rest : it was a lot. Before you knew which song she started singing, it had already ended. The techniques (ao with the piano en mic, all the song changes (i now see why there was so much rehearsel)) really had potential to make a very legendary tribute. And as an Adam fan i couldn't stop thinking how Adam would have done it. I think he would have nailed it, i think if he had done it, it could have been THE performance that would make Adam a householdname I wasn't feeling it with Gaga last night. Knowing how Adam would have killed it made it painful for me. Opportunity missed. I am pretty sure that Nile R. felt the same.
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Post by cassie on Feb 16, 2016 15:24:50 GMT -5
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Post by sizzling63 on Feb 16, 2016 15:24:53 GMT -5
O/T -- but this is David Bowie giving out an award in 1975. If you have never seen it, it is pretty amazing. youtu.be/CT79ysge1bMQ3....do you have any ideas what an artist with the potential of Adam needs to do to get to the place the top tier of artists like Bowie, get to. The only one actively working at all with this level of reverence today is, arguably, Prince. He has this stature for many of the same reasons Bowie et al from years past did....you always have to pay to enjoy him. Familiarity has always eventually bred contempt...or at least, boredom. Is it even possible for a current artist to gain this level of 'stardom' or has the playing field changed so much that this is not possible any more? I remember the discussions re the merits of how Colonel Parker managed Elvis...you famously almost never saw him unless you paid for the privilege...and that is why his TV appearance were so special....but Parker then over exposed Elvis in b and c grade exploitive films and undid all the good done in other ways.... I don't think Adam would thrive in the isolation necessary these days to gain the sense of mystery Prince enjoys...it must be a very private life he lives. Do you see another way to gain the respect without going as mainstream as he has been doing this last iteration of himself we now see....There is a reason Elton John is not as iconic as Bowie and I suspect that is more to do with his exposure than talent. I guess this is the classic Scylla and Charybdis of fame isn't it... For all of how many here were beating up on Gaga yesterday, she is still the only pop artist really putting themselves out there these days and I suppose that is what I loved so much about her performance. I agree it was pretty frenetic at times...but damn, it was daring. I hate seeing Adam keeping his performing down low, so to speak. He was wonderful at the Grammy party, but he has done that in a far more exciting way many times...the first half of the performance was especially controlled....this is definitely not the same man who thrilled us all with WLL at Fantasy Springs...and a little of me misses that, even though I understand.... Sorry if I upset anyone....that absolutely is not what I mean to do...nor am I niggling or poking...and I have a busy day so I won't even see the hate responses for a few hours, I think,...I really do think on this and I do not have an answer....I don't think Adam does either....just wondering...musing... Adam has evolved and while I do embrace his many chapters including the current one, I too miss some very splendid moments from the past. My answer for longevity..."Don't follow trends. Be as authentic as you can be and use your natural gifts to the max!"
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Post by csquared on Feb 16, 2016 15:26:56 GMT -5
More thoughts on Gaga performance. Since I've only stanned one musician I have to bring it back to him. This Gaga/Bowie performance was most like Adam's FYE AMAs performance. Both were overstaged, overthought, over wrought, over caricaturized, over hyped. I don't know that at award shows if anyone is safe from trying to be over the top and even our Adam the last time he did an award show tribute - EMAs with Queen was over the top and trying to hard. That's why things didn't "click" until the Ihearts. But to my mind, while I agree with you about Adam's AMAs performance (and to a lesser extent the EMAs - I think he might have just been nervous there), he wasn't doing a tribute or trying to imitate someone. If Gaga had done the same thing with her own music, I might not have liked it much, but it wouldn't have felt like an insult.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2016 15:27:07 GMT -5
My thought is why the hell would he want to go to a Tyga party in the first place? Sir Paul, dude! you can do better than that.
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