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Tonight: Adam on Extra TV
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@ben4589 in the US? It's serviced yes
Q3 note: This tweet was deleted. I am not sure if it was a mistake because there is no sign that WTTS has been serviced (sent) to radio stations yet. WB is clearly promoting the song -- for example the Shazam promo and the ExtraTV interview is are WB connections.
Adam Lambert On His Two (!) New Songs, ‘Rocky Horror’ & His Friendship With Kesha: Interview
Robbie Daw @chartrigger | March 21, 2016 - 8:52 am
If you’ve not yet caught on to the fact that Adam Lambert is one of the hardest working guys in show business, consider this: The 34-year-old singer is currently traveling around the States on his Original High Tour, in support of the album of the same name he put out just nine months ago. Once he finishes up on his home turf, Adam heads to Europe for more dates and then summertime festival appearances with Queen. Sandwiched in between there, he’ll shoot his scenes for Fox’s upcoming reboot of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Oh, and by the way, he just released a new non-album single, “Welcome To The Show,” completely out of the blue a few days back, while somehow still finding empty space on his calendar to jet back to L.A. for a performance of the song on American Idol last week.
It was the day after Adam’s Idol gig when we hopped on the phone to discuss “Welcome To The Show.” It turns out he’s got another new collaborative song about to drop “any minute,” called “Can’t Go Home.” Lambert also gave insight into why he opted to not to take the lead Rocky Horror role of Frank-N-Furter, which he says he was originally approached for. (He’ll instead be playing Eddie.) And while the singer chose not to comment on anything regarding Dr. Luke, a producer he worked with on his albums For Your Entertainment and Trespassing, he did speak fondly of his peer and former labelmate Kesha.
Head below for our latest chat with one of the most original voices — and hardest workers — in this thing we call pop music.
Nice to speak with you again! Great job on American Idol. You looked, appropriately enough, very at home on stage there.
ADAM LAMBERT: It was great to be back. It was really fun.
For a lot of people, your new single “Welcome To The Show” came out of the blue last week. How did that song come together?
AL: You know, my personality, I’m very impulsive. I really like jumping into things and making them happen very quickly. Sometimes in the music business that’s not really easy. [Laughs] When you put together an album, you have all the plans you have to do with the label and everything’s being worked on. It’s a process. And so we were talking about what was next, and I’m on this tour — I said, “God, I just want to put something new out. Why not? Why do we have to follow any sort of rules?” It’s spring, and it feels like a new year. And I love the songs on my album — there’s still potentially singles off the album, as well — but I just wanted to put something out new to surprise people and to create excitement. So I talked to Max Martin and he’s like, “Yo, we just got this song that Laleh started. You should come listen to it.” So I came over there and she played it for me. Instantly I thought this is something that we can develop together. And she’s so sweet and she’s so open, her energy, and we had this idea and started singing together next to the piano. It just felt right.
It’s a very uplifting song.
AL: I said, “God, I just love this message,” because it can mean so many different things depending on who you are. That’s something that’s been a theme on this album, The Original High — songs that are very direct and honest but can be applied to different situations. I felt very strongly that this song would help people face what they’re dealing with, maybe empower them and [help them] take pride in who and what they are, what they’re going through, and find strength in it. It’s a very strong anthem. It’s sort of a mantra. The thing that I love about the chorus is that it’s simple. It feels like this thing that will maybe get in your head and, yeah — take pride in who you are and live your life.
As a music fan, I always like non-album singles. They feel like a nice surprise.
AL: Yeah. I feel like these days, there are just no rules. You don’t have to do anything one way. It also doesn’t necessarily signify that The Original High is over, by any means, either. It was just, hey — we wanted to put out a song.
So just to clarify, Max Martin called your attention to “Welcome To The Show,” but he didn’t produce the song.
AL: No, he didn’t produce it. Ali Payami — he did a lot of the programming on “Ghost Town” with me, and he worked with Max on that song — he did the production on this. He did all the instrumentation and some of the composing. Laleh actually produced my vocal. We got in together in New York, and she and I worked on the vocal. It was very quick and very straight ahead. It was very impulsive. I love that.
Have you been writing any other new music while you’re currently on your Original High Tour? And also — two part question — is this the only new track you recorded during that particular session?
AL: Yes, because I didn’t have much time. It was a day. It was a break in between my New York show and the New Jersey show. I have not actually written anything since I’ve been on the road, but I do have another song that I recorded that’s coming out any minute. It’s a feature with Steve Aoki and Felix Jaehn. They collaborated on this track and sent it to me. I went in and recorded it in L.A. a few weeks before I did the “Welcome To The Show” vocal. So that’s double-stacked! [Laughs] It’s a really exciting song. [Steve Aoki] has been playing it down in Florida and all of his other stops that he’s on all the time, and people really seem to like it. It’s called “Can’t Go Home.” It’s very much a summer jam.
When we spoke last June, you were hopeful that you would get to tour behind The Original High. And now you’re finally out there doing that.
AL: Yeah. It’s so good to be in front of my fans again. It’s been awhile. I didn’t realize it, but I was like, Oh my God — my last [solo] tour was five years ago. It’s a 90-minute show, or up to a 90-minute show — some venues want it to be shorter. It’s a lot of singing, but I love it. I worked with a friend who I’ve known for years — her name is Brooke Wendle — to help me direct the show. She brought in a great lighting designer and content people. It’s more production than I’ve ever had, solo. We really structured it to be a three-part show. The beginning of it is very moody and darker and kind of angsty. Then we go into a middle section of the show which is kind of heartfelt, much more vocally-driven — you know, the musical integrity section of the show. [Laughs] And then the third section is all the dance music that I love.
You’re such a busy guy. You also have more shows with Queen coming up, correct?
AL: Yeah, this summer. It goes one right into another. I finish here in the States at the beginning of April. We do our two back-to-back L.A. shows and then I literally leave the next day to go film Rocky Horror in Canada. And then right after that I jump over to Europe and we do the UK and European dates for the solo tour for about a month or so. And then I go right into Queen. We’re doing a bunch of big festivals all over Europe.
Are you currently learning your lines as Eddie for Rocky Horror?
AL: You know, he doesn’t really have a lot of dialogue! It’s a really fun part because it’s very much a cameo. They actually asked me early on — this is sometime last year — to look at the role of Frank-N-Furter. I was really flattered, and I thought, yeah, that could be quite fun. But [with my] schedule, [it was] just not looking likely. And on a side note, I kind of felt like in 2016, to be cis and playing the role of a trans character, it felt inappropriate to me. In the ’70s, it was different. But nowadays we have such an amazing conversation that’s started about trans and gender in this world. I think casting Laverne [Cox] was so brilliant. It’s so appropriate, you know what I mean? And to re-imagine [the character], as well, because she’s entirely different. So I said no, but when they started announcing the cast, I said, “Wait a minute — what about Eddie? I wanna play Eddie! I could do that — that’s like one song. Let me just come in and do a bit part!” Because I really, really wanted to be a part of it. I’m a big fan of the original movie, and [director] Kenny Ortega’s a lovely guy. And then I heard that Cisco Adler was producing the music and thought, oh, this is gonna be good. So, I went in and I recorded my songs already. I did my vocals, and they turned out really cool. Now I’m going in for a week in April, in Toronto, to film.
Will we actually see you on a motorcycle in your scene?
AL: You might! [Laughs]
To go back to Laverne and the reason you didn’t take the role of Frank-N-Furter, it is very cool that we’re living in a day and age where we can have the authenticity of watching an actual trans actor play a trans character, and viewers will accept that.
AL: You know, I thought to myself, my friends that are trans — how are they going to feel about casting a non-trans person saying, “I’m a sweet transvestite from transexual Transylvania”? It’s dicey. I think they made a really bold, refreshing choice on that. It’s very forward-thinking and it feels very right now, which is going to make this remake really interesting.
You posted a really sweet Instagram photo of you and Kesha together the other week while you were on a tour stop in Nashville.
AL: Yeah. I hadn’t talked to her for so long. It turned out that I was in Nashville for my show and she texted me and said, “Hey — I’m in Nashville.” I was like, no way! So it was really good to catch up. I hadn’t seen her in awhile, but back when we both got signed to RCA, we were at a handful of different promotional events together, and the launch for Vevo, we were there together. It was really nice to see her and catch up.
Link: www.idolator.com/7627189/adam-lambert-new-songs-rocky-horror-friendship-with-kesha-interview
Adam Lambert Reveals Why He Rejected Role of Frank-N-Furter in ‘Rocky Horror’ Remake
by Andy Towle
March 21, 2016 | 3:03pm
In a wide-ranging interview with Idolator’s Robbie Daw, Adam Lambert spoke about the upcoming Rocky Horror Picture Show remake in which he plays the party of Eddie.
Lambert was originally asked if he would play the role of Frank-N-Furter but turned it down:
“I kind of felt like in 2016, to be cis and playing the role of a trans character, it felt inappropriate to me. In the ’70s, it was different. But nowadays we have such an amazing conversation that’s started about trans and gender in this world. I think casting Laverne [Cox] was so brilliant. It’s so appropriate, you know what I mean? And to re-imagine [the character], as well, because she’s entirely different. So I said no, but when they started announcing the cast, I said, “Wait a minute — what about Eddie? I wanna play Eddie! I could do that — that’s like one song. Let me just come in and do a bit part!” Because I really, really wanted to be a part of it. I’m a big fan of the original movie, and [director] Kenny Ortega’s a lovely guy. And then I heard that Cisco Adler was producing the music and thought, oh, this is gonna be good. So, I went in and I recorded my songs already. I did my vocals, and they turned out really cool. Now I’m going in for a week in April, in Toronto, to film.”
Added Lambert: “You know, I thought to myself, my friends that are trans — how are they going to feel about casting a non-trans person saying, ‘I’m a sweet transvestite from transexual Transylvania?’ It’s dicey. I think they made a really bold, refreshing choice on that. It’s very forward-thinking and it feels very right now, which is going to make this remake really interesting.”
Daw’s interview also includes remarks about Kesha, future shows with Queen, his ‘Original High’ tour, and his new single “Welcome to the Show” (featuring Laleh, above), which came last week out of the blue.
Read the full interview here (above), and watch his recent American Idol appearance in which he sings “Welcome to the Show”, below:
(Video of Idol here)
Adam Lambert’s Happy to Break Rules With ‘Welcome to the Show’ Release
by Matthew Scott Donnelly March 21, 2016 1:16 PM
If the spontaneous release of Adam Lambert’s “Welcome to the Show” last week felt a bit unorthodox, the singer poses this question: Are there even related standards anymore?
In an an interview with Idolator published today (March 21), Lambert says there was really no rhyme or reason to unveiling his new single, which doesn’t belong to any particular album or EP. To put it simply, he just liked it.
“I said, ‘God, I just want to put something new out. Why not? Why do we have to follow any sort of rules?'” he explains. “It’s spring, and it feels like a new year…It also doesn’t necessarily signify that The Original High is over, by any means, either. It was just, hey — we wanted to put out a song.”
And while the new material was certainly unexpected, Lambert says his current tour is quintessentially him: there’s drama, theatrics and vocal standouts to please longtime fans.
“The beginning of it is very moody and darker and kind of angsty,” he notes. “Then we go into a middle section of the show which is kind of heartfelt, much more vocally driven — you know, the musical integrity section of the show. And then the third section is all the dance music that I love.”
When the tour wraps up next month, Lambert will proceed to Canada to film the part of Eddie in Fox’s forthcoming Rocky Horror remake. He says he was originally considered for the role of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, but declined out of concern it could offend fellow members of the LGBTQ community.
“You know, I thought to myself, my friends that are trans — how are they going to feel about casting a non-trans person saying, ‘I’m a sweet transvestite from transexual Transylvania?’ It’s dicey,” he shares, and says the Laverne Cox‘s casting in the famous role is a better fit. “I think they made a really bold, refreshing choice on that. It’s very forward-thinking and it feels very right now, which is going to make this remake really interesting.”
Read More: Adam Lambert's Happy to Break Rules With 'Welcome to the Show' Release | popcrush.com/adam-lambert-welcome-to-the-show-interview/?trackback=tsmclip
Adam Lambert Gets Nostalgic with Final Idol Appearance
It's Adam Lambert's "Mad World", and we're just living in it!
Season 8 Idol runner-up Adam Lambert has proven that you don't have to win it all to find success, becoming a global glam rocker in the years since his television debut. Each of the last 7 seasons, he has returned to the stage and delivered so many incredible performances, and American Idol welcomed him to the show for two more to celebrate his final appearance.
This week's show opened with a throwback to Adam's original Top 8 performance of Gary Jules' haunting "Mad World", which Adam reprised, much to the audience's delight! Later, Adam was happy to entertain and share with us his new one-off single "Welcome to The Show", recently released on iTunes. Featuring Swedish songwriter and songstress Laleh, the duo brought pyrotechnics and power to the stage, completely rocking the catchy anthem.
Candidly speaking with AmericanIdol.com, Adam reflected on his Idol experience, then and now.
What was it like returning to the show one last time?
It’s always nostalgic. It’s great to see the staff that’s still here, ‘cause there’s such fun memories. I got up on stage tonight for my first song, and I got all nervous again! There’s something about coming back to the show that brings up all this adrenaline.
Your latest album "The Original High" was released in summer 2015, but you've just debuted a brand new song, "Welcome to The Show", which is not associated with any upcoming studio LP. What inspired you to release this single?
I really wanted to put out something new. My fans are so amazing. They’re so loyal and devout. They’ve digested this album twenty times already, so I just wanted to put something out that would be a surprise. I was like, "It’s gonna be spring, let’s do something anthemic and empowering." I met Laleh through [music producer] Max Martin, and she had this idea for this song. Instantly, the lyric hit me right away ‘cause I feel like it’s so direct, and it’s so honest. I feel like it’s about a lot of different kinds of things, which is interesting, you know? I think a lot of people can find meaning in it with their own life.
Do you have a favorite moment or experience from your Idol season?
I was really excited to be able to sing Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love”, because Led Zeppelin had never been cleared before. [American Idol] has to get the publishing rights to be able to perform the song, and I kept asking, and they finally cleared it. The band, I guess, found out that I was gonna do it, and they were like, “Yeah, he’s cool!” So that was a big moment!
(Back then, the judges raved after Adam's Zeppelin tribute, with former judge Randy Jackson accurately predicting, "You are a rockstar waiting to happen!")
The other really important thing that happened to me at the very end of Idol was that I met Queen, and that turned into a collaboration that’s still ongoing. We’ve been on a world tour, so very exciting!
What has American Idol meant to you?
It launched my career! I’d been doing theater my whole life, and that’s sort of what I’d been brought up doing and what I was groomed for. Into my twenties, I was doing a lot of productions here in LA, and I started to really desire taking more of an active role in my artistry and creating my own stuff and being myself. I wanted to make original music. It just started to become my passion, and so I started working in studios and doing demos...and I realized very quickly how difficult the music industry is to break into. I’d been watching American Idol since the beginning. I was always a fan - never thought I was right for the show! I always thought I’d be too left-of-center. That year that I auditioned, I thought, "You know, I need a chance. I need to open some doors." That’s all I thought it was going to end up being! I didn’t expect it to take me all the way to here, so it’s been very, very, very rewarding.
Glamberts can catch Adam currently on tour, and be sure to watch him as "Eddie" this Fall on FOX's two-hour "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" event!
Link: www.americanidol.com/article/adam-lambert-returns?sf22885222=1
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Adam's brand new single is a powerful anthem which (dare we say it?) sounds a bit like Queen.
They have the live performance there as well. Plus links to a snippet and iTunes.
WHAT'S THE SONG OF THE SPRING? VOTE NOW!
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The Original High Tour – North America
Wed, Feb 24 7:00 PM Boston, MA House of Blues Boston
Fri, Feb 26 8:00 PM New London, CT, The Grand Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino
Sat, Feb 27 9:00 PM Atlantic City, NJ, Caesars Atlantic City
Sun, Feb 28 7:00 PM Bethlehem, PA, Sands Bethlehem Event Center
Tue, Mar 1, 8:00 PM, New Brunswick, NJ, State Theatre
Thu, Mar 3 7:00 PM New York, NY, Terminal 5
Sat, Mar 5 7:00 PM Washington, DC, Lincoln Theater
Sun, Mar 6 8:00 PM Charlotte, NC, Fillmore Charlotte
Tue, Mar 8 8:00 PM Atlanta, GA, Tabernacle
Thu, Mar 10 7:30 PM Nashville, TN, Ryman Auditorium
Sat, Mar 12 8:00 PM Hollywood, FL, Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Sun, Mar 13 7:00 PM Orlando, FL, Universal Orlando Resort
Tue, Mar 22 8:00 PM Milwaukee, WI, The Pabst Theater
Wed, Mar 23 7:00 PM Chicago, IL, The Vic
Fri, Mar 25 7:00 PM Detroit, MI, The Fillmore Detroit
Sat, Mar 26 7:00 PM Mount Pleasant, MI, Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort
Mon, Mar 28 7:00 PM Wichita, KS, The Cotillion
Wed, Mar 30 7:00 PM Denver, CO, Paramount Theatre
Fri, Apr 1 7:30 PM Las Vegas, NV, The Foundry at SLS
Sat, Apr 2 8:00 PM Los Angeles, CA, The Orpheum Theatre
Sun, Apr 3 8:00 PM Los Angeles, CA The Orpheum Theatre
Wed, Apr 13 the European leg of the tour begins.
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