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Post by skaschep on Aug 13, 2016 13:06:39 GMT -5
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Post by skaschep on Aug 13, 2016 13:08:01 GMT -5
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Post by skaschep on Aug 13, 2016 13:09:16 GMT -5
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Post by skaschep on Aug 13, 2016 13:10:22 GMT -5
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Post by adamme on Aug 13, 2016 13:28:38 GMT -5
My first listened to the song was on my phone while driving home and I couldn't recognize Adam's voice when he sang " Right when we met you made me forget that my heart's ever Broken". I thought it was someone else's voice. But at home I played it again. I've love his lower register but this one is really.. really beautifully sexy
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Post by mszue on Aug 13, 2016 13:33:22 GMT -5
I don't understand why you say he won close to a million for that? Are you saying there are money prizes for winning the gold? This is an 'amateur' sport arena...supposedly...[yeah that...] I think they don't win any money on the Olympics themselves, but most countries give their athletes a bonus for medals. In Singapore the bonus for winning a gold medal is 1 million Singaporean dollars. Just heard this as well on my tv when they mentioned him winning from Phelps. I believe if it became known that athletes were 'paid' that kind of money to medal winning athletes, it would be the beginning of the end...although that is already a path that has been headed down with the allowing of professional athletes play on olympic teams a few years back. The US media has often come down on China and Russia for monetarily supporting their athletes openly. Western countries have tended to back-door their payments in the form of gov't grants or allowing corporate sponsorships. IMO, full on financial rewards to winning athletes should destroy the athlete's amateur standing....it is one thing to 'cover' expenses...it is another to selectively 'pay' them. I am surprised it is allowed or acknowledged. It turns the whole 'proud to sacrifice and work to attain the podium and sing our country's anthem' into a sham...like having Walmart employees stand and sing a Walmart ad. Just no!
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Post by adamme on Aug 13, 2016 13:34:51 GMT -5
As discussed yesterday, it's hard to tell if in the lyric video, one of the lovers is male or female, which is probably the intent, so that people could decide for themselves. Why they do this still, so that it could be universal and not just a song about same-sex couples? The lyrics are so personal, that if the video was true to Adam, the sex of the lovers would not be so ambiguous. If Sam Smith and Olly Alexander videos can show same-sex themes, maybe someday, we'll see the same with his videos. I wonder sometimes, if the backlash from the AMA awards show, holds him (or whoever produces his videos) back. IMO, not the AMAs. More the fact that Adam is very sexy. Sam ans Olly are not. So they are non threatening.but Adam's sex appeal is. .. How many times we saw tweets from people that saw him on stage whether in his own show or with QAL and they said,"I'm straight guy.. but Adam Lambert's so darn sexy... "
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Post by adamme on Aug 13, 2016 13:40:32 GMT -5
Didn't know of them before "Broken" so this is the first time saw what they look like. Gorgeous .. very good looking guys, kind of look like brothers.
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Post by skaschep on Aug 13, 2016 13:46:29 GMT -5
I think they don't win any money on the Olympics themselves, but most countries give their athletes a bonus for medals. In Singapore the bonus for winning a gold medal is 1 million Singaporean dollars. Just heard this as well on my tv when they mentioned him winning from Phelps. I believe if it became known that athletes were 'paid' that kind of money to medal winning athletes, it would be the beginning of the end...although that is already a path that has been headed down with the allowing of professional athletes play on olympic teams a few years back. The US media has often come down on China and Russia for monetarily supporting their athletes openly. Western countries have tended to back-door their payments in the form of gov't grants or allowing corporate sponsorships. IMO, full on financial rewards to winning athletes should destroy the athlete's amateur standing....it is one thing to 'cover' expenses...it is another to selectively 'pay' them. I am surprised it is allowed or acknowledged. It turns the whole 'proud to sacrifice and work to attain the podium and sing our country's anthem' into a sham...like having Walmart employees stand and sing a Walmart ad. Just no! OT: I appreciate you defend those amateur values, but about all athletes competing at the Olympics nowadays are professionals. There are hardly any amateurs there anymore. And I believe all countries give their athletes some kind of fee for winning a medal. I know that for the Netherlands that's part of the contract they have with the organisation that sends them to the Olympics. In the Netherlands those fees aren't that big (30.000 euro's for gold) and they also have to pay income taxes (depending on their own income at least 42%) over those fees so not that much is left after that is done, but still they get a fee. ETA: just searched and the American Olympic comity is giving 25.000 dollars to a gold medalist. On top of that the different sport federations give an additional fee. For cycling this would have been 100.000 dollars extra. It comes from a Dutch article so can't quote it here. See for an article in Forbes here: www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2016/08/08/wealth-and-glory-the-biggest-gold-medal-bonuses-at-rio-infographic/#65c1811356bc
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Post by FanOfTheMan on Aug 13, 2016 13:48:06 GMT -5
Minnie has made her transition today. Totally peaceful and calm. So grateful to have had her. *hugs*
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