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Post by girldrummer on Nov 6, 2017 17:31:55 GMT -5
Okay, I need videos NOW! Have to see what went on with Bo Rhap, and what possessed Adam to hit that sustained F5 on WATC. Hurry up!!! Me, too! Vids, please, somebody! I want it all! I want it all! I want it all! And I want it NOW!
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Post by katycake on Nov 6, 2017 17:34:30 GMT -5
Question for those of you who are long time Queenies: I know audiences have always been very enthusiastic and loud at their concerts. Did they have all these female crazy screamers? For Freddie? He has never seemed sexy or hot to me, even when I was in my springtime years. These girls seem to be screaming for Adam. Brian and Roger are accustomed to rabid fans, and I suppose cutie Roger had girls swooning, but this response to the frontman at a concert? Is that a new experience for them? My impression from seeing them twice.... I don't remember there being much female adulation for Freddie - no one I knew thought of him in 'sexy' terms. He was much more of a man's man.... ...in that the 'gay' thing wasn't talked about and he had this apha-male-fearless-Rock-God thing going on, even when wearing very camp outfits. The whole band seemed to have a predominantly straight male following, as they do today. I remember one show here in the UK (in Newcastle) in 2015 when there was hardly a female to be seen in the standing floor section but the ones that were there, were at the stage, for Adam. I think there's probably a higher proportion of female audience now but that's just an impression. There was always lot of screaming and excitement for Freddie - but not in the way that Adam inspires it! Yes, your question is interesting - I think it's probably a new dimension for Roger and Brian But Q3 would be the best person to answer this I don't know the answer, cassie, but your question reminded me of that old Allegra Huston piece, so I thought I'd bring it over: What Is It About Adam Lambert?By Allegra Huston In the early ’80s, I moved to London and discovered that housewives were throwing their panties at Freddie Mercury. I found it baffling. Tom Jones I could understand, though I didn’t buy into it; but Freddie Mercury was so obviously gay. These 40-something women in polyester dresses and perma-set hair were making idiots of themselves on the BBC, as if they didn’t understand what gay was.
Could they really not know? I was only 16, but I knew perfectly well – maybe it was because I came from Los Angeles. I’d gone to Frederick’s of Hollywood with my stepmother to buy pink ostrich-feather mules in a size 13 for her friend Philip, to assist in his transformation into Marcia Hardridge.
And now I’m in my 40s, and, if I were the panty-throwing type, I’d want to throw mine at Adam Lambert. What has happened to me?
I’ve never liked the front-combed hair-in-the-face look. I don’t know that I’d actually vote for the black nail polish. And I’m a bit worried that he’s got some ghastly secret piercings. To be honest, I’m not really sure I want to find out. But there’s something about him that keeps me — and half the women I know — replaying old “American Idol” episodes on DVR and gazing at photographs of his blue-penciled eyes. (Let’s not forget that Brando did eyeliner too.) Bravery, maybe — he hooked me with “Ring of Fire.” The damn-the-torpedoes flamboyance, the oh-my-god-what-did-I-just-do look when he finished. The intense self-discipline obvious behind the recklessness. And the sweetness. And the smile.
Frankly, I don’t mind whether he’s kissing a guy or a girl in that photo with the overcoat and scarf and purple hair held back by sunglasses; it’s a very sexy photograph. I wouldn’t want to print it out if he was kissing a girl. I’d be jealous of her. A guy, I can’t compete with.
I’m thinking it may be better to have a crush on a gay man. I haven’t had a crush on a famous person since my yearning, aged 14, for John Travolta to rescue me from the mountaintop house that, behind my grandmother’s back, we called Gloom Castle. I felt like an idiot then, and I’d feel like one now if I was mooning around over photos of Johnny Depp or Denzel Washington and wondering whether, if we were stuck in an elevator together, they just might be up for it. Of course, they’re more my age. I was at university listening to the original “Mad World” when Adam Lambert was born.
He’s utterly unattainable. So what am I thinking? This way, I can really laugh at myself. I’m not like those Freddie Mercury housewives; I know the score. This is not a sad obsession. I’m hoping it might be chic.
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Post by cheriemelissa on Nov 6, 2017 17:35:10 GMT -5
They show Adam in this clip from Billboard about AI starting on March 11th. Hate to say it, but "meh."
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Post by sizzling63 on Nov 6, 2017 17:42:49 GMT -5
My impression from seeing them twice.... I don't remember there being much female adulation for Freddie - no one I knew thought of him in 'sexy' terms. He was much more of a man's man.... ...in that the 'gay' thing wasn't talked about and he had this apha-male-fearless-Rock-God thing going on, even when wearing very camp outfits. The whole band seemed to have a predominantly straight male following, as they do today. I remember one show here in the UK (in Newcastle) in 2015 when there was hardly a female to be seen in the standing floor section but the ones that were there, were at the stage, for Adam. I think there's probably a higher proportion of female audience now but that's just an impression. There was always lot of screaming and excitement for Freddie - but not in the way that Adam inspires it! Yes, your question is interesting - I think it's probably a new dimension for Roger and Brian But Q3 would be the best person to answer this I don't know the answer, cassie, but your question reminded me of that old Allegra Huston piece, so I thought I'd bring it over: What Is It About Adam Lambert?By Allegra Huston In the early ’80s, I moved to London and discovered that housewives were throwing their panties at Freddie Mercury. I found it baffling. Tom Jones I could understand, though I didn’t buy into it; but Freddie Mercury was so obviously gay. These 40-something women in polyester dresses and perma-set hair were making idiots of themselves on the BBC, as if they didn’t understand what gay was.
Could they really not know? I was only 16, but I knew perfectly well – maybe it was because I came from Los Angeles. I’d gone to Frederick’s of Hollywood with my stepmother to buy pink ostrich-feather mules in a size 13 for her friend Philip, to assist in his transformation into Marcia Hardridge.
And now I’m in my 40s, and, if I were the panty-throwing type, I’d want to throw mine at Adam Lambert. What has happened to me?
I’ve never liked the front-combed hair-in-the-face look. I don’t know that I’d actually vote for the black nail polish. And I’m a bit worried that he’s got some ghastly secret piercings. To be honest, I’m not really sure I want to find out. But there’s something about him that keeps me — and half the women I know — replaying old “American Idol” episodes on DVR and gazing at photographs of his blue-penciled eyes. (Let’s not forget that Brando did eyeliner too.) Bravery, maybe — he hooked me with “Ring of Fire.” The damn-the-torpedoes flamboyance, the oh-my-god-what-did-I-just-do look when he finished. The intense self-discipline obvious behind the recklessness. And the sweetness. And the smile.
Frankly, I don’t mind whether he’s kissing a guy or a girl in that photo with the overcoat and scarf and purple hair held back by sunglasses; it’s a very sexy photograph. I wouldn’t want to print it out if he was kissing a girl. I’d be jealous of her. A guy, I can’t compete with.
I’m thinking it may be better to have a crush on a gay man. I haven’t had a crush on a famous person since my yearning, aged 14, for John Travolta to rescue me from the mountaintop house that, behind my grandmother’s back, we called Gloom Castle. I felt like an idiot then, and I’d feel like one now if I was mooning around over photos of Johnny Depp or Denzel Washington and wondering whether, if we were stuck in an elevator together, they just might be up for it. Of course, they’re more my age. I was at university listening to the original “Mad World” when Adam Lambert was born.
He’s utterly unattainable. So what am I thinking? This way, I can really laugh at myself. I’m not like those Freddie Mercury housewives; I know the score. This is not a sad obsession. I’m hoping it might be chic.He hooked ME with "Ring Of Fire" as well. That was the start of an obsession that almost increases in intensity. I still can't quite make sense of it - not sure if his sexual orientation has anything to do with it at all - but I know it is more than his voice, which is a god given, of course. I think the Adam Lambert phenomenon goes beyond reasoning.
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Post by skaschep on Nov 6, 2017 17:43:22 GMT -5
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Post by bamafan on Nov 6, 2017 17:43:36 GMT -5
Hate to say it, but "meh." I agree. Not excited for AI at all. But the timing of the live shows start after Adam gets home from QAL OZ and hopefully there might be a new single that he'll be on the show to promote during the live season.
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Post by skaschep on Nov 6, 2017 17:47:37 GMT -5
Queen @queenwillrock .@queenwillrock + @adamlambert Lodz Set List
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Post by skaschep on Nov 6, 2017 17:52:37 GMT -5
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Post by skaschep on Nov 6, 2017 17:53:38 GMT -5
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Post by cassie on Nov 6, 2017 17:55:25 GMT -5
Thanks. Yes, that is Adam for sure. And, tho' I hear the audience singing along, I don't hear Freddie. Perhaps the had a technical glitch with that Freddie clip and couldn't get it to play? I'll have to wait to see if they show the projection of Freddie singing. I would be thrilled if they decided that enough is enough of the eulogy to Freddie, and they decided to let Adam just finish the finale without having to stand there on stage doing nothing for the final phrase. It was always a little anticlimactic to me. Hmmmm.
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