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Post by lambo on Jul 20, 2012 12:19:42 GMT -5
Critical Bias: I came into this concert thinking I would hate my life. Watching Lambert allowed me to appreciate an amazing vocal talent and stage performer. Another convert?  Another convert is good, but should it really take seeing him live to show him some basic respect? :-/ |
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Post by houselady on Jul 20, 2012 12:27:09 GMT -5
Critical Bias: I came into this concert thinking I would hate my life. Watching Lambert allowed me to appreciate an amazing vocal talent and stage performer. Another convert? Another convert is good, but should it really take seeing him live to show him some basic respect? :-/ New comment under the review, plus others have already taken him to task about a few things: "Lambert brought the crowd to its feet for an entire standing only set on Thursday night."
I think this statement may be the most important one in your review. Adam does more than sing . . . he entertains giving the audience (in his own words) 'something to look at, to listen to, and to feel' as your complimentary observations illustrate. I'm not sure why so many critics like you expect to hate it / hate him. Why? I appreciate your honesty and the fact that you ended up enjoying the show, but for your information, this performance was no fluke. Adam has always been this awesome! I hope skeptical music-lovers will read your article and have a similar change of heart. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2012 12:28:00 GMT -5
Adam Lambert - Pacific Amphitheater - 7/19/12blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/2012/07/adam_lambert_pacific_amphithea.phpAdam Lambert Pacific Amphitheater 7/19/12 Glambert fever took over the Pacific Amphitheater last night as Adam Lambert belted out crowd favorites and brand new material in part of the Orange County Fair's summer concert series. In honor of his May sophomore album "Trespassing," fans paraded around with yellow crime tape to welcome the screaming, American Idol alumni. The night before, A.I.'s 2011 winner Scotty McCreery was gracing the stage for a very different (i.e. wholesome) countrified concert. Lambert, the first openly gay artist to top the Billboard Top 200 album chart at number one with Trespassing, took the stage with some serious disco diva swagger, tossing hits "Whataya Want From Me" and "If I Had You," along with a brand new variety in "Never Close Our Eyes" and "Naked Love". With poof'd gelled hair, limp wrist and a face plastered with makeup, Lambert vogued on the neon lit stage while wearing a stallion imprinted blazer, accompanied by a wailing guitarist with bright pink hair, a female bassist who challenged Lambert in the fashion department with Skrillex-style shaved hair. Of course our favorites in the band were two voluptuous black backup singers named "The Va Jay Jays". I must say it was nice to see girls with shape and meat on their bones singing and dancing in the spotlight. MORE... He starts off this review quite homophobic. (limp wrist, really >:() but by the end I found this line quite interesting. Critical Bias: I came into this concert thinking I would hate my life. Watching Lambert allowed me to appreciate an amazing vocal talent and stage performer. Another convert? Yeah, I was like "limp wrist"!!?? BUT, had to laugh -- we have all been calling it the horse jacket -- he refers to it as the STALLION jacket. Right on! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2012 12:31:10 GMT -5
How was Adam getting to Scramento? I gather the band has traveled up there by bus.
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Post by theosgma on Jul 20, 2012 12:31:30 GMT -5
Hey guys. I am not intending to be a downer!!! and I don't diminish that the 65 minutes and traffic from hell was a great contributor to the tired ass comment. Perhaps I should not have cited that. I am not diminishing Adam or your experience in any way. I thought the concert was awesome. I loved it.
I did not mean to say his energy was low. It was not low. Perhaps I didn't say it quite right. I meant it as a a qualitative comment not a quantitative comment. For me, where I was both in place and time, I saw him as the awesome confident energetic performer you all saw. I agree. It was more a sense of the flow. I know you all know what I mean when it comes to the seemingly effortless connection to unbounded joy and energy that Adam has. I just had a sense that there was more will and effort to pull that out especially at the outset.
You all know how much I love Adam I would hope that I can post my account without having to feel like I am a downer. This was simply my experience based on being so close to the stage and observing him when the lights were NOT on. It was a different view and perspective.
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Post by HoppersSkippersMiners on Jul 20, 2012 12:32:50 GMT -5
Adam Lambert - Pacific Amphitheater - 7/19/12blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/2012/07/adam_lambert_pacific_amphithea.phpAdam Lambert Pacific Amphitheater 7/19/12 Glambert fever took over the Pacific Amphitheater last night as Adam Lambert belted out crowd favorites and brand new material in part of the Orange County Fair's summer concert series. In honor of his May sophomore album "Trespassing," fans paraded around with yellow crime tape to welcome the screaming, American Idol alumni. The night before, A.I.'s 2011 winner Scotty McCreery was gracing the stage for a very different (i.e. wholesome) countrified concert. Lambert, the first openly gay artist to top the Billboard Top 200 album chart at number one with Trespassing, took the stage with some serious disco diva swagger, tossing hits "Whataya Want From Me" and "If I Had You," along with a brand new variety in "Never Close Our Eyes" and "Naked Love". With poof'd gelled hair, limp wrist and a face plastered with makeup, Lambert vogued on the neon lit stage while wearing a stallion imprinted blazer, accompanied by a wailing guitarist with bright pink hair, a female bassist who challenged Lambert in the fashion department with Skrillex-style shaved hair. Of course our favorites in the band were two voluptuous black backup singers named "The Va Jay Jays". I must say it was nice to see girls with shape and meat on their bones singing and dancing in the spotlight. MORE... Wow. That review is....interesting. It definitely ENDS well, and - taken as a whole - is strongly positive, but the start is just so  Why would such an inherent narrow-minded dude decide to review a show he's obviously not interested in in the first place? Unless he was just told "Here's your assignment. Go." The cracks about the "wholesomeness" of Scotty McCreery and "limp wrists" were....fascinating.  That said, I give Adam huge props for winning such a hostile reviewer over by the end. But GEEZ!!  |
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Post by gelly14 on Jul 20, 2012 12:34:22 GMT -5
Thank you so much houselady for all the info |
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Post by swarm on Jul 20, 2012 12:36:10 GMT -5
Adam Lambert - Pacific Amphitheater - 7/19/12blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/2012/07/adam_lambert_pacific_amphithea.phpAdam Lambert Pacific Amphitheater 7/19/12 Glambert fever took over the Pacific Amphitheater last night as Adam Lambert belted out crowd favorites and brand new material in part of the Orange County Fair's summer concert series. In honor of his May sophomore album "Trespassing," fans paraded around with yellow crime tape to welcome the screaming, American Idol alumni. The night before, A.I.'s 2011 winner Scotty McCreery was gracing the stage for a very different (i.e. wholesome) countrified concert. Lambert, the first openly gay artist to top the Billboard Top 200 album chart at number one with Trespassing, took the stage with some serious disco diva swagger, tossing hits "Whataya Want From Me" and "If I Had You," along with a brand new variety in "Never Close Our Eyes" and "Naked Love". With poof'd gelled hair, limp wrist and a face plastered with makeup, Lambert vogued on the neon lit stage while wearing a stallion imprinted blazer, accompanied by a wailing guitarist with bright pink hair, a female bassist who challenged Lambert in the fashion department with Skrillex-style shaved hair. Of course our favorites in the band were two voluptuous black backup singers named "The Va Jay Jays". I must say it was nice to see girls with shape and meat on their bones singing and dancing in the spotlight. MORE...  My post: OMG. Screaming, ok, it's a common nonsensical term some bloggers apply. Was "Outlaws of Love: the scream or the part that solidified your homophobia?
LIMP WRISTED, face plastered with makeup? Words fail at the utter homophobia you don't even know you own.
Regardless of your admission that his good show cannot be denied....I would prefer to deal with a blogger's bias against Lambert's music than the bias of homophobia foisted generically upon millions of human beings who have every right to breathe the air YOU breathe with whatever personal attributes they are born with without your recriminations of YOUR values of their worth.
You owe the LGBT community a HUGE PUBLIC apology for your ignorance. And that's me being polite about it, because I'm quite sure you know better.
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Post by lynne on Jul 20, 2012 12:37:13 GMT -5
Critical Bias: I came into this concert thinking I would hate my life. Watching Lambert allowed me to appreciate an amazing vocal talent and stage performer. Another convert? Another convert is good, but should it really take seeing him live to show him some basic respect? :-/ No, bb, it shouldn't. Attitudes like these are what Adam is sometimes faced with here. But hey, Adam was so good he changed his mind. Even though he languages his write up still steeped in bias. And he also talked about female fans again when there were lots of male fans there as can be plainly seen in the videos. |
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Post by adamme on Jul 20, 2012 12:37:14 GMT -5
That's it! Sophisticated confidence ( w/o cockiness), these words describe him perfectly. Words, words... like suave also come to my mind. Thanks, Mys*&@^#r! Brian said the same thing about Adam in a Moscow Talkshow start at 8:20.. not exactly the same words, but he said something like .. ".. He's very mature .. he's not arrogant but very confidence .." |
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