From jo's post from yesterday I think Adam's voice with the Queen music is otherwordly and I can't get enough. I've often gone over, in my head, what would have sent Adam into the stratosphere after idol and I do believe it would have happened had he done things right from the start. His first mistake was the AMA's and then the album cover. I think Adam was not realizing that his voice alone is what people wanted from him. I remember Barry Manilow saying that if he had just sat there (at the AMA's) and sang a great song (WWFM would have worked), he would have blown the roof off the place and I think he was right. If he had done that and then followed with the voice front and center instead of the OT stuff being front and center, I think he would be huge right now.
This would make Adam a Buble 2.0
I will be forever grateful to both Adam as well as the universe at large that Adam did not go down that path. As far as commercial success this may have worked for one or two albums, I agree. It sure worked for Clay Aiken for a while.
But there are two things that are certain to me about this scenario. I probably would not be a fan of his today (never was a CA fan either) and interestingly those parts of my family who don't care for Adam now, would not be either.
I think it is fair to say that Adam has foregone some revenue by staying true to himself, and he had to be brave on top of it, because he had to deal with the resulting controversy too.
I sometimes think of the AMAs as a medicine that the US needed to take, but did not know it needed. In fact, they assumed it was poisonous, that it would spoil their little children. When it didn't, and the world did not come to a grinding halt as predicted, they reluctently learned to accept it, and the whole nation was pushed one step closer to open and natural interaction between gay and straight.
Not only did this couple on the Amazing Race give each other a kiss like any other couple would, very much to the applause to the other couples around and clearly without giving the producers nightmares about whether to pixel out such pictures or not, the whole country did not have a meltdown anymore either.
America has taken its medicine and now can stomach what they assumed they could not. The open display of physical affection of gay men.
The fact that in one blog this couple actually traced their kiss back to Adam's four years ago, shows how much difference Adam has made.
I am very proud of him for that and I am tbh appreciative to RCA for standing by him at that time, because they are carrying the price for that too. As much as I critique them for some things that happened since then roll-out wise and just in ways of professionalism and simple management, they did stand by Adam in that important time.
I am glad Adam did not become Buble 2.0
That is why I think it is a balancing act, because he needs to stay true to himself and yet have market considerations in mind.
During AMA he did not think about market, he just acted from his heart and probably stepped further than his career allowed. But he stepped exactly where America needed to be taken and in the end, as far as his career goes, I think that is our role in all this crazy circus that has become the Glambert world. When he steps too far for average America, we are here to ensure that he lands softly and that his career keeps going, no matter what those haters say.
It is a very different career path than Buble 2.0, but a much more worthy one.
PS: I know that Adam's voice is more than just 'the next Buble', believe me, I know, this just was not the point of my post. Hope you understand.
ETA: Fixed my quote
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