12.14.12 Tonight! Jingleball @ Warfield in SF

Welcome jo
What a great first post! I had to bring it over from yesterday:

"Okay, I don't like to post but this subject is very interesting and I wanted to give my two cents for whatever that's worth. As a diehard fan, I have all of Adam's music in various forms but what I tend to do is only listen to the Kiev concert over and over again. I rarely listened to either one of his albums. 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. My humble opinion is that he did not rely on his voice as much as he did the OT look and actions to get people's attention. I think this was his biggest mistake from the beginning. His being gay certainly plays a role too but a lot of the OT in the beginning was all about the gay with the AMA's, the album cover, his GNT shows, etc. and I think it was just too much too soon for those people who still live in the dark ages, which is most of America, unfortunately. If he had taken it more slowly and built up to the more OT stuff gradually so people could more willingly accept that from him, I think it would be a different story for him right now. He would be huge because he is the most talented man I have ever seen in my lifetime and one of the most beautiful too."

(for some reason, my "quoter" wouldn't work.)

Anyway, I heartily agree 100% with your thoughts. I think Adam's launch was full of OOPS, especially the AMA performance and album cover, and his career would have been at a different place now had it been started differently.
He did say in one interview that he had to get the feathers and glitter out of his system and he was ready for the next phase of his career. I think that becoming more "real" - I think that was his term - was that step and I think a good one.
After he had his cry and downtime about the AMAs, and realizing the FYE cover was not the best idea, I think he has been working his cute little bum off to turn things around and he is slowly succeeding. Maybe that unexpected and steeply uphill climb has made him stronger, as personal disasters in ones life can sometimes do.
As Kelly Clarkson sings, "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger." heh. ;D
I think he is much stronger for it and he surely is more gorgeous every day. :wub:
Anyway, that was then and this is now, and he/we go on from here.

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