1.29.13 Happy Birthday Adam

It is hard to believe that it has been four years since I heard "Mama."  What a diffierence those two notes have made in my life. I will be forever grateful to AI for casting Adam on that season.  So many good looking, talented, trained, professional singers from musical theater try out each year, and almost none make it through the audition process. How was it that the producers recognized that Adam was so much more than a theater guy with a great voice and an edgy haircut?  How was it that someone "got" Adam when directors, producers, and record executives didn't?  When even many of the critics writing about Idol didn't at the beginning?  We've discussed many times how Adam is a black swan, an outlier, an alien, who makes people vaguely uncomfortable with his fabulousness that they don't know how to process.  Whatever posessed the producers of such a mainstream, middle of the road, "middle-America" reality TV program to choose the alien from the planet Fierce?

However it happened, the universe, fate, faith, positive projection, or an undeveloped Glambert in the production staff, I truly believe the world is better for it.  Idol served its function. It gave us Adam Fucking Lambert. Its purpose has been fulfilled.  Now, it can continue to limp along as another reality TV popularity contest, or it can close up shop.  Don't care any more. When you have given the world the best singer of a generation what's left to accomplish? 

Thank you, Idol, and good night.