3.12.13 Glambert Blue Day!!

Just lovely!!!

A while ago, when Q3 suggested we compared Adam and David, I was so excited; I took to the subject like a duck to water, resolved to take it slowly and carefully, treat the subject with utmost respect. I did my research, googled my buns off, collected articles and even made a list with two columns, one for similarities and the other for differences between them. Am I embarrassing myself terribly right now? Oh well:)

The deeper I searched, hoping to find something special, something more than Adam had already said himself about the Bowie influence, the more I realized it was not going to happen. The similarities were just too shallow, I am not sure what the right word is, too superficial maybe; whereas the differences were huge and deep.

Yes, David's father had a bunch of records which he played to the kid; yes, Berlin was a geo-emotional landmark; yes to the exploration of sexuality and of the music genres and making a breakthrough once they switched from an acoustic guitar to an electric one; Shape-shifting; Art; Queen; Drugs; Broadway; RCA... Those would all be the touching points, but once you tried to elaborate on them, everything in and about them was so different.

In spite of never repeating the success of his golden years, David remains one of the key and defining figures in pop, and one whose influence can be detected in most of the groundbreaking music that has been made since. Yet, he, the great chameleon of pop, remains somehow unknowable. Through all his musical shifts and performing personas, the man himself remains alarmingly elusive. Read all about him, listen to all the albums and you will not be any smarter on the subject afterwards. That would be the most prominent and the hardest to ignore difference between the two artists.

Because Adam and elusive? Adam and unknowable? Hardly:) For if there has ever been an artist so open and out about everything, not just his sexuality, like Adam, it is surely unbeknownst to me. He gives and talks and sings with tremendous honesty. "Honest to a fault", as he keeps saying. The good part is that he is never too obvious, never too predictable about the matters of importance. He is growing and changing and shifting in front of us as a person, not as a persona; he has explored his sexuality, but never played with it, never made it a stunt, never pretended. The best part of his honesty: he may have had to pay a huge price for it. That price may have made it a huge prize in return, for himself and his fans. He keeps reinventing himself and yet remains the same in his core. The changes keep us interested, the core keeps us in love with him.



PS///   So I did not write about it and I am glad that I didn't; in this article, "My Bowie",  Adam simply said all that David was to him, in a calm, professional and unpretentious manner. I found it terribly charming as well I am going to draw one of these conclusions from that: either Adam is just that kind of a guy, or Adam is not a hothead for David as I am for Adam. Because if a magazine asked me to write an article by the title of "My Adam" - I am not sure there would be even space left for a weather forecast and a cialis add. It would be The Forsyte Saga, War and Peace, and The Alexandria Quartet all rolled into one:) A complete, gargantuan monstrosity:) It would leave casualties in its wake, the poor, unsuspecting Glamberts:)))

Very skeptical about the "Sauli is there rumor." Don't know when he had the time to get there. He has beeen ding PR for his new TV show almost non-stop. It would be 24 hours ecah way for him! And they will be together soon. I am a romantic but that length of a flight for a 2 day visit, when you will be together in 9 days anyway seems crazy!

That's what I said on Twitter. Taking a flight from Europe to Indonesia to spend just one day over there, and then taking another flight back to Europe again... It sounds like too much. Two days traveling and only one day enjoying the island. The most logical thing for Sauli would be to meet them in Belarus or Russia and accompany them for the rest of the European leg. Or even wait until Helsinki, since it's only a little over a week away (OMG, I'M SEEING ADAM NEXT WEEK!!!). But who knows?