4Msrmyn,

Thanks!! I've forgotten that the song Falling Slowly is from the movie "Once", here I thought she was referring to Adam's U2 cover of "One". 

Maybe HBIC wanted to do it himself? lol  I don't know.

It's probably finished, though. You're right, someone else could have done it for him. 

OK, I'm not good on it, but I try:
my prediction: April 23, 2013 7:00 PM

And I really LOVE Adam's new hairstyle! :D

All of Adam's +++, which turn out to be ---, which is not even funny, not only mathematically speaking

The setting of this scenario takes place in the Game of Thrones of the pop music world, which is an attribute coined by Adam himself and which proves that I am not the biggest drama queen of this fandom - he is (established fondly & lovingly:))).
Joking aside, I think it proves that Adam has learned to deal with all the bad stuff that sometimes appears, unordered, on his platter, and he normally sails through it with the cool suaveness of a social butterfly, except for one thing and one thing only - the singing. The last two gates, Les Miz one and PopJustice one,  are direct repercussions of that fact and they showed that there are many things, even very serious ones, that Adam can joke about but singing is definitely not one of them.

As everybody who has ever heard his voice already knows, it is a once-in-a-generation, multi-octave, soaked-in-beauty, high-power sonic feast in 3D; it is Adam's most precious possession - but is it his Achilles' heel in the pop music world would be the question of the day and is there more where that came from is another one. Here are Adam's advantages, euphemistically speaking, which the game turns into disadvantages, probably unconsciously.

1. his voice

One glance at the top 100 hot list, and all that without any desire to put anyone down, demonstrates that you do not have to be an exceptional singer to be a successful pop male artist. No such prerequisite, sir. There is nothing much wrong with that, really, except that it makes Adam stand out like a jumbo jet in a hangar full of cessnas. Add his protectiveness and caring about it into the equation and Houston, I think we have a problem. The only question which seems to have any face value in the business is: "Do you have a hit song or not?" which can be quite disconcerting when one is trying to make some good music while singing one's face off. Now, Adam seems to have caught on all the rules of the game and has agreed to play by them, except for that one - he keeps singing in high regard and keeps mentioning it. How very uncool of him, tsk-tsk, Adam.

2. his sex appeal

Many pop lyrics talk about sexy times, but they do not draw so much attention as Adam's. I think it is not about Adam being gay, it is something else. For example, Justin, who I appreciate very much, can sing: "Dirty babe, you see these shackles? Baby, I'm your slave, I'll let you whip me if I misbehave..." and no one blinks an eye. It is because Justin is safe sexy. He is sexy in a weirdly asexual way, he is cool sexy. Adam, on the other hand, is hotter than hot, very suggestively sexy, with a highly functioning sexy appendage one cannot not notice even if one tried. It is pure physiology, it makes people react, and while some embrace that reaction with enthusiastic, hell-yeah request for more, others freak out and run for the hills. This is how yet another of many glorious Adam's pluses can turn into a potentially sexually frustrated minus for some.

3. his song writing

Without even attempting to assess the quality of his song writing skills, there is something about his lyrics that can only be found in best rap, reggae or alternative rock music. Social involvement and critique, personal outcries, layers upon layers of meaning which sway from one potentially disturbing topic to another have never been something which could be found in pop music - until Adam Lambert took a pen in his hand and started writing his own music, that is. This turned out to be one of his major trespassing misdemeanors and the problems he faced fell into two categories: either people, be they his fans or not, failed to understand them, which is not something to earn more than a scoff and a shrug, or they perfectly understood him, but decided that he was overcomplicating things, again. Spreading his wings outside the game ring, so to speak, which propmtly earned him a red card. ( PopJustice much?). So, until Adam settled down and nicely let, like any reasonable pop star, the others write neutral, undisturbing lyrics for him, that is another minus for him right there. Down, boy. Tossing the truth into anyone's face is so passé.


There are probably more entries to this list, but these three are the major league ones. The outcome of this conundrum is this: Adam Lambert knows the rules of the game. He will play by them. But not without bending them, sometimes subtly, sometimes aggressively, until they include all of him so as to provide him a fair fight. Nothing more, nothing less.