5.9.13 40 dancers, amazing costumes & Adam! THAT is a BALL!!

I wouldn't think Adam would want to re-record Ring of Fire anytime soon.

From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season_8_Favorite_Performances

Season 8 Favorite Performances is a compilation album by Adam Lambert based on his American Idol performances. The album was released digitally through iTunes and consists of studio recordings made by Lambert during season 8 of American Idol. It does not include live performances at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles.

I must be missing something.

How is this "fan art" any different from the photo taken from the Style Bible?
www.stylebible.org/

While Adam can't lay claim to being the originator of the middle eastern influenced version of ROF ( he gave that credit to Dilana Robichaux during her Rockstar Supernova run) ,IMO he perfected it!
This version however, again IMO.... sucks! LOL.
Too much electronic manipulation.... and it sounds like his mouth is full of marbles! 

Lol - Mouth full of Marbles. More like foot in the mouth. This is how a Spanish (from Spain) accent sounds when speaking American English. It is different from the 'Hispanic' accent that you are probably more familiar with. Every country in the world has an accent when speaking or singing another language. Bet you would have and accent too, if you spoke Spanish or any other language for that matter.

I did put ' original' in quotes, because I am quite aware of the history of Adam's performance on idol, but did not think that I was required to start with the audition or Adam's birth and work my way forward to explain how we got to this performance. Obviously Alex did not imitate Dilana's version, but Adam's. Adam was inspired by Dilana, but made the song his own. This guy does not make it his own, but rather chooses to imitate, which is actually my biggest beef with him (on all 20 songs that are out there of him covering an AL song). But vocally, there is no question in my mind, that he is probably the closest I have seen anyone come to Adam vocally (range and especially continuous range wise). He has more natural grit in his voice than Adam, and needs to switch to falsetto on a few high notes that Adam can still belt out, but he has a bit more strength in the lower register, so he is darn close.
Adam can put that grit into his voice, if he wants to, but he can also not have it, whereas Alex seems to always have it.

I wish Alex would have more of an own version of the songs and not just imitate. He is quite creative in the visual area. He has performed a famous Fever cover a few years ago on some talent show, where he incorporated AMA choreography, Mad World lighting and other Adam specific dance elements into a Fever version. I'll go look for it. At the time the vocals did not impress me as much as they did here, probably because he was more focused on all the choreography (seems to happen with these ama inspired dance routines). It was one hell of a sexy performance though, and I loved it at the time.

But if you look at his youtube channel, there are quite a few vocally outstanding performances. Again, all imitations, nothing deviating from Adam's version even in the slightest.

ETA: Here is the Fever youtube link, while I figure how to reformat the address so it works in the pop-up:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=35AAngePSxQ&list=UUokY_EkWEJX5Jt3UQL7bs_g&index=10