4.8.14 Adam is home! I wonder if he is done recording?
Apr 8, 2014 12:08:46 GMT -5
Post by Craazyforadam on Apr 8, 2014 12:08:46 GMT -5
Out-Magazine: agree with inept and selling out for hits, hence their headline. Clearly Neon Trees does not get as many hits as Adam Lambert, so AL goes in the title. The content beyond that, clearly less important.
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I do think though that from Tyler's side there may have been something else at play too.
When you are in a situation it often feels like you are alone, when really that is not the case. When people point to role models, what is often forgotten, is that the person needing the role model needs to be receptive to connecting themselves to that potential role model.
That sounds simple, but it is not.
If I think back at my teenage years, I remember feeling very alone, with what I was going through. Did that mean that the world was lacking people who had gone through my experiences? Of course, not. The issue was not the non-availability of potential role models, it was my inability to either reach out or even the inability to properly process and gather my thoughts in a way that I would have been able to either articulate or see the connection to a potential role model.
With age, I have become more and more aware of others who have come before me and have spoken or written about situations I am going through. I often found that role models help us most, once we are ready to actually process a situation, they don't help us while we are still buried with our own lonesome worries.
Tyler grew up in a Mormon world and may very much have felt that a California club kid had nothing in common with him, and the idea that Adam could have made him feel less alone, may not have been on his radar, while inside his own bubble. Now that he is clearly processing and reaching out, and sees the response, he may be realizing: Oh, there was someone, and I did not even see it. Again, these are my thoughts, and I am describing a likely situation. Obviously, I clearly have no inside knowledge what is going on in his head.
Not on the music side, but on the Mormon side there were already others (Benji Schwimmer comes to mind), but that does not mean that it was any easier for Tyler in his own circles to see that.
Role models are still important, they are important for when we are ready for them. And they are important, because their presence changes the dialog within the rest of the population, which will indirectly alter the situations any individual might encounter.
And Adam has moved many mile markers forward and keeps on doing that.
I interpret Adam's statement from his earlier years, that he had no role models to look up to, in the same way. He needed a certain age to be able to see his connection to people like Freddie or to Boy George or to George Michael or to many, many others. While he was a young kid, teenager or young adult, they could not yet help him in his own development, because they were not in his own mental backyard at the time.
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I do think though that from Tyler's side there may have been something else at play too.
When you are in a situation it often feels like you are alone, when really that is not the case. When people point to role models, what is often forgotten, is that the person needing the role model needs to be receptive to connecting themselves to that potential role model.
That sounds simple, but it is not.
If I think back at my teenage years, I remember feeling very alone, with what I was going through. Did that mean that the world was lacking people who had gone through my experiences? Of course, not. The issue was not the non-availability of potential role models, it was my inability to either reach out or even the inability to properly process and gather my thoughts in a way that I would have been able to either articulate or see the connection to a potential role model.
With age, I have become more and more aware of others who have come before me and have spoken or written about situations I am going through. I often found that role models help us most, once we are ready to actually process a situation, they don't help us while we are still buried with our own lonesome worries.
Tyler grew up in a Mormon world and may very much have felt that a California club kid had nothing in common with him, and the idea that Adam could have made him feel less alone, may not have been on his radar, while inside his own bubble. Now that he is clearly processing and reaching out, and sees the response, he may be realizing: Oh, there was someone, and I did not even see it. Again, these are my thoughts, and I am describing a likely situation. Obviously, I clearly have no inside knowledge what is going on in his head.
Not on the music side, but on the Mormon side there were already others (Benji Schwimmer comes to mind), but that does not mean that it was any easier for Tyler in his own circles to see that.
Role models are still important, they are important for when we are ready for them. And they are important, because their presence changes the dialog within the rest of the population, which will indirectly alter the situations any individual might encounter.
And Adam has moved many mile markers forward and keeps on doing that.
I interpret Adam's statement from his earlier years, that he had no role models to look up to, in the same way. He needed a certain age to be able to see his connection to people like Freddie or to Boy George or to George Michael or to many, many others. While he was a young kid, teenager or young adult, they could not yet help him in his own development, because they were not in his own mental backyard at the time.
