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Post by Sagittarius on Sept 7, 2014 12:29:45 GMT -5
Trespassing would have been bulletproof cohesive if it hadn't been for NCOE and, in lesser degree, BTIKM. It has a clean lyrical and sound line progressing from lightness to darkness, from interpersonal to intrapersonal, from upbeat songs to ballads. I don't know any other album with such brilliant and intelligent structure, (again if we disregard those two songs). Its cohesive elements are multileveled and they give a very strong philosophical note to the whole album, and that note elevates the otherwise very autobiographical atmosphere to a more relatable one.
Plus, his voice:))))ETA/// If sticking to one genre is the only way an album achieves cohesion, I pity that artist and that album. A bit late to the board: An early personal review of FYE was appreciating the diversity of the music...loved moving from one style to another, often repeating a track depending on my mood. Trespassing offered a deeper view of Adam and I've been entranced with his musical vision. Upbeat to heartbreaking and all the moods in between. I have favorites but they often change ... I've repeated TFM lead to the high,sustaining note over a million times and never get tired of the beauty of AL's voice! The Queen collab has been a dream; rock, pop, funk, bluesy riffs, and the glorious clarity of Love Kills and WWTLF. Covered the spectrum...no box...something for everyone. I bow down to his talented genius !!! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2014 12:43:47 GMT -5
glitter - yes this is an unpopular opinion! Especially for me  A fan should be a fan without thinking: am I too old? Am I pretty enough? Am I tall enough? I know that Adam's fandom often is viewed as older women (sparkle cows  ) - but whoever is a fan, is a fan and you can make yourself visible how much you want. JMO I am visibly going to Katy Perry in 1 1/2 weeks and I don't give a fuck how old I am! SpinDanceWhy should I care about it in relation to Adam. Nothing any of us can do about false perceptions. Adam's audiences are very diverse. Adam's cred is so high right now, it doesn't matter! LOL! Remember, almost all the reviewers assumed the young fans at QAL were Adam's fans! ETA: Adam even told his fans what to wear to the QAL concerts, so personally, I don't think he gives a fuck about how visible we are either!  |
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Post by murly on Sept 7, 2014 12:45:49 GMT -5
Unpopular opinion alert....I get really annoyed by the older fans making themselves SO visible within this fandom. It really does Adam absolutely NO favors for his fan base to be viewed as predominately older females and in the U.S. And that is sadly how his fan base is viewed, rightly or wrongly. I get it, I love Adam too but I am NOT in the demographic that radio seeks so I follow Adam online, I go to his concerts, I buy his music, I discuss him with other fans but I DO NOT advertise my age for everyone to see (and I am only in my early 40s). I don't go to radio events or join contests not aimed for me and I don't go out of my way to "explain" why women of a certain age are fans. i am not saying these ladies shouldn't be fans. They should. Adam loves all his fans and needs them all too but perhaps they could think more about what their constant visibility does to Adam's credibility as a current and relevant pop artist in the industry today and pull back a bit from making everyone so AWARE of them. JMO. You'll no doubt get a lot of replies arguing the very valid point that no one should be ashamed to be a visible fan--but I'm betting there are also those like me who wish they didn't agree with your post but secretly do agree. I will be 60 next month and I know that I and everyone else my age has every right to be fans and yet I still cringe a little inside when so many posters here casually mention their grandchildren. I want the grandchildren--or at least the children--of people our age to be Adam's primary fan base. The way I feel about this issue and the way I wish I felt are at odds with one another.
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Post by lelemaple on Sept 7, 2014 12:48:35 GMT -5
glitter - yes this is an unpopular opinion! Especially for me A fan should be a fan without thinking: am I too old? Am I pretty enough? Am I tall enough? I know that Adam's fandom often is viewed as older women (sparkle cows ) - but whoever is a fan, is a fan and you can make yourself visible how much you want. JMO I am visibly going to Katy Perry in 1 1/2 weeks and I don't give a fuck how old I am! SpinDanceWhy should I care about it in relation to Adam. Nothing any of us can do about false perceptions. Adam's audiences are very diverse. Adam's cred is so high right now, it doesn't matter! LOL! Remember, almost all the reviewers assumed the young fans at QAL were Adam's fans! Agreed about Adam's cred. It is incredibly high and he is the talk of at least a large segment of the music world and has been all summer. The QAL audiences were incredibly diverse and it benefited both sides. Adam's fans were introduced to Queen music and they gained new fans, and many, many Queen fans became Adam fans, myself included. I almost find the age topic kind of funny when discussing Adam, given who he just worked with, 65 and 67 year-old legends at the top of their game, more than twice his age. As they say, age is just a number. It just doesn't matter. |
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Post by adammm on Sept 7, 2014 12:58:09 GMT -5
Unpopular opinion alert....I get really annoyed by the older fans making themselves SO visible within this fandom. It really does Adam absolutely NO favors for his fan base to be viewed as predominately older females and in the U.S. And that is sadly how his fan base is viewed, rightly or wrongly. I get it, I love Adam too but I am NOT in the demographic that radio seeks so I follow Adam online, I go to his concerts, I buy his music, I discuss him with other fans but I DO NOT advertise my age for everyone to see (and I am only in my early 40s). I don't go to radio events or join contests not aimed for me and I don't go out of my way to "explain" why women of a certain age are fans. i am not saying these ladies shouldn't be fans. They should. Adam loves all his fans and needs them all too but perhaps they could think more about what their constant visibility does to Adam's credibility as a current and relevant pop artist in the industry today and pull back a bit from making everyone so AWARE of them. JMO. I think you girls worry too much about details  I'm male at my late 30s, and if you ask me, I give no shit about fanbase average age and how other see it. It is Adam (and now Adam and Queen) that we support, and it's numbers and great community that makes Glamberts special, not age or sexual preferences. If we can not tolerate each other and only complain about other fans from our own household, how we can call ourself...? |
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Post by lelemaple on Sept 7, 2014 12:59:36 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2014 13:02:39 GMT -5
glitter - yes this is an unpopular opinion! Especially for me A fan should be a fan without thinking: am I too old? Am I pretty enough? Am I tall enough? I know that Adam's fandom often is viewed as older women (sparkle cows ) - but whoever is a fan, is a fan and you can make yourself visible how much you want. JMO The Irish have a word -- Seanachie (shawn-a-key) that means storyteller. That means a person who entertains not only with words but by creating an experience, an entire alternate world that exists alongside of this one. Adam Lambert is a seanachie. We can run away from the stories he tells or the mirror he holds up in front of us ("I'll be your mirror" -- remember?). What do you see? We can edit our narratives and make them tiny because of the passage of time, or the dreams that died in failure years ago, or even because inside we're still just the same scared and lonely kid we always were, a kid who found escape in music even though even back then we weren't the least bit cool, just fat and acne-scarred and in sad possession of offbeat tastes that we clung doggedly to for reasons unknown, so that no one in a position of authority would have given a damn about us or whether we ever got a happy ending. OR, at long freaking last, we could turn to a fun, fascinating, loving, and inclusive pied piper who invited us to go on a magic carpet ride with him -- yes! even us! - "no matter what other people think." Someone with the power to bring back that long ago feeling that -- because of his music, because of his unapologetic weirdness, because he's "standing here with no apologies" -- that even in this screwed up sad old world, we are never alone. That maybe tonight we're taking over the town. People like to talk a lot about Adam's backup singers or lack there of. But the thing is, as a seanachie, Adam is the backup singer. He's the backup singer for us. Because the only voice we can give to our narrative is ultimately our own. And because of this, we are free. He just puts the steel in our spines. Thanks, Adam. |
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Post by lifeguard on Sept 7, 2014 13:09:57 GMT -5
Speaking of New Zealand... Last night, I watched an interview with Jared Leto (I'm a huge fan of him as an actor, but I hear he is pretty successful as a musician as well) and Lorde (who is also a very delightful cookie from NZ). linkAdam link #1, the irrelevant one: Lorde has the same platform shoes as Adam. She wore them in both videos I checked out, this interview, but also for her 2014. Grammy performance of 'Team'. linkAdam link #2, the relevant one: Jared said: "I've never had sudden success... I've always had a long, slow build, and I'm really grateful for that, for myself, because I didn't start out great like she did. I had to learn how to get better." I'm not trying to compare any of their roads to success to Adam's, because his is a bit different, but I do strongly feel that Adam always learns how to get better. I remember thinking in the days right before QAL started that I'd never go to the Chicago show, but to the later ones, possibly the last one? Because I knew he would keep getting better. And he did. Just like Jared appreciates and is grateful that he had to get better, one of the things I appreciate the most and am immensely grateful for regarding Adam - that he is so hard-working and willing to keep getting better. This whole journey with him is one amazing and delightfully intense buildup. And when he tweeted that the third time is going to be the charm, I didn't feel it as any kind of slight towards FYE and Trespassing, but I believe what he meant was exactly that: that the third album is going to be better, in a sense that it is going to be a reflection of his personal and professional development, improvement and betterment. Plus, we concur: FYE was great, Trespassing was greater, and A3 is going to be the greatest:) Cannot wait:) PS/// Adam link #3, the least relevant one: Lorde is a pseudonym. I just realized that I have weird issues with that. Honesty is very important to me. I cannot but ask, for example, if one is singing about love, are those their true feelings? Did that really happen to Peter Hernandez, or is it just Bruno Mars, a stage persona, singing about what he thinks the audience wants to hear. I resent the very idea that someone is trying to sell me something fake, especially human emotion. I know that so many artists use fake names, there's probably nothing wrong with that anywhere outside my head. Both Bruno and Lorde are insanely talented. I just needed to point out that Adam doesn't (use a fake name), thank lord(e). He is very honest and I am very thankful for that:) Great thoughts. The page one picture says it all for me also. Is Adam's life perfect? Of course not. Does he seem excited with what has and is going on! I think he does. Most ambitious people want more for their careers but the lucky ones, and I consider Adam among them, appreciate what they have accomplished, don't dwell on what they don't have or the unfairness of the Universe, and celebrate life one day at a time as they reach for the stars. We all want everything good and wonderful for him and I think day by day, accomplishment by accomplishment we are getting our wish. Plus we are getting a man who isn't afraid to put it all out there and be an artist one minute and a dork the next. That's why I'm still here 5 years later. |
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Post by lifeguard on Sept 7, 2014 13:10:52 GMT -5
And did I forget to mention that he is hot as Hell?
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Post by adamrocks on Sept 7, 2014 13:19:31 GMT -5
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Aww!!! I just peeked in before leaving for the day and saw this twirling Adam from you Chapf!! Adam getting his Tina Turner groove on! OMG! I love it!! Thank you!!  BBL. |
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