haribert
Member
Still climbing that optimistic vine...
Posts: 600
Location:
|
Post by haribert on Jan 17, 2015 15:08:00 GMT -5
Hopefully it's a sincere attempt to mend a friendship and not just the possible realization that pissing in Adam's cornflakes might have been a short-sighted move, career-wise. I don't think he really needs Adam as far as his career goes. He was well-established before Adam was even on AI. Yeah, but maybe Madonna and/or Monte's other high-powered contacts haven't called him lately. If I were Adam, I would acknowledge with a simple "Thanks" then leave it at that. |
|
|
|
Post by noreaster on Jan 17, 2015 15:10:35 GMT -5
Hopefully it's a sincere attempt to mend a friendship and not just the possible realization that pissing in Adam's cornflakes might have been a short-sighted move, career-wise. I don't think he really needs Adam as far as his career goes. He was well-established before Adam was even on AI. Yes, but in a business that's as cutthroat as the music industry and is based so much on who you know, being an asshole is rarely a good idea. Look how hard Adam works to make a good impression and be supportive of others. He now has a pretty impressive and widening network of good relationships in multiple aspects of the entertainment industry--AI, Glee, Queen, Avici, Elton, Katy Perry,Nile Rogers, Miley, Gaga, and now WB. |
|
|
|
Post by adamrocks on Jan 17, 2015 15:16:43 GMT -5
N ile Rodgers @nilerodgers 1m1 minute ago
The Gang's All Here, well almost fb.me/1PPSO3N2S
![]() 
|
|
|
|
Post by Jablea on Jan 17, 2015 15:21:02 GMT -5
This is a comment from the author of the Forbes Idol article about how he came to the 2.5 million earning for Adam. All comments are about Adam, directly or indirectly. Zack O'Malley Greenburg Zack O'Malley Greenburg, Forbes Staff 1 week ago We don’t usually release our breakdowns, but I appreciate your thoroughness and non-trolling tone, so I’ll make an exception. Lambert did eight non-charity solo shows doing our scoring period and his average gross is $420k, according to Pollstar, so 8 x $422k = $1.125m. For merch, standard calculation is $5 per head at 8,858 people show x 8 = $354,320 (yes, some of those shows did not draw that much, but online merch roughly fills the gap). That gets us to $1.479m, call it $1.5m. We weren’t able to get precise record sales data from his team or label this year, so we estimated 500,000 TEA sales (one-third of Kelly Clarkson) at a royalty rate of $1.75 = $875k. Round up to $1m to account for streaming payments and work with Avicii, and you get $2.5m total. That’s not counting the one Queen show he did in our scoring period, but we round up or down to the nearest half million on this list. I hope this restores your faith in Forbes! There is quite a bit of follow-up in the comments section which still leads me to believe that they did overestimate which Zack comes back and agrees with. Adam still makes a lot just not as much. Click on the comments and make sure to go to page 2 to see all of the followups. www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2015/01/06/top-earning-american-idols-2014/ |
|
maya
Member
Posts: 4,014
Location:
|
Post by maya on Jan 17, 2015 15:21:18 GMT -5
i tried and i failed chunkeymonkey81Aww Nile made Adam as big as Bowie and Madge and Diana twitter.com/nilerodgers/st… Nile Rodgers @nilerodgers
The Gang's All Here, well almost. Actually, not quite when I look closely. fb.me/1PPSO3N2S pic.twitter.com/HNgMw7O6f5  |
|
|
|
Post by rihannsu on Jan 17, 2015 15:25:23 GMT -5
Re. the bear discussion:  Thanks for the explanation, rihannsu and LindaG, I didn't know that meaning of the word either!  I thought the whole time that he meant something else because we have a totally different "double meaning" of bear (Bär) in German!!!  In our language people use the word to describe ... errm  ... the female genital or ... more specific  ... when a woman doesn't shave off her hair there, she has a "bear"!  So I thought that Adam wanted to paraphrase that he is not into women!!!   ... Broken English, LOL!!!  In the US that would be a beaver or a bush. |
|
|
|
Post by stardust on Jan 17, 2015 15:27:30 GMT -5
Probably it would be a good idea to take any further Monte vs. Adam discussion back to the private thread. 
|
|
|
|
Post by betty on Jan 17, 2015 15:34:41 GMT -5
Re. the bear discussion: Thanks for the explanation, rihannsu and LindaG, I didn't know that meaning of the word either! I thought the whole time that he meant something else because we have a totally different "double meaning" of bear (Bär) in German!!! In our language people use the word to describe ... errm ... the female genital or ... more specific ... when a woman doesn't shave off her hair there, she has a "bear"! So I thought that Adam wanted to paraphrase that he is not into women!!! ... Broken English, LOL!!! In the US that would be a beaver or a bush. Okay, thanks! Yes, we also know the term "bush" (Busch) but we don't call it "beaver" (Biber) here (as far as I know!). |
|
|
|
Post by Jablea on Jan 17, 2015 15:38:53 GMT -5
Re. the bear discussion: Thanks for the explanation, rihannsu and LindaG, I didn't know that meaning of the word either! I thought the whole time that he meant something else because we have a totally different "double meaning" of bear (Bär) in German!!! In our language people use the word to describe ... errm ... the female genital or ... more specific ... when a woman doesn't shave off her hair there, she has a "bear"! So I thought that Adam wanted to paraphrase that he is not into women!!! ... Broken English, LOL!!! I think this is a fine explanation and one I thought of too, not even needing broken english  . It's all good. We are all on the same page, it's all about the hair. And I don't think it matters because nobody watching that clip would think that it was anything other than about sexual attraction. It's just in the way of his delivery. You could see JLo's and Harry's reaction and I don't think they were parsing it into exactly what he meant or bear=hair. It was funny, period. |
|
|
|
Post by LindaG23 on Jan 17, 2015 15:41:05 GMT -5
Re. the bear discussion: Thanks for the explanation, rihannsu and LindaG, I didn't know that meaning of the word either! I thought the whole time that he meant something else because we have a totally different "double meaning" of bear (Bär) in German!!! In our language people use the word to describe ... errm ... the female genital or ... more specific ... when a woman doesn't shave off her hair there, she has a "bear"! So I thought that Adam wanted to paraphrase that he is not into women!!! ... Broken English, LOL!!! LOL. That explanation totally works as well. :D |
|
. It's all good. We are all on the same page, it's all about the hair. And I don't think it matters because nobody watching that clip would think that it was anything other than about sexual attraction. It's just in the way of his delivery. You could see JLo's and Harry's reaction and I don't think they were parsing it into exactly what he meant or bear=hair. It was funny, period.