7.6.15 Adam's taking a break in LA, fans start to go nuts...

 and that is why we have to keep supporting him! so keep streaming, voting, tweeting, etc... at least my hope of Adam breaking through and getting to the place he should be at is still alive! TY WB!

I wonder if the reason she did not mention Adam is because he muddies the issue. Not meaning that he is not a "real musician" but because he is known for music, fashion and spectacle. Just a thought.

Love whole album, do not skip anything. Personal favorite: GT, TISI, EITH, The Light, Shame, These boys.
My least favorites: Rumors, ...and dare I say it, unfortunately TOH....sorry

Best for radio, imo:  TOH, ALN, EITN, The Light, in that order.

My struggle with TOH is that I want to love it, knowing its obvious future role and clearly its importance for Adam, but I am just struggeling, tbh. First it is too rich and baroque for me (kind of like the triple layer cake that you long for, but then find too rich to really enjoy), secondly the sound is not really fitting the whole topic in my mind, even though  I realize that in Adam's mind it obviously is fitting just fine, and then the grown-ass man. It  is not that he uses the word, I could not care less, it is rather that it seems to stick out like a sore thumb out from the rest of the song. So, I am just struggling to love this one, which does not mean I won't support it through its single days, but I just cannot get comfortable with it.

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Heavy Fire: I interpreted this the same way as one person did yesterday. It's the song for somebody who is sent out into the world to sell something, that he/she cannot truly stand behind, but is supposed to support for the greater cause. i.e. Adam having to sell NCOE for RCA, even though this song was forced upon his album first, was then made a single, and then he is the one who has to go out to radio stations, who are asking Adam, what the song means (well it means keep your eyes open and party, duh), when this is a hard sell. On top of it, he draws heavy fire not only from fans, but also from the media and we don't know, how often he was approached by somebody from radio, who was actually well meaning towards him, and pulled aside and told, if only he would have picked a different single, ....we don't see these things happening, but it would not surprise me, if they did.

Such situations are always difficult ones, I have seen them in the work place, where you are part of a team and have to weigh your support for the team decision against your own opinion.

It obviously exists in politics, i.e. when Colin Powell, who was against the Irak war, went to the UN to defend the Bush policy. etc. Could give tons of examples.

Everyone wants to be loyal to their own team, or feels obliged to do so, its natural, and until it gets to the point, where you formally make the break from the old team, there is a very unpleasant stretch of compromise and discomfort.

When Adam was approached to do the 80s cover album, I bet, it was not only a question of not liking the music, but also one of drawing 'heavy fire' for giving up on his career, which is how many would have interpreted that cover album. He would have drawn fire, and this is what imo the song is about.

I am so glad he was able to get out, and very glad for the lawyer he has, and back to Adam, the guts he had to face the uncertainty of his future, rather than do that album. When I heard he had to do a covers album, I thought he was stuck, but he found a way out, and that was brave, and probably putting artistic integrity before other concerns. A proud moment, among many others.

I am confused.  He does not use "grown ass man" in TOH.  He uses it in TISI