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Controversies, Fighting Homophobia and Life In 2015: Adam Lambert Reels Us Into His World! bit.ly/1SnqW8J via @spinorbinmusic
Controversies, Fighting Homophobia And Life In 2015: Adam Lambert Reels Us Into His World!
By Joey December 31, 2015
To be honest, I’ve hardly met an artiste of this magnitude (in my 3 years of musical adventures) with such a refreshing amount of authenticity. Gone is the old
Adam Lambert who may have created controversy once or twice on purpose in the past – we are now talking to the new Adam Lambert who just boldly declared “I don’t create controversies” to a room full of media personnel.
This is also the same man who cannot bear to sing “bubblegum pop songs” in light of everything that’s happened in the world this year.
I’ve always had respect for Adam and what he stood for, and this became even more pronounced in the wake of the recent petition hoo-ha. His flawless response?
ADAM LAMBERT ✔ @adamlambert
Fighting Homophobia one song at a time.
9:27 AM - 27 Nov 2015
3,133 3,133 Retweets 4,830 4,830 likesAdam Lambert is genuinely a rare find in the gigantic American music industry that changes its whims faster than the Kardashians can change their outfits. Unsurprisingly, Adam’s larger than life personality has always stayed relevant no matter what.
He’s humble, more grounded and he actually takes the public’s concerns about him seriously without coming across as too politically correct or simply pandering to the crowd’s (or should I say, national) interests. He has stayed true to being Adam Lambert, come hell or high water.
Some even say his real agenda is motivated by unorthodox reasons. Yes, those people were right – he just wants to use his music to take over the world and brainwash all of our minds. I cannot believe that his fans ultimately became better people filled with kindness and acceptance. How terrifying is that?
So to further expose Adam Lambert, we asked him a few questions, and we also have a five-minute video chock full of Adam’s sassy answers for good measure. (He even smoothly brushes off rumours about him feeling under the weather. “What are you talking about? I feel great!”) The best part of it all? You’ll love every bit of it.
When did you get in? Did you just get in yesterday?The day before yesterday was a day of rest. I watched a lot of Netflix on my laptop. Yeah, I just rested.
And you’ve been here before, in Singapore. Have you looked around the place, had any time at all to try more of our local food?
I’ve had chilli crab the first time I was here. I loved it. I’m going to get some of that before I leave. It was really good, really tasty.
Do you get time after New Year’s Eve or are you right out of here?No I actually have the next day free! Might be sleeping in a little bit, you know.
How has 2015 been for you so far?It was amazing. This album, The Original High that I’ve put out this year, I didn’t know that it was going to happen or not. I changed labels, I started floating around in limbo, going “Mmm I’m not sure what my next project is”. And when it all finally came together I was so thankful and so excited. I worked on it for 2 months in Sweden and then finished it in LA. I was very proud of it. I think that it’s very different from the Queen music, and I love that because I get to live out both sides of my artistry. With Queen I get to do amazing classics from the past, visiting and going rock n’ roll, which I love, which I was brought up on. And with my album, I get to live in the future and look ahead and talk about things that are my experiences. So I feel really fulfilled and I get the best of both worlds!
I understand that you had about 4 days to prepare for this tour and basically, the Singapore show is the one kicking off the entire The Original High tour?Yeah, no, actually this show for New Year’s Eve, it turns out that we actually created it, the show for tomorrow night, especially for Singapore. It’s obvious that I’ve been working on my tour right now and that’s going to continue into the China, but you gotta do something special for Singapore, special for the television program, special for the audiences here. So I fought very very hard and I took a lot of time to figure out which songs will speak to as many different people as possible, which songs [are] best representing me, my current album, my mission statement. And I think we’ve got something great. But I think it’s going to be songs that people know and love, so yeah, I’m very excited to share them.
I mean it has to be us. Before you came here, there was the whole petition and controversy, and all that drama. So has that changed the way that you’ve prepared for the show as well?
I was actually flattered that people cared so much! You know, listen, over the past five years, whenever I do a TV performance, I work very carefully with the producers and the team to figure out what’s appropriate for the program, so, that’s what we did for this. Yeah.
You’re a huge Queen fan. You said in an interview once that Freddie Mercury embodies what you think is a rockstar. Basically he doesn’t care what people think and doesn’t give a shit. So is that something you adopt in your life since it’s so public?You know it’s a constant battle between doing just what I wanna do, and doing what my gut tells me to do. And then the other side is also, I wanna make people happy. You know, I wanna make people feel connected. So it’s this constant struggle like “Ah, I don’t care” and “Oh, damn again!” [Laughs] But I think that’s me. That’s what makes me who I am. You know, the balance between the two.
How was it like working with Max Martin?He’s amazing. He’s so down-to-earth and so kinda funny and sarcastic, never takes it too seriously, he creates a very light-hearted energy in the recording studio, and he just knows, he just has a way of knowing what’s gonna work, and what people are gonna connect to instantly. He’s got a gift for that. And Shellback is also the executive producer [of] the album, and he’s the same way. It’s like they’re psychic. Pop psychics. I don’t know how they do it. They just have a way.
Yeah, everybody wants to work with them at some point.I’m lucky. I’m very, very lucky. You know, “Whataya Want From Me”, which was kind of my big hit off my first album – that was done by Max Martin and to come back and get to work with him a second time and his team, was such a gift and to have him oversee the entire album took a lot of the weight off my shoulders, a lot of the guessing off my shoulders, and to allow me to kind of just relax and I think that’s just the best type of environment.
Shortly after the news of the petition broke out, you tweeted “Fighting homophobia one song at a time”. So how do you plan to do that and what’s the best way in your opinion to fight homophobia?
Well, you know at this point, I think that we’re all moving forward to acceptance. I’ve always been an artiste that knows and feels that I’m lucky that I’ve been put on this planet and that I’m an international artiste and I get to reach out to different cultures, different places, different ages, genders, religion, beliefs, everything. My goal as an artiste has always been to connect people, and to try to find the common denominator between all of these different people from all over the world.
And the further I go in my career, the more I learn, and the more I understand about that. And the more I understand about the human condition, the human heart. And what makes us all the same, as opposed to what makes us different. So for me, you know, any sort of fear or difference is something that’s bound to happen, but I try not to worry about that too much. I try to stay focused on the positive and stay focused on the thing that unites us. And not the thing that divides us. [Sassily] … So I just sing my songs! [Laughs]
So how do you think you’ve grown in terms of your vocal, spiritual, emotional performance from your Trespassing tour to your Original High tour and album?
That’s a good question. I think I need a little more time to look forward and really understand it, but I think that with this album it kind of reflects where I’m at in my life right now, which I think is a bit more grounded than maybe when I first started out at the scene about 6 years ago. 6 years ago I got different ideas I wanted to discuss and different things I wanted to put out there, and different ways of going about it. And then naturally I’ve evolved. Might have been for better or for worse but just naturally. Like all people do. Changed maybe some of the ways I dress, and some of the ways I view the world, and my relationships have changed.
I think music on a technical level, this album, it explores more nuances that I might not have done as far into before, and I think we hit the tip of the iceberg with Trespassing. And with The Original High I think we really dove in all the way and I was able to sing about things in a certain way I was really excited about because they were very personal, but also very universal. You know, everybody wants happiness, everyone wants love, everyone wants acceptance and success in some form or another and I think that’s what the album talks about. [It] talks about that journey; sometimes you don’t get it, sometimes you go the long way, sometimes you go the right way. So yeah I’m excited, I’m excited that it could potentially really help people understand themselves.
Here are the video highlights of the interview!
