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Post by SusieFierce on Jul 25, 2011 12:29:59 GMT -5
I have the ProBoards app, but I prefer to just go to the regular Adamtopia page via Safari. It looks/works just like it does on the computer, but smaller. I have the main directory saved to my home screen and I just click on it and am always taken to the table of contents. It works great. thx. i haven't figured out how to have a page stick to my homescreen without an app. I have bookmarks but by the time i get to them it's no longer a quick look. maybe i'll take a walk over to verizon to the tech guy. i suppose i could call but i'd rather see it done in front of me. On iPhone, there is a little "forward" icon with an arrow below any page; one of the choices is Add to Home Screen. Works great for me. |
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Post by cookie on Jul 25, 2011 12:34:38 GMT -5
thx. i haven't figured out how to have a page stick to my homescreen without an app. I have bookmarks but by the time i get to them it's no longer a quick look. maybe i'll take a walk over to verizon to the tech guy. i suppose i could call but i'd rather see it done in front of me. On iPhone, there is a little "forward" icon with an arrow below any page; one of the choices is Add to Home Screen. Works great for me. Ooh- I hadn't figured that trick out yet. Off to try it... |
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Post by feelalive on Jul 25, 2011 12:36:36 GMT -5
My husband and I went to the Idol concert last night. Now remember, the love of my life is Adam. No concert is ever special unless Adam is there. However, we had a good time. Some of the kids surprised me. The venue (Amway Center in Orlando) is beautiful. I want Adam to play there. It holds about 20,000 and all the seats are great. Naimi (sp) was wonderful. She really knows how to entertain. For some reason, out of all the girls they focused on Pia. Her face and voice are beautiful, but I still don't know Pia. I want her to sing with her whole body, heart and soul but she still seems like a blank slate on stage. She always looks like she is trying out for Miss America (no fire). Haley was an entirely different story. She does have fire and a lot of talent. I hope somebody can see that, and she becomes a star. I hate to say it but James had all 18,000 of us on our feet screaming, and he got the biggest hand. Stefano was the most improved and really showed his stuff. Casey, of course, was c-r-a-z-y and fun to watch. The rest were just mediocre. We left when Scottie came out because we wanted to be the first out of the garage. We had a 2-hour drive home. It was fun because we were sitting next to a lot of people our age. Of course, we had a lot of laughs. Seniors are hysterical and irreverent. We know how to enjoy ourselves in any situation. I missed Adam. No concert I have been to since Adam's can compare, and I always feel a little let down because the magic isn't there. This concert had to be better than last year's, but it will never be as good as it was when our Adam blew us away. I posted a review of the Dallas concert in the AI 10 thread if anyone is interested. A friend who is an AI fan but didn't watch this year came with me. Not discussing it before, it was interesting to see she had the same reaction as I did. My daughter wouldn't come with me - She said if ADAM wasn't there then there wasn't anyone this year she was interested in seeing. Observation - 2 years ago the concert was in an arena that held about 12.000. This year it was in a concert hall that held 6500. Both were sold out. 2 years ago at the barracades there were about 700 people (after asking people who they came to see, the overwhelming majority said Adam). This year there might have been 150.( There was not an overwhelming favorite when I asked, Probably more for Scotty and Haley than the others) Just curious. Don't know if it will relate to sales. Sure missed Adam!! Can't wait for the Friday concert - wish I could go but happy for all those that will be there. |
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Post by gelly14 on Jul 25, 2011 12:36:43 GMT -5
He did say more about Adam, some good some bad. www.popmatters.com/pm/post/145249-tv-highpoints-and-lowpoints-of-2010-number-10/Even most of the winners of American Idol are mediocre or average at best. I personally listen to one and only one former participant of any contemporary talent show and that is Adam Lambert, and even in his case my listening is limited to a couple of songs from his album that reside on my iPod. But even with his talent, I’m doubtful that he will have a substantial career. Why? Because in today’s music scene careers are for the most part driven not by vocal talent but by the ability to produce one’s own material. This guy needs to wait for Album #2. He obviously doesn't know all of Adam's contributions. Erm, A LOT of music stars have songs written for them and it doesn't stop them from being very, very successful. A hit song is a hit song. Does anyone think that Britney Spears is sitting with her journal, penning insightful lyrics that can turn into songs? Well, okay maybe she IS penning lyrics but if she is they are more along the lines of BABY BABY OH YEAH BABY BABY OH OH OH. And remember that NPR article about what is takes to produce a hit song? It bascially said how a CAMP OF SONG WRITERS got together and basically wrote all of Rihanna's songs off her last album. That's not to say that she didn't have a hand in some of the tracks, but it's not uncommom for pop stars to have their shit written for them by proven hit makers. All the big acts have stuff given to them--Beyonce, Katy, etc etc ad nauseum. Of course it goes without saying that I hope that Adam has a huge hand in the songs this go around (and it looks like he does) and we get more of his *vision* or whatever, but to act like having your material given to you from outside sources will somehow be detrimental to your career is bullshit. The only thing detrimental about it is if you are given BAD material. And no song writing royalties is detrimental to the pocketbook. You always express my thoughts perfectly. You should write professionaly and make money out of your writing j/s  |
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Post by SusieFierce on Jul 25, 2011 12:43:10 GMT -5
ITA, Chunkey! The guy started off trying to make a point and then tried to shoehorn Adam into his point, and hamstrung himself I think. First of all, he outed himself for not researching Adam's songwriting credits/abilities before or after Idol and also Carrie writes her own material?
I googled Carrie's writing credits and didn't get any kind of corroboration to that, other than she was planning to "be more involved in the process" for her third album. She did a writers camp for that as well, according to Wiki. She has no writing credits on ASCAP under the name CARRIE UNDERWOOD, which is how she is classified when you search her as a performer, so I imagine that is the name they would have her under. There are many, MANY successful acts that do not write their own material.
So yeah, his premise is flawed and he's a research fail, but glad he had good things to say about Adam in general.
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Post by justgill on Jul 25, 2011 12:46:55 GMT -5
Throwing something a little different in here. I just picked up an alert that said it was a spoof. Not knowing much about US politics, I don't know, but to me, it doesn't look like just a side-swipe at Adam. glossynews.com/top-stories/politicos-and-polticians/201107250737/insane-debt-levels-suddenly-uncool/What I loved, regardless, was the opening paragraph: "Just as no one knows the cause of earthquakes, sudden mass culture changes are a matter of great mystery to sociologists. History is rife with instances of these shifts. Communist Russia was seen as heroic, but then all of America changed its mind in 1946. Cigarettes were once the epitome of cool, but now smokers are pariahs huddled outside office buildings as if waiting for the next train to Auschwitz. And of course, there’s Adam Lambert." 'Mass culture change' is right I think  |
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Post by las on Jul 25, 2011 12:56:08 GMT -5
chunky, rama, susie,
thanks for expressing so well what I wanted to say about that article
just like when people attempt to say Adam is less of an artist because he is not playing any instrument - the logic is flawed
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Post by SusieFierce on Jul 25, 2011 12:59:26 GMT -5
Throwing something a little different in here. I just picked up an alert that said it was a spoof. Not knowing much about US politics, I don't know, but to me, it doesn't look like just a side-swipe at Adam. glossynews.com/top-stories/politicos-and-polticians/201107250737/insane-debt-levels-suddenly-uncool/What I loved, regardless, was the opening paragraph: "Just as no one knows the cause of earthquakes, sudden mass culture changes are a matter of great mystery to sociologists. History is rife with instances of these shifts. Communist Russia was seen as heroic, but then all of America changed its mind in 1946. Cigarettes were once the epitome of cool, but now smokers are pariahs huddled outside office buildings as if waiting for the next train to Auschwitz. And of course, there’s Adam Lambert." 'Mass culture change' is right I think ??? ??? LMAO, wut? |
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Post by gelly14 on Jul 25, 2011 13:14:20 GMT -5
adamlambert Adam Lambert
Happy Monday folks!! Looking forward to a productive, creative and happy week!!
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Post by gelly14 on Jul 25, 2011 13:14:49 GMT -5
negativeneil Neil Lambert
Back in the LAX grind. Boston, you better be worth it
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