4.18.17 Coachella
Apr 18, 2017 22:43:00 GMT -5
Post by Craazyforadam on Apr 18, 2017 22:43:00 GMT -5
Coming into this thread at the end of the day, I am so glad to see that everyone was able to work out their ticket purchases. I love that this tour hits a few places that were left off the tour list the last time around. Actually, just surprised that Spain or Greece did not get that treatment too, but anyhoo. Quite a tour, and I am very happy for everyone.
Have of course read the posts talking about concerns regarding Adam's solo career, and loved the responses from girldrummer and pattihum. Yes, they have only a short window together as QAL, and Adam can have it both...and all that.
Here is imo another aspect.
I don't think that Adam is on that same treadmill that a Rihanna or others like her are on, where if there is no music for 18 months, then the career is assumed to be over. He is both financially as well as artistically in a place, where he has a core audience that will listen to new music from him no matter what. And the rest, the development of a new fanbase, that requires him to hit it just right. The right song, at the right time, and just when both he as well as the market feel good about that exact message.
What if Adam right now, just does not feel like everything is coming together? Whether that is musically or personally or culturally or all of the above. Maybe he has a need to take a step back. Would we not want that for him rather than having to clock in so many new songs per year, like it is some kind of commodity he produces?
Is it not such that many of us are fans of him exactly because we felt that Adam was not the same as all the other 'boring pop stars' that a music biz was trying to sell us for years? We heard something different, whether that was in message or in vocal ability or in performance style or in all of the above...and we became fans of his. What shame would it now be to stunt the flight of that colorful bird that we all saw in him?
What if he needs that time of rest or withdrawal from all these expectations, that may or may not reflect where he is at.
In many ways, I think the Queen gig gives him a chance to stay himself, and not get eaten up by the business machine. I hear him talk frustratedly about the fact that he thought that EDM was done, and wanted to go more organic, and then found it to be back for another bubble. He talks about the male pop stars having to fit the scheme of either being the 'best friend' or the 'sexy lover'. And while I obviously see neither a conflict between the two and surely think that Adam fits all of that, that obviously does seem to not look that same way from his end.
I want him to find himself and to write from his perspective, whenever he is ready to talk to the world through some new music, rather than produce pop music based on schedule, and I thank Queen for basically giving him the freedom to do that.
I have heard Adam say on multiple occasions that he wants to write the music more for himself, and if others are into it, then good.
I LOVE to hear that! But that also means imo that we need to back off on wanting music on schedule.
I am thankful that he has a label that seems to go along with all this, as he otherwise could not be making this statement about wanting to write for himself. It also explains imo why he seems a little more removed from the Max Martin machinery. Because obviously, the mission of that factory is to exactly pump out the pop diddles on schedule, and find the star or starlet to to make them hits, rather than the other way around.
Let's give Adam some space. He is at an age where the teeny market is gone anyhow, he is now writing for that ageless group that was always his audience, people who gravitated towards him because of what he brought to the music and stage, rather than because he was some kind of teen idol only.
I wish Adam had a solid relationship, a boyfriend, a lover that would help him lift his wings, but he does not have that at the moment. So perhaps the happy songs don't flow from him so easily right now, and he does not want to sing too many heavy or sad songs, because they would bring him down. Maybe he just needs to reset certain things for himself or needs a break. Whatever it is, I will take new music at whatever time Adam is ready for that, and I am grateful to have the Queen concerts in the interim.
Have of course read the posts talking about concerns regarding Adam's solo career, and loved the responses from girldrummer and pattihum. Yes, they have only a short window together as QAL, and Adam can have it both...and all that.
Here is imo another aspect.
I don't think that Adam is on that same treadmill that a Rihanna or others like her are on, where if there is no music for 18 months, then the career is assumed to be over. He is both financially as well as artistically in a place, where he has a core audience that will listen to new music from him no matter what. And the rest, the development of a new fanbase, that requires him to hit it just right. The right song, at the right time, and just when both he as well as the market feel good about that exact message.
What if Adam right now, just does not feel like everything is coming together? Whether that is musically or personally or culturally or all of the above. Maybe he has a need to take a step back. Would we not want that for him rather than having to clock in so many new songs per year, like it is some kind of commodity he produces?
Is it not such that many of us are fans of him exactly because we felt that Adam was not the same as all the other 'boring pop stars' that a music biz was trying to sell us for years? We heard something different, whether that was in message or in vocal ability or in performance style or in all of the above...and we became fans of his. What shame would it now be to stunt the flight of that colorful bird that we all saw in him?
What if he needs that time of rest or withdrawal from all these expectations, that may or may not reflect where he is at.
In many ways, I think the Queen gig gives him a chance to stay himself, and not get eaten up by the business machine. I hear him talk frustratedly about the fact that he thought that EDM was done, and wanted to go more organic, and then found it to be back for another bubble. He talks about the male pop stars having to fit the scheme of either being the 'best friend' or the 'sexy lover'. And while I obviously see neither a conflict between the two and surely think that Adam fits all of that, that obviously does seem to not look that same way from his end.
I want him to find himself and to write from his perspective, whenever he is ready to talk to the world through some new music, rather than produce pop music based on schedule, and I thank Queen for basically giving him the freedom to do that.
I have heard Adam say on multiple occasions that he wants to write the music more for himself, and if others are into it, then good.
I LOVE to hear that! But that also means imo that we need to back off on wanting music on schedule.
I am thankful that he has a label that seems to go along with all this, as he otherwise could not be making this statement about wanting to write for himself. It also explains imo why he seems a little more removed from the Max Martin machinery. Because obviously, the mission of that factory is to exactly pump out the pop diddles on schedule, and find the star or starlet to to make them hits, rather than the other way around.
Let's give Adam some space. He is at an age where the teeny market is gone anyhow, he is now writing for that ageless group that was always his audience, people who gravitated towards him because of what he brought to the music and stage, rather than because he was some kind of teen idol only.
I wish Adam had a solid relationship, a boyfriend, a lover that would help him lift his wings, but he does not have that at the moment. So perhaps the happy songs don't flow from him so easily right now, and he does not want to sing too many heavy or sad songs, because they would bring him down. Maybe he just needs to reset certain things for himself or needs a break. Whatever it is, I will take new music at whatever time Adam is ready for that, and I am grateful to have the Queen concerts in the interim.