7.30.11 Adam News & Info

Tippy-toeing in and whispering, tentatively. Adam had some pitch issues in the concert.

There, I've said it. I think it was a mistake to not have keyboards to fill in the sound. It left the backing instrumentals thin and incomplete. Especially when there was no backing track, like on PH. At other times, the backing track was almost inaudible on the YTs I watched. It is at these times, that Adam sometimes struggles to find the pitch (like at the beginning of Fever, before the instruments and backing track really kick in).

Taking nothing away from the awesome performance, the killer improv, the joy he exuded. And, the new song..... perfection. Almost sounded a cappella. Exquisite. The voice at its best. No question.

Just trying to keep it realz. [Slinking off to hide behind the sofa.]

that reminds me - this "We can't change" line was the only one bothering me in this song. Seems so "anti-Adam" to me in that it's so - IDK, hopeless and defeated?

But then I guess, after some people didn't like him saying "who I CHOOSE to sleep with" in It Gets Better vid, because they felt he should acknowledge the "born this way" factor, - maybe this was his nod to that?

Still. The song IS about pain and struggle for freedom and better world, but the tone of it doesn't feel hopeless, it's strong and full of love. And this line just - IDK, rubs me the wrong way each time I listen. ("We can't change" - like "we want to, but can't"? First, we CAN change anything we want to change, but second, why would we WANT to change who we love? I say, just tell anyone asking us to change that to GTFO, eh? )

It could be "the rain" that "we can't change" - possibly. But I don't really think so, primarily.

I'm glad you brought it up.

I almost immediately noticed and thought about that line, too.

My take FWIW:

I am nauseatingly "pc" - but Adam isn't. I don't see the line as being "hopeless and defeated" but I do think it refers to moments of feeling that way, of feeling exhausted with shit, and of having to overcome said shit too often.

I'd love to think of Adam as being "unscathed." But it isn't true. He's worked to be the self-assured, loved, succesful, secure man he is. It kills me more than a little to hear him sing about feelings of despair, which I think he is partly, but those feelings are as real too, I would think, as very righteous and utterly deserved feelings of pride and feelings of outrage (at injustice).

Anyway, I absolutely love how the song takes the hate head on, though - and how Adam's voice, talent, and everything else about him - just throws it down.