Adam is a big boy, and I think he can handle the selection of what suggestions he wants to use or not use, quite fine, I'd say.
When Adam specifically asks that question, and then the reaction is ...
uh, will he be able to handle that??? We better not tell him, because he might all of a sudden drop everything he is doing and become this complete pushover?
Really?
Are we talking about the same person?
Just checking.
I think that if Adam asks, then he is looking for that communication, and he deserves to hear a whole range of answers, not only the 4-5 he actually got here today. And similarly low numbers elsewhere from what I could tell.
While we all are a bit tired of WWFM, the reality is, that the actual question, is still very much relevant in Adam's mind. What do we actually want from him?
I would have wished for Adam to find hundreds of answers, so he really gets some kind of response back.
And he specifically asked for explanations, not just a song name.
I thought that the few answers that were written up here, were actually quite insightful.
Everybody mentioned the authenticity as most important, and the general flexibility in genre seems wide spread.
Quite a few songs came up multiple times, hopefully, that helps him a bit to see where people are coming from.
Clearly the album is quite a ways along, but there are still new songs to be written, so he is not yet done. If one wants authenticity, I guess things need to progress at their natural speed. The plonking out cookie cutter songs, which can be mass produced on a conveyor band, is the exact opposite of what we all seem to be looking for. I'd rather wait, and know that Adam is bringing out exactly those songs he wants to bring out, rather than listening to NCOE's, that have nothing to do with him, and where he artificially has to try to imply a meaning during an interview, when really there is not much to work with in the song.
In this strange world as it is, when Bruno Mars writes a song about not closing your eyes, people shrug and seem fine, nobody expects anything deep from Bruno Mars. Yet when Adam explains that NCOE means no shut-eye, then people somehow expect more, like there must be something more to this.
Adam as an artist sends out a different vibe than Bruno, and people, fans and interviewers alike, seem to want to dig a bit more to connect more personally with the song.
Strange how this works, isn't it?