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Post by katycake on Dec 4, 2018 16:37:47 GMT -5
Thanks everyone who replied. It's very interesting reading your thoughts. The one thing that still confuses me is, if he left his label on his own accord, why did he do it just before his album was supposed to be released? I bet it wasn't easy for him to give up all the songs he worked so hard on. It had to be something significant that made him do it. But I guess we won't know, not in the near future anyway. But all's well that ends well, and the near future holds good things! This assumes that unreleased songs belong to the label. I don't know if that is true if Adam paid for the song writing sessions and studio time. Otherwise he could have released an album right after he left. I assume based on the time it took that he had to start afresh.
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Post by katycake on Dec 4, 2018 16:47:30 GMT -5
Thanks everyone who replied. It's very interesting reading your thoughts. The one thing that still confuses me is, if he left his label on his own accord, why did he do it just before his album was supposed to be released? I bet it wasn't easy for him to give up all the songs he worked so hard on. It had to be something significant that made him do it. But I guess we won't know, not in the near future anyway. But all's well that ends well, and the near future holds good things! Why does everybody assume, that Adam gave up a possible album or any songs, he wrote or recorded, before he left Warner? It looks like he left on good terms. I think, you can work things out, if you want to. Adam said, he now has songs worth of three albums. It takes a lot of time to create such an amount of music. Especially for Adam, since he isn’t the genius composer, who just writes one hit after another. Besides:It‘s common to record that many songs, before an artist and his label decide, what appears on an album. I hate, that we will possibly never hear most of them. He said before he left Warner, that the music is practically ready and going to be released very shortly. So when nothing was released and he stopped talking about it, I assumed he had to give up the songs. Do you think maybe they had pressured him into releasing music he wasn't satisfied with, so when he left he decided not to release it, but to go on writing?
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Post by lurleene on Dec 4, 2018 16:52:07 GMT -5
This assumes that unreleased songs belong to the label. I don't know if that is true if Adam paid for the song writing sessions and studio time. Otherwise he could have released an album right after he left. I assume based on the time it took that he had to start afresh. Not really. I think many have pointed out there has to be a period of time after separation from a label before he could release new music. Everyone is just speculating. No one knows the why or how at this point other than some things changed from earlier announcements of when he would release. He may or may not have had control over it. I just hope things are going well and are in place for him now.
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Post by skaschep on Dec 4, 2018 16:57:29 GMT -5
Adam Lambert Black on Black Tie The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
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Post by ctam2611 on Dec 4, 2018 16:58:39 GMT -5
I asked a question like that many months ago. I asked if it was only the big sellers who did the album tour bundles. I think we can't look at how he did things before as a sure indications of how he will do things this time. Things in the industry have changed. His team has changed. The turn around seems to be much faster now for everyone. How he did things 7 years or even 3 plus years ago may not even apply or be the model now. Daughtry announced his tour dates before his album was even released. Thanks. That’s what I meant: Things have changed so much during these past 3-4 years, that it’s impossible to tell, how era 4 will start. There are artists who still do that. I don’t know when Daughtry did it, I just bought Backstreet Boys tickets for next year with a copy of the CD for each ticket purchase. So we have concert tickets and the album doesn’t come out until January 21st. Linkin Park did the same thing for their last album too. So it is still a way of doing it, if that happens with Adam remains to be seen.
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Post by skaschep on Dec 4, 2018 17:02:13 GMT -5
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Post by skaschep on Dec 4, 2018 17:03:51 GMT -5
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Post by willowgarden on Dec 4, 2018 17:10:51 GMT -5
Last year I was sure I'd be planning on going to several Adam solo tour shows in 2019. Now, looks like I'll be spending that money on a few more QAL shows in August. With rumored more QAL legs I assume after Sept 2019 since Adam seemed to indicate the next 6 months would be time towards his solo music....release...promo, etc. IDK when he might do a tour for A4. Don't think he'd have time to release new music and tour it within 6 months...not unless he did a shortish tour and don't know when later if more QAL legs run into 2020. He's first got to release new music before any tour bookings and tickets go on sale, etc. I can't remember how long after TOH was released he did that tour. It all runs together in my mind. Seems like US tour dates were kinda squeezed in prior to a QAL leg. Maybe he will do a few of those May/early June radio concerts to promote his new solo work. It makes sense that he wouldn't rush into a solo tour. Better for my pocketbook too. I have to admit that my one and only meet with him was at one of the radio concerts here in Portland where he was promoting Trespassing.
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Post by nightowl on Dec 4, 2018 17:25:13 GMT -5
Why does everybody assume, that Adam gave up a possible album or any songs, he wrote or recorded, before he left Warner? It looks like he left on good terms. I think, you can work things out, if you want to. Adam said, he now has songs worth of three albums. It takes a lot of time to create such an amount of music. Especially for Adam, since he isn’t the genius composer, who just writes one hit after another. Besides:It‘s common to record that many songs, before an artist and his label decide, what appears on an album. I hate, that we will possibly never hear most of them. He said before he left Warner, that the music is practically ready and going to be released very shortly. So when nothing was released and he stopped talking about it, I assumed he had to give up the songs. Do you think maybe they had pressured him into releasing music he wasn't satisfied with, so when he left he decided not to release it, but to go on writing? My take on what could have happened during the last 2 years. Note: That‘s my personal interpretation of what has happened behind the scenes. I Know nothing, so it could have been completely different. Autumn 2016: Adam started on album Number 4. Warner wanted him to pair up with Max Martin again. They started some work late in the year. Winter 2016/17: Around the time, when Adam turned 35, he seemed to have his „Midlife Crisis“ (I will simply call it that.). He thought a lot about his life, as he stated himself, for instance in the Podcast with RuPaul. He changed quite a lot in the following year (house, label, management...) I believe, he decided, that he wanted to change course and create the kind of music, that made him fall in love with it in the first place. He decided not to go on singing Max Martin‘s pop songs. Warner wasn’t happy with that, but gave him the chance to find his way. They planned to release an EP of his songs in the summer. Spring 2017: We know, Adam worked on new music with Alisan Porter and others. Two Fuxx was one song, that came to be and was released as a one-off song for the Queen tour in the US. Summer 2017: Before Adam went on tour, he went with his finished songs for the EP to Warner. I believe, they didn’t like, what they’ve heard and decided not to release that EP like that. Two Fuxx for instance wasn’t a song, that a label would happily release, because it cannot be a radio single. We don’t know about the other songs, that had been recorded. Adam had to work on new/other songs. Autumn2017: Adam was in doubts about his work and how to go on. He went to the Writers Camp in France and went on, working on new music. At the time, he must have come to the decision, that his own vision and his label‘s expectations didn’t match and that he wouldn’t be happy to follow their wishes. Winter 2017/18: He had come to the decision, that he wants to follow his vision. He changed his management somewhere in between all that (because he had the feeling in his „Midlife Crises“, that a change would be good?). Then he and Warner decided, that it would be better to part ways , because of creative differences. In 2018: Adam went on writing songs. He’s now free to do, what he wants. He takes his time, because he also knows, that it will take time, until the old contracts are off and the new ones ready to go. A new label should have come along during that year as well, possibly in relation to his new management. Winter 2019: Finishing the album, choosing songs out of all the things he recorded during these two years. Announcing the new album (and tour?) and releasing the first single in January and February. That’s my take on things. I can’t see, why the songs, that he had ready in the summer 2017 can’t be released any longer. BUT, since Warner wasnready to do so, Adam might have had some doubts about them. So maybe we will hear one or two of them, but not all. O4 Adam changed his own vision again.
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Post by skaschep on Dec 4, 2018 17:34:31 GMT -5
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