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Post by skaschep on Dec 31, 2018 13:42:02 GMT -5
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Post by DancyGeorgia on Dec 31, 2018 14:08:34 GMT -5
@noadomenech: Happy year to you all!!! Listening to this brilliant collab, Lucy by Adam Lambert (feat. Brian May on guitar) šš„³š„šøhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StaOPvb31AU
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Post by DancyGeorgia on Dec 31, 2018 14:09:49 GMT -5
Q3 I assume by a big January performance that you mean on the Elvis show. However, this has been moved to February 19th. I think the Elvis tribute is Sunday, February 17. But you could be right. It might be on Tuesday, Feb. 19. But it seems odd it would be on a Tuesday. Sunday night seems more logical.Ā You are right. It is Sunday February 17.
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Post by SophieB on Dec 31, 2018 14:28:57 GMT -5
(Just going out to celebrate and wondering how Iāll manage without a bit of Believe for four hours!!) Happy New Year Adam! I think it will be special for you. Happy New Year (and thank you) Q3! And Happy New Year to everyone who comes here to share this remarkable ride....
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Post by Craazyforadam on Dec 31, 2018 14:50:58 GMT -5
Wonderful discussion at the end of yesterday. Yes, I was a bit exaggerating when I said there were no ballads, you are of course right, there are bonus tracks and a few others that technically could qualify.
I love OOL, especially if he performed an acoustic version. But I think the arrangement on the album was not helping, and cut through any ballad feeling, not matter whether any beat count classifies it as ballad or not. I often ended up listening til the middle of the song, before the rhythmic part ramps up, and then skipped the rest of the track. Still do that, if I listen to the album, but usually prefer different version. For the song itself, that album mistreatment was sad, because that song deserved better. To me this is still one of Adam's best songs, and while it is of course written with the LGBT community and it's situation in mind, there are so many Romeos and Julias on this world that cannot find together, be it because of cultural, religious, nationality differences, political systems, poverty, arrests, refugee status, war zone situations. All are situations, where somebody has taken it upon themselves to declare somebody else an 'outlaw'. Not everything is about gay. And in a time where the separation of loved ones has become political fodder and is punitively poured out over all kinds of people around the world, I think this song has much more to offer than an anthem just for the gay community. There are literally hundreds of millions around the world in that situation, if you just define it a bit wider, and we are presently all over the world increasing these numbers, not decreasing them. And all three super-powers are unified in their pursuits of evermore such separations and declarations of outlaw status (long u for plural).
Just read the lyrics with that wider interpretation in mind, and you see what injustice is done to Adam, if he is reduced just to the 'gay' guy. These lyrics are universal and powerful, and the melody is fantastic, it is just the arrangement that needs to be changed.
Oh, nowhere left to go Are we getting closer? Closer? No, all we know is "No" Nights are getting colder, colder Hey, tears all fall the same We all feel the rain We can't change Everywhere we go we're looking for the sun Nowhere to grow old, we're always on the run They say we'll rot in Hell, but I don't think we will They've branded us enough outlaws of love. Scars make us who we are Hearts and homes are broken, broken Far, we could go so far With our minds wide open, open Hey, tears all fall the same We all feel the rain We can't change Everywhere we go we're looking for the sun Nowhere to grow old, we're always on the run They sayā¦
In my opinion, if Adam would sing this song in front of one of these mega refugee sites, to make a statement on behalf of the Unesco or United Nations or whatever, he would generate an enormous amount of attention world-wide. Because if there is one thing this past week has shown me, Adam is able to generate huge amounts of attention, just with his voice.
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Post by bamafan on Dec 31, 2018 15:20:17 GMT -5
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Post by bamafan on Dec 31, 2018 15:23:31 GMT -5
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Post by girldrummer on Dec 31, 2018 15:28:48 GMT -5
Wonderful discussion at the end of yesterday. Yes, I was a bit exaggerating when I said there were no ballads, you are of course right, there are bonus tracks and a few others that technically could qualify.
I love OOL, especially if he performed an acoustic version. But I think the arrangement on the album was not helping, and cut through any ballad feeling, not matter whether any beat count classifies it as ballad or not. I often ended up listening til the middle of the song, before the rhythmic part ramps up, and then skipped the rest of the track. Still do that, if I listen to the album, but usually prefer different version. For the song itself, that album mistreatment was sad, because that song deserved better. To me this is still one of Adam's best songs, and while it is of course written with the LGBT community and it's situation in mind, there are so many Romeos and Julias on this world that cannot find together, be it because of cultural, religious, nationality differences, political systems, poverty, arrests, refugee status, war zone situations. All are situations, where somebody has taken it upon themselves to declare somebody else an 'outlaw'. Not everything is about gay. And in a time where the separation of loved ones has become political fodder and is punitively poured out over all kinds of people around the world, I think this song has much more to offer than an anthem just for the gay community. There are literally hundreds of millions around the world in that situation, if you just define it a bit wider, and we are presently all over the world increasing these numbers, not decreasing them. And all three super-powers are unified in their pursuits of evermore such separations and declarations of outlaw status (long u for plural).
Just read the lyrics with that wider interpretation in mind, and you see what injustice is done to Adam, if he is reduced just to the 'gay' guy. These lyrics are universal and powerful, and the melody is fantastic, it is just the arrangement that needs to be changed.
Oh, nowhere left to go Are we getting closer? Closer? No, all we know is "No" Nights are getting colder, colder Hey, tears all fall the same We all feel the rain We can't change Everywhere we go we're looking for the sun Nowhere to grow old, we're always on the run They say we'll rot in Hell, but I don't think we will They've branded us enough outlaws of love. Scars make us who we are Hearts and homes are broken, broken Far, we could go so far With our minds wide open, open Hey, tears all fall the same We all feel the rain We can't change Everywhere we go we're looking for the sun Nowhere to grow old, we're always on the run They sayā¦
In my opinion, if Adam would sing this song in front of one of these mega refugee sites, to make a statement on behalf of the Unesco or United Nations or whatever, he would generate an enormous amount of attention world-wide. Because if there is one thing this past week has shown me, Adam is able to generate huge amounts of attention, just with his voice.
What an incredible idea! OOL has a message that applies to so many kinds of people. It's message is about universality. We all feel the same. We all cry. We all feel pain regardless of sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity. Performing that song would really hit hard at people's hearts, IMO.
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Post by irenerose on Dec 31, 2018 15:39:23 GMT -5
Wishing all Adamtopians a very HAPPY NEW YEAR - A special thanks to Q3 and all who help run this web site, its my breakfast buddy every morning.
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Post by wildarose on Dec 31, 2018 16:09:07 GMT -5
I've been checking in on the youtube video of "Believe" by Adam. It is at 3.5 million views now. It has been averaging about 10-15,000 views per hr in the last day or so. At that rate, it should reach 4 mill by sometime Wed. Of course right after the concert aired, it was averaging 100,000 per hr! It was a beautiful thing to watch.
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