My lingering suspicion is that Adam has already created 3 albums and his interview yesterday did nothing to disperse these thoughts at all for me.
Remember we had a phase long long time ago, when the storyline was: The new album will be more along the lines of WWFM, because why change something that worked. It will be less eclectic, a more unified sound. Adam was never 100 % convincing in telling this story and he certainly was never too enthusiastic about it, so I thought at the time that this is the A&R party-line and Adam is talking himself into liking it. And so the months went by and we heard somehow less and less about that "WWFM cloning biz".
Then the "very different, much more real and honest, less OTT, less glam" storyline started to take shape. Obviously OOL was developed during this much more honest phase. It belongs in subject matter there and we were introduced to it the end of July. And we all loved these new messages sooooo much more. Excitement for the album was beginning to be much more palatable. The assumption was that the mid-August sessions had been finalized and the song selection process with RCA was complete and we were moving forward. Adam seemed very confident and happy at that time.
Somewhere along the line then something happened that altered the course. Could it be perfectionist Adam who just felt he could do even more and one up his already brilliant creation? Could the new team at the helm of Sony/RCA influenced that more urban direction by opening a few doors for him? Did he just have a new set of ideas and wanted to see them come about?
The information that he now has executive control makes any such a scenario of re-writing parts of the album more likely, because he is a perfectionist, he is very open to new ideas that may have brought towards him and he is curious and likes a challenge. Whatever it is, nobody is stopping him now.
I think that urban direction is a very recent development and I think we can assume now that this album will be just as eclectic as FYE ever was. The fact that he was now a bit hesitant whether OOL was on the album, when in July he said it would be, is further indication of a directional change.
Adam kind of confirmed that he sees his own album evolution in his own interviews over time.
The only question now remains, will the album ever be perfect enough for its demanding Executive Producer?
Adam loves OTT, can you ever go OTT on album ideas and album quality and album perfection? Is there such a thing as too much goodies? Somehow I think the answer is yes. So is somebody else seeing this happening? Just asking a question, here. Don't rip me to pieces, please, but if you want to talk me out of this...go right ahead :-)
