9.24.11 Adam News and Info

Hmmm. Very interesting. He does sound a lot like Freddie. Not so much at the very bottom of his range, but in most of this, his timbre, or tone is quite similar. Freddi tended to squeeze the notes a bit more, making a sharper, more brittle sound, while this guys is a little richer and more mellow.

He has the vibrato down well. Again, a little more controlled and consistent than Freddie's, but the frequency and use is very similar. He would be good doing a cover band.

ETA: While I would love to see Adam singing some Queen songs because of their complexity, range and impact, Adam's voice is not at all similar to Freddie's, IMO, except that they both have big ranges. Their tones, their control, their breath support, are quite different. I think that Adam COULD squeeze his voice to imitate Freddie, but I don't think he would. Adam wants to be his own artist. He would actually be "dumbing down" his voice to sing like Freddie. (Any Freddie fans, don't attack me for that last statement.)

Thanks Katycake. LOL for the caption!

Regarding Ed: With the reorg, Ed was assigned/given a whole group of new artists (he did not go into more detail on who they are, but looks like more major acts). So his direct involvement with AO will certainly be less to almost zero. The only representative interacting with AO right now is FlashmodRCA, as far as I can tell who seems to be working for Ed. He/She is functioning as moderator / fan-interactor with RCA and that new thread is now the place to communicate with them in one place instead of all over the board and it's threads. The tone of communication over there and whole interaction was always a bit different that other fan sites - good or bad. The resources allocated to changing anything seem to be quite limited.

The 'news' section at AO is hopelessly behind. As long as they have to run every breath or fart through 20 gazillion committees, sign-offs and legal departments before it is allowed to be posted online, they will never keep up with fan message boards and I think they realize that and are not even trying to compete. The videos that are posted there are usually weeks or even months old.

Then there is the community/discussion forum, which is really the forum where everybody can post and that is where you will find the actual news because fans are posting them there. Right now, the forum is moving awfully slow. Whether people will be back when the single and A2 rollout are happening or whether everybody has moved on to other sites (i.e. Atop) remains to be seen.

But occasionally photos or articles show up there first, especially from oversees as AO still has a wider international representation than many other sites. Then somebody brings them over to here, as I have done a few times and so have many others. Usually though, this site here has now become one of the fastest trackers of Adam news after twitter itself and it seems the fastest at putting some new news into context (i.e. what does it mean that Adam is now EP?). Add to that the level of the discussion, the fun and also that bit by bit this site is developing the best archive or repository for Adam info, it certainly deserves our praise.

A hidden gem, because it does take some detective skills to find Atop, let's be honest. And I don't get the impression that this is an accident either, because once you are a forum and also visible on the front page of google, then you have exactly the AO problem, that your moderation needs go up.

There is talk over on AO about reorganizing their site with A2-rollout, but nobody is saying to what extent this will be or giving any details. Last time they talked about a reorg at AO, it ended up being fairly cosmetic in nature. I have no idea what resources RCA has committed to getting their own online sites in order and how far reaching their vision or plans are. I.e. overhauling the thread structure would already be helpful and would be easy to do. Updating the whole software, much bigger topic. And there are all kinds of options in the middle. Nobody knows what they will actually do.

It was interesting to read in the A&R article that Q3 posted today (thanks by the way - this was a great article), how the lack of an internet vision has destroyed the ability to stay current in the A&R section of the business. The lack to recognize the strategic element of IT has limited so many businesses and for some of them led to their demise, it is really amazing. But if I look at Sony/RCA from the outside as a fan and consumer, I think it is still their biggest Achilles heel to being successful. And managing fan interaction is only a very small part of that statement.

I sent an email to HBO suggesting that very thing a little while after the end of Idol.

LindaG:KUDOS to you for knowing how to spell Svengali! I don't even know what it means.