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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2011 21:14:07 GMT -5
Hoopla1,
I sent you a PM..
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Post by tinafea on Feb 25, 2011 21:33:10 GMT -5
Quiet night. Lambosessed's video's made me in the mood for a listen to the Nokia show on my headphones  |
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Post by lynneville on Feb 25, 2011 21:59:34 GMT -5
I'm so happy they released the Sleepwalker vid from the DVD. The GNT Sleepwalker has always been a favorite of ours (and Fever, too!), so it's good that other people are being exposed to it. I put it on my Facebook page hoping some will watch it.
So strange to hear of you who are getting snow and freezing temps. Spring has sprung here in Florida... trees are blooming and everything is covered in pollen. I'm going to Disney this weekend and it'll be 85 and sunny. And here we thought we'd go to Disney in February when it was cooler! Well, still better than 95!
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Post by Craazyforadam on Feb 25, 2011 22:06:03 GMT -5
Quiet night indeed. But I may just have something for you here to change that: I am picking this information up from AO right now, but this is definitely worth a little bit of discussion here too: Ann Powers (formerly LA Times...and now somewhere else, have forgotten where she went to) has a book out titled: "Best Music Writing 2010". This book is discussed here in an for us obscure Polish site, but it lists all the articles in the book (in English) www.ziemianiczyja.pl/2010/10/best-music-writing-2010/Guess what: One article within that selection is about Adam. TAVIA NYONG’O – Adam’s Return – Bully Bloggers This article was published after FYE came out at the end of 2009, so before any concerts, GNT or anything that happened in 2010 and has to be read with that understanding. The interesting thing for me is - besides the fact that I have never seen this article and thought I had read every FYE review there is - but the most interesting part is for me that this author gets Adam visually and in message, but I am not fully with him in his musical assessment. There are also a few facts wrong about authorship and creative control over the performance, but the article certainly starts out strong and gets a lot very, very right. It is also an appreciated contrast to a lot of other writings, who have nothing more to say than stereotypes (i.e. 'flamboyant' : ) when it comes to Adam's visual impact. Just one half paragraph to wet your appetite: "The insatiable, omnisexual persona Lambert inhabits onstage — from American Idol to the American Music Awards — is a bitch slap at the era of “limp wrist and a shopping list,” as queer punk Ste McCabe likes to call it. Of course, Lambert the L.A. fashion victim and McCabe the “Too Poor to Be Gay” Mancunian are polar opposites. But they share a discontent — really, a disbelief — with the stultifying norms that increasingly pervade what passes for queer culture these days. In their different ways, each are doing something musical about it." bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/adam%E2%80%99s-return/About the author Tavia Nyong’o, an associate professor at the Tisch School of Arts, I found the following bio: performance.tisch.nyu.edu/object/NyongoT.htmlThat should get us away from idol for a bit, I'd think. Hope not everybody is asleep here yet, it is awfully quiet.....this article hopefully may just help kick-start things a bit. Did you guys see and discuss this article when it first came out? Because it sure is new to me. |
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Post by SusieFierce on Feb 25, 2011 22:21:57 GMT -5
Quiet night indeed. But I may just have something for you here to change that: I am picking this information up from AO right now, but this is definitely worth a little bit of discussion here too: Ann Powers (formerly LA Times...and now somewhere else, have forgotten where she went to) has a book out titled: "Best Music Writing 2010". This book is discussed here in an for us obscure Polish site, but it lists all the articles in the book (in English) www.ziemianiczyja.pl/2010/10/best-music-writing-2010/Guess what: One article within that selection is about Adam. TAVIA NYONG’O – Adam’s Return – Bully Bloggers This article was published after FYE came out at the end of 2009, so before any concerts, GNT or anything that happened in 2010 and has to be read with that understanding. The interesting thing for me is - besides the fact that I have never seen this article and thought I had read every FYE review there is - but the most interesting part is for me that this author gets Adam visually and in message, but I am not fully with him in his musical assessment. There are also a few facts wrong about authorship and creative control over the performance, but the article certainly starts out strong and gets a lot very, very right. It is also an appreciated contrast to a lot of other writings, who have nothing more to say than stereotypes (i.e. 'flamboyant' : ) when it comes to Adam's visual impact. Just one half paragraph to wet your appetite: "The insatiable, omnisexual persona Lambert inhabits onstage — from American Idol to the American Music Awards — is a bitch slap at the era of “limp wrist and a shopping list,” as queer punk Ste McCabe likes to call it. Of course, Lambert the L.A. fashion victim and McCabe the “Too Poor to Be Gay” Mancunian are polar opposites. But they share a discontent — really, a disbelief — with the stultifying norms that increasingly pervade what passes for queer culture these days. In their different ways, each are doing something musical about it." bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/adam%E2%80%99s-return/About the author Tavia Nyong’o, an associate professor at the Tisch School of Arts, I found the following bio: performance.tisch.nyu.edu/object/NyongoT.htmlThat should get us away from idol for a bit, I'd think. Hope not everybody is asleep here yet, it is awfully quiet.....this article hopefully may just help kick-start things a bit. Did you guys see and discuss this article when it first came out? Because it sure is new to me. Wow, it did get dead quick. I think I read the whole thread and we are still on pg. 17. Craazyforadam, to my knowledge, Anne is still with the LA Times. She is doing other side projects, but I don't know that she's severed her link to LAT. |
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Post by algalhi on Feb 25, 2011 22:22:51 GMT -5
And hey!!! algalhi-- great to see you again, I missed you!! Hey there Ms. Aloha! Howzit? One of these days I'll retire and then will have lots of time to browse and enjoy Atop. Oh, and make lots of comments too! My previous comments re thinking James Durbin sincerely liked Adam may have been naive - I dunno. All my life I've been accused of seeing life through rose colored glasses, so.... I can see there might be a lot of Idol manipulation of contestants and their stories. I'm not invested in Durbin in any way - just not as mad at him as before, and if he is keeping Adam's name out there, then it's OK by me. I don't think there's any danger of anyone thinking he sings better than Adam : |
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Post by aloha on Feb 25, 2011 22:23:48 GMT -5
Quiet night indeed. But I may just have something for you here to change that: I am picking this information up from AO right now, but this is definitely worth a little bit of discussion here too: Ann Powers (formerly LA Times...and now somewhere else, have forgotten where she went to) has a book out titled: "Best Music Writing 2010". This book is discussed here in an for us obscure Polish site, but it lists all the articles in the book (in English) www.ziemianiczyja.pl/2010/10/best-music-writing-2010/Guess what: One article within that selection is about Adam. TAVIA NYONG’O – Adam’s Return – Bully Bloggers This article was published after FYE came out at the end of 2009, so before any concerts, GNT or anything that happened in 2010 and has to be read with that understanding. The interesting thing for me is - besides the fact that I have never seen this article and thought I had read every FYE review there is - but the most interesting part is for me that this author gets Adam visually and in message, but I am not fully with him in his musical assessment. There are also a few facts wrong about authorship and creative control over the performance, but the article certainly starts out strong and gets a lot very, very right. It is also an appreciated contrast to a lot of other writings, who have nothing more to say than stereotypes (i.e. 'flamboyant' : ) when it comes to Adam's visual impact. Just one half paragraph to wet your appetite: "The insatiable, omnisexual persona Lambert inhabits onstage — from American Idol to the American Music Awards — is a bitch slap at the era of “limp wrist and a shopping list,” as queer punk Ste McCabe likes to call it. Of course, Lambert the L.A. fashion victim and McCabe the “Too Poor to Be Gay” Mancunian are polar opposites. But they share a discontent — really, a disbelief — with the stultifying norms that increasingly pervade what passes for queer culture these days. In their different ways, each are doing something musical about it." bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/adam%E2%80%99s-return/About the author Tavia Nyong’o, an associate professor at the Tisch School of Arts, I found the following bio: performance.tisch.nyu.edu/object/NyongoT.htmlThat should get us away from idol for a bit, I'd think. Hope not everybody is asleep here yet, it is awfully quiet.....this article hopefully may just help kick-start things a bit. Did you guys see and discuss this article when it first came out? Because it sure is new to me. Thank you for posting this--what an interesting article! Poor guy.. he did have to come out and remind everyone he had written this a while ago. I love the portion that you quoted... to me that is the heart and soul of Adam's appeal to me as a modern and courageous artist. He IS today and tomorrow, not yesterday!!! And I am quite surprised to see it now-- I thought I'd read everything ever written about Adam. So mahalo!! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2011 22:25:44 GMT -5
Congrats Lulu 2365!!!!!!
Thanks to all the offers of help as I learn to navigate Atop! You are the best!
OK..please feel free to SCROLL...
I have lurked for awhile and feel like I 'know' some of you a bit by your posts.
But you don't know me. Yesterday's discussion about 'the topic that shall be poofed' got me
in a contemplative place. Why at this point in time am I a fan of Adam Lambert?
I don't believe in accidents or coincidences. One year ago I received an e-mail from Stubhub saying I had won 2 tickets to RMT in NYC. I thought it was a bad joke. Yes, I had voted (which I never, never had done before) because I felt drawn to. I had no idea I had entered the
sweepstakes, so I was stunned. It was legit..I was going to NYC!!
It was bone chilling cold the night of the concert, so my sister and I waited and ended up near the end of the line. Allison Iraheta was already on when we got into the Highline. I remember her flaming hair swirling about the stage. I was either hypothermic or hypersensitized that evening. Everything was so vivid. Allison seemed to disappear amid the screams that spoke "Time for Adam".
He swept in like a tornado in Kansas (swear the man could have made crop circles if he had paid mind to it), looking like a cross between Edward Scissorhands and Marilyn Manson. The way the light was hitting him from my vantage point, it was eerie. Was that Adam??? The Voice.
Yup, that's Adam. He jet propulsed his way through his set with the band and by the time the night ended with Adam, Kris, and Allison wailing 'Crazy', the place was practically levitating. It was almost manic, the energy. No, it was manic. Not in a bad way.
Mid-July: Glamnation was only its early infancy when I got tickets to Boise, Idaho. I wanted to be in the balcony to take in the whole experience the best I could. This was my one shot to see
GNT. Only five months had passed since RMT and here was Adam again, this time headlining his own tour. I believe that time is a bit slinkier than our clocks and schedules try to tell us. That there are little tears in the curtain here and there where one can travel and time ceases to be
tangible. From the first note in Voodoo, I knew we had all fast forwarded to that place. Adam created not a concert, but a time warp experiential extravaganza. He was in charge, confident,
the dancers and band in synchrony, lazers lapping the balcony like waves on the Oregon coastline. I know I was there, I know it was fantastical, but I cannot remember one detail. Not one. Except I lost my voice, was drenched in sweat and was exhuberant.
Fast forward to Grammy week. Adam at the Talk, playfully hoisting Melissa Gilbert and swirling her about on the stage one minute. The next, supporting a fan who froze during her rendition of WWFM, not missing a beat. Genuine. Heartfelt. Charming. Real.
Now Adam is sitting next to Cham during the Social Media panel. He realizes the importance of
social networking in his business but brings to point experiencing a concert in the moment without any gizmos detracting. Adam moves on to his love of using Twitter. No conflict. Just the way he sees both sides of the coin.
The Red Carpet. Adam owns it. He exudes confidence without an ounce of pretense. Dorking
around with MTV not caring if we get to see him mess up on MJ or make a goofy face at the cameras. He has internalized the tornado. All that abundant energy that hit NYC in a club in the meatpacking district a year before is more potent as it is now focused like a laser beam through those eyes.
Adam Lambert creates. But he creates exponentially. I am along for the ride. I try not to blink.
I. DO. NOT. WANT. TO. MISS. A. THING. He knows time is slinky and I do too.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2011 22:27:47 GMT -5
I really did make paragraphs for easier reading. Dunno what happened. Sorry.
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Post by aloha on Feb 25, 2011 22:28:06 GMT -5
And hey!!! algalhi-- great to see you again, I missed you!! Hey there Ms. Aloha! Howzit? One of these days I'll retire and then will have lots of time to browse and enjoy Atop. Oh, and make lots of comments too! My previous comments re thinking James Durbin sincerely liked Adam may have been naive - I dunno. All my life I've been accused of seeing life through rose colored glasses, so.... I can see there might be a lot of Idol manipulation of contestants and their stories. I'm not invested in Durbin in any way - just not as mad at him as before, and if he is keeping Adam's name out there, then it's OK by me. I don't think there's any danger of anyone thinking he sings better than Adam : Hey, I understand rl takes a bit out of stanning. LOL. And I agree abt Durbin, actually. I think he admires Adam and naively fancies himself being like him. But he doesn't really get how he's coming across. Also, reality shows are really unreality shows. As several here have pointed out, and as I have witnessed myself, the storylines are heavily edited and manipulated by producers and editors to fit the goal-- ratings! Oh, well, trying to stay away from the discussion abt him.. hard for me to be detached, as my son has Aspergers. |
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