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Post by Q3 on Jun 29, 2019 0:42:06 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jun 29, 2019 1:10:26 GMT -5
INDEPENDENT Adam Lambert: ‘Madonna is being pissed on for her new music, not for being sexual in her sixties’Exclusive: Freddie Mercury’s replacement in Queen talks to Douglas Greenwood about his upcoming album ‘Velvet’, ‘twink’ pop stars, and how gay men’s ‘primal hunt’ for sex existed long before Grindr Ten years ago, Adam Lambert sang “Bohemian Rhapsody” for his audition on American Idol. He was labelled “theatrical” by Simon Cowell but spent the rest of the season racking up a huge fan base in Middle America. When Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor turned up to play “We Are the Champions” live in the final, Lambert duetted on vocals with winner Kris Allen. The runner-up would prove to be the real winner, though, when in 2011 he took over as frontman for the band, as Queen + Adam Lambert, and they’ve been selling out stadiums ever since.
“Of course, I’ve caught whiffs of pushback from people over the past 10 years,” Lambert tells me, brandishing a glass of rosé in the lounge of his London hotel. “Why is he doing it? Freddie is better,” he imitates his naysayers with a flip of his bejewelled fingers, “and it’s like, well yeah, of course Freddie was f***ing better. He’s Freddie Mercury!”
He’s very conscious, too, that it was the tragic death of Mercury from Aids in 1991 that gave him the chance. “I wish I didn’t have to, you know, but it’s the way the universe handed me this card.”
Lambert was the perfect fit. On American Idol, he channelled the kind of camp glam-rock behaviour musicians had struggled to execute since Mercury’s death. And like the original Queen performer, he too had a life the masses once didn’t know about.
The first time Lambert came out, it was a pretty straightforward affair: a musically minded 18-year-old from California, keen to explore the queer side of West Hollywood, told his friends and parents he was gay. Nine years later, Lambert would have to do it again. Only this time it was on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, shortly after American Idol wrapped.
In the months prior to that public revelation, in which Lambert, in his words, “confirmed I was out”, speculation surrounding his sexuality had dominated tabloids and gossip blogs. Looking back, the star has a different perspective on the “is he or isn’t he?” controversy.
“Disclaimer,” he announces, holding both hands up. “No one asked me to repress [my sexuality on Idol], and I don’t think I did!” A history of closeted stars in fear of public backlash has taught us to assume otherwise. “I look back and think, this is weird, [because] I came out when I was 18 and did Idol when I was 27. I spent the years in between that being very f***ing gay.”
“If [presenter] Ryan Seacrest had asked me about my sexuality, I would have been an open book,” he continues. “Maybe in the back of my head I knew the attitudes of America and the media at that time, and I just wanted to focus on the task at hand to get my record deal.”
It worked. Shortly after the show finished, he signed a contract with RCA in the States, released a warmly received debut album and, three years later, topped the Billboard 100 with its follow-up, Trespassing. He was the first openly gay male artist (“That phrase cracks me up!” he chuckles) in American chart history to do so.
Read more... www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/adam-lambert-interview-new-album-velvet-tracklist-madonna-queen-freddie-mercury-sexuality-pride-a8979161.html
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Post by betty on Jun 29, 2019 1:20:42 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jun 29, 2019 1:28:57 GMT -5
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Post by DancyGeorgia on Jun 29, 2019 1:29:12 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jun 29, 2019 3:14:15 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jun 29, 2019 3:21:06 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jun 29, 2019 3:23:10 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jun 29, 2019 3:25:16 GMT -5
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Post by skaschep on Jun 29, 2019 3:44:47 GMT -5
+75,584 streams today! 🎉 #NowPlaying #CominInHot 🔥 by @adamlambert Now 114,259 streams on @spotify! 🎧 (29 June 2019) #NewMusicFriday My Playlist:
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