10.17.11 Adam News -- The Advocate Article

hmmm....I've been burned doing that. Paper Magazine promised me the Adam (beautiful people) issue if I ordered a subscription.....never got it. :(

I'm gonna hold out and try and score a single copy.....from somewhere.

I particularly loved this bit, because as Gelly said earlier it's so wonderfully self-aware and also unpretentious, which is really the best kind of pop-star to be--someone who somehow manages to be a perfectionist and artistically and commercially ambitious while still remaining unpretentious about what it is he is doing:

I pick up this kind of energy among young people that it might not be the coolest thing to say you like Adam Lambert’s music. People don’t think that I’m cool. So I love that I have the kids who are like ballsy enough to be like, ‘Fuck it, I like Adam’s music.’ I mean, I am kind of a nerd. I feel like there’s a collective eye-roll when it comes to me, in the media and just in general consciousness — with the exception of my amazing Glamberts, my hard-core fans who are the opposite.”

But he’s taking it all with a grain of salt.

“It really is a dream job, and it’s really cool. I do stop and keep it all in perspective. This is pop music, and it’s not fucking brain surgery. I mean, some of it’s serious…but some of it’s just really fun dance music. And I’m wearing eight pounds of makeup because I fucking want to. Why not?”

Gah, this just says so much, about the image-tradeoffs to being "mainstream," about what Adam's sense of his own image is, about how important it is to him to be accessible to a group of people who are perhaps particularly searching for someone like him, and about what he thinks music is about and for. To at once sense the importance of being accessible and visible, and at the same time not give a fuck about how people react to that visibility--damn, he's awesome.