5.13.20 CNBC Interview
May 14, 2020 17:17:17 GMT -5
Post by lurleene on May 14, 2020 17:17:17 GMT -5
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I agree with all the points everyone is making. I think Adam has done it his way from minute one and I applaud him. The current pandemic not withstanding I think he's really happy with his choices and will continue to move forward. If you really look at it from 11 years ago to now- whoda thunk it! To think after having the first #1 album from an openly gay solo artist to just releasing his best album to date. AND he's the lead singer for Queen for crying out loud.
Of course we want more for him but I love him and think he's wildly successful. Keep it coming!Yep. I agree. QAL and #1 are to be applauded. Adam is wildly successful. But massive radio play in the US would have made him even more successful. But my reasoning for why he is not playing arenas is with radio, imo. Velvet, no matter how good, was never going to get massive radio in the US from an Indie label. It wouldn't matter much which song he released as we all know how that is how it works. And Trespassing was released on a major but hardly any radio play for anything. Same with TOH, GT went to #20 and that was it. I think some of his choices were not always in his best interest (but they were his choices) but if Chris Brown could continue with the radio play and Bruno after getting caught with drugs then you wonder what did Adam do that was so unforgiving. But yes he has done great but there is no doubt in my mind that he took a lot of unfair fire. More than even he expected and he has said as much.
It is hurtful for me too, but in all fairness Adam did not "have" to take so much fire. He was ready to push buttons from the start and he said so during Idol Tour interviews already. As girldrummer was wondering if there might still be stigma from the AMAs, from my point of view I bet that is the case. A different performance that night might(!) have made all the difference and landed him at the top of the charts from then on. Then again, Adam is Adam and he did not start out like SS. Let's face it, he performed ROF on Idol!! I loved it but some hated it. Then Glamnation happened... Fast forward to a decade later... after much hiatus from the previous album he came back, made himself vulnerable with the letter attached to FS and was very positively received. NE was next. Gorgeous song again, but what do we all think about the 70's vibe as seen in the music video and especially during the performances on Idol and Ellen? Did people get it? Did they even make the Adam Lambert connection? Several months later the whole album was released, and unfortunately it happened just when the lockdowns started. Adam introduced it on radio.com but wow, and this is only one example, do we think that everybody watching was a fan of the bright green eye shadow? Or the new music video? I am not criticizing. Adam is who he is. But not everybody is willing to jump on board, despite his immense talent and in my opinion his best album yet. I am a fan too, but I am trying to see it as objectively as I can. I do believe that Adam was and is a trailblazer and that he has made it much easier for gay artists on various platforms, yet he does not always get the credit he deserves. The choices he made were his own, and I believe that it indirectly reflects on radio play.
Of course we want more for him but I love him and think he's wildly successful. Keep it coming!