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2.27.11 Adam News & Info Feb 27, 2011 1:16:26 GMT -5

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Screen capture from VEVO GNT Sleepwalker video. Link to video on VEVO: www.vevo.com/watch/adam-lambert/sleepwalker/GBE431000259
Note: VEVO counter updated but it is not a real-time counter.

Adam Tweets ----
New Aftermath due to release 2nd week in March!!!
Source: Adam Lambert on Twitter

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pDr7cQgTHk&feature=youtube_gdata_player 2.26.11 via Twitter for iPhone

UhHuhHerMusic: @adamlambert Cookie Monster...Fun times today. KStew?

@uhhuhhermusic Oscar the grouch? RPatts??? 2.26.11 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to UhHuhHerMusic

negativeneil: Silver, irradiated lining of nuclear war?? bit.ly/hvAXYe

@negativeneil where in the world is Neil Jacob Lambert? 2.26.11 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to negativeneil

negativeneil: @adamlambert oh god you just told the internet my middle name. A closely guarded secret of TWO years. #wellplayed

@adamlambert calling the tabloids to unleash my revenge in 3...2...1..

@negativeneil hahah about 9 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone in reply to negativeneil

Q3 comment: Neil-Adam Twiversation put together.

IlseyJ: So much fam at Henson today

@ilseyj right?? You Canyons' tracks sounding real yummy. 2.26.11 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to IlseyJ

Q3 comment: They must have been at Henson Recording Studios today --- www.hensonrecording.com/

"before you break you have to shed your armor. Take a trip and fall into the glitter." 2.26.11 via Twitter for iPhone

Heard final mix of new Aftermath today! Get ready!!! It's nuts. Will drop sometime near 2nd week of march!!! 2.26.11 via Twitter for iPhone

(plus- when I'm lurking... I wanna put a face w the tweet!) 2.26.11 via Twitter for iPhone

As flattering as it is, I don't understand why so many of you use a photo of me as your avatar. I want you to celebrate YOU! 2.26.11 via Twitter for iPhone

I don't entertain for my ego- my mission is to try and inspire yours!!! So take a glamorous photo and be proud of your face!! 2.26.11 via Twitter for iPhone

Yeah!! That's it!! You're all so beautiful!!!

2.26.11 via Twitter for iPhone

Joanna Pacitti: when you were on Idol with Adam, did you guys ever do some vocal exercises together, or just mainly gossiped?

@joannaccs i think you borrowed mine!

2.26.11 via Twitter for iPhone

TommyJoeRatliff: Watching "let me in" this movie is awesome!

@tommyjoeratliff the new one?! I liked the Swedish version "Let the Right One In"
2.26.11 via Twitter for iPhone

Adam wins Gold Otto Prize in Russia
for Best Foreign Artist

@lambertuk: Adam Lambert won Gold Otto Prize in Russia for Best Foreign Artist - yfrog.com/5o92365038p (via @eleonoravm)

Link: img204.imageshack.us/f/92365038.png/

The part about Adam translated by nica575

BRAVO OTTO awards

"...But the most surprising results were in the "best male singer" category! Who could imagine that Adam Lambert would win over none less than Justin Bieber, sharing his prise with GUF"

The caption under Adam's picture says: "FOR THE COURAGE OF BEING ALWAYS HIMSELF!"

Adam makes mag covers in France
2.27.11 posted here by Wal -- thanks!!!

Adam Lambert Help ♥
Adam Lambert Fan 2 & Star Club Magazines-France by Adam Lambert Le Journal Des Fans tinyurl.com/394v3xk or tinyurl.com/2cw65pr
1 hour ago

Fantasy Springs: A Vision in the Desert
2/27/11 by NoAngel

One year and well over 100 performances later, there is a concert that remains a touchstone. Say the words “Fantasy Springs” to any Adam fan, and you will get a dreamy and blissful look. I’m not a gambling woman, but I’d venture to say that years from now, FS will be the stuff of legend. Forget that—it already is. Adam’s first solo concert after AI, a crowd filled with devoted fans from around the world, and in some ways a premonition of his vision for GNT.

Fantasy Springs was only a couple months after Gridlock, but what a different vibe! Glam hippie (tm Rad1109), with gemstones and jewels and brilliant blue in his hair and on his eyes. This was Adam reaching back into his Zodiac past, and rocking those feathers into the future.

It’s mindboggling to imagine how Adam pulled this concert together. The preceding weeks had been packed with TV appearances, concerts, award shows and coast-to-coast travel. RMT had been only 2 weeks prior. The fact that Adam “rehearsed” on the drive from L.A. to Indio attests to how little time he’d had to prepare for this event. And an event it was. With fans flying in from around the world, many seeing him live for the first time, and meeting internet friends in 3-D.

Fans had speculated for weeks about what the set-list would be. Turns out it was the eleven songs Adam had sung at Gridlock, plus Mad World and Broken Open. But he foreshadowed the shifts in GNT with plugged-in, to acoustic, to plugged-in sections. From the sexy question of FYE to the heartbreaking vulnerability of Broken Open that brought many to tears, to the campy fun of Fever and the OTT silliness of Down The Rabbit Hole. An eclectic mix of unrelated songs that somehow began to feel like something greater than the sum of its parts.

And then there was Whole Lotta Love. Already an Adam F. Lambert classic, that night he took the song and crafted it into something utterly unique and indisputably magnificent. We were witness to the artist at work. He trusted us (and himself) enough to create in real-time, risking imperfection to bring his art to life before our eyes. Substitute the word “song” for “painting” and this quote by Jackson Pollock resonates:

"When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing… I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through… [T]here is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.”

What can you say about that WLL? Seven-plus minutes of acoustic brilliance—of breath and heat and unearthly notes, both deliciously self-indulgent and deeply generous, playful and intense, bawdy and subtle. Near the end, when he asks, “You want my whole lotta love?” he gets a frenzied “yes” from his breathless audience, and it is clear that he has consummated the relationship with us and thousands of fans who would soon swoon over the vids. And at the end, after he gently strokes us down, there is something both humble and proud in his smile—he knows full well that he has just created something epic.

We would see it all again, transformed into a cohesive vision. The feathers and the jewels would take on new meaning as part of the glam-punk costume design. The songs would be rearranged to lead us through seduction and vulnerability and connection. The theme of love would be woven throughout. But like glitter in the sand, Fantasy Springs was the twinkle in Adam’s eye that would ultimately lead to the beauty that was GNT. And those who were there, by their enthusiastic acceptance and love, surely gave him the confidence to take the next steps.

Something of the vision Adam had in the Nevada desert came to life in the desert in Palm Springs. This time, instead of hallucinogen-induced, it was real—created out of his imagination and the will of his desire. He made us all see it, and we haven’t been able to look away since.

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Lambosessed's brilliant edit of FS WLL:

Fantasy Springs Casino's photos of the concert, posted on Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/fantasysprings/sets/72157623554489648/with/4406151971/

I noticed something strange yesterday
2.27.11 by Q3

Whenever anything Adam is released online, there are usually a flood of comments from Adam fans and a few detractors. But this one comment on the Glamnation Sleepwalker VEVO video stood out to me.

"Wow..this is really good..what a voice."

There is nothing more to say than that. Nothing. (Well you know I could just stop there!!!)

Here and there, I noticed a few similar comments from people who are otherwise impartial about Adam. What struck me was the simplicity of these comments and the focus on The Voice.

Being creative is by definition being different, and being different is risky. No one can deny that Adam takes risks -- sometimes they seemed to be calculated risks but often they were intuitive, emotionally-driven risks.

Research has found that people often don't initially like rare or unfamiliar things, but to succeed, brands, products and even performers need to be differentiated, bring something new. (That is why there is "new" Tide laundry detergent and the "new and improved" Apple iPod.

The exact same ideas that people initially dislike in an artist, are the things that make an artist significant.

Over time, with repetitive exposures, thinly-veiled attempts to differentiate by an artist become tiresome and the audience gets fatigued and moves on to the next pop sensation. But sometimes when an artist is uniquely talented that differentiation becomes what makes them "iconic".

In Adam's THS, Barry Weiss, Chairman and the CEO of RCA/Jive Label Group, commented that Adam is not afraid to take risks to carve out a niche for himself. I think that same fearlessness is what will help Adam go wherever he is destined and wants to go.

I am not claiming that Adam is an icon but I do believe that he has the innate potential to become an icon. He has already managed to be substantially outside of cultural norms and still be commercially successful. And, that, is a huge accomplishment.

Now a video of Adam with full make-up on, a partially shave head, wearing about 10,000 pieces of jewelry, and a superglam costume is posted and many people see past all of that and see, and hear, a person.

There is not betterer way to say it:

"Wow..this is really good..what a voice."

Upcoming Events

2nd week of March: The Trevor Project version of "Aftermath" released for sale. Possible music video. Will not be released to radio.

March 2011 UHH (Camilla Grey) releases album

3.22.11 - GNT Concert DVD to be released in North America

3.25.11 Glamnation Tour Live (DVD+) released in Germany
Note: release date from Amazon Germany.

3.25.11 Sleepwalker released in Germany

Late Summer 2011 New single released

Fall 2011 Adam's second album released

The BIG Twitter Contest!

When will Adam reach 1 Million Twitter Followers?
2.27.11 by Q3 Updated 12:00AM ET

2.27.10 12:00AM EST --- Adam Lambert had 892,305 followers up from 891,006 followers in 24 hours!

See the 2.14.11 News for Member predictions.

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Last Edit: Feb 27, 2011 14:13:32 GMT -5 by Q3

"Now there’s an audience for me being exactly who I am. There’s permission given.” Adam Lambert

aloha Member Posts: 2,629 Location:	2.27.11 Adam News & Info Feb 27, 2011 3:20:51 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by aloha on Feb 27, 2011 3:20:51 GMT -5 As i said in the old thread-- I've never been an Adam, but I understand he hates pussies. I cannot, however, get the right proportions for my latest avi. Help?

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2.27.11 Adam News & Info Feb 27, 2011 3:35:45 GMT -5

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Post by Zinnia on Feb 27, 2011 3:35:45 GMT -5

Twitter-feed is great fun at the moment - Adam surely knows how to activate some nearly 900.000 peeps. A born entertainer 8-). He is still tweeting (at least a few minutes ago), filling his twuota splendidly.

Oh, good morning from sunny and not-any-more-so-cold Finland - spring IS on its' way

. Having a cup of tea and some google digging for breakfast, then back to the more dull stuff of supposedly more important things.

Have a lovely Sunday, folks! 8-)

*Eyes on the prize!!!

* AL Nov. 5th, 2011

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2.27.11 Adam News & Info Feb 27, 2011 3:37:01 GMT -5

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Post by cassie on Feb 27, 2011 3:37:01 GMT -5

Q3: What an intriguing commentary. After Idol, we all wanted Adam to shoot across the sky as an immediate superstar. He had the talent. Randy, Paula, and Simon all acknowledged that was his place to claim. We were puzzled and frustrated that the world did not immediately fall at his feet and proclaim him the best thing since peanut butter.

And it is possible Adam could have done that - could have gotten overnight acclaim. He could have made an album of great song covers with a voice that would melt butter. He could have gone the route of SuBo, releasing an album with a nice pretty (but very normal) picture on the front and nice pretty, familiar and much loved songs.

He chose the road less traveled. He chose to let his freak flag fly, to paint outside the lines, to be over the top, to experiment with an eclectic album of unknown songs different from anything he had done on Idol. He chose to create a "show" with a plot, with visuals, with costumes and dancers rather than to just stand and sing his face off. He chose to give us what we didn't know we wanted.

Some cringed and turned away. Others shook their heads, confused. Still others criticized and complained that this was NOT the Adam they had voted for on American Idol. It was an uphill battle against the tide.

Now, we are starting to see the tide turn. His appeal is broadening beyond the "new adopters" and extending into a new appreciation for someone so talented and so decidedly not the norm.

Adam didn't blaze across the sky like a meteor after Idol. But meteors burn up in the atmosphere or crash to earth. Adam was like a rocket lifting off. At ignition, there is a huge roar and plume of smoke, but as the rocket starts to move it looks like it will never rise from the platform. Then slowly, slowly, the smoke clears and it picks up momentum, shooting higher and higher, its own fuel powering it into the stratosphere and beyond.

Already the comparisons to Adam abound; on Idol, on the fashion scene, in the music and celebrity world. Humans compare things to the established standards, and Adam is becoming that standard.

More and more, I am convinced Adam is doing it perfectly. And with great courage, instinct, and humanity. ILHSFM.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

justkaren Guest	2.27.11 Adam News & Info Feb 27, 2011 3:43:45 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by justkaren on Feb 27, 2011 3:43:45 GMT -5 Feb 27, 2011 3:20:51 GMT -5 aloha said: I cannot, however, get the right proportions for my latest avi. Help? It's 100 wide by 75 tall ...

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2.27.11 Adam News & Info Feb 27, 2011 3:46:57 GMT -5

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Feb 27, 2011 3:35:45 GMT -5 Zinnia said:

Twitter-feed is great fun at the moment - Adam surely knows how to activate some nearly 900.000 peeps. A born entertainer 8-). He is still tweeting (at least a few minutes ago), filling his twuota splendidly.

Oh, good morning from sunny and not-any-more-so-cold Finland - spring IS on its' way

. Having a cup of tea and some google digging for breakfast, then back to the more dull stuff of supposedly more important things.

Have a lovely Sunday, folks! 8-)

Adam tweeted:@negativeneil where in the world is Neil Jacob Lambert?

to which Neil responded:@adamlambert oh god you just told the internet my middle name. A closely guarded secret of TWO years. #wellplayed

@adamlambert calling the tabloids to unleash my revenge in 3...2...1...
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Adam responded with a laugh.

He has certainly exceeded his twota for today. Love it!

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

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2.27.11 Adam News & Info Feb 27, 2011 3:49:32 GMT -5

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Post by Zinnia on Feb 27, 2011 3:49:32 GMT -5

Feb 27, 2011 3:37:01 GMT -5 cassie said:

Q3: What an intriguing commentary. After Idol, we all wanted Adam to shoot across the sky as an immediate superstar. He had the talent. Randy, Paula, and Simon all acknowledged that was his place to claim. We were puzzled and frustrated that the world did not immediately fall at his feet and proclaim him the best thing since peanut butter.

And it is possible Adam could have done that - could have gotten overnight acclaim. He could have made an album of great song covers with a voice that would melt butter. He could have gone the route of SuBo, releasing an album with a nice pretty (but very normal) picture on the front and nice pretty, familiar and much loved songs.

He chose the road less traveled. He chose to let his freak flag fly, to paint outside the lines, to be over the top, to experiment with an eclectic album of unknown songs different from anything he had done on Idol. He chose to create a "show" with a plot, with visuals, with costumes and dancers rather than to just stand and sing his face off. He chose to give us what we didn't know we wanted.

Some cringed and turned away. Others shook their heads, confused. Still others criticized and complained that this was NOT the Adam they had voted for on American Idol. It was an uphill battle against the tide.

Now, we are starting to see the tide turn. His appeal is broadening beyond the "new adopters" and extending into a new appreciation for someone so talented and so decidedly not the norm.

Adam didn't blaze across the sky like a meteor after Idol. But meteors burn up in the atmosphere or crash to earth. Adam was like a rocket lifting off. At ignition, there is a huge roar and plume of smoke, but as the rocket starts to move it looks like it will never rise from the platform. Then slowly, slowly, the smoke clears and it picks up momentum, shooting higher and higher, its own fuel powering it into the stratosphere and beyond.

Already the comparisons to Adam abound; on Idol, on the fashion scene, in the music and celebrity world. Humans compare things to the established standards, and Adam is becoming that standard.

More and more, I am convinced Adam is doing it perfectly. And with great courage, instinct, and humanity. ILHSFM.

Q3 and Cassie - you are so right! He has got nothing "free" but has worked very hard for his goals and stayed humble on the way. He is doing it perfectly, and is doing it his own way.

*Eyes on the prize!!!

* AL Nov. 5th, 2011

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2.27.11 Adam News & Info Feb 27, 2011 3:54:59 GMT -5

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Post by aloha on Feb 27, 2011 3:54:59 GMT -5

Q3, I believe you have hit upon something many of us understand innately. Adam isn't different because he tries to be different. He is different because his talent, his looks, his personality, his artistic instincts all set him apart. It is unforced, and yet ultimately respected because it is so natural for him.
In being himself, he sets himself apart-- and yet is recognized by that little area deep within our psyche that embraces ability and genius and looks for the individuality that drives us all.

It starts and ends with the voice, but there is more to admire and roil us and provoke us than a voice, glorious though it may be. The familiar, unsettling enigma that is ADAM LAMBERT keeps us fascinated, unsettled... and entertained.

aloha Member Posts: 2,629 Location:	2.27.11 Adam News & Info Feb 27, 2011 3:55:31 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by aloha on Feb 27, 2011 3:55:31 GMT -5 Feb 27, 2011 3:43:45 GMT -5 JustKaren said: Feb 27, 2011 3:20:51 GMT -5 aloha said: I cannot, however, get the right proportions for my latest avi. Help? It's 100 wide by 75 tall ... trying now..

aloha Member Posts: 2,629 Location:	2.27.11 Adam News & Info Feb 27, 2011 3:56:31 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by aloha on Feb 27, 2011 3:56:31 GMT -5 Feb 27, 2011 3:43:45 GMT -5 JustKaren said: Feb 27, 2011 3:20:51 GMT -5 aloha said: I cannot, however, get the right proportions for my latest avi. Help? It's 100 wide by 75 tall ... Man, you're good.