12.12.11 Adammadness!

Very interesting. I had noticed previously that other singers doing the song with Queen not only lowered the key, but also did not do the melody line in the chorus, but left it to the (female?) back up singers. As to the high note in that song..... obviously this was recorded before Brian had heard Adam. The note is a D5, just a little over an octave above middle C. That is a piece of cake for Adam. It is the same note that he holds forever at the end of the live version of Feeling Good. He can, and has on many times, hit notes 5 steps higher than that. So, if Freddy was extraordinary, I guess that would make Adam extraordinary-er. His high notes are also fuller and more naturally resonant. j/s

This whole discussion, on whether Adam could be having a photo-shoot with a wild animal, like for example the wolf, leads me back in thought to a post I made about a year ago, but I think that was on AO and not here. I could not find the original post, so here is the gist of it. It will link back to the topic at hand, I promise.

The topic originally came up somewhere in the early stages of the GNT tour, mid 2010. The age old discussion whether Adam “can reign it in”, should reign it in to attract larger audiences was endlessly debated. Should he stay more mainstream, why does he see a need to be visually so far out there anyhow, etc…..all this was still quite regularly discussed, even inside the fandom, but most certainly outside and in some of the media.

I compared Adam at the time to a kind of torero, who holds a red cloth out. The bull sees only the red cloth and runs endlessly and unsuccessfully up against it. And even if it kills him, the red cloth is such an abhorrence that it needs to be unsuccessfully charged again and again and again.

In Adam’s case, his “out, proud and loud” version of sexual self-expression, his androgynous imagery sometimes works like the red cloth. If you want to see nothing but ‘gay’ with Adam, and many in the public want to see only that, then they can go ahead, run up against the red cloth as endlessly as they need to.

Meanwhile the red cloth gives the bull fighter the ability to move about in an hostile environment, that the average person in similar circumstance would be too afraid to venture into. The brilliance of the bull fighter’s performance is not comprehend-able to the bull in spite of it happening right in front of his eyes. Only the person seeing both the cloth and the torero can appreciate the brazen dance happening in the face of adversity.

The torero trespasses. He invades into territory that for others is off limits. And openly showing gay sexuality was and is for the most part still off limits in our culture. Adam has found a way to stand his ground in that environment. But what a fight it is! No bull fighter can last in the ring forever. There are only two ways the hostility of the situation can be overcome. A) Others join the torero in the ring, each with their red cloth out, thereby spreading the load and B) overcoming the bull.

Adam is achieving amazing success on both fronts, but he still carries a huge personal load and stands quite alone at the front of what he has set in motion. Many are still watching the show rather than participating. It is a long battle. But the show is happening. Adam is trespassing boundaries previously thought unsurmountable and he is facing the bull crap head-on.

TRESPASSING into the wild animal cage indeed. Perhaps it was more than just a cursory visit. It does sound more like an idea for the album cover rather than just the single, so it may be too early for that, but perhaps it will eventually lead there. We will know soon enough.

Thanks, cassie... no wonder Roger Taylor said that Adam was so good it was scary... and that was after the Idol finale comment. After the EMA he said Adam's voice is uparalleled/effortless and Brian May said "extraordinary/amazing". They have a standard to base it on.

Haha, and remember this one?