Adam Lambert Norway
Here's a translation of my interview with Adam from 730.no link to original
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Posted on mars 6, 2012
Adam Lambert Norway’s Hilde intervjuet Adam i Stockholm på vegne av 730.no
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www.730.no/musicitem.aspx?newsId=10127Translation of 730.no intervju:
730 x very proud Adam Lambert
With a second album soon coming out, hunk Adam Lambert tells us about his favorite Norwegian and more…
Queen-memebers Roger Taylor and Brian May can’t praise him enough. Guitar legend Nile Rodgers accepted an offer sent over twitter to contribute to one of the songs on the coming album. Elton John was all smiles when they met. Mia Farrow tweets him encouragements, and most recently, Meat Loaf, rates his voice to be one of three really unique.
Later this spring will see the release of Adam’s second album, and this summer you can experience him as singer for Queen during the Sonisphere festival, just outside London. 730 met Adam Lambert in Stockholm, and the first question was of course if the 1/32 Norwegian star had any specific memories from the GlamNation show in Oslo, back in 2010.
- it is kind of a blur, the tour, but I remember coming through Scandinavia and really enjoying the audience, so pretty. I hope to be back next tour.
Trespassing will be released later this spring, and Adam has taken control of most everything this time around.- I’m a control freak! No, I just wanted it to be a representation of me as an artist, and as an artsit you have to be constantly creating.
- I definitely had a lot of involvement on the last album too, but with only 1 1/2 months to put it all together there’s only so much you can do, and not really knowing a lot yet coming off of Idol and kind of guessing who I was as an artist and who my audience was.
- After touring for 6 months and promoting For Your Entertainment I feel I learend a lot and grew a lot, and with Trespassing I have a much better idea of what I want to express. I felt I was ready to take on a more creative role and my label and my management agreed.
When asking him if there was one song from the first album that he could have a new take on, based on the experience and knowledge he has today, he is very clear.- Aftermath. Once we started toing that acoustic I preferred that to the album version. I feel it was more emotionally connected. That was the one we kept changing up.
Is there a particular reason why Better Than I Know Myself was chosen as the first single?- I think it’s so vocal, I love how vocal it is, and it has a very honest message. I like how the video really worked with the song, and think it really kicks off the idea of the album, the whole light/dark dichotomy.
- I think it was important to connect with the audience on more of an emotional level before we all go to the disco together. Hopefully the next single will be a massive dance track. I want people to be able to make people dance and shake their asses, but I also want to remind them of who I am and how I feel about things.
The video for Better Than I Know Myself is directed by Norwegian superstar Ray Kay, who by the way also directed the video for the first single from the first album. We wanted to know if it was different working with him this time around?- Yeah, I think I had a much stronger idea of what I wanted to create this time and like I said with knowing myself and my audience better, it all was a little more clear.
- The videos are very different too, the first we did together was more of a sexy pop video, while this one has a more emotional undercurrent, it is more real. The video for Better Than I Know Myself is more heavy, definitely different from For Your Entertainment.
What version of “you” was the most fun portraying on set, the dark or the light one?- Both, I mean the light one’s so easy and relaxing and peaceful, and the dark one was kind of a little bit scary, but going to that place was almost like therpeutic. I have to say I don’t feel like I’m either of those guys from the video. I feel more like they are the extreme symbolic representations of two sides of my personallity.
- A fan actually asked me if I meditate, and I had to say ‘no, I don’t, but that version of the light side represents what meditation does, like being centered and being in the moment. That’s what the ideal light side of my personallity would be like. It’s all sympols of things.
- The concept for the video came about through conversations with Diane Martel who made the Whataya Want From Me video. She was kind of a consultant on this video and Ray Kay was definitely my first choice when it came to directing. His style is just fabulous, his eye, and the way he gives things a certain look. It’s very distinct, to me it’s very contemporary and very pop, it’s really great!
Since the last tour Adam’s live band has gone through some changes. Is he happy with the new line-up?- They are great, I love them and I’m very happy with the new set-up. They are all so talented. We all evolve and the music is different on this album so I had different needs for a band. Bassist Ashley Dzerigian got her job after auditioning and Kevin Haistings, who plays keys, came as a recommendation. Isaac Carpenter is still playing drums and Tommy Joe Ratliff has been moved from bass to lead guitar.
What are Adam’s goals for 2012?- To make Trespassing a big old hit! I’m very proud of the music. The first part of the album is light and fun and the more heavy stuff on the second part of the album is really important. I feel it’s heavy and it’s saying something. What I’m hoping is, that even if the album is very autobiographical, that people can find themselves in it, because it’s not my intention for it to be like this narcisstic experience. I want it to be something where people listen and go: ‘Oh yeah, me too!’
- The ultimate goal as an artist has to be to keep doing what I’m doing and hopefully through my music kind of battle a little of the closemindedness and prejudice that people who are different have to face. Hopefully there’s some ground gain socially because of the music I’m putting out there.
A lot of people around the world have met and bounded through Adam and his music. How does he feel about that?
- That’s one of the best things. I’ve heard a lot of stories like that, that makes me so happy. That’s one of the more important things that kind of transcends chart positions and how many albums you have sold and other bs like that. Just to know that I’ve contributed to people having a community and friends and feeling better about themselves, that’s what matters in the big picture.
Outlaws Of Love, a beautiful ballad from Adam’s new album, has been presented to the audience on several continents already. It’s an emotional sotry about feeling like the outcast of society and no matter what you do or how you turn it won’t be ‘right’. Adam has written the song himself and says that it’s about the right to be yourself and to be able to love who you love without having to hide. We asked him if he’s had any differences in the reactions to this song based on where he played it.
- No, in general, it really seems to resonate with people. I’m so happy with what it’s saying, and the cool thing about it is that it can mean different things to different people. That is something that you can find throughout the album, there’s this direct message that is seeing the direct experience I’ve written about and how it can mean something completely different based on other peoples experiences and feelings.
- I might have had a particularly good response to Outlaws Of Love over here. I think Europeans are a bit more liberal in the way they think. There’s been a lot of progress in the US as well and hopefully this trend will continue.
…you know #thatfeeling you get when you get the chance to sit down and actually talk to an artsit you admire both as a human being and as a performer and you end up with admiring him even more; that’s the feeling we were left with after this meeting with Adam Lambert.
