Adam's Second Major Label Studio Album

GUYS. I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DFKSJFIHAOIJDOAJSODHAODAOSEDA

(only the album #2 part)

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Adam Revisited
BY AARON HICKLIN

Adam Lambert tells editor in chief Aaron Hicklin what he's learned in the two years since he appeared on the cover of the 2009 Out 100.

MON NOV 07 2011

Do you fear that there is a trade-off in success and sales when you’re as true to yourself as you have been?

There’s definitely a bit of a conflict. I think I spent a lot of energy trying to find my footing and expressing my sexuality one way or the other. And I think now that I have established who I am and I’ve gotten it out of my system, what’s really important—without denying or downplaying my pride as a gay man—is the music. Looking back, I think the other things HeWhoCannot ameded the music a little bit. With my new album what’s exciting is that I’m definitely in the driver’s seat. I’m working with producers and my label directly. I’m not being puppeted around in any way shape or form. It’s about the music now.

The next album is that dreaded sophomore album, dreaded for a lot of people because an artist typically puts so much into their first album because its been percolating in their head for years and the second, they’re under pressure to produce quickly.

I feel like it’s almost the opposite in my case. The process of making the first album was so fast. This is definitely the album that I want to make. I’m getting time with it, I’m able to say, ‘I want to re-record that vocal,’ or ‘Lets bring this song to another producer or a different beat put on it’. So I’m getting to immerse myself in the process. I feel like I’m getting to take the necessary time.

For you, when you’re writing a song does it come from personal experience?

Well, the majority of the music on this second album I have written. There are a couple songs written by other writers, but for me to sing a song that I didn’t write, it has to be something that I can relate to personally, 100%. So when I get in the booth and I sing it, it’s coming from the most real place possible. It’s funny, when I started the writing process I felt totally exhausted. It’s like a decompression that happens after you’re on the road so long. Real life feels so foreign and bizarre, and I was actually a little bit depressed when I first came back because I just didn’t know what to do with myself. I felt a little bit lonely and I was trying to get back into my friendships but it felt like I had been gone for so long, it was strange. And I was trying to get over a couple of failed dating situations that didn’t go so well.

I’m sorry.

So my writing, in the beginning, gravitated towards something darker and moodier and angstier. And slowly over the course of this writing process my relationship solidified, this was someone that I had met while I was on tour who had come to visit a couple of times at the beginning of this process and now here permanently. I just got really really happy and satisfied with life. I wanted my music to reflect where I’m at, and I can tell you that one of the first people I worked with on the album that was a physical turning point was Pharrell Williams.

In what way?

We had a really long conversation and it was interesting to get his perspective on where I was as a person and as an artist, because he’s someone that doesn’t know me, our lifestyles are very different, but he’s an incredible artist and a very intelligent guy and deep and spiritual as well. So we talked about life and everything that goes with it—about being an artist, about being a person overcoming adversity. And we wrote a song together that I think people are going to be really impressed by.

After my session with Pharell, I started working with some other writers and going in that direction. Going along with the trend of dance music was something I really wanted to go with on the album. I love my fans, and I want to give my fans the songs that they really eat up, but I also want to expand my audience if I can. And I want to make some music for my gay brothers and sisters. You know what I mean? I want to make the kind of music I would listen to if I were out in a club.

Which is what kind of music?
Dance music! My challenge was, how do I make dance music authentic to what I’m capable of vocally and what I do. That’s when I started getting into the funk arena. I mean, it’s still electronic, but it’s funky and it has a swing and listening to a lot of Michael Jackson and Prince and we just started going in that direction.

Ryan Love
@ryanjl London
Digital Spy's Showbiz Editor. Known to tweet the odd time. All my own views on here.
www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz



RyanJL Ryan Love
Just sat with Adam Lambert while he played a selection of tracks from his new album. Insanely great. Good luck to whoever picks singles!
1 hour ago

LambertUK Adam Lambert UK
@ryanjl Thanks for the tweet! We thought you'd find Adam Lambert's music to be 'insanely great'! Can't wait to hear it for ourselves :D
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RyanJL Ryan Love
@lambertuk you're gonna LOVE
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RyanJL Ryan Love
@adamlambert Super to meet you today Adam. Material is sounding bloody fantastic! Can't wait to have a proper chat around release time x
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We just heard 6 tracks from new @adamlambert album - he played them to us personally! It's gonna blow up in the UK - seriously good stuff!
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