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Post by pi on Dec 13, 2022 3:04:30 GMT -5
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Post by nightowl on Dec 13, 2022 3:06:15 GMT -5
I can‘t order anything through Adam’s fanshop. No option for non-US citizens. 😟 Thank you pi . She later added that the reason are different labels. Sounds complicated, but also interesting. |
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Post by pi on Dec 13, 2022 3:06:45 GMT -5
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Post by DancyGeorgia on Dec 13, 2022 3:18:37 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Dec 13, 2022 3:19:22 GMT -5
yahoo!Adam Lambert talks 'High Drama' album, full-circle Jobriath cover: 'I know what my brand is now, more than ever'“There's an album coming!” Adam Lambert happily exclaims, exclusively speaking to Yahoo Entertainment via Zoom from London, clearly unable to contain his excitement.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxsLDUHbGeo
It’s been almost three years since the American Idol alumnus/Queen frontman’s last studio LP, Velvet, which was promotionally sidelined due to the COVID-19 pandemic (it came out March 20, 2020). But Lambert spent lockdown working on new music, and the result is High Drama, available for preorder now and out Feb. 24, 2023. The album is a full-circle affair, with ties to his Idol and Queen eras, to his theater roots… and to one groundbreaking queer artist that, it could be argued, paved the way for proudly out artists like Lambert.
“The idea came up to do an album of covers, and I haven't done that before,” says Lambert. “I've done that on Idol, obviously… and Queen is essentially sort of a covers situation, even though I’m in the band. It was like a real nice challenge to go, ‘OK, let's find songs’ — some are obscure, some are new, some are really well-known — ‘that we think are cool, and flip them and make them sound entirely different if we can.’”
Flipping songs is obviously one of Lambert’s special skills: His Jeff Buckley-esque “Ring of Fire,” stripped-back “Mad World,” and acoustic “Tracks of My Tears” rank as some of the most daring and creative American Idol performances of all time. And that is why he’s not sticking to any “super-specific criteria” for High Drama’s covers. “It's just me, just doing me. And it actually feels really good, because I think in the past I might have been trying to manufacture something or run toward a trend or a sound,” Lambert confesses. “And I think with this album, even though they're covers, we've managed to make them sound and feel original enough, so they're like my kind of records. It just feels like we're doing it without thinking about it, in a way. I'm not trying to do a theme or a sound. I just am doing it. It just feels very natural, which is really nice.”
< Ordinary World video - watch it in the article >
And so, the main theme is that the album is simply highly dramatic and “a bit rock-star.” There's a cover of King of Leon's "Sex on Fire," which — speaking of full-circle moments — Lambert gave as the answer Yahoo Entertainment's question back in 2009, "If you can have a theme song that played every time you entered a room, what would it be?" (He even sang a bit of it on camera.) There are also songs originally recorded by modern female pop stars (Sia’s “Chandelier,” Billie Eilish’s “Getting Older,” Lana Del Rey’s “West Coast,” Pink’s “My Attic”); hits by ‘80s New Romantic icons Duran Duran and Culture Club; soul scorchers like Ann Peebles’s “I Can't Stand the Rain”; and, quite excitingly, a “glam-rock version” of Bonnie Tyler’s Jim Steinman-penned Footloose power ballad “Holding Out for Hero.” (“Get ready,” Lambert says of that latter epic.)
But perhaps the most fascinating and full-circle (and most obscure) cover on High Drama is “I'm a Man,” by cult glam-rocker Jobriath — the first openly gay rock star and self-declared “true fairy of rock ‘n’ roll,” who at one time was hyped as the next Bowie.
“I saw the documentary, and I was just like, ‘Oh my God!’ I remember sitting there, and it just resonated with me so much,” says Lambert. “I mean, he was also in Hair, the musical, which is where I got [my start]. … It's crazy too, because my uncle, who's no longer with us, he saw the one [legendary, rare] show on [Jobriath’s otherwise doomed] tour that was good, in Tuscaloosa in the South. He was there at that show, and he was a fan. … There was just all these weird parallels, and I was like, ‘OK, this is amazing. This guy's incredible.’”
More..
www.yahoo.com/entertainment/adam-lambert-talks-high-drama-album-full-circle-jobriath-cover-i-know-what-my-brand-is-now-more-than-ever-075829860.html
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Post by pi on Dec 13, 2022 3:25:08 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Dec 13, 2022 3:30:57 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Dec 13, 2022 3:32:05 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Dec 13, 2022 3:47:03 GMT -5
Fans talking about how Australia will ship to other countries..
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Post by bridgeymah on Dec 13, 2022 3:55:20 GMT -5
Work is insane so I'm lurking not posting. BUT gotta jump on for this lovely tender etherial cover of Ordinary World. Bravo and can't wait for whole album. Covers done on his terms - love it. |
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