1.20.12 Adam News & Info

Yes. I find the conversion of teh gay question to be very embarrassing and kind of offensive because bringing it up somehow implies that ones sexuality can just be changed like that. That a person CHOOSES their sexuality. And seeing as how a lot of idiots out there think that is exactly what gay people do, that kind of is just...well it doesn't help to solve that myth.

But I do however think that the dj's were just joking about it to. I don't think THEY thought it was possible, but were having a laugh about the IDIOT women who think that's possible.

After I watched the Ellen performance about 100 10 times, I started watching Isaac. He is beating the crap out of those drums! I was thinking this song has to either be a lot of fun for him to play or it has to be exhausting! I can definitely hear some backing track, but to my untrained ears, it sounds like less of a backing track than most of the Glam Nation tour songs had.

Does anybody recognize the music that is played at the very end of this video?

I think that there is definitely a 'squeaky (and more cash and time flush) wheel get's the grease' phenomena with regards to how Adam fans have been perceived by the media and in some ways by others outside the fandom.

The same faces at radio meet and greets things irks me too, but it is similar to certain prominent personality types interacting with media personalities on twitter or flocking to comments sections -- making noise frequently gets you noticed.

The thing that bothered me the most about the fan bit on Ryan wasn't the age or tipsy-ness in fact (or that it was hardly fair to single them out), it was the Elvis comparison.

If the squeaky wheels don't seem to be interested in, or are even outright dismissive and contempous of pop music - the genre of music Adam is making, the music top 40 radio is playing, there is a disconnect there, and radio DJs who only really notice these squeaky fans could assume that this isn't a fanbase that their airplay needs to cater to. (Not that they are necessarily making airplay decisions, but you get my drift).

There is a fan I follow on twitter who is younger and I've always been really impressed by the way she interacts with media and comments sections by being positive and light. I was looking at Ryan's @ replies and she was one of several younger fans slightly fed up and saying 'I'm right here, I've been here all along, why don't you see me, I feel invisible'.

I'm Ryan's age, but sometimes reading through comment after comment here about hating to listen to pop radio, about how it's all crap, about how rap isn't real music (it's been around 30 years, it's not going away, and it does have complexity and validity) I feel the same way, a little invisible.

I totally appreciate the diversity of the fanbase here and everywhere else, btw, this isn't directed at anyone, I'm just lamenting a little bit the lack of time to be squeaky I guess.

For me my first mental image of Elvis (and I'm a little ashamed that this is frankly the first thing that comes to mind, because I know it's not fair to his legacy at all) is of a troubled Vegas act who died on his toilet and is occasionally spotted like Bigfoot.

What if the group of ladies interviewed had said Adam reminded them of Justin Timberlake? Or that they love Adam and Bruno the best of the Male pop singers? How might that have thrown a wrench in the narrative?

I'm just thinking aloud a bit.