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Post by 4Ms on Feb 26, 2012 5:37:45 GMT -5
Cute Short Video of Adam for the @adamlambertjp
Hoopla Magnet @hooplamagnet RT @adamlambertjp: new vid of adam for Japanese ringtone release of BTIKMS - ow.ly/9eLFA #adamlambertjp vimeo.com/37297209
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Post by 4Ms on Feb 26, 2012 5:38:28 GMT -5
kai357 kai357 I've done an English translation of @adamlambert's interview on IN ROCK. Nothing new but it's cute, so enjoy!  tl.gd/fu7jgn4 minutes ago www.twitlonger.com/show/fu7jgn
Rough translation of IN ROCK magazine (March, 2012)
Nothing new but some interesting bits here and there, so hope you'll enjoy!
- Interviewer heard 6 songs from Trespassing (BTIKM, Trespassing, Kickin'In, Cuckoo, Broken English, Underneath) at Adam's management office in LA.
- Other than BTIKM, they were the rough mix before mastering! Rare treat!;
- Interview was done that night in a room at a stylish hotel close to the management office.
- Short review on those 6 songs. Interviewer thought that they are all brilliant.;
BTIKM: Gorgeous, dramatic ballad.
Trespassing & Kickin'In: Really funky songs with kick ass beat and base lines. Adam's vocals are a kind of Michael Jackson-y, both real upper tunes.
Cuckoo: Fun-tabulous dance tune.
Broken English: Ballad, darkish atmosphere.
Underneath: Amazingly beautiful song. Slow ballad, starts with just Adam's vocal and piano.
- Adam was doing interviews/photo shoots all day for European and other Japanese media. IN ROCK was last, it was past 8 p.m. when they started.
- But Adam was so cute, he didn't show any tiredness, he answered their questions with a cute smile!
- Most memorable experience in the past two years:
"Meeting my current boyfriend. It was a really powerful, important incident to me. My life has changed so much because of the relationship we have. He really enriched my life and he inspires me so much. He makes me feel awesome and happy. It's really exciting, you know? I was looking for that kind of relationship for a very long time. And, he feels the same about me."
- In which songs on Trespassing are those experiences reflected?
"In several songs, I think. "Broken English" reflects both challenge and reward of this love. I think you haven't heard it, but "Naked Love" is also about my relationship. "Shady" is about the night I met him, and "Outlaws of Love" is about...I've found my love now, but the people in my community have to face challenges for that. So "OOL" is also about the various obstacles the LBGT community comes across. Don't get me wrong, there are so many positive things, but is hard sometimes, and it makes me sad.
I've heard that it's hard to come out in Japan as well, and this song is about those kinds of things. About professing your love and becoming an outlaw because of that. Not being able to feel safe because of the love you've chosen. It really is difficult. This song comes from an honest place and it's very real. I hope it can encourage and invigorate people, as I think it stimulates your feelings and it's a song many can relate to. By letting my emotions all hanging out, maybe I can reach people who feels the same sorrow, and show them that you are not alone."
So "Outlaws of Love" is not just about the same-sex marriage?
"Well, it is about that but not only that, it's about being gay. And the cool thing is, when I had my friends and family listen it, the interpretation of the song varied so much by each person, even though I had the same-sex marriage thing in mind while writing it. I think it's got a universal appeal. It can be about tragic lovers in a classic Romeo and Juliet style, it can be a song about being persecuted and judged because of the person you love. I think the message of this song is truly universal."
- It's a song that anyone can relate.
"Yeah."
(Rest of the interview will be in the next issue)
 Adam Lambert will be featured in the March issue of the Japanese INROCK magazinethelambrits.co.uk/blog/?p=252INROCK Japan Pre Order Link: stores.magazinecafeny.com/-strse-7440/.In-Rock-March-2012-cln-/Detail.bokMore Pics: twitpic.com/8k2qbc/full From makkiee:     INROCK ONLINE PREVIEW www.inrock.co.jp/inrock/new/syousai01.htmterra's translation : www.adamwiki.org/wiki/INROCK_March_2012 |
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Post by 4Ms on Feb 26, 2012 5:39:10 GMT -5
American Idol contestants are not normally the fodder for our weekly Q&a slot. Runners-up even less so. However when we were invited to hear Adam Lambert's second album Tresspassing, released in March, we were surprised to see that along with expected pop collaborators like Dr Luke, the singer had recorded with Pharrell Williams, cult indie type Sam Sparrow (he of Black And Gold fame) and Nile Rodgers while rumours of further work with Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor continue. Not just that, with the record's subject matter openly embracing Lambert's sexuality, the singer has used his mainstream launch-pad to challenge the preconceptions of American's right. All in all, a bloke worth sitting down and having a chat with then, which is exactly what we did...
How the devil are you?
"I'm good. I'm happy to be here, despite the cold. I love coming to the UK."
Is it harder for you in the UK because you are known a bit for American Idol, but we didn't see the show or get your back story?
"Yeah, the last album didn't get the attention it deserved but hopefully this time it will be different. But it's been three years. I'll always be associated with the show, which is great because I got to put myself out there and do great music. I really enjoyed my time on it, but hopefully people can start considering me as an artist. This album in particular is more of an artist's album. I got to co-write most of it, I was an executive producer, it's very much my thing! I did the styling, the artwork... I'm a control freak, but I'm doing it from a good place."
Unlike a lot of reality TV types you actually had a decent career as a singer, particularly in musical theatre, before you went on the show, while in the UK it seems you're supposed to have a decent sob story rather than talent. Why get involved?
"It was one of those things where they mentioned my background on the show once and then let it go. I did have to quit all my contracts which was a bit scary because that was my bread and butter, my health insurance... I had to quit and I didn't know if I'd be on the show. I was told, Quit so you can be considered. I thought Oh my God, it was kind of a risk but I knew it was worth taking because of the possible reward."
That reward is national exposure in a country the size of America?
"It's a huge platform, that's why I did it. There's nothing like it, you can't buy PR like it. Right before I auditioned I had started to write some music and I had some experience, talked to some people in the business and got a feel for what it's all about. I was still pretty green, but the impression I got was it's fucking hard to break into! I thought, well I'm a 27 year-old gay musical theatre dude/ club kid so this is not going to be an easy sell. Idol seemed the way to get myself out there."
Were you conscious that it was also a good opportunity to present someone with your sexuality to mainstream American, particularly as a large percentage of that audience might be prejudiced against you if they met you outside the show?
"The best opportunity on the show is to sing songs they identify with. That's the part of the show I approached like a strategy game. It's like Risk. Once you get comfortable in there, each week I would try to - in a good way - manipulate the audience, which is what entertainment is anyway. And it is a game show! My big strategy was to do something totally different each week to keep people guessing and do something that's the opposite to all the other performers so you get the attention."
With this album you're working with Pharrell on two tracks how did that come about? Lots of cash?
"I'm sure there's money involved, that's business, but he has to want to do something. He checked out a lot of what I did and he said to me, I really liked it when you sang the classic rock shit, the Queen songs, the Zeppelin, it's wild, I feel you're our generations Freddie!
I didn't even know how to accept that compliment from him. I'd walked into the session feeling not cool enough to be there! When he said that, I thought he must have an idea of what he wanted to do, so we wrote this song about being an outsider both in the industry and in your life and overcoming it and doing what you want to do. The thing about the album is it is split down the middle. The first half of the album is all upbeat. The second is the underbelly, the dark side. The Pharrell songs are so funky, but what Trespassing is also saying is it takes all this energy to put myself out there like that. I woke really hard to seem strong. I feel it's an example I have to set for gay kids in school or whatever, so they can say, I can be a popstar too. But to fight the adversity and discrimination that's so abundant in the States you have to put up your guard, and the album is kind of about that."
Are you comfortable being a role model - possibly even a martyr - because you were first to put your head above the parapet?
"I don't really have a choice. Some of it has been project onto me and I'm not upset about that. It's a pretty amazing gig to get, there's a lot of pressure and expectation. I don't like it when it overshadows the music. That's the hardest balance to strike, but I think this year, with this album and my life right now, balance is my key word. I'm striving to find it and maintain it. I'm closer to it than I was three years ago that's for sure."
Hence the two sides to the record?
"If everything has an opposite and equal reaction then that's this album. It deals with that give and take. A song like Trespassing is this big anthemic march stating be who you are, be proud, don't listen to the haters, be a rebel, do what you need to do. The flip-side is a song on the album that says when you do that there are consequences sometimes, there are anxieties that come from that and stressful moments, neurosis, pain and confusion. There are songs about that, low self-esteem, image... it's hard. This is not fucking easy!"
You're happy with that, you don't ever think, Leave me out of the politics I just want to sing?
"What's hard about being one of the few [openly gay US popstars] is that even with the gay community there's so much scrutiny from them. Some say you're not being gay enough, too gay, Why are you flamboyant? Why aren't you masculine? You don't represent us well. There are so many different types of gay dude, what's the difference? The gay community celebrates strong women, they don't necessarily celebrate strong men unless they're really straight acting. It's almost a study in extremes and that's what really good things about the album. It's saying no one is really one dimensional."
Not only do you work with established producers the like Pharrell or Dr Luke on this album, Sam Sparro has written a few songs too.
"He's got some new stuff coming too. We did a B-side around my last album called Voodoo which I really regretted didn't go on the album because it's strong. I looked at the songs I enjoyed performing from that record and the songs that went down well live, and I took a cue from that for this album, an electro, disco, funk feel is something I wanted to chase down. Pharrell opened the door for that and said, This what you should do and with Sam we created two more songs. Shady is one of them and we have Nile Rodgers playing on it. It's about wanting to get nasty and wanting to get into trouble."
Back up a second, Nile Rodgers?
"We were writing the song and we realised we needed something like Nile Rodgers guitar on the record. So Sam said, Why don't we just tweet Nile? So we tweeted him! We said Yo do you want to do something? And he went Fuck yeah! I brought him the track a few weeks later, he liked it, and he started putting a groove on it. My jaw was on the floor, it was so fucking cool! He took the song and gave it a whole other pocket."
What is your plan for the rest of the year?
"We're figuring it out as we go. I feel like this album will be more of a band thing live. Also I might be doing some more stuff with Queen, that could be great. I can't say but I think something is on the horizon."
What's it like to have an artist like that you've listened to all your life asking you to work with them?
"It's surreal! It's a bit intimidating but because they're so comfortable with it, it makes me comfortable with it. They're incredible. They're so paternal and warm."
Paul Stokes @stokesie
For more head to Adamofficial.com
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Post by 4Ms on Feb 26, 2012 5:39:39 GMT -5
atop.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=tres&thread=698&page=12#183376lili Black @liliyglambert9 Close Adam in Bravo(Russian) pic.twitter.com/ndg4bQUy  Loose translation: ShoppingHe is only human! You think stars get everything done by their assistants? Think again! For example, recently the paparazzi shot Adam Lambert coming out of the supermarket. There the artist purchased all kinds of yummy stuff and hurried home. Wonder if he cooks well? " Over the picture, it asks "What is this potion from hell"? (btw, the Russian word for "potion" has the same root as "green", since most medieval potions were made from green plants and herbs)
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Post by 4Ms on Feb 26, 2012 5:40:23 GMT -5
atop.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=tres&thread=698&page=12#183377Bravo Magazine Czech Republic Vanda @wandinka87 Look Adam in Bravo mag which comes out in Czech republic twitpic.com/8lx608 and twitpic.com/8lx6ah @adambertdaily @adamlambert Cick for full sized twitpic:  From gelly14:   Cick for full sized twitpic: 
From ame:
I translated an article from the Czech magazine. There is nothing new, but it always me happy to see a lovely article about Adam. And obviously, this one is lovely. Hope youll enjoy it 
BRAVO wished a Happy birthday to Adam!
red pattern> Take a deep breath and blow out candles! Finally it's time for Adam to taste the delicious cake.
white circle> Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you...!
This song could be heard in the editorial department of German Bravo two weeks ago when a Superstar Adam Lambert arrived there. ''Wow! This is crazy! I love surprises! Thank you very much!'' Touched honored person was shouting with joy while blowing out candles on his birthday cake.
But Adam himself has a present for his fans. On 19th of March he releases his new album called ''Trespassing'' from which the first single BTIKM has become a world-wide known smash.
Adam's signed self-portrait he gave to editorial staff was pretty cool.
He was really thankful for all birthday wishes.
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Post by 4Ms on Feb 26, 2012 5:41:19 GMT -5
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Post by 4Ms on Feb 26, 2012 5:44:13 GMT -5
issuu.com/poplick/docs/poplickpaper05/15@poplicktweets: Vi har nyt magasin på gaden idag med Seebach, Suspekt og Adam Lambert-artikler. Tjek det ud her: poplick.dk/nyheder/poplic… poplick.dk/nyheder/poplick-paper-05-er-paa-gaden!.aspx Poplick Paper #05 er på gaden! Så er det nye Poplick Paper på gaden. Den kontroversielle, amerikanske popsanger Adam Lambert er på forsiden, og indeni kan du læse om alt fra Rasmus Seebach til Suspekt.   mmyy9 @mmyy9 Reply Retweet Favorite · Open Links to Poplick pages bit.ly/xKGcvN bit.ly/x2m0y8 bit.ly/w2UFSy bit.ly/yLbpam bit.ly/zLStkn ty @es_v1 !     
Translation of interview with Danish magazine Poplick.
FEBRUARY 23, 2012 BY LOB
adaminradioland.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/translation-of-interview-with-danish-magazine-poplick/#more-3468
This is a fairly rough translation of the interview. There isn’t any new information. The interviewer has a very specific style of writing, which is slightly ironic/pop smart, but I have probably managed to mangle that up completely.
[First off, Adam is mentioned in the editorial on the index page]
It is so trivial to talk about the weather but I’m going to do so anyway, because it came close to cancelling this edition’s front page. The night before my interview with the glam idol Adam Lambert I was horrified to read on his Twitter that he had a fever. That the damned Scandinavian ice-winter had caught up with the American pop star’s delicate health. What now? Would he cancel in the 11th hour?
Luckily not. Adam Lambert handled the fever and the subsequent cold as a man and did not seem ill in any way when I sat down with him. On the contrary, he was friendly, engaged and ready to be bombarded with my questions about sexuality, scandals, and, of course, his new album. Which I, after having heard the first couple of tracks, feel confident will throw some warm pop-love all over this cold season.
[Yada yada – talking about the cold and other features in the magazine]
No more talk about the cold. If we ignore it, it might disappear. Until then, take it like a man – like Adam.
[The interviewer is also the editor of the magazine, Kristian Dam Nygaard (KDN)]
[The black box on the first page of the interview is titled Glambert for beginners and is a short fact box of birth date and sales stats]
“I have many fans who cannot deal with the fact that I am gay”
He was the favourite to win American Idol. But in the middle of the show he was caught kissing a man. And then he only got to second place in God’s own, uptight, country. Today the winner is forgotten while Adam Lambert has rocketed to become an icon for a generation of outsiders. KDN went to Stockholm to meet the king of glam and pop-provocation.
Danish liver pate [traditional Danish dish] is granted an audience with American caviar. I’m sitting in a brown hotel lobby in Stockholm across from the glam-idol Adam Lambert. Where I have forgotten to cut my nails and maybe am in need of a haircut, Adam looks like he just stepped out of one of his own music videos: Black lacquered nail, left ear pierced, rings on every other finger, black-coloured hair with a hint of brown, long high-collared leather jacket and a relaxed, high-pitched [not the perfect word: direct translation is light but meaning not deep] American accent to lean against.
“How is your head?” I ask, knowing that Adam the night before on his well-groomed Twitter profile had written the following: “How did I come down with a fever so fast? Oof, dizzy!”
“It feels a little empty today,” he says and smiles. “I really had a bad cold yesterday, and I’m fairly woozy today, but the fever is gone, so I’m sure it’ll be ok. Arrived three days ago and was supposed to promote my new album last night. But when I woke up from my afternoon nap, my head was just chaotic”.
It started with a mushroom trip
Chaos is a very good description of Adam Lambert’s first year in life [?] and on the pop stage. The 30-year-old pop star grew up in San Diego on the American west coast, 200 km south of glamorous Hollywood. San Diego was far from being friendly to showbiz and flappy wrists [sorry, couldn’t think of the appropriate translation – but means gay] and as a child he felt left out. “I didn’t have a lot of friends. I felt different, didn’t have anyone to reflect. There were no gay role models, and I was probably a little introverted. There was no one like me,” he says.
Later he found a community in a theatre group, which finally provided a place for ‘all of the weird kids’, and at the age of 21 he travelled the world with the musical ‘Hair’. He describes this time as pure ‘sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll’ and it was while tripping on mushrooms he, in 2008, decided to enter the world’s largest televised talent show, American Idol. Here he easily swept through the initial auditions and went all the way to the finale as the big favourite. Halfway through the show, pictures of Adam caught kissing a man surfaced and shock swept across the sexually scared USA. Could you let a gay guy win AI? You could not, and Adam received the fewest votes from viewers in the finale, and was beaten by the sexually more water-combed [meaning normal, or dare I say it; straight] Kris Allen (whom only a few outside the AI fan base know today). However, Adam’s talent was not to be denied. Shortly after the show he released his debut album ‘For Your Entertainment’, from which the single WWFM became a global monster hit. As the first AI-contestant he subsequently went on a large world tour and since then has not shied off pushing countless homophobic people’s boundaries for what one can get away with on stage.
A threat to decency
“When you perform you kiss your male bass player, simulate oral sex with the microphone and smoke joints on stage. I Malaysia you have even been proclaimed to be a threat to decency and harmful for the children. Do you like to be provocative?” I ask and make Adam laugh out loud.
“Yes, it’s amazing. Sometimes I do it on purpose as a political statement, but mostly I just can’t help it. It’s so easy. But it’s also part of the art. Art has to provoke and make you react. And it is ok if it is a little dangerous.”
He clears his throat and sits up straight in the chair: “I’m a little uncomfortable being proclaimed a role model. I’m not perfect. I’m just trying to live my life. I’m totally open about the fact that I’m gay, and if my being confident about that can help others, then it’s great.”
Loves Scandinavia
During my research I have had trouble finding articles about Adam where his sexuality has not been a topic.
“Have you ever given an interview, where you weren’t asked about being gay?”
“No.”
The answer is prompt and is followed by a little thinking accompanied by a wrinkled brow.
“Maybe a couple of times … But … It is … yeah. You see, I have many fans who cannot deal with the fact that I’m gay. They really like my music, but then … Yes, it’s strange. It really shouldn’t matter. It should be a lot more like here in Scandinavia,” he says and smiles again.
I ask Adam if he remembers when he in November 2010 visited Store Vega [concert venue] in Copenhagen on his world tour. He looks like someone searching for a diplomatic answer.
“That tour might be a little fuzzy?” I help him out.
He smiles.
“Yes. Unfortunately I don’t remember so much. I’ve been so many places, but that whole part of the world …”
“Scandinavia?”
“Yes, people are so beautiful. They really are. It is something about their eyes. They have an energy that I really like.”
“You’re just saying that because you know I’m from DK and it would make your Danish fans happy”.
“Haha, no, no. I would really like to come here more and figure out what it is. Maybe it’s because you give each other more space. You don’t interfere so much in each other’s lives”.
Personal touch
Adam’s manager, Jocke, who during the interview nicely has kept to the background clears his throat and inform me that we have to finish. Adam has a long day of interviews ahead and has to have time to get a bit of lunch before the next team arrives.
Thus, I start in on the reason why the interview was arranged in the first place: Adam’s new album, ‘Trespassing’, which will be released in a moment. As opposed to the debut album, which was rapidly put together by pop stars like P!nk, Lady Gaga and Matthew Bellamy from Muse, Adam is supposed to have left more of his personal touch on this record.
“I have written most of the songs myself and have taken part in producing the album. It’s a lot more electronic and I have attempted to divide it into a dark and a light part. The light songs are sexy party tracks and the dark deal with everything that shows up when the party is over: grief, anxiety, insecurity. All of the hard stuff. All of us have good days and bad days”.
He enthusiastically talks about the song OOL, which deals with people’s problems with homosexuality and then shakes his head looking defeated. Adam is currently dating a Finnish reality star (yes, a man, ed.) and time and time again he realises that people think he has a flamboyant gay lifestyle.
Never going back in the closet
“You say that after you met your boyfriend you’ve become more boring and settled. That you’re just staying home in your Hollywood villa watching TV and eating popcorn. Is it the end of rock’n’roll and provocative liveshows?”
“Hahaha, yes I definitely feel more relaxed and I’m evolving constantly. But I can promise you that I will continue to express myself on stage to the extreme”.
Before Adam’s manager leads me out of the hotel room I realise that our entire talk about Adam’s problems with fans wishing he wasn’t gay has to have a nice finish, somehow. When the viewers ‘threw’ him off AI for being gay, he shortly after gave a big ‘Adam Lambert comes out of the closet’-cover interview to RSM.
“How would you like it if you go back in the closet in this interview? It would make for a cool ending and you would make a lot of girls happy?”
“I am not going back in the closer. Fuck no! Never, hahaha”.
END
[Black box about Queen]
Does not want to be the new Freddie Mercury
Last November AL performed with the legendary rock band Queen at MTV EMA in Belfast as replacement for his big idol, the late Freddie Mercury. Since then the rumours have said that Adam is supposed to be the band’s new, permanent lead singer. When Poplick asks about it he denies it.
“It was amazing to perform with them at the EMAs. Really, I am so honoured to be allowed to do that. It is something I’ve not even dared dream about, but we haven’t made any deals. Nobody can replace Freddie Mercury and I would never dare try. He was one of a kind. But it would be amazing to tour with his songs and we’ll probably try to do something about that in the future. But right now I want to make my own music”.
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