2.15.12 Adam News and Info

I agree with Midwifespal I love the songs that Adam wrote on his first album. In my humble opinion catering to radio taste isn't going to get Adam more air time. I think coming up with his own music and making his own sound might do it. If radio still is resistant,Adam is still being true to the artist in him. Radio is important but it's not the only way Adam's music can be heard. There is Youtube,word of mouth and certainly he will get played in other countries. I hope RCA isn't hampering his creativity,that would be a crime. Adam is Adam and he just doesn't fit in a box .
Maybe I'm nuts but I think there will come a day of reckoning when Adam's own music will become iconic.
It took Queen a long time to get recognition, and they certainly weren't alone. America for all it's screaming about Queen now weren't that thrilled when they began their careers. I think Adam is constantly being compared to people in POP who can't hold a candle to him. I would hate for him to dumb it down .
I also think Adam is trying to break through that glass ceiling (Trespassing) alone. For every e mail that goes to radio station saying please play Adam Lambert,I wonder how many are going to the same stations saying don't play adam Lambert. We'll never know i.e. Ellen and JCPenney?Coming in second on IDOL. The country singer who recently came out ,said her record sales went down to half after admission.Look who is running for president. Don't want to seem cynical, but Adam has a tough calling.

As you may remember from the last time this question came up, I tend to agree with you on this--Adam likes top 40 pop, Adam wants to be played on top 40 radio, and Adam writes pop music. But just to be fair, most of the songs Adam wrote for FYE were never intended to be radio singles, and I have no reason to suspect that if Adam wants to write a great radio single, he has that ability in spades, especially with the ace pop co-writers and producers he's been working with. We haven't heard the new music in question (with the exception of a very-much-changed trespassing), so all I can do is trust the critics who have. THey seem to feel VERY STRONGLY that certainly CUCKOO and probably TRESPASSING as well (both Adam co-writes) would make terrific singles.

Personally, I don't mind radio-friendly songs. I like a lot of the songs I hear on CHR. What I don't want is a song, no matter how "radio-friendly" it is, that could belong to any other artist, in part because it was written/produced (without Adam) by a team (Dr. Luke et al) that has written/produced songs for most of the other artists in the top 40. For me (and this is only my opinion, and worth very little) BTIKM is such a song (indeed, part of the thrill of watching these acoustic versions is to see Adam taking a non-Adam song and adamizing it). I don't want another one. I don't just want to hear his voice--I want a hit song with Adam's stamp all over it, even if--especially if--it is an "in the box" pop-radio-friendly song. I'm confident he has it in him, and I suspect (given the gushing reviews) that such a song already exists on Trespassing. But then, I'm a greedy biatch like that! ;D

Also, I want Adam to get credit for an underappreciated skill of his: his song-writing. And I don't just mean that the lyrics are personal to him--even more than that, I'm thrilled by Adam's musical instincts (see acoustic versions mentioned above) and what I assume are his production instincts. From what he has said over the years about specific details from the FYE album, his suggestions almost always made a song sound more interesting, and they always sounded identifiably Adam. He already gets admired for his voice. But needless to say, Adam isn't on AI anymore, making other peoples songs sound like his own--he's his own pop artist. I'm not worried about radio boxing Adam in or making him too "top-of-the-popsy"--I believe Adam would make a great mainstream pop star; I just ready for the next step--I'm ready for an ADAM SONG to burn up my radio!