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Post by tinafea on Jul 11, 2024 22:23:08 GMT -5
Here is the thread for today
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Post by pi on Jul 12, 2024 0:35:19 GMT -5
Queen's Brian May talks to Sammy Hagar about Freddie Mercury, Adam Lambert, and curating Queen's legacyQueen guitarist Brian May has revealed that Adam Lambert "blows my mind" by taking Queen's old songs to places he never expected. May's revelations come in an interview with Sammy Hagar conducted in late 2019 and uploaded to the YouTube channel of AXS TV this week. The footage was shot backstage at a show honouring Nashville guitar legend James Burton.
"Adam brings fresh views on things," says May. "He's not afraid to say, 'why don't we try it this way or that way?' so the songs are not fossils. They're alive and evolving with Adam, which is great, and sometimes he blows my mind.
"We do Who Wants To Live Forever, which is a song which Freddie would do at times, but if he felt a little off-colour, that was going to be little bit too much strain for Freddie... you know, Adam will always do it, and always pull it off, and he will take it higher and higher.
"So I'm standing there playing and I'm going, 'what did he just do?!' It blows my mind, the range that he has and the courage that he has to kind of blend things into a different place, just slightly morph things into a new place. So I love it. I love working with Adam."
Elsewhere in the interview, May talks about working with Freddie Mercury as he neared the end of his life, and about how he and Roger Taylor have curated Queen's legacy in the years since Mercury's death.
www.loudersound.com/news/the-songs-are-not-fossils-theyre-alive-and-evolving-brian-may-says-adam-lambert-is-taking-queens-songs-to-places-freddie-mercury-never-did
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Post by pi on Jul 12, 2024 3:05:14 GMT -5
Queen with Adam Lambert perform at the Queen's Jubilee | Pro Singer Reacts
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Post by pi on Jul 12, 2024 4:25:18 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jul 12, 2024 4:50:21 GMT -5
The Washington Post
U.S.-China rivalry enters a new sphere: Who can best carry a tune
A Chinese television show featuring live performances by Americans including Adam Lambert has audiences questioning the quality of domestic singers.
American pop star Adam Lambert toned down his flamboyant look to appear on one of China’s biggest music shows: His nail polish was removed, his makeup toned down and his suit covered his tattoos.
In a packed television studio in the central Chinese city of Changsha, a silver-haired Lambert belted out “Whataya Want From Me,” one of his best-known songs, as the audience, which included several Chinese pop idols, sang along at full volume.
The Chinese contestants on Singer 2024, however, looked less excited when the camera cut to backstage. Lambert was showing them up with his pitch-perfect live performance, and if Lambert won, one of them stood to be eliminated.
Some viewers joked on social media that Lambert had come to start a “bloodbath” and teach China’s music industry a lesson.
Adam Lambert performs with Queen during the Platinum Jubilee concert taking place in front of Buckingham Palace, London, Saturday June 4, 2022, on the third of four days of celebrations to mark the Platinum Jubilee. The events over a long holiday weekend in the U.K. are meant to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years of service.
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The show features seven competitors — four Chinese, one Taiwanese, one American and one Moroccan-Canadian — and one-off guest performers like Lambert. A producer for the show said many Chinese artists they approached didn’t have the “capability” and “guts” to sing live.
More.. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/07/11/china-singer-united-states-adam-lambert/
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Post by quackn on Jul 12, 2024 5:12:16 GMT -5
Queen with Adam Lambert perform at the Queen's Jubilee | Pro Singer Reacts
I loved this performance. I go back to watch it on a regular basis. It is so iconic. I wonder who decided upon the staging .The beginning with the queen's drummers and the flashing lights in unison is amazing to me. Adam was fantastic and I can't imagine the feeling of being the first person to open your mouth to sing in front of that audience and in that particular event. As far as the review goes, the guy has some mis-information. So, he should correct that. This is not the first "reviewer" I have heard refer to Roger as "the drummer". That always makes me think, how informed the person is. Must not be much. |
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Post by pi on Jul 12, 2024 8:10:12 GMT -5
Adam Lambert on American Idol, Chappell Roan’s Rise and Why He’s About to Become “Even Gayer”
The singer talks to Them about his explicit club-inspired EP Afters. Adam Lambert has never been known for his subtlety. But after sparking national controversy with his sensual performance at the 2009 American Music Awards — during which he walked a man across the stage on a leash — the ex-American Idol contestant felt pressure from the music industry to play it a quarter-turn safer. Soon, he found mainstream success. In 2012, he became the first out gay musician to debut at the top of the Billboard charts, and he was chosen as Freddie Mercury’s successor as a touring vocalist with Queen that same year.But recently, Lambert has started feeling more comfortable letting his walls back down, and incorporating more of his outré proclivities back into his art. Although he often likes to “beat [his] face for the heavens” and “wear weird clothes” for nights out, he tells me over Zoom, he only recently came to a career-altering realization: “Why am I not doing that in my art? Why am I toning it down?”Enter the singer’s Afters EP, which will be released on July 19. Consisting of six songs that seem ready-made for blasting at a circuit party, the EP represents Lambert’s boldest work yet — mostly because the lyrics are raunchy as hell. “Be a real good boy and lube it up,” he sings over a fist-pumping techno beat on the aptly named “LUBE,” which is only a small taste of the hedonistic pleasures that the EP sought to capture.< Video >“I’ve experienced a lot, and I know what I know,” Lambert says of his time navigating an often turbulent industry. Given the way that the pop landscape has shifted to celebrate overt queerness, it would be understandable if the backlash he faced at the beginning of his career made him bitter about that progress. But the singer has nothing but pride and admiration for his fellow queer musicians, including — to name a few — Chappell Roan (“I mean, how exciting is her moment that she’s in right now?” he gushes), Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, and Lil Nas X, the latter of whom has similarly been criticized for his own super gay awards show performances.“There’s many of them now,” he says before correcting himself — “many of us. And I think that gives me a lot of inspiration.”On the heels of a post-Pride Fire Island excursion, Lambert spoke with Them about his newfound creative freedom, the homophobia he faced earlier in his career, and his message to his 2009 self. What were some of your musical inspirations behind the songs on the EP?I have this playlist that I’ve been putting together for the last couple years on a streaming site — just every song that I like the sound of. I’m really into tech house stuff right now. Like Slayyyter, I’m a big fan of.Love her. What made you feel like now was the time to make this pivot in your musical career toward making music that is more explicit than you’ve ever made before? Lyrically, at least?
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly why. I think it was more like...…why not?Yeah, why not? I think maybe in the past I felt like I had to behave more or something. I think there was always, for years, a little dash of, like, PTSD from that experience on the AMAs when I did that sexualized performance and had this whole controversy from it. It’s not that the controversy from the public really bothered me that much; it was more that, on the industry side, I felt a collective gasp. l“Well, f**k you. I’m going to shine brighter. I’m going to be even gayer.”Can I ask in what way?I think I feel very free right now. I feel very much in the driver’s seat creatively. I feel like I’m not having to compromise nearly as much as I used to have to do. The team that I’ve put together, that I’m working with now, are very much allowing me to drive. I can’t say that that was never the case, but it’s the best it’s ever been.I [also] think so much has changed for queer people in music. It’s a way more open playing field now. You see queer artists becoming mainstream successes. There’s many of them now — many of us. That gives me a lot of inspiration. I’m really proud of us as a community. I’m really proud of all the people who I see coming up, getting to do their thing, and finding success from the public. I think the way we get our music out there now and connect with the public is different as well. There used to be a lot of gatekeepers and a lot of politics you had to contend with. And there still is a little bit, but you have a direct line to your fans now with social media. You have a direct line to the public with streaming, you don’t have to censor things, [and] you don’t have to worry about radio the same way we used to.I was actually going to ask you about that AMAs performance.
I had just come off of Idol, what? Six or seven months beforehand? So I think that there were a lot of people who were avid American Idol fans, which is very much a family show, and I think they just were caught off guard by my performance.I mean, a super formative performance for me personally, so thank you for that.
Oh, yay. I used to say that to myself. At the time, I was a little bit stressed about the reaction that I got from the powers that be, but I remember thinking to myself and having conversations with friends, who were like, “No, in the long run, you did your thing.” I feel that way now.More .. www.them.us/story/adam-lambert-afters-ep-interview
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Post by quackn on Jul 12, 2024 8:45:47 GMT -5
LOL. I don't think "Be a good boy and lube it up" is any raunchier than Billie Eilsih "I can eat that girl for lunch, Yeah she dances on my tongue". I know different people, different demographic, etc., I am just talking about lyrics.....as the article is.
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Post by pi on Jul 12, 2024 9:02:35 GMT -5
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Post by lurleene on Jul 12, 2024 12:23:30 GMT -5
I don't think there is much interest in male pop artists now, gay or straight. And being "more gay" is unlikely to get you more than you have or could achieve by concentrating on making good music that people outside your circle want to hear and support. The music industry wants to see the sexy ladies twerking, being sexy with lurid lyrics and shaking their butts. Hardly anyone really wants to see that from the men no matter their sexuality. And the young gay men are still supporting the divas, so angry and defiant or not, where is the market? And Billie Elish is in another class with success in pop, rock and alt so no comparison can be made to her acceptance and success. She and her team have not limited or marketed her to only Pop or for just being LGBT. And she is young and appeals to a young audience, especially young girls. So does Adam want to be better known for being more gay or for being one of the highly accomplished and talented LBGT artists, who shows there is a place for them too, regardless of sexuality? It is a bit confusing to strive to make music for a niche artist at this stage of his career. It is generally the other way around. HA. But we shall see if this is just a promotion tactic for "Afters" or a more permanent direction.
I saw an interesting video titled Where have all the male pop boys gone? First of all, they mentioned there are no Elton, Bowie and Prince's anymore. E, B, and P may have had pop hits but were never considered pop boys and they had too much cred and talent to be considered as such. Those guys were mostly considered rock stars (tho they crossed over) and Prince rock and funk. Then they said that Pop now was mostly dominated by women and many very sexual, which wouldn't work for men. Well, there is their answer right there, lol. If women get most of the radio play and attention, they are going to become the Pop stars with the hits and the arena tours. HA. Also they said the pop genre was considered a bit too gay for men but gay men were not as popular as other male pop artists? Troye Sivan said he didn't want to whine and make excuses about his sexuality cause maybe his music did not connect. But he believed if he were not gay, he would be a bigger and more high profile pop star. No shade but Troye even as straight would not have been a big star either, imo. I saw him on SNL dancing and trying to be sexy. He looked silly and got terrible reviews. The only sexy gay artists that I can think of were Ricky Martin and George Michael back in the day and Adam. And Ricky and George were not out when they became big Pop stars. They also pointed out that Troye first came on the scene before being gay was more acceptable. Then they mentioned the success of LNX, who came later, and had several pop hits but he was also a rapper. He also had his biggest hit before revealing that he was gay. He had a few big hits then dropped off and fell out of favor. Because after the "shocking" antics, he could not hold the interest they pointed out. They also said some of the bigger pop stars like Timberlake had aged out. And Bruno was pop but also R&B and funk and The Weeknd was also considered more R&B. And Bieber was no longer doing much according to them but Harry, tho flamboyant but not gay, was still doing well. The women have been ruling Pop for some time now. But they are hoping but not expecting to see a young male Pop star emerge. They named a few in their twenties, who are trying and doing okay now, but they have not become big stars.
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