Trespassing Album Track #4. Never Close Our Eyes

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Adam Lambert: 'Never Close Our Eyes' - Single review

Released on Sunday, Jun 24 2012
Published Thursday, Jun 14 2012, 12:03 BST | By Robert Copsey |

A glance over the credits for Adam Lambert's forthcoming album Trespassing reads like a who's who of world-class pop. But while he's had a hand in several of the tracks, you couldn't be blamed for wondering whether he'll be overshadowed by teaming up with the likes of Pharrell Williams, Nile Rodgers and, on his latest cut, production powerhouses Bruno Mars and Dr Luke.

Fortunately, it's a combination that works in perfect harmony. Mars's lyrics provide the fist-clenching emotion ("There's plenty of time to sleep when we die/ So let's just stay awake until we grow older"), Luke's throbbing beats and squelchy synths ensure it's tailored to the dancefloor, and Lambert supplies plenty of drama with a growly vocal. The result, as you might expect, is near pop perfection.

4 out of 5 stars!!! :D



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Adam Lambert Interview with James Merritt

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Adam: What I love about the song is a very straight forward message. It's basicly about being in the moment, not letting the moment go, being present. And the clincher for me was the line 'it only gets better if we want it to'. I wanted to do something with the video that challenges the obvious interpretation of the lyrics. I wanted to come up with something more cerebral, a bit more conceptual than that. " I dare to rebel", "I dare to break free from the system" and to escape, along with a group of other people. We come up against a barrier, a fence, which is very symbolic, 'no trespassing', and we decide to trespass, to break down the fence, we decide to be, to live, to live in colour and to dance, which is all very metaphorical.

Interviewer: To laugh in the faces of those people blowing smoke in your face.

Adam: Exactly, literally, they're blowing smoke. It's all very symbolic.

...It says something that we've heard before in a song, but the way it says it is so elegant, it's so well-worded and there's something poetic about it. I was really impressed by that. There's a level of sophistication to Bruno's writing that I really respect.

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The Sound Bath: Adam Lambert’s Trespassing: the vocal review

Posted on July 12, 2012 by soundbath



Song Number four on the album is Never Close Our Eyes, written by Bruno Mars for Adam and is the current single worldwide, including the UK.

This song is interesting rhythmically, because it seems as though it might turn into a ballad when it first starts, but then morphs into a kind of Euro-electro pop song.

Lyrically it sounds like it might be a love song, but the way in which Adam sing it, tells us that he clearly has another interpretation for this song, thereby demonstrating how universal this songs on Trespassing are.

Even in this kind of “standard” pop song, Adam still manages to inject the lyrics with a deeper meaning. For example, in “I don’t want to let a minute get away” he puts a slight emphasis on the word “get” which immediately gives the impression that he’s here, present in the moment, and on the word “lose” in “cuz we got no time to lose” he employs a tiny crack in his voice at the end of the phrase, which stresses how important it is that we have no time to lose. He continues to hit that point home as he uses a similar technique on “see” in the phrase “none of us are promised to see tomorrow.”

This is what Adam tweeted about Never Close Our Eyes: “let’s all stay in the moment and stay open to all possibilities. We have the power to create our reality. “ A powerful message indeed and perhaps unexpected in a pop song!



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