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Post by durberville on May 10, 2012 17:59:21 GMT -5
He currently has 2,031 followers. Joey Brooks @joeybrooks If I get to 3,000 followers in the next week I'm going to play @adamlambert "Never Close Our Eyes " on the radio. Joey Brooks @joeybrooks Joey Brooks. Afternoon host @1045chumfm Toronto. Host of the Weekend Blowout. Video/baby maker. Co-ed hockey star. Expert hugger. ÜT: 43.650281,-79.38761 · www.youtube.com/thebrooksieshowI'm sure he's a perfectly darling man and an Adam Lambert supporter. BUT... do other fan groups have to jump through the hoops we seem to? There always seems to be a price for a spin or a mention. "If we get [insert arbitrary number] followers we'll spin Adam's new single".... Not gonna lie.....I'm getting sick of it. Maybe I've been playing the game for soooo damn long, with less than satisfying results..... [/rant] |
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Post by fightthesleep on May 10, 2012 18:02:34 GMT -5
I agree. The album is going to get good reviews and glamberts worldwide will have to be careful not to jump all over reviewers who don't like the album or who refer to his sexual orientation (especially in this case when publication is for LGBT). Yes reviews are about the music but they are also about the artist who makes the music. You can refer to his seksual orientation with respect and thoughtfully and you can do it like EW. I think fans know by now when not to go all crazy. Except that is clearly not true in all cases, nonchalance. You just have to look at the comments on that review to see two people who have yet again missed the point and jumped straight to "stop talking about the gay" when it is an glbt publication. This is exactly what I was trying to say the other day. What EW did yesterday? That is exactly when fans of all orientations should voice their displeasure regarding the focus on his sexuality. It was offensive homophobia dressed up as humor and it should not be allowed to stand unchallenged. A glbt publication referring to his sexuality is a matter of pride and relevant discussion. It is important to the gay community to have a visible role model such as Adam, not just in our fight for equality but also as someone to look up to for young people in our community. Many of us did not have role models such as Adam when we were growing up and it is important to us that our younger generations do. You only have to look at the messages Adam gets on twitter from young gay fans saying how much he has inspired them to be themselves and helped them to deal with the hatred thrown their way. To tell a gay publication to stop focusing on the fact that he is gay is the equivalent of telling us that the important role entertainers like him play in our community is not important at all. Here's a good way to judge it. When you are reading an article, take a moment to google the publication and find out their audience. If it is a gay publication or one with a large gay readership then please do not tell them to not talk about him being gay. Bottom line is straight people need to stop going to glbt sites and telling them how they should feel about Adam because it is not your community nor is it your place to do so. It is the equivalent of a man going into a site like iVillage or mumsnet and telling the women there how they should feel about issues involving women. The women there would quite rightly take offense to that and the gay readership of glbt publications quite rightly take offense to comments such as those from UKGlambert and Sheri on that article. |
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Post by fightthesleep on May 10, 2012 18:03:48 GMT -5
He currently has 2,031 followers. Joey Brooks @joeybrooks If I get to 3,000 followers in the next week I'm going to play @adamlambert "Never Close Our Eyes " on the radio. Joey Brooks @joeybrooks Joey Brooks. Afternoon host @1045chumfm Toronto. Host of the Weekend Blowout. Video/baby maker. Co-ed hockey star. Expert hugger. ÜT: 43.650281,-79.38761 · www.youtube.com/thebrooksieshowPLEASE DO THIS!  Joey is a DJ on the #1 HOT AC in Canada & a Part-Time DJ on the Top 40 station Kiss 108 in Boston where Adam is doing a radio concert. Joey is a big supporter of Adam and a nice guy. He played BTIKM more than any other DJ on Chum. Thanks for this information Lolly. |
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Post by skylar on May 10, 2012 18:07:18 GMT -5
He currently has 2,031 followers. Joey Brooks @joeybrooks If I get to 3,000 followers in the next week I'm going to play @adamlambert "Never Close Our Eyes " on the radio. Joey Brooks @joeybrooks Joey Brooks. Afternoon host @1045chumfm Toronto. Host of the Weekend Blowout. Video/baby maker. Co-ed hockey star. Expert hugger. ÜT: 43.650281,-79.38761 · www.youtube.com/thebrooksieshowI'm sure he's a perfectly darling man and an Adam Lambert supporter. BUT... do other fan groups have to jump through the hoops we seem to? There always seems to be a price for a spin or a mention. "If we get [insert arbitrary number] followers we'll spin Adam's new single".... Not gonna lie.....I'm getting sick of it. Maybe I've been playing the game for soooo damn long, with less than satisfying results..... [/rant] Adam is worth way more than this kind of bribery. A thousand is a lot of people. Find stuff like this a pretty slimey. Open to listening to other points of view.... |
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Post by skylar on May 10, 2012 18:10:05 GMT -5
Yeah!!!! Keep it going people around the world!!!! Rock on!!!
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Post by skylar on May 10, 2012 18:13:26 GMT -5
He currently has 2,031 followers. Joey Brooks @joeybrooks If I get to 3,000 followers in the next week I'm going to play @adamlambert "Never Close Our Eyes " on the radio. Joey Brooks @joeybrooks Joey Brooks. Afternoon host @1045chumfm Toronto. Host of the Weekend Blowout. Video/baby maker. Co-ed hockey star. Expert hugger. ÜT: 43.650281,-79.38761 · www.youtube.com/thebrooksieshowPLEASE DO THIS! Joey is a DJ on the #1 HOT AC in Canada & a Part-Time DJ on the Top 40 station Kiss 108 in Boston where Adam is doing a radio concert. Joey is a big supporter of Adam and a nice guy. He played BTIKM more than any other DJ on Chum. If he is such a big supporter and such a nice guy why would he not play Never Close Our Eyes without the bribe? He'd have fans following him naturally that way. |
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Post by adamme on May 10, 2012 18:15:05 GMT -5
Our president has class. The presidential hopeful has none: Eric Boehlertþ@EricBoehlert Romney: "no memory" of pinning down presumed gay student, cutting off his hair. 5 of Mitt's classmates do remember; wapo.st/LX1fujOT I talked to my gay friend about Romney's opposing gay marriage. He said Romney has to cater to his voters. So I asked my friend if he's still going to vote for him? And he said he doesn't like the alternative aka Obama :-/ |
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Post by FanOfTheMan on May 10, 2012 18:15:12 GMT -5
You can refer to his seksual orientation with respect and thoughtfully and you can do it like EW. I think fans know by now when not to go all crazy. Except that is clearly not true in all cases, nonchalance. You just have to look at the comments on that review to see two people who have yet again missed the point and jumped straight to "stop talking about the gay" when it is an glbt publication. This is exactly what I was trying to say the other day. What EW did yesterday? That is exactly when fans of all orientations should voice their displeasure regarding the focus on his sexuality. It was offensive homophobia dressed up as humor and it should not be allowed to stand unchallenged. A glbt publication referring to his sexuality is a matter of pride and relevant discussion. It is important to the gay community to have a visible role model such as Adam, not just in our fight for equality but also as someone to look up to for young people in our community. Many of us did not have role models such as Adam when we were growing up and it is important to us that our younger generations do. You only have to look at the messages Adam gets on twitter from young gay fans saying how much he has inspired them to be themselves and helped them to deal with the hatred thrown their way. To tell a gay publication to stop focusing on the fact that he is gay is the equivalent of telling us that the important role entertainers like him play in our community is not important at all. Here's a good way to judge it. When you are reading an article, take a moment to google the publication and find out their audience. If it is a gay publication or one with a large gay readership then please do not tell them to not talk about him being gay. Bottom line is straight people need to stop going to glbt sites and telling them how they should feel about Adam because it is not your community nor is it your place to do so. It is the equivalent of a man going into a site like iVillage or mumsnet and telling the women there how they should feel about issues involving women. The women there would quite rightly take offense to that and the gay readership of glbt publications quite rightly take offense to comments such as those from UKGlambert and Sheri on that article. If a gay publication spoke so derogatorily and disrespectfully about Adam like the EW reviewer did, then I don't give them a pass just because they are a gay publication. Right is right and wrong is wrong no matter who the culprit is and they should be held accountable. :-/ |
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Post by fightthesleep on May 10, 2012 18:17:32 GMT -5
If a gay publication spoke so derogatorily and disrespectfully about Adam like the EW reviewer did, then I don't give them a pass just because they are a gay publication. Right is right and wrong is wrong no matter who the culprit is and they should be held accountable. :-/ A good point, I absolutely agree with you, but that is not the case here any more than it was the case with The Village Voice. |
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Post by skylar on May 10, 2012 18:21:07 GMT -5
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Citizenship in a Republic,"
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