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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2011 13:34:53 GMT -5
I lived through the 60's camping up myself for about 6-7 years. I thought I was wonderful and gorgeous and liberal. Never took a drug but I loved screaming for civil rights. I was the total wild child rebel and loved every moment. Then came children and marriage. I was more like Rickey Nelson's mother for about 20 years. I didn't turn into a rebel again until Adam came along. It feels so wonderful to be free again. Bring on the camp. I am in love with people (gay, straight, sane or insane), music, laughter, good booze, good friends, and fun again. Camp will never go out of style for me. I also want a huge party when I die. I don't do funerals. I always turn them into a drunken party. That's the kind of gal I am at heart. That makes me ;D. |
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Post by cookeejar on Mar 20, 2011 13:35:11 GMT -5
Q3 I love your "campy" post and I vote Leather and Lust. Imagine what the cover would be. Adam in Black leather with a necklace of berry' and radishes and something carved out of green celery. :D
NoAngel I always love your posts but I'm not ready to fill my glitter tubes with dirt. But I do like the glitter sticks!!
Momtomany I am so glad that Penelope is going to be home and ready for a big hug real soon.
Hope everyone has a great Sunday!!
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Post by lynneville on Mar 20, 2011 13:43:55 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2011 13:51:44 GMT -5
Terrible, rainy day in So CA today. Not going to leave the house all day. Sure wish I had gotten my GN DVD! Watching it over and over would have been the perfect thing to do today.  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2011 13:53:04 GMT -5
LambertUK RT cassiewalsh Adam Lambert was at the lounge we were at last night. Such a nice guy! I saw this on twitter and out of curiosity I looked up her twitter page...she lives in Massachusetts and there is no mention of her moving or visiting CA...I think she used AFL's name to get hits or followers She left for LA a few days ago. Spring Break! (Oops, I see Susie alreday cleared that up.) And her friend mentioned a lounge called The Penthouse, which is at Hollyood and Argyle. Sounds like the W hotel area, but I can't find a lounge with that name on The W web site. Oh well, glad these ladies got to meet him. They sounded thrilled. I am happy that Adam had a fun Saturday night out and about in his favorite city!  |
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Post by gelly14 on Mar 20, 2011 13:55:49 GMT -5
I saw this on mindchnger's twitter
Adam Lurkbert
HAHAHA!!!
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Post by m45maia on Mar 20, 2011 14:07:03 GMT -5
Katri says she and Sauli will be in LA for his birthday.(Adamquotedaily)
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Post by irish1139 on Mar 20, 2011 14:07:26 GMT -5
I had an epiphany last night following the discussion on the meaning of "camp" and "campy." I may be wrong, and I may upset some people but in my wondering mind, I asked when the word gay (meaning bright, lively, happily excited) from the 60's became the word for homosexuals? Who changed it and why? It suddenly dawned on me who the real language/stereotyping/put everyone in a box culprits were. When my children were young, I had a business in my home typing theses for students attending Cornell University. Having only high school and a two-year community college education, it was totally out of my box to be typing some of the "crap" these doctoral students were writing about. I remember doing one thesis on the word "small." Only an academic would want to take apart the word small and relabel small, smallest, smaller, tiny, tiniest, tinier, blah, blah, blah. That project almost cost me my sanity.
Anyway, last night I got thinking about who the "they" were that would break down the sexual habits of humans so they could label all the proclivities of the human race. I know the masses of which I am one don't spend their time making up new words to call people. However, academics and intellectuals have a job doing just that. Could it be that all those highly educated, socially acceptable, costly trained academics and intellectuals are the culprits in all the stereotyping and labeling of our brother and sister humans? Afterall, they write the books that teach our children and make the laws that govern the masses.
I am only asking a question. If any intellectuals are out there, I know you won't be offended because I know you love good conversation.
Please enlighten me.
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Post by aspen on Mar 20, 2011 14:07:36 GMT -5
The next tour ---- my dream ---- Adam Lambert Lust & Leather Tour --- a bit more rock, and more pyro -- and "Jim Morrison" leather pants. I just got here but vote for your version of the tour. Yesterday's thread was amazing, but I didn't feel I had anything to add. I spent the morning thinking about where Adam's head was June 2009 and feel after he finished Idol, being the "good Adam" he looked at who he had been the years proceeding, "club kid Adam," and wanted to bring all that wildness and campiness to his first album, almost the "anti-Idol Adam." Now he seems to be in a confident, grown up, professional Adam place. He has met so many people, famous and not-so-famous, and in his heart knows he won them over by being himself. That may have bred an inner self assuredness that he can write about what is in his heart and his mind, not without fun and feathers and leather and eyeliner sometimes, but also with truth. Whether dressing up for Boy George or dressing classicly for the Grammys, his instincts are perfect. Whether asking us (and having us respond) to support charity:water or doing a slapdown on Twitter when BSC fans go over the line, he has to know that WHAT HE SAYS MATTERS. I am thrilled that he gets that we are there for him and accept who he is and what he has to offer and I think with the next album he wants to be a little more mainstream and matter to even more people, not compromise or suck up to people, but now that he has "staked out his place" he may want to solidify it and take one more step toward that iconic status which is difficult when you are considered an oddity instead of an artist. |
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Post by Q3 on Mar 20, 2011 14:09:55 GMT -5
Unfortunately, it is Top 40 radio who says what's current and what's not. Yes, current is a buzzword, hard to define and is ever changing but at the most basic it is something that gets airplay on the radio. As for Glee, they sing a lot of current hits. So there's that juxtaposition of style and content. It is not straight up musical theater which is - in a teenager's mind - 'old people's music'. Sorry to be so harsh and un-PC but that's how I see it. I think "current" is more than a buzzword without meaning. In the music industry it usually means what is currently selling to the key consumer demo -- 15 to 35 year olds. (Fans just use it somewhat loosely and I have no idea what it means to Idol judges.) The term is based on decades of music buying history in the US, when Americans between 15 and 35 bought about 40% of global music. (Until the mid-90's -- and share slowly declined over the past 10 years.) This demo is the target for CHR/Top 40 radio. It was a nice, neat package. It all started to fall apart because of globalization of music industry + digital music, world is getting older. Two major changes --- Global with worldwide distribution: US World Music Market Share is down to about 34% -- still massive but not the >50% that existed in 1945-1980. Demographics: The other big change is that the developed world is aging rapidly. And music buyers and concert attendees are aging even faster. In the 1950's in the US, the average age of a recorded music buyer declined from the mid-20's to the teens. From 1955 to 1975, the average age rose slightly to around 20 years old but it remained a youth-dominated market. Baby boomers messed up everything because they continued to buy music, and as they aged, so did music buyers. Then in 2000-2006, younger music buyers started to drop out and started to "share music" AKA steal it. The result was that by 2009, half the music sold in the US was purchases by people over 40 who buy a lot of AC, Country and Classics. (hence big sellers are Buble, Underwood, Lady Antebellum, and Beatles). For urban artists the equivalent is R&B. The punchline is that the youth-dominated market is over. Yes, we still have pre-teen idols (Bieber) but we also have Gaga whose fans are polarized -- women in the mid-20's and men with an average age in the early 40's (from my concert impression mostly Gay, but not a survey question so I do not know). Not a typical audience mix. Adam also has an unusual fanbase demographically -- women of all ages with a lot of fans over 40 -- the older women are a high-spending segment who have a lot of disposable income, and younger fans of both genders (Like Gaga I think many are LGBT from my concert experiences but not in surveys). I think the music industry definition of "current" is obsolete but it is real. Finally, there are sensory differences in people <20 vs. people >40 -- and these differences change the way we perceive things. Some is based on prior experience, but some of the difference is biological. There is a lot of research work about older listeners preferences for the reproduction of entertainment audio that differ from those of young listeners. As we age, our ability to separate complex audio is impaired, and the range of frequencies and ability to differentiate frequencies declines. There are also biological gender difference -- women win on color, men on sound. |
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