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Post by smokeyvera on Jul 2, 2012 14:58:32 GMT -5
Billboard @billboard You voted in our Billboard.com Mid-Year Music Awards poll... and the results are in! See who won First-Half MVP: bit.ly/QWTcOc"Other big winners from the Mid-Year Music Awards poll included Adam Lambert, whose sophomore disc "Trespassing" was the favorite album to top the Billboard 200 so far in 2012" Here are the final results for Billboard.com's 2012 Mid-Year Music Awards poll: Favorite Billboard 200 No. 1 Album: 1. Adam Lambert, "Trespassing" (56%) 2. One Direction, "Up All Night (15%) 3. Madonna, "MDNA" (11%) Best Music Video: 1. Rihanna, "Where Have You Been" (21%) 2. Adam Lambert, "Never Close Our Eyes" (19%) 3. Katy Perry, "Part Of Me" (17%) Best Style: 1. Beyonce (26%) 2. Rihanna (17%) 3.Adam Lambert (14%) Love it. The voting was worth the effort!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by seoulmate on Jul 2, 2012 14:59:02 GMT -5
ADAM WAS SO WIGGLY AND SMILEY IN THIS SONG!!!!
ETA: That run from 3:18 to 3:30... isn't that just ONE BREATH??
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Post by lynne on Jul 2, 2012 14:59:23 GMT -5
I love your description of Brian's solo. However, scientist, doctors, etc., have a reputation of being excellent musicians. Many of them choose technical careers instead of music, but excellent techie musicians are all around us. I don't have statistics, but those of us who do music for a living are frequently in awe of those who do these two things that seem opposite so well, particularly in a case like Brian. And related: a few years ago I read that in the U.S., among med school applicants, music majors had the highest acceptance rate. Go figure. I am all on board your fantasy song-writing ship. That really got me thinking. Since currently rock is mostly looking bleah, maybe such a collaboration could be a game changer in rock history. Maybe Adam would want to sing rock if there were great songs, but it's mostly dullsville out there. He and Brian could be the saviors of rock and Adam could be the czar of pop (is that title taken). Holst, you’re a marvel of information that I’m finding particularly fascinating in light of the developing phenom of Adam & Brian that I think I see. I remember a Japanese study from a ways back about how grade school kids learned math better when they listened to music while doing their work. The study tried to determine what music produced the best results for the students. IIRC, they determined it to be Bach. You’ve given me even more fuel for my fantasy of Brian writing new music for Adam’s voice! I like to think of Brian, hanging out in his backyard observatory, gazing up at the night sky and hearing music in his head. So much music! When he wrote a song like “Who Wants to Live Forever” that he himself couldn’t possibly have vocalized while he was writing it, Brian must have been able to literally hear Freddie in his head singing that melody. That song (and others) are so obviously written for Freddie’s voice and style alone. It took Freddie’s voice to give sound to what was in Brian’s head, and that Brian himself could not do. Now, when Freddie died, what happened to those songs in Brian’s head? Freddie’s gone, but the music in Brian’s mind didn’t die. It would be like having all this glorious sound trapped in your head with no ability to give it voice. When Beethoven became deaf, but he continued to hear every note of the music he wrote in his head, what if he hadn’t been able to play an instrument to produce that music he heard? Now, here Brian finds himself sharing a stage with a young man with a nearly inhuman voice, a man who could once again give wings to Brian’s songs, set them free from his mind, and send them soaring again, back out into space just like his guitar solos.
At first I was puzzled when I hear that Brian said Adam had a voice like nothing he’d ever heard before. The longer I thought about it, the less puzzling it seemed. Yes, of course, Adam’s voice has many similarities to Freddie’s voice, and obviously Brian hears that. But he, like maybe no one else, is finely attuned to hear every minute difference and nuance that makes Adam’s voice different than Freddie’s. I imagine Brian might have a rather substantial songbook in his head, written over these many years since he lost Freddie, but written for Freddie’s voice nonetheless. I bet he’d like to hear those songs in Adam’s voice. I believe this will happen, because it seems nearly inevitable. Beautiful! You can see the feelings you describe on Brian's face when he hears Adam sing. I get what Brian is feeling, too, because those expressions mirror what I feel in my heart when Adam sings. I love Brian May and way he honors Adam by recognizing his brilliance and fully enjoying the magic of it. Extraordinary musicians, feeding off each other, to create extraordinary musical performances. Brian experienced that with Freddie and his band for years and has now been blessed with an opportunity to experience it again. It is a great thing for both Adam and Brian. It is really a great thing for me. Brian knows and gets that Adam is the real deal.
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Post by wal on Jul 2, 2012 15:01:52 GMT -5
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Post by wal on Jul 2, 2012 15:03:20 GMT -5
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Post by AdisaM on Jul 2, 2012 15:04:42 GMT -5
what does the top part say? Russian peeps?
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Post by crazyoldgal on Jul 2, 2012 15:08:46 GMT -5
Billboard @billboard You voted in our Billboard.com Mid-Year Music Awards poll... and the results are in! See who won First-Half MVP: bit.ly/QWTcOc"Other big winners from the Mid-Year Music Awards poll included Adam Lambert, whose sophomore disc "Trespassing" was the favorite album to top the Billboard 200 so far in 2012" Here are the final results for Billboard.com's 2012 Mid-Year Music Awards poll: Favorite Billboard 200 No. 1 Album: 1. Adam Lambert, "Trespassing" (56%) 2. One Direction, "Up All Night (15%) 3. Madonna, "MDNA" (11%) Best Music Video: 1.Rihanna, "Where Have You Been" (21%) 2. Adam Lambert, "Never Close Our Eyes" (19%) 3. Katy Perry, "Part Of Me" (17%) Best Style: 1. Beyonce (26%) 2. Rihanna (17%) 3.Adam Lambert (14%) Love it. The voting was worth the effort!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please up above Hear my prayer Pd's and whoever else is in charge. pLAY NCOE. Now. It must be a hit. Why is radio so resistant to an unbelievable talent. I hope pd's are taking note that Adam is a once in a life time talent and not some one hit flavor of the week Keep voting.
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Post by TerriJo on Jul 2, 2012 15:09:36 GMT -5
Gelly, those HD pics are amazing! I love this one. Adam is so engaged in this moment. Here is a close-up performance of Under Pressure. I love how Adam moves the mic stand out of the way and places his hand on Roger's back to encourage him to move downstage. He is such a generous performer! I also love hearing him power up that note around the 2:00 minute mark. It gives me chills every time!
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Post by nonchallance on Jul 2, 2012 15:09:47 GMT -5
what does the top part say? Russian peeps? It means "New album"
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2012 15:10:18 GMT -5
Here are the final results for Billboard.com's 2012 Mid-Year Music Awards poll: Favorite Billboard 200 No. 1 Album: 1. Adam Lambert, "Trespassing" (56%) 2. One Direction, "Up All Night (15%) 3. Madonna, "MDNA" (11%) Best Music Video: 1. Rihanna, "Where Have You Been" (21%) 2. Adam Lambert, "Never Close Our Eyes" (19%) 3. Katy Perry, "Part Of Me" (17%) Best Style: 1. Beyonce (26%) 2. Rihanna (17%) 3.Adam Lambert (14%) HE'S KILLING ME, THIS MAN IS KILLING ME! TRESPASSING IS THE WINNER ! JUST LOOK AT THE COMPETITION! MADONNA, EAT MY SHORTS!!! PLUS, HE'S SINGING WITH WEEZER ( I LOVE THEM!!!) AND JANE'S ADDICTION !!! An alternative rock band and a grunge band, ha. Me likey:)))) Oh, and I'm repeating Ame's questions: Any livestream links for tomorrow? Twitter lists?P.S. I forgot to thank Q3 for her great essay on Page 1. Thank you! And a big thanks to Zinnia and Miachihu for the translations! And, of course, thanks to all the forum's major AND minor goodies' providers!!!
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