Adam not having better material? He had a “who’s who in the music business” colaborate on his album and though he’s released many singles, he only has one hit and with all the pimping he got, his album will not go platinum in the year of it’s release. Not one of the songs of his regular CD did he get writing or co-writing credit. His deluxe version had 4 songs as “extras” that he had a hand in writing and none of those are raved about. He is not original, is not a musician and only depends on what someone else writes.

I did obtain his CD and thought it was meh. But after seeing that Oprah performance of If I Had You. I kinda liked it and I just watched it recently and well, ok… yeah, I like it. The same thing happened with FYE. They are catchy. Still think WDYWFM is meh.

I wonder if Randy Jackson was correct in saying that Daughtry and Underwood were successful because they knew who they were and stayed with that niche on their records, while Adam seemed to try everything on his. I hope he does well but I do think that he should’ve waited until he was highly successful before doing that type of stage performance. America is a fickle audience especially if you cross the puritan lines.

Well done!!

http://www.etonline.com/news/2.....index.html

Bob Saget
Melissa Ethridge (oh now I get your fascination for that joint)
Joan Rivers
Air Supply
Kenny G
Wayne Newton
Harry Connick Jr.

LMAO you dopes. OH wait here’s someone current. Timbaland did a signing and sang one day there.

WOW Impressive cachet of talent there.

@343 Try not humiliating yourself by pontificating on something you admittedly read nothing about. Clueless, Adam is on his way to London to kick off his international tour and just did his first pre-interview with a journalist there who tweeted that the UK is becoming obsessed with him. You obviously know nothng about pop music since Gaga dropped off the charts after her debut album was released and it took 6 months to reappear. I think Adam would be perfectly happy with her level of success a year from now. And BTW RCA is marketing Adam as a brand. They know what they have with him. Funny you completely dismiss the ONLY issue which is will the homophobic industry and public stall his progress. It seems not, since he’s steadily picking up radio spins and enjoying huge growth with every “fame ho appearance” he has. After Oprah his sales increased 60% while every single other artist on the charts had a decrease, as is typcial in January. Reading is fundamental to developing a point of view. Perhaps nobody ever told you that.

So, I am thinking he hoodwinked a lot of people while he was on the show into thinking he was this normal kinda guy, who just happens to be gay, while all the while the “real” Adam was that guy on the AMAs. He seems much more interested in costumes, getting his hair done at fancy salons, red carpets, and being racy for no specific reason, than in performing his music anywhere that will have him. I don’t like him, but I am interested to see how far this particular strategy will take him, career-wise. It makes me think RCA/19M is giving him his head to succeed or fail with this plan of action. Sure they are helping him get promotional gigs, but it seems like they aren’t at the steering wheel of this particular vehicle. It appears Adam is doing the driving, and he’s off on various side roads, and living it up without doing any of the work it takes to become a real musician.

#340 JACKASS [and others], John Legend is appearing right before Adam and he’s Adam’s age and a multi Grammy winner. Gaga is booked at several casino resorts just like this one. Among other famous pop stars playing casinos. It’s quite lucrative since people with actual money go there versus idiots like you who spend all their time in their basements scraping together $1.00 for the McDonald’s burger on sale on Wednesdays.

Adam attracts all these VFTW losers who know nothing at all about the subject.

Queerty, the problem you have with Adam’s album performances is he’s singing to a backing track since he did his own backing vocals on the record. And the musicians have to interweave their instruments to the track. AND he’s on small stages and has to stand relatively still with the stupid equipment in front of him. It’s an unnatural sound. His singing is the same but the songs will never be like, for example. Come To Me Bend To Me, Brigadoon. But if you watched the Gridlock live version of Soaked that I posted here, on the Larry Flick thread and the other videos, albeit coming from a crappy cell phone cast, you’ll see the same brilliance as on TV. The boy is chosing a different type of music and until the show is engineered differently it’s not going to be the same. You had no complaints about WW From Me, right?

And like Staciegirlie said, you KNOW why. He can’t be himself and doesn’t wanna be Idol Adam.

Meanwhile, Happy Birthday Adam. You actually accomplished something for gay people in 2009. I apologize for your detractors who always attack you on slow news days. Even here, where I thought the site was over that. Perhaps they’d like to take a REALISTIC view of freaking worthless NPH soon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....r_embedded

(Hai Romeo, if I lived in CA, I’d go to Fantasy Springs with you, what a hoot! LMAO)

I have no ‘worthy’ opinion (in your opinion).

I am at fault regardless of my good intentions.

I can’t say anything that the other team can’t ‘bend’ and ‘twist’ in their favour.

I,despite not resorting to name-calling,get names hurled my way regardless.

I am to many,crazy,idiotic…you name it!

I realize that there are many hateful and dangerous-minded people in this world.

I am afraid for humanity if this is the type of behaviour that constitutes ‘freedom of speech’.

I have no hope in hell of having mature,insightful banter with those of opposing sides.

I am still a fan of the amazingly talented Mr. Lambert despite the valiant and utterly spew-fested attempts at putting me in my place!!!!

Nice try though!

Now…..on with the put-downs and the nasty remarks!!

Hmmmmm. Nice spin. Too bad you’re wrong!!

It seems to me that Adam and his backers have chosen to blame any problems with logisitics and demand on censorship, to kind of cover up the fact that the public just isn’t that into him (at least not to the extent that his backers want them to be). Adam has had multiple public TV appearances. In fact, that’s the only place where he *does* play music.

Reasoning? You Adam non-fans have have no reasoning skills whatsoever or you wouldn’t be blasting a very well thought-out comment!!

You don’t listen or read carefully. You don’t care about anything anyone else says because you’re too busy formulating your negative spin.

Somebody could say ‘You’re right,we’re wrong’ and YOU WOULD STILL COMPLAIN about something. “Yeah,but……”.

And you call Adam’s fans ‘batsh*t idiots’?!

Ahem *assumes mom voice* no honey, it’s not the kiss that was wrong, and it’s not that you’re gay. What is wrong is that you told me you were going to do x on TV, and you really went ahead and did y, and now we just can’t trust you. Because you don’t follow the rules and behave responsibly. That’s the problem, and that is why you can’t play on live TV stations any more until you have proved to us you have learned your lesson here. Which, by the way, what you just said tells me that you haven’t. So, back to your room. */mom voice*

He has absolutely no reason to complain about anything. And yet he does. He goes to Canada and characterizes the American public as bigots and that is why his record is not selling. UNBELIEVABLE

He’s been handed opportunity after opportunity, but apparently his AMA performance stops him going out to radio stations and doing live performances, you know, the ones that the casual listener might hear, like what he’s doing and his sound and decide to seek out his album, the sort of thing that’s introduced me to numerous singers and bands. But then again, I suppose unless it involves him getting his face seen, then he’s not that interested, much rather witter on about fashion on a completely unrelated red carpet event.

The borderline-personality comment is laughable. It’s obvious that you don’t care much for Adam. But your obsession with ‘not liking’ him and his fans is maybe driving YOU a little…..whacko?!

You should lighten-up! Loathing is not a healthy pastime!

Well done, ladies! You have inadevertently rallied fans of many disparate genres’ fans together in unified loathing of your Chosen One.

He talks out both sides of his mouth. One minute he doesn’t want it all to be about “gay” and then the next breath he starts in on people being homophobic. If he didn’t make it all about being gay, then maybe he wouldn’t be looked upon that way. But being gay is what Adam thrives on because then he can continue to cry “double-standard” crap.

Adam Lambert is his own worst enemy and his fans are lunatics. One minute he encourages them and then the next he chastises them for being supportive. Which way does he want it? I guess it depends on what suits HIM at the time. He also has been very derogatory towards anyone that is more of a celebrity than he will ever hope to be. He can’t take any criticism without whining like a 13-year old girl. Really, the guy should look in the mirror and see what’s staring back at him. He’ll have a perfect view of a poser and

I challenge each and everyone of you Adam non-fans to get through an entire post without using spiteful and venomous language.

Is it possible?

Don’t fret, Glambert fans. 2009 American Idol runner up Adam Lambert says he has not toned down his theatrical makeup, nor his over-the-top attitude.

A story in the current issue of Entertainment Weekly suggests he had a “make-under” in the video for his second single Whataya Want From Me?, following his controversial appearance on the American Music Awards last November.

“I love when people read into stuff, it’s fun,” Lambert said Tuesday morning at a Toronto hair salon to promote his debut album, For Your Entertainment.

“It has all to do with the song. Whataya Want From Me? is emotional and vulnerable and is more sensitive. You can’t get up there in a glittery suit and with fancy eye makeup on, and be like grinding my pelvis around to that song. It doesn’t work.”

The 27-year-old openly gay singer says he just continues to be himself despite the AMA performance in which he kissed another male musician on stage, among other overtly sexual acts with both men and women.

“I don’t feel like what I did was wrong,” said Lambert, coasting on just two hours of sleep. “I just feel like the only reason why it was such a big deal and blown so out of proportion is because I’m a gay guy. We can watch a man and a woman kiss all over the place. Why can’t two men kiss? It’s a double standard … Nobody really talks about (kissing the) women ’cause that’s not taboo.

“I just got excited and I was interpreting the lyrics of my song, which are frisky, and I didn’t think twice about it. I was like, ‘Oh, it’s a sexy, risqué little number. It’s 11 o’clock at night almost. It’s an awards show and people do this all the time on awards shows. Madonna did it. A lot of people have done it.”

After ABC received about 1,500 telephone complaints, Lambert’s planned subsequent performance on the network’s show, Good Morning America, was cancelled and CBS invited Lambert to perform instead on The Early Show, on the same date in New York City.

“I didn’t think it was a big deal and didn’t realize it was a big deal until after the fact, when people started griping about it,” said Lambert. “And I was a little bit bummed out because my intention wasn’t to upset anybody. It was just to kind of raise eyebrows. I was hoping that the reaction would be more along the lines of, ‘Oh, that Lambert. He’s so silly and over the top!’ And some people reacted that way. (But) there are people who are morally opposed to it, and I think that’s fine. Everybody has a right to their beliefs and their opinions, but that doesn’t mean that the FCC needs to punish those that don’t follow that moral code — ’cause it’s a free country.

“It was hard, I’m not going to lie. It was a little bit stressful. The ramifications of it hurt my feelings a little bit. But I got over it. I’m pretty resilient. You live, you learn. I think what I had to keep telling myself was, ‘You know what? I can’t change it now. Gotta move forward.’ I don’t like dwelling on anything. I like just moving forward. So I knew that that was my only choice, really.”

For Your Entertainment has sold 457,000 copies since its late-November release. That is below expectations, according to Entertainment Weekly, and Lambert admits the AMAs controversy might have hurt sales.

“It might have turned some people off. But, you know, I don’t regret it. I think it’s me. I’m being myself. And I think with as many people that might have been turned off, there are just as many people, I hope, that saw what I was doing and enjoyed it.”

Lambert has no definite tour plans as yet.

Lambert to moonlight on Red Carpet

Adam Lambert isn’t presenting or performing at Sunday night’s Grammy Awards in L.A., but he managed to talk Entertainment Tonight into making him a red-carpet fashion correspondent.

Lambert will be asking the usual “‘Who are you wearing kind?’ of stuff,” but said the reactions from the music stars to him should be priceless.

“I am excited,” Lambert said Tuesday in Toronto. “I’m a little apprehensive. I think the thing that’ll be interesting is to see the reaction of some artist going, ‘Is that the American Idol guy asking me who I’m wearing?’ That might be a little funny. But I think I like novel experiences. I like doing things that I’ve never done before. I like taking risks. And something like that is, ‘Why not? That sounds like fun. Cool.’”

As for who he hopes will win big at the Grammys, Lambert said he’s pulling for both Lady Gaga, who co-wrote one of the songs on his debut album For Your Entertainment, and Beyonce, of whom he’s a fan.

Lambert said it would have been fun to perform on the Grammys, but there was never any discussion about it.

“I’m kind of the new kid of the block,” he said. “There are a lot of amazing talented people that will be performing that night (who are) established. I’m new. So hopefully, eventually.”

Birthday plans

2009 American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert turns 28 on Friday and plans to celebrate with a private party at an L.A. bar with friends.

“It’s funny because a year ago on my birthday it was all just starting,” Lambert said Tuesday in Toronto. “I had gotten through a lot of the preliminary rounds at (American Idol) and it was, like, about to happen. And I didn’t know what was going to be. So looking back a year ago, it’s so weird.”

Lambert said his sudden fame has taught him an important lesson.

“Don’t take yourself too seriously,” he said. “Keep a light heart about it, and just kind of find the humour and the fun in it all — ’cause it’s very easy to get bogged down and be hard on yourself. I mean, everybody has an opinion. Everybody likes to make their opinions heard and they’re all over the Internet. And (there is) a lot of positive reinforcement, but there’s also a lot of negativity. Sometimes I read it, but for the most part I try to let it roll off my back.”

http://www.thestar.com/enterta.....d-the-kiss

***contradicting***

Q:
Why is he at every opening?
A:
Because he is extremely popular and watch-worthy and organizers invite him because they want him to appear.(I’m not a brain surgeon,but even I could figure that one out!)

Q:Why is he not…out in the trenches….playing gigs…doing the dirty work…honing his craft… out in the trenches?
A: Oprah,Ellen,David,Conan,Jay,Sag Awards,Steven Spielberg honour,MuchOnDemand(Toronto),Gridlock NYE,The Early Show,even the AMAs,countless radio programs,interviews,etc.,etc…..

‘Trench’ enough?

Q:
Why is he hosting instead of Joan Rivers?
A: He’s actually hosting instead of Cojo,not Rivers, because Entertainment Tonight ASKED him to be their correspondant and he said yes! Is that OK with you?

D-list comment? He loves fashion,he recognizes fashion,people who know it asked him if HE would like to do it and he said yes!! No ‘famewhore’ mentality here,I’m afraid! Just a gig that’s fun!

Lazy? See above! (You’re condradicting yourself,I’m afraid)

How old can a 27 year old’s ‘schtick’ be? Give him a few years at least! Grasp much?

Re: Your last couple of lines. Go tell that to the many screaming and beside-themselves ‘young’ fans (mostly female) who lined up for hours in Toronto on Tuesday to see this ‘dated and tired’ current STAR!!