Tatania
Disney Foodie
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- Jul 26, 2007
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I guess I can try and forgive you
I waited up till past 1 am (as you can tell from my previous post at 1:46 AM) because I always like reading your summary, but I finally gave up and went to bed. 
Just have to say that you summed up perfectly what I was thinking! Great critiques.
Neil Lambert's blog: http://negativeneil.com/ In one post - before Adam got onto AI - Adam and Neil get into a fight and Adam used some not so nice language, LOL.
Totally agree about Alison's mumbling. I kept thinking she was singing about wanting hot sauce - which may actually be more appropriate for a 16-year-old.
Adam is 100% true to what he is & that becomes very clear when you hear his weekly confessionals. One week, when they talked about the auditions, he said that his Mother was worried he wouldn't be accepted if he came out wearing nail polish and eyeshadow and begged him to tone it down. He thought about it, and told her that he couldn't do that because he has to be true to who he is on stage. If people didn't like it, that was fine - but he couldn't pretend to be something he wasn't.
Confessional where Adam addresses the critique that he is "too theatrical": http://vodpod.com/watch/1548630-adam-lambert-top-7-redux-confessional
Confessional where Adam talks about what kind of artist he is, his career from now on and what an "Adam lambert" album will be like: http://vodpod.com/watch/1533069-adam-lambert-top-7-confessional
He says jokingly that his album would be kind of "schizophrenic" or "chameleon-like". He goes on to say that he likes many different styles of music which is why he changes it up week to week from the show and he would like to do an album like that. He would have tracks with an electro-feel, then a pop sound, then rock etc. Anyway, it's all in the interview.
For those people who don't get what kind of artist he is, it's probably because we like to label musicians and stick them in a certain genre. I think what makes Adam such an exceptional performer is that he'll be good in many genres and his show would reflect that (as do all the videos on YouTube).
When he was first approached by the owners of the Upright Cabaret to perform there, he wasn't that interested because he was used to performing to large audiences in a theater and thought the cabaret space wouldn't work for his type of performance. However, performing there was the best preparation he could have had for American Idol because he learned how to tone things down and connect with a more immediate and intimate audience.
When he did the New Year's show there (before the Hollywood auditions), the audience paid him the ultimate compliment. When they like a singer they throw their shoes at him and by the end of the evening the entire audience was in socks.
