ABC Receives 1,500 Complaints About Adam Lambert Kissing a Man — Page 2

"I want him to be authentic and edgy, but with a voice like that he doesn't necessarily need gimmicks."

Adam Lambert is in a completely different galaxy from the possibility of being authentic . He is part of a juggernaut machine of the entertainment industrial complex. All the noise to the contrary, he probably has very little control over the music he's recorded or the look or the "controversies." American Idol and authentic, American Idol and edgy, those are all mutually exclusive terms.

There are a LOT of fascinating contemporary recording artists on independent labels creating things with genuine heart. Please, people, leave the prefab behind,

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But sometimes prefab tastes so good!

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"But sometimes prefab tastes so good!"

Junk food can be tasty but it's rarely edgy and it's never, ever authentic.

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I just don't like to look at him. He looks like he'd always smell musky. And not in a good way.

Does he wear MAC? I figured before he got big he was using Cover Girl or something. I just think about that bad skin and all that make-up and I just wonder which came first.

If I had watched I would have complained about J Lo. I think she's fine with the acting stuff, but her music career I just find inexplicable.

Also I've listened to all the clips on iTunes, and there's really nothing to get excited about. The album shares the name of the most middle of he road mall store in the country, I'm kind of surprised he didn't go all the way and call the CD Hot Topic or Spencer Gifts. But the computer-read responses to the assorted focus groups that must have gone into the creation of this product must have preferred FYE for some reason.

And that title song. How can people rave about his chops when it's all computerized and processed? It makes me want to join the Society for the Rehumanization of American Music.

I think it's totally fine he's not breaking any ground with the "controversial stage moves," but the poor child probably thinks he's copying Hedwig with the fellatio on the lead guitar and has no idea who Mick Ronson was.

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He should cover "Just Like a Pill." THAT was a good song.

"Am I allowed to like the songs written by Linda Perry, Pink, Lady Gaga or Muse?"

Of course you are, but isn't it a sad statement you have to? There are people who write their own stuff out there in the world and make great recordings without selling their souls to the majors who hand them a menu of songs to choose from and then rip them off and leave them bankrupt after making them sound like robots.

I just figure everybody must know what a sham it is by now and can't really be surprised when the same narratives play out over and over. Is it the second or third album by an Idol-related performer where they traditionally announce they are taking over the direction of their career and are going to do songs they really believe in from now on and then it tanks and they come crawling back to Clive Davis who erodes away whatever rough edges they might have had in the hopes they can pay back the advances they blew?

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"thinks he's copying Hedwig with the fellatio on the lead guitar and has no idea who Mick Ronson was."

Perhaps - but that didn't take place on national television, either.

*steps back*

The thing with OUT Magazine had to do with the 'editor', who was an idiot WAY before this issue.

I'm not judging, really. I'm just saddened. I would hope that people would want more than what they're spoonfed by the Entertainment Industrial Complex. And it makes me feel awful when people use words like "edgy" and "authentic" for something that couldn't appear more calculated if you could actually see the strings attached to their limbs and bodies.

Also, the hyperbole on the reviews on iTunes just put me over the edge. Adam never "seizes to amaze" one fella, he has released the greatest collection of songs ever, and it's fresh and different. It's that same sensation of being in Opposite Land when W was president, war was peace, expanding government was limiting government, and the mission was accomplished. It isn't the greatest collection of songs ever, it is NOT fresh and different, but I suppose he does seize to amaze some people. I do prefer singer/songwriters to interpreters, and if they ARE interpreters I think it should be a bare minimum requirement that they should be in charge of their interpretations, not their producers with computers and knobs.

That's all. I guess you can't begrudge people for liking something. I just wish they could find a way to access stuff that's really good, orginal, authentic, edgy and HUMAN.

That's all. To make a long story long.

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PRS is right - too weird.

Updated On: 11/24/09 at 12:53 AM