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AMERICAN IDOL
re: AMERICAN IDOL#1000
Posted: 3/17/09 at 9:07pmYou can download it from itunes, Jane. I loved Adam tonight. It was so freakin' weird!! I have to have that on my ipod!
re: AMERICAN IDOL#1001
Posted: 3/17/09 at 9:08pm
I didn't see any blemishes on Adam's face. What he's got is pitted skin, deep indentations. Pancake's the only thing that can attempt to smooth it.
Unless he wants to go au naturelle, and let it all hang out. I think it's ok he wears the makeup, it's in keeping with all that eye makeup, the hair, the clothing, the whole look.
re: AMERICAN IDOL#1002
Posted: 3/17/09 at 9:08pm
so here's a recap for those that missed the first hour. Everyonee but Kris was terrible, and he was boring as hell.
Adam Lambert doesn't belong on American idol, he belongs on the bar, at Splash.
re: AMERICAN IDOL#1003
Posted: 3/17/09 at 9:09pmclever-I think I also need the visuals to go with it. I Loved the faces he made!
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
re: AMERICAN IDOL#1004
Posted: 3/17/09 at 9:10pmI thought it was cool, and his voice sounded amazing.
re: AMERICAN IDOL#1005
Posted: 3/17/09 at 9:11pm
I don't think we have to worry about Adam. He knows exactly what he's doing. He knows what type a performer he is and he'll get plenty of work from this exposure, win or lose.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
re: AMERICAN IDOL#1007
Posted: 3/17/09 at 9:19pmIt's funny how different all our opinions are this week.
re: AMERICAN IDOL#1008
Posted: 3/17/09 at 9:26pmYeah, it's definitely a polarizing week! Honestly, no one is thrilling me besides Allison. Aside from that, I'm convinced Simon and I share a brain.
Leading Actor Joined: 5/13/05
re: AMERICAN IDOL#1009
Posted: 3/17/09 at 9:26pmI will be downloading Kris, Alexis and Danny this week.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
re: AMERICAN IDOL#1010
Posted: 3/17/09 at 9:28pm
Simon to Danny:
You look like you're on a polar expedition!
BWAAAHHHAAAAHHHAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
re: AMERICAN IDOL#1011
Posted: 3/17/09 at 9:29pm
I just hate country music. Maybe that's why Adam is so far the only one I liked.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/6/05
re: AMERICAN IDOL#1012
Posted: 3/17/09 at 9:30pmSimon and I almost always agree on contestant fashion.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/8/04
re: AMERICAN IDOL#1013
Posted: 3/17/09 at 9:30pmKris was understated and GREAT tonight. The best he's been so far.
re: AMERICAN IDOL#1014
Posted: 3/17/09 at 9:35pmOh, I detest country. But it is one of the genres in which there is the most talent, and I don't think anyone is really living up to their songs. Anoop sounded nice though.
re: AMERICAN IDOL#1015
Posted: 3/17/09 at 9:40pmWow, I really am a dissenter. They all loved Danny but i hated it!
re: AMERICAN IDOL#1016
Posted: 3/17/09 at 9:43pmOOPSY DAISY! Who can listen to the song with those babies hangin' round?
re: AMERICAN IDOL#1017
Posted: 3/17/09 at 11:02pm
Tonight was actually rather fantastic!! REALLY REALLY great, almost all around <3
Kris, Allison, Matt, and Anoop were just GAHHHH amazing. So, so good and I am completely in love with all of them. They're so fantastic. (I was watching it with my cousin who's 16, and we were both just like "kdsjakajf KRIS MARRY ME" haha. I know, I know, he's already married, but seriously. He is so gosh darn freaking WONDERFUL)
and um.
Dear Adam,
You're a very weird, quirky kind of person and I absolutely LOVE that you're not backing down from that. It was a crazy wacky performance and I thought it was awesome 
Slightly uncomfortable? absolutely. But that's just him! I thought Simon was very wrong about him- it wasn't indulgent at all. Adam knew full well that there were going to be people who were just going to be like "WTF?" He just did it anyway, because it was what felt most right for him. And I respect him so much for not having tried to do something he just didn't feel right doing, simply because more people would have thought of it as "normal". I still DO really want him to sing a ballad, but this was very cool. Plus, the vocals were almost undeniably spot on. I thought they were amazing.
That said, Kris, Allison, Matt, and Anoop were probably more.. pleasant for me personally hehe. But Adam is just quirky and awesome and I love him for staying true to himself
re: AMERICAN IDOL#1018
Posted: 3/18/09 at 7:43amI thought Adam's performance was just as Simon said...indulgent. And pretentious...and way, way, way self-aware. The voice is undeniable, but the packaging is getting obnoxious and arrogant.
re: AMERICAN IDOL#1019
Posted: 3/18/09 at 8:16amWhy on earth didn't Adam sing Crying? I don't think he's in danger this week, and he's not angling to be a country star, but why run the risk of alienating people?
re: AMERICAN IDOL#1020
Posted: 3/18/09 at 8:33am
When they went to commercial break before Danny and said he was singing Carrie Underwood, I just said to myself it's going to be Jesus Take The F-ing Wheel. Let the agenda begin...and aside from parts of the chorus, he didn't even sing it well.
Adam singing "Crying" in an absolutely no-frills presentation could be very well have been awesome, although no one can come close to KD Lang or the Lang/Orbison duet.
re: AMERICAN IDOL#1021
Posted: 3/18/09 at 8:52am
The voice is undeniable, but the packaging is getting obnoxious and arrogant.
See, I DON'T get this "arrogant" thing at all. Doesn't "arrogant" imply thinking you're better than everyone else? Adam may be comfortable and do his own thing on stage, but it was very obvious to me that he knew full well there were going to be a lot of people who hated that performance haha. He had a LOT of people look at him like "WTF?" about it, and every time he just laughed it off like "yeah, I know, I'm really weird!" lol. If he had truly been cocky, I would think that he would have been standing there expecting everyone to love him. And clearly that wasn't the case. He fully acknowledged that what he was doing was very strange, and I don't think he ever would have expected everyone to get it. He just wasn't going to conform to what other people wanted, that's all. This was what he felt most comfortable doing for a genre he was quite weary about, so that's what he did :) Not arrogant, just true to himself
And also, note that he was one of the FEW people who never once talked back to the judges. Sooo many of the others talked back to the judges even over pretty inconsequential comments, which made them look pretty arrogant (don't try and make it look like you know better than the judges). But Simon actually made a truly rude comment to Adam, and he just stood there and took it.
I just think people should recognize the difference between confidence as a performer, and actual arrogance. Adam just likes to get up there and put on a show, and have fun. That may come across as indulgent or arrogant or whatever, but it's not because I don't believe he actually thinks he's the greatest. In fact, to me he's seemed incredibly humble from the get go. Just because a person likes to be playful onstage doesn't mean they're cocky.
Just my opinion :)
re: AMERICAN IDOL#1022
Posted: 3/18/09 at 9:02amIn his interviews and post-perfomance, he is indeed poised, polite and respectful, but I still get a whiff of him being too good for the room. Maybe it's just that he barrels all that into his performance, but he's walked into this as one of the more fully developed performers the show has ever seen and what I'm watching seems more like he's compiling an audition reel for what comes after than treating it as a competition. In a sense, all of them are, but his is just more obvious...and depending on your point of view, a tad grating.
re: AMERICAN IDOL#1023
Posted: 3/18/09 at 9:17am
"I thought Adam's performance was just as Simon said...indulgent. And pretentious...and way, way, way self-aware"
I don't see it that way. The attitude is part of the presentation. He must have that attitude in putting his style over. To look and sing the way he does just wouldn't work without that attitude.
think Mick Jagger doing his "strut" thing. it's all part of the act. I think Adam is doing it very well.
re: AMERICAN IDOL#1024
Posted: 3/18/09 at 9:22am
snl89, I think you'd get more enjoyment out of the things you loved if you accepted their flaws instead of writing paragraphs in defense of them.
I think with a performance style like Adam's, the subtleties between arrogance and confidence are basically a moot point. It has to look like arrogance whether it is or not, so there's no use in arguing against people's perceptions.
Of course the performance was indulgent. Of course. I just don't think that has to be a bad thing when you're as talented as Adam Lambert. My favorite part was the self-indulgence. And if I was still having horror show flashbacks after it was over, wondering what awful Hell I'd just witnessed, his complete unapologetic confidence in what he'd chosen to do completely swayed me to his side regardless.
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