Adam Lambert’s debut album, For Your Entertainment, drops next week, and early reviews are in, and they’re awesome.
Says the Associated Press:
This vocal chameleon can be all things to all listeners, and he kills at whatever he sings. Lambert is equally adept at hard rock, pop, disco, and power ballads, often blending ingredients of several in a single track to produce unforgettable results.
The LA Times is less blatantly enamored, but still positive:
“For Your Entertainment” is a polished affair, but stylistically, it shows Lambert running loose like a kid in a Comme des Garçons store. With the Hollywood pop A-list at his disposal, he chose to go for it all: The only names missing from his list of collaborators are those firmly in the R&B camp (wouldn’t it be great if he worked with fellow drama club type Ne-Yo?) The results on “FYE” are inevitably mixed, but never a bummer; Lambert’s deft enough to avoid getting stuck in any one of the tropes he explores.
And Lady Gaga’s latest album, The Fame Monster, is streaming on Rhapsody for a full week before its store release. I’ve been listening to it like a freakin’ crack addict. I just love her and think she’s so immensely talented. If loving Lady Gaga is wrong, I don’t wanna be right. You can learn more and and listen to the album for yourself here. (Rhapsody actually gets a ton of albums a week before anyone else — you can find out who’s coming up on their exclusives list here.)
Lambert’s is streaming on his MySpace. Have you checked it out yet?
ZOMG I had no idea. Listening now. So excited!!! Thank you!!!
You didn’t mention The Glory Hole Daily review which said, “If this album doesn’t relax your sphincter muscle, nothing will”.
You actually got me to google “Glory Hole Daily Review” at work.
I love that his album is the gayest thing I’ve seen since the volleyball scene in top gun
He’s not all that and a bag o’chips. He’s a rehash of everything that’s gone before; he stands out because he can sing and doesn’t have to be completely autotuned. But they did any way. His idea of edge is like walking into Hot Topic on steroids but it’s far from new and edgy. It’s kinda interesting when just about every song has the writer/producer’s hands/style/identifying mark all over it. How’s that making it real and your own? It isn’t. He’s good, yes, but he’s as far from original as it gets.
He’s a male GaGa without any of her originality (which, ironically, is taken from gay clubs and performers, which, who the hell knows, Adam coulda been one…wouldn’t that be a hoot of twisted irony?)
He’ll last a few years, maybe, but then he’ll turn to Broadway style again…
JMHO
(anything) and a bag of chips, what the f? i liked 1989 too but let’s leave it back there and approach today. walking into hot topic on steroids? that’s his idea of edge? what are you talking about? this is one of the most muddled comment responses i’ve ever read. gaga and twisted irony? it’s like watching a slow child play memory, trying to find a connection between the two and he can’t tell the difference between the lion and the zebra. good thing for you this thing is anonymous
i can’t believe how stupid jay is. it’s a toss-up of what he fantasizes about more; beating halo 3 on legendary, finishing the first quarter of junior college, or showing up to a twilight premiere with a t-shirt that says kirsten stewart is the shiznit
the above was me
above comments were from me
Hey seattlecity, was that you writing the above comments?
Seattlecity, put down the Red Bull and step away from the controller. Your marathon playing of the latest braincell sucking game has cost you what little you were issued in moronville.
Let me break it down so you can understand:
Adam wears clothes that are reminiscent of a Hot Topic that blew up on mild steroids, in other words, he wears too much to try and be out there/edgy. Pull it back, dude.
He thinks wearing a cock ring on his glove is edgy, which is totally neutralized when he has to point it out. Edgy doesn’t need pointing out, it just IS.
He’s obsessed with letting everyone know he has sex…okay, we get it; we do too, we just don’t have to let it into every conversation. That usually stops after you’re fifteen years old or round about there. Unless of course you’re playing the part of a rock stah, then it’s right in the playbook. Oh, right.
His style is one part Bowie, one part Cher, one part Queen (a height he’ll never reach…Freddy’s probably laughing in his grave saying “dude, de-femme a bit…it’s not that serious), one part Steven Tyler, and one part “suburban kid in the big city, trying to be counter culture”. Hint: you can’t take counter culture mainstream….duh. Once you take the elements into the other it just doesn’t work anymore; the homogenization of the rebel. Yeah, right.
His voice is good but he uses it all wrong, and he only mimics. Nothing in those songs screams Adam, they scream whomever wrote them, produced them, had any kind of hand in them; thus the ability to say which is a Pink song, which is Muse song, etc., etc. Not very original. They gave him decent enough material (at least in this shiteous age of mediocrity) and he made it sound the way THEY would make it sound, only less impactful, cuz well, it’s a mimicry. Moving on….
He’s the definition of trying too hard. Oh, and wear some damned pants that fit. We all know you have a dick, it doesn’t have to be tortured by being mangled up in pants that would fit someone waaaaay smaller than you. Poor thang. Hopefully it has some baby powder to soothe it in it’s confinement.;-)
As to dude’s face and physique, he’s one Big Mac away from a People of Walmart posting.
All in all, he’s talented but in a very unoriginal way. Let him find his own sound/look/vision, and then we’ll talk savior of the musical world.
Peace.
This Rhapsody blog would be wonderful if it worked outside the USA. Too bad :(