Yes … he has talent. Yes … he can sing. Yes … he’s easy on the eyes. Yes … he takes command of a song and makes it his (does he ever.) Yes … he’s got little girls and tweens screaming in the audience before, during and after every Idol performance, not to mention directly at their television sets. Yes … he’s coiffed and tailored to a “T.”
But Adam Lambert will not win the top spot on American Idol this season.
Adam Lambert gushes too much. He’s overflowing with exuberance. Great for dramatic effect, terrific for the audience … but this is a singing competition, not an audition for the latest stage production. He’s not trying to out-perform fifty other hopefuls for the lead spot in West Side Story; he’s making a run for the top spot on American Idol.
Adam Lambert has questionable taste in song construction. Case in point: “Ring Of Fire.” Ouch. That one was painful. I’m all for giving a song a go in an alltogether different style, one that works and makes it uniquely someone’s own. But the Slumdog Millionaire treatment of Johnny Cash’s classic was not only over the top, it was unlistenable. I swear Cash has risen from the grave and is slowly shambling to the Nokia Theater in search of him at this very moment. (Stay tuned for Cash’s shocking emergence during the grand finale, folks.)
Adam Lambert is a screamer. You don’t have to put a pregnant, shrill high-note in every single song choice. (That’s why I refer to him as Adam “Screaming Mimi” Lambert.) It might be a trademark, but it’s annoying as all get out each and every time he does it. We get it Adam … really, we do.
Adam Lambert is not as bankable as some might think. Sure … there are those who drift toward Clay Aiken and his androgynous ilk as well as those who even enjoy a tune or two from Marilyn Manson and his coiffed chameleonism and painted nails. But Adam doesn’t have the overall “Idolism” The Powers That Be would like to ultimately put out there. He’s a bit typecast … and that will work against him. (All right, all right! Apologies to all the Marilyn Manson fans out there! Yeeeeesh … you guys are wicked protective of your icons! I didn’t mean anything by the comparison to Adam …)
Adam Lambert may be popular, but even Taylor Hicks won out over Chris Daughtry. There’s good, there’s good quirky and there’s Adam quirky. ‘Nuff said. (Granted, Hicks’ post-Idol debut was chode and unlistenable, but the fact of the matter is he won.)
Look: I dug Adam’s rendition of Tears For Fears’ “Mad World” just as much as the next guy or gal, but one performance does not an Idol make.
What? You need another reason? How ’bout my Mother In Law? She’s got maaaaaaaadd skillz at calling in votes for Danny “The Gokester” Gokey. (She has forty successive calls under her belt before the average Idol voter has committed ten.) If’n I was you, I wouldn’t cross her. She’ll hunt you down. Seriously.
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I meant to say,that Adam Lambert is a talented person not a
“talenterd” person.
Besides all that. I don’t think there is that many clammering for an Idol that looks like an action figure. I keep waiting for lightning bolts shooting out of his eyeballs.
You just nailed him with the name Adam “Screaming Mimi” Lamber … his is an screeming weirdo
Yeah… he is an screaming weirdo
ADAM did not need to win American Idol, he won the World.
Adam is a great talent, sexy, original, brilliant, and so much more.
The only way he could lose is if the fans of the two wedding singers vote for the other one after one is eliminated. They probably will because those two are so much alike.
It might be hard for the Super Star to overcome the double-whammy.
But, if everyone who assumes Adam will win actually votes for him, he will win, as he should.
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I love ADAM and I can not wait to buy his new CD. I just do not understand why people are talking about him screaming. I come from a Family Educated in Music..B.S. Degree, all areas K-12, including Voice Training, Theory and all intrumental. he is not screaming, he is singing with a controlled voice above a third octave and higher. Perhaps all of those people have just never seen or heard anyone like him. American Idol was Lucky to have ADAM.
Of course people like you want what you call “average/normal” people to win (Danny Gokey and Taylor Hicks). You guys don’t like uniqueness or creativity. I get it. Sigh, the boring world we live in….
Adam Lambert did not win because he is so good that I’m sure he will have many many contracts to choose from and labels that want to sign him. If he had won American Idol he has to take the contract that he wins which is small bean compared to what he could get….he’s a new talent…fresh love him!!
Adam did not win yes mostly because he is GAY, let me tell everyone something if you haven’t noticed it, HINT HINT American Idol meaning set a perfect example for American Being gay is not 1 of those good examples, You all should be against gayness , if everyone was gay you wouldn’t be born!
Think about it would u like to have a gay president?
HELL NO
Everyone will say God damn American have a gay president A Fag is running our country!
Okay then if you all don’ still don’t agree with me and if you are NORMAL would u be happy if your kid, your dad is gay or straight?
Ask yourself that then you will come to a conclusion what American Idol Means!
Don’t try to be no super hero like Obama too when you answer this question.
I hope to you do not have children.
I hope you do not have children.
Okay everyone, I want you all to take a moment to close your eyes, and imagine your father and your mother broke up and it was your father who broke up with your mother…. and later on you found out because he did what he did because he was cheating on her with another Guy….. how would you feel?
Can you open up to your friends and relatives of the wrong doing?
You as an American want people to go thru this? It really is an embarrassment.
So PLEASE don’t be a hypocrite and reach thru your soul and put you self in your situation instead of the situation of that fantasy world that you have.
Religions huh? okay lets talk about it God made Adam and Eve, Not Adam and Steve…..
If God think eating an apple from a tree is bad O Boy will he be pissed when he see people trying make Eve to Steve.!
Do Not try to be a super hero and really Visualize of what i am trying to say…
Don’t Hate this thread because what i state or reasonable facts and i think America with over 80 million votes should have a normal example have a good America’s Idol
In my mind i thought Adam Lambert was going win
after the annoucement i am glad he didn’t win.