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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2015 22:20:55 GMT -5
I think it will be called "Billie Jean" Cough up yer five bucks, sir...  Billie Jean..LMAO! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2015 22:21:55 GMT -5
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Post by Soaked on Jan 25, 2015 22:24:53 GMT -5
I am not sure if this question has been asked or discussed: why doesn't Q+AL add I Was Born To Love You into the tour set list? Adam's vocal just soars singing that song. By the way I am looking for the best quality MP3 download of Save Me, WWTLF, and I Was Born to Love You, too, please suggest me some site(s). Thanks a bunch.  |
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Post by Avari on Jan 25, 2015 22:25:03 GMT -5
There have been quite a number of excellent posts this evening (or morning, depending where you are!) that have done an incredible job of explaining why these QAL shows are hitting the sweet spot with the audiences and media in the UK. I have nothing to add other than, yes, Adam is much more masterful at commanding the audience and being organically part of Queen than he was in 2012. You've all explained it better than I could have, but you've articulated what I was thinking  |
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Post by stardust on Jan 25, 2015 22:26:53 GMT -5
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Post by 4Ms on Jan 25, 2015 22:33:00 GMT -5
I need to leave for a little while but I keep meaning to ask a question and I forget to ask it.lol But at the end of One Vision after it's thought provoking lyrics Adam sings "Give me, give me, give me fried chicken"! OK...maybe I'm asking a dumb question [img style="max-width:100%;" src="  but what am I missing here...why the 'fried chicken' lyric? BBL. I'm sure Talon or Q3 might explain this better, but it seems Freddie was experimenting with One Vision and couldn't quite come up with a lyric. He began throwing in random words. I found Talon's post. I found Q3's post, too. Talon, since there is a chance we'll hear "fried chicken", can you please remind me - what is the story behind it? and ya, White Queen would be beyond words awesome...Adam's voice on that melodic verse... Looks like no WQ :( I still will hold out hope that Bri changes out '39 at some point just for me. *** If the leaked setlist is correct, they are opening the show with "One Vision". youtu.be/r4UNoECibYkThe "Fried Chicken" Story: The final line is an in-joke from Freddie Mercury, where he shouts "Fried chicken!" instead of "one vision." It's likely that this was merely a humorous aside rather than a caustic social commentary. Link: www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1510The final line of the song (in the studio, live, and "Blurred Vision" versions, in the album and extended versions the line before the final God works in mysterious ways... Mysterious ways...) is "fried chicken", although the lyrics say "one vision". This was the result of trying to come up with the proper wording of the song, and since it was not working, Freddie Mercury at some point introduced words that had nothing to do with the song for fun. The "fried chicken" survived, as a humorous note within the deep and inspired contents of the song. Link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Visionyes, saw it! thank you! I mixed up the threads (i'm brain dead in the mornings) ...Yes Q3 posted it....here's an amusing anecdote for that: The best one is about a minute in... One dump One Turk Two tits John Deacon Yeahhhhh Chickenfeed babe! |
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Post by happy on Jan 25, 2015 22:40:40 GMT -5
I have added it to the chart. I don't think there are any rules, I have just been adding titles as I see them. Heck, I don't even know why some people have doubled down or raised the ante. Hoppers started all this, so she gets first say if any rules are required. ETA: Avari, you are added too. I still don't know what this is about even tho I tossed my feeling about this single in the pot. I'm now immortalized on a chart for 'Finally'..  I'm good for the five bucks, tho..can we play more? Please tell me what I just did???  Hoppers started it on page 8 of the Jan 24 non-concert thread. And we've been having fun ever since! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2015 22:51:22 GMT -5
I still don't know what this is about even tho I tossed my feeling about this single in the pot. I'm now immortalized on a chart for 'Finally'.. I'm good for the five bucks, tho..can we play more? Please tell me what I just did??? Hoppers started it on page 8 of the Jan 24 non-concert thread. And we've been having fun ever since! Thanks, Happy! I'll go see what I have gotten myself into.. |
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Post by Jablea on Jan 25, 2015 22:56:58 GMT -5
Yes, yes, and yes. Vocally his technique has always been solid, but I remember the difference even between Hammersmith 2012 and iHeartRadio 2013- his tone was rockier, his low register was better (or he used it more) etc. The 2014/2015 shows are an improvement over iHRMF too. Regarding interpretation, we have all seen him getting betterer with multiple iterations. See first Stay vs. later Stays on the WAG tour. See even Save Me from Newcastle to Nottingham. With each iteration, he adds more polish. WWTLF in Hammersmith Day 3 was great, but still the more recent versions are getting more and more refined to the point they are near perfection. He is now in command and he can joke around and people eat it up. The "show me an ass" jokes at Hammersmith were cringe worthy IMHO, because he did not talk enough during the show to create a connection at comedic level, so they came out of nowhere. Now he does the "Fat Ass Bitches Ride" as part of the song, then he talks AFTER singing KQ and anything he says and does would not feel OOT anymore in that context. But I do agree that barely anybody in the UK knew that Queen did 3 shows at Hammersmith in 2012. Some newspapers wrote about them (and some said that with AL "gold was struck"!), but who reads newspapers nowadays? I suspect that if they had done the BBC NYE concert in 2012, the results would have been similar. But they needed the world tour to get the NYE in 2014. And they needed the iHRMF in 2013 to get the NA tour in 2014. And without the 2012 shows the iHR wouldn't have been what it was (and who knows if it would have happened at all). And the 2012 shows were thanks to the EMAs. So everything is connected, and they had to go step by step to get there, and they all got better and tighter and more confident with each iteration... I think this sums things up really well. Things change because there is a critical mass in a forward moving direction over time - there are other ways - but this is typically how these things happen. There are also leaps and bounds that happen during that time as well, and I think we have seen those as well. I think what was needed was a combination of improvements in Adam (and I do think these were critical), which people have discussed already as well as being about the business of entertainment - the $$$ bottom line of the success of a sold out worldwide arena tour and mass exposure. $$$ success produces a halo effect at other levels, because we value it so highly as a society - it predisposes people (confirmation bias) to look more favourably on something, particularly when the talent is already there, and this is world-class talent on a stage that is rarely seen nowadays. And then the ball starts rolling stronger in that direction. It will still have peaks and valleys though over time. In terms of Adam's contribution via his own evolution, I see the key point as his learning to master Arena performances as a frontman, not so much as vocalist. If he had taken the same approach to showmanship as he had at Hammersmith, I don't believe it would have been as successful. In an arena setting, it might have even fallen flat as a worst case scenario. He had to learn how to connect with 15,000 to 20,000 people and be easy about it; to share himself in a huge way. That would not have been easy given the 'I'll stand and reserve judgement' vibe at the start of every concert that Brian describes. I think the big leap for Arena performance came with the iheart performance, where things just clicked. We just don't know when that's gonna happen; we do and do and do and then the moment is right. Once that is internalised so powerfully, we then know how to keep on mastering something because it is now in our range of experience. Adam talks about it in terms of confidence and that feels right to me. Once he knew he could do it, he just kept on getting better at it. iHeart was also the first QAL on American soil. There could have been a discussion among the three of them. "Now Adam, this is in your territory, these are your people and they know you better than us old blokes" And while Glamberts of course represented in the 2012 Europe QALs the immediate response to the iHeart announcement and ticket sales was Glamberts, Glamberts. Sure there are plenty of Queen fans in the US, but the I'm buying a ticket to see Queen at the end of the night meme didn't stand a chance against the I will be anywhere that only costs an arm to see Adam. Now the problem was that Glamberts by themselves could not beat out fans of other artists and record executives and be the majority of the crowd. But this was not a QAL concert, this was not a retrospective for Freddie, it was not a Queen audience. Bri and Roger were along for the ride but Adam needed to be there to represent himself. He may have had the Warner Brother's deal inked, maybe not. But this was not the time to take the back seat, he had to be the driver, and being the driver worked. From Lyndsey's report - www.yahoo.com/music/bp/iheartradio-ga-ga-adam-lambert-queen-play-vegas-123742838.html |
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Post by happy on Jan 25, 2015 23:04:14 GMT -5
Hoppers started it on page 8 of the Jan 24 non-concert thread. And we've been having fun ever since! Thanks, Happy! I'll go see what I have gotten myself into.. Well, there is also a lot of Tommy talk too, so you can scroll or not. |
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