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Post by maria222pf on Jul 16, 2011 22:37:27 GMT -5
@glambert4everalhadas @adamlambert how would you describe your life right now? what do you do everyday? @adamlambertadam Lambert @glambert4everal I prepare. I create. I love.   |
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Post by lynne on Jul 16, 2011 22:37:38 GMT -5
More of the Japanese INROCK magazine interview, as translated by terraj: terra_zepheadTerra ƒeƒ‰ I've not yet translated the last part of INROCK i/w but I've posted the 2nd (best part) terraj.livejournal.comI love this interview SO much!!! I am flailing over this part of the interview!!!!!!!!! Seriously flailing. I mean, I've read it four times. I could listen to him talk forever, LOL! |
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Post by maria222pf on Jul 16, 2011 22:38:47 GMT -5
@jadenlambertjordan @adamlambert plz check out this picture an amazing artist friend of mine did,, shes amazing&this pic is sick t.co/ttUsyUu@adamlambertadam Lambert @jadenlambert wow that's awesome!!  Sorry. I think this looks more like J Durbin. No, check the ears...  |
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Post by maria222pf on Jul 16, 2011 22:45:27 GMT -5
I didn't look myself, but I saw some people say it was Loaded Smile.  Nooooooooooo!!! Off to tweet Adam that I love that song.  Thank you, one of my all time favorites on the album  : :-/ |
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Post by mariep on Jul 16, 2011 22:47:12 GMT -5
More of the Japanese INROCK magazine interview, as translated by terraj: terra_zepheadTerra ƒeƒ‰ I've not yet translated the last part of INROCK i/w but I've posted the 2nd (best part) terraj.livejournal.comI love this interview SO much!!! I am flailing over this part of the interview!!!!!!!!! Seriously flailing. I mean, I've read it four times. I could listen to him talk forever, LOL! I am flailing right along with you! I love this interview to pieces! To think we're going to learn more about Adam. Yay! Flail!!!! |
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Post by lynne on Jul 16, 2011 22:55:04 GMT -5
Whoa!!! What??? Cassie, I always have tremendous respect for your opinion, but you make a tremendous leap here. Every artist's first training is reproduction. They train by studying the greats and understanding the medium. Then they challenge themselves by doing things outside their realm. Are you saying any instrumentalist that is asked to duplicate another composer's music or asked to play outside their genre is not stretching their wings? Is not learning? Sorry, but I don't agree with that at all. He did a job. A job that challenged his previous skill set. Welcome to the real world. The vast majority of us do that. I'm sure he learned a lot by forcing himself to do things outside of his comfort zone. That knowledge, IMO, is probably invaluable to his growth as an artist. Whoa right back atcha. I guess I was not at all clear in my point. I happen to agree with you completely about artists learning by copying or imitating the art of others. And by stretching to perform/create outside of their comfort zones and preferred genres. Adam has said that he first learned to sing by imitating other artists he liked. Let me try again. The songs on the bastard album are interesting examples of Adam's ability in many ways. And we know he uses that ability and technique to wow us with the music he is making now. My only point was that this was not an example of what Adam wanted to sing, or how he might have interpreted it if he had been free to do so. Tho' the songs ain't much from a composition standpoint, I think if Adam was asked to perform them and given free reign, they would have sounded much more interesting. Much more musical. Would have had a greater emotional impact. IMO, YMMV. We are getting into one of the favorite talking points I have with students. I love this quote, and though it references poetry, it applies to music as well, and is food for thought in terms of our discussion of Adam and even some earlier Gaga posts I read here today. “One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. Eliot, T.S., “Philip Massinger,” The Sacred Wood, New York: Bartleby.com, 2000. I don't have answers, but I do have lots of questions, being the grey kind of thinker that I am, LOL. |
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Post by cassie on Jul 16, 2011 22:55:52 GMT -5
And, cuz I just listened to "Light Falls Away" and marveled at Adam's ability, let me say what I heard. If you are not interested in vocal production and technique, feel free to scroll.
I agree that Adam does sound a bit country here... intentionally. Just listen to his pronunciation of "thang."
He is doing a number of techniques differently from most Adam renditions. The first that we notice is the lower register. I sounds really LOW. But, the key is actually 1/2 a step higher than GNT Aftermath. Compare the two and you will hear that the first verse of Aftermath actually has a similar melody line and a similar range. LFA is the song where he flirts with a Bb 2, his lowest recorded note. But, every night he sang almost that low at the bottom of Aftermath.
What is different is the tone and resonance. LFA has this rich, deep baritone sound. You would never peg him as a tenor listening to this. Aftermath has a much lighter, lilting, ringing sound to it. In LFA, he places the sound, aims the vibrations towards a different part of his mouth and head, much further back than usual, and also uses the resonance in his chest very differently.
He also pronounces his words differently that usual. In addition to a country twang, he does not articulate as crisply, sounding sort of like he is swallowing his words, or mumbling. And the phrasing is very anti-Adam. One of the things I love and admire about Adam is his lyrical, long phrases. He connects words in meaningful, and sometimes unexpected ways. In this number, the phrases are all very short and choppy. Listen to LFA and imagine Adam phrasing. Instead of:
we'll go
higher than we've
we've ever been
Adam would probably sing:
we'll go higher
than we've ever been
or even:
we'll go higher than we've ever been
Later, he sings:
for it's
always been
That is terrible phrasing! It totally breaks the meaning of the phrase, and since the music builds to a "high" "sustained" note on "always", the only reason a singer would take a breath there would be if they had no breath support to sustain the whole line.
Having said that, since it is a demo for a singer who likely does NOT have good breath support and sustain, he is doing a good job of showing how it would sound if sung by another. The song is designed to be short little bits of phrase with lots of breaks in between.
He also sings with a straight tone for most of the song rather than using vibrato in places where you would expect.
Funny thing. Even tho' I think Adam was told to make this sound more country with no power singing or classical technique, and he does that, I still hear his classical technique shining thru. He knows how to get that rich baritone sound even tho he is naturally a high tenor. He still uses his natural resonance of his body to produce a pure sound, rather than one that is breathy. He still manages to build to the higher notes in the song. And, he still adds the slightest vibrato in non obvious places to warm up the sound. He never sounds strained or struggling, even when he adds that rasp to his voice. It's all still superbly supported. I still understand the words, even tho they are partially swallowed.
Dayum, that guy is good! So, bastard album or no, I am glad we can listen to this example of Adam not being Adam. And doing it perfectly.
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Post by mariep on Jul 16, 2011 23:00:03 GMT -5
Damn, to this point I've resisted. I think I'm going to have to listen to the bastard.
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Post by NoAngel on Jul 16, 2011 23:06:10 GMT -5
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Post by evergreen on Jul 16, 2011 23:06:53 GMT -5
With all the new information about the album in the twitter party and this interview, is anyone feeling about nervous, or scarily excited? Am feeling super excited! When I hear/read the wonderful thoughts he comes up with on the spur of the moment talking and tweeting, I can only imagine some of the gems that will be in his songs! The one he mentioned at the twitter party before today's for instance - I think it was "Now I believe more than I can see." We'd better have the kleenex close by... A thought about his RiverRock performance of A Loaded Smile. Wonder how that song would have evolved if he had sung it a few more times. He was already making it his own... What a talent! |
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