8.22.24 Adam News and Info

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Here is today's news thread.

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Adam's interviews with Lyndsy Parker are usually more revealing, and this one's no exception.

www.musicconnection.com/adam-lamberts-after-party/


Adam Lambert's After Party
Cover Stories, MagazineAugust 22, 2024by Lyndsey Parker
Photos by Brian Ziff

It’s New Music Friday, and Adam Lambert has just dropped Afters, a fever-dream of a party record packed with sick house beats. But instead of reveling, he’s actually sick at home, nursing a feverish flu. You wouldn’t know it, though, from his camera-ready face-beat, as he appears on Zoom in perfectly winged cobalt eyeliner (or “guyliner,” as Ryan Seacrest once described it) that perfectly matches his Gucci shirt.

“I just did a livestream with the fan club, so I had to paint,” he chuckles.

This is just more evidence that the forever-hustling, never-resting Grammy nominee and pop multi-hyphenate—a veteran of the stage and scene long before he made his screen debut on American Idol—is a true superstar, and one of the hardest-working men in showbiz. He’s also one of the greatest shapeshifters. Who else could segue from taking on the Meat Loaf role of Eddie in Fox’s Rocky Horror reboot to playing the even more iconic Emcee in Broadway’s Cabaret, or from coaching The Voice Australia to starring alongside Geena Davis and Cody Fern in the Sofia Coppola-produced AIDS drama Fairyland?

And certainly no one but Adam Lambert could swerve from voicing family-friendly cartoons like Fraggle Rock and Megamind to creating the adults-only Afters EP—a boldly queer bacchanal whose “ketamine flight” club tracks like “Wet Dream,” “Lube,” and “Cvnty,” and carnal come-ons (“gonna make you nut,” “gag on this tonight,” “slip in the room, slip right into you”) would have panicked TV censors lunging for the seven-second delay button.

Lambert readily, gratefully acknowledges that perhaps the boldest-font credit on his wide-ranging résumé—fronting Queen, who he first met on his Idol season’s fateful finale, since 2012—has afforded him such freedom in his solo career. But incredibly, 15 years have passed since Idol made him a star (and doubters wrongly assumed that such stardom would be fleeting), and now, as an independent artist no longer tethered to major-label obligations and expectations, he finally feels he has nothing to prove or lose.

“I ain't letting go anytime soon. That's my thing. I’m not giving up. I don't go away,” Lambert quips, as he opens up about his new era and sex-positive Afters EP. “I do feel I've come a long way. It’s about giving less of a fuck, not being concerned with not everyone liking what I do. And that comes with experience. Having been in the business this long, being on the road with Queen for 10-plus years, I feel I've earned the right to say, ‘Fuck it. I'm going to do what I want. Life's too short.’” 

Below, Lambert discusses activism, acting, and his wild journey from Idol to Afters.

more... www.musicconnection.com/adam-lamberts-after-party/

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