3.7.12 Adam News and Info

[ladyoz]

Mar 7, 2012 5:07:55 GMT -5 gelly14 said:

Aguila Rakstar ‏ @wildflowerglam

37m Aguila Rakstar ‏ @wildflowerglam

I haz the mag!!! :D Scan & translation coming as soon as possible

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Aguila Rakstar ‏ @wildflowerglam
Going to bed now, once again in case someone hasn't seen: Display Magazine scans & translation: aguilaglam.livejournal.com/1058.html


GENERAL INFO (by @wildflowrglam):
Display is the leading gay magazine here in Switzerland. In my opinion, they're focussing a little bit too much on the gay aspect instead of the music, but since it's a gay mag and not some "omg he's gay, let's cause some weird hype about it!" trash tabloid, I personally think they can be forgiven.
On their website and on other pages of the mag which I didn't scan they had some other tiny parts about Adam which aren't on the actual interview pages. I'm gonna translate those first, then post the scans and after that the actual interview.
I couldn't restrain from writing some of my own thoughts/notes in the translation, those are written in italic. Also please note that English isn't my native language and I'm not that good at translating. So I hope there aren't any mistakes and it's not too painful to read the translation.

INTERVIEW TRANSLATION:

The paradise bird has landed
Adam Lambert, that means glitter, glamour,party, mascara and groupies. One thinks. In the interview with DISPLAY, the glam-singer shows a new side: the one of the loyal loving man who's building a nest with his boyfriend.
Adam Lambert is a lot more than a shooting star from a casting show. One knows that at the latest after his nomination for the Grammy Awards and the highly acclaimed performances with the legendary band Queen. Roger Taylor and Brian May would love to engage him as successor of the singing giant Freddie Mercury. But Adam (for now) turned them down even though the performances with them were a lot of fun. First he wants to shine with his second album.
In the conversation with DISPLAY the androgynous singer is on his best behavior. Happy, in love and not pretentious at all.

Hello Adam, congrats to your birthday. Or isn't one allowed anymore to wish you a happy birthday because it's the ominous 30th one?

Yes, one may congratulate, thank you very much. 30 might be an ominous number, but for me nothing has changed. I didn't even have time to think about it.

How did you celebrate your birthday?

With a show. I'm in Austria and Germany for promo for my album "Trespassing".

It must be hard to work on your birthday.
No, not at all. Singing is what I love doing most after all.

Is at least your boyfriend Sauli Koskinen with you?

No, he's in our shared home in Los Angeles.

Mean! But at least you can comfort yourself with lots of groupies.

Heh, no, not at all. I've arrived in a monogamous relationship that fulfills me. This feels really great. We have a fantastic love live, I'm super happy! When I'm on tour, I can do without infidelity without any difficulty.

Sounds great, congratulatuins. But your love is not THAT perfect either. (note from myself: How dare they assume their love is not perfect, how dare they?!) You both had a rough fight in the gay club DTM in Helsinki just before Christmas.

Of course you address this. The fight was waspishly commented in all blogs. Well, someone who knows nightlife has experienced something like that for sure. One drinks too much, in our case it was vodka, and at some point one gets of unsound mind. A small thing which one doesn't even remember afterwards becomes a huge problem. And then the fight starts... After all we were arrested. On the police station we both got sober really fast and we abruptly realized that everything was a huge stupidity.

So you reconciled?

Yes, thank God. Maybe our love grew even stronger because of that. We celebrated Christmas harmonically. But let's rather talk about music.

Agreed, how would you describe your album?

It reflects my last three years, which were all haywire. I met impressive personalities, experienced turbulent parties, felt confident and grounded. On the other hand there are dark sides which one experiences as gay man. The homophobic hostilities, the bitching we have to hear in the US. There it was a scandal that I kissed a guy at the AMA.In Europe something like that is taken more laid-back. It makes me sad that so many younger and older gays still feel lonely and excluded. And all this just because of the person they love!

How do the up and downs of your life impact your songs?

They reflect this ambivalence. Apart from gay-cruising-tunes and fun dance songs I sing pensive, almost dark songs. Also songs which are about fear.

(note from myself: this is the question were I felt a little SHE, but oh well, we've seen worse things lol)
For your album you also worked with the cute singer Bruno Mars. Seriously, how is the gay-factor of Bruno?

Gay-factor? I don't know, I don't think he's gay. But I know that he's a huge talent. It was just great to work with this fantastic musician.

We're totally excited for the result! Are you visiting Switzerland soon?

I don't know yet. This year I'm touring in the US. I have good memories of Switzerland though. We had a great time here and an awesome show in Zürich. Unfortunately, I didn't get to know a lot of your beautiful country. But I know that it's neutral. (note: Switzerland has been politically neutral since like forever, just in case you wonder what kind of neutrality he's talking about.) And this is probably not a bad idea for a small nation.

Now you're flying to LA to your boo. What souvenir are you bringing him?

Myself! Do you think that is enough? *laughs*

Adam Lambert says that his album "Trespassing" is getting finished and will be out in "Maypril".

[wal]

Christina ‏ @bayoulady60
@adamlambert U popped up in my sons' college Psyc book under a gr8 chpt~ Sex, Gender & Sexuality, even a good pic yfrog.com/obisyifj

[adamme]

Mar 7, 2012 23:31:58 GMT -5 bullsfan said:

OK, I'm a little out of the loop. And I totally can't keep up with all the radio promo. The whole band is in Atlanta? Does this mean we could possibly get a plugged in Trespassing or Cuckoo?

I love your way of thinking.. but the release of Trespassing the album is still more than a month away so.. I don't know RCA will do this in Atlanta. If they do it .. all the iphone or electronic equipment that can record his performance will not allowed to enter the room. And the radio staffs will be sworn in on the secrecy so there will not be any chances of leaking until that Mapril dates.

[animated]

Mar 7, 2012 22:09:42 GMT -5 aloha said:

I make an Italian sausage and chicken soup with kale and garbanzo beans.
Also, sauteed kale with garlic and olive oil...
Actually, you can throw it into a lot of different sautes, soups or stews and it tastes great. My family loves it.
Have yet to try it juiced.

I blanch the kale , then puréed it with cucumber and green apple. That is my breakfast.

[reihmer]

Mar 7, 2012 20:36:10 GMT -5 schufly said:

So excited that I won a pass to see Adam at the Hamilton on Monday, courtesy of 94.7 Fresh FM in DC!!!

I have been to many concerts - Gridlock, Fantasy Springs, several GNT shows - but never a meet and greet. Never been within 30 ft of Adam, except once in Denver when I waited at the buses and saw him about 10 ft away. This will be a new experience for me and in a great, relaxed venue.

The Hamilton is a brand new music venue in the downstairs of a restaurant in downtown DC. It is beautifully finished and has tables and bar stools in a tiered configuration with the stage at the bottom. It is too bad that he will only be doing 2 songs, but maybe we can squeeze one more out of him.

I am hoping for a really fun and relaxed interview too because the host will most likely be Tommy McFly, who has interviewed him before at the 9:30 club before a GNT show. Tommy is a fan, and a young, really cool guy - much like Blake in Houston today.

And to top it all off, the event is at 6:30 pm, so I don't even have to make up an imaginary Dr. appt or some other reason to miss work!! There will be two other radio promo's that day - noonish for Mix107.3 at the Gibson Guitar Center, and some other time of the day for Hot99.5 (Toby Knapp, Kane, etc) at the Sierra Mist Natural Lounge - wherever that is - undisclosed time. I am hoping the Fresh94.7 event is the last of the day and he doesn't have to run off somewhere. Although it is feasible that he could go to the airport for a late flight back to LA - there are some leaving as late as 10:00

Anyway - this will be an adventure and so sweet to see him up close and personal. Hopefully lots of other ATOP'ers from the DC area got passes as well!!!!!

schufly.

[Craazyforadam]

Here finally the translation that I promised earlier. Had a challenge to hear Adam through the German translation running in the foreground and sometimes I just could not make out the original. In that case, I opted to rather give you a translation of the German text, because in the end it is more important what info the German's get to hear, as none of this is news and each of these sentences have been said by Adam gazillion times already. If anybody can make out more of the original, just let me know.

In general, the translation was very close to the original, wherever I could make it out, so it is not a big issue.

A bit more concerning is that the "gay" discussion ends up being dominant, even though the coverage is even-minded and rational. But still, it dominates too much as a topic. Could have used a few other questions beyond that.

Here now the translation (my own comment in italics)

www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/adam-lambert-die-zweite-1.1302218

Adam Lambert – The second (album)

AL became instantly famous after first reaching second place on US-Casting show AI and then entering the charts with the hit WWFM.

But from early on, the 30-year old talent show star saw himself often as an outsider. In the general system of the music industry, I certainly seem to be perceived as different from the typical pop artist, I’m an outsider that way. And as a person, I also always saw myself as a bit different. I was a strange kid in school, kind of odd, I did not feel that I belonged of fit in, until my parents enrolled me in a theater group. There for the first time I found more friends, we accepted each other, no matter how weird we happend to be. It was celebrated instead of being judged.

Note: in the video you can see some of the Germany video hack job that was so much discussed here. The scenes that are plonked into the BTIKM video are from that German comedy flick “Tuerkisch fuer Anfaenger”. (the film trailer indicates to me that this film is absolutely terrible, btw...sexist, racist, primitive, dumb, vulgar ...there is no end to the level of SHE I feel even talking about having seen those movie trailers. No Glambert deserves the punishment to endure this garbage, just to somewhere hear BTIKM. What a crime to even make such a film! Even more to use a perfect video like BTIKM in it.

Female commentator:

Perhaps this being different is also one of the secrets to his success. He also is one of the very few mainstream singers in the US, who openly proclaim their homosexuality from the onset. In the US this still seams to be a stigma.

Adam: In America its just, its just one area that in the music industry there hasn’t been that many out artists, if any. And even a few legendary artists who have come out as gay have came out as gay after the fact. It definitely is a bit of a challenge. People jump to conclusions and are a bit narrow minded when it comes to sexuality, especially the men. And so it is difficult in commercial pop music to get somebody to listen to your song, when they know that you are gay, they say maybe: “I don’t like this person, he is gay”. So sometimes it is difficult to get them to listen to the song, to like it just for the song. To see that the emotion of the song is an universal emotion, something everybody goes through.

Commentator: With his second album, Trespassing Lambert wants to now show even more of his personality. On many tracks he could bring himself into the song and co-write. Whether it will be a chart success like the first album, will have to be seen. Fact is, Adam Lambert has a special purpose or mission.


Adam: And on T, one of the things that I was really focused on, was creating music that was very autobiographical. Songs, which are about real moments in my life, real things that I have encountered, but that hopefully everybody can relate to. The very deep emotional topics and motives of each songs are quite wide, therefore I hope that in the end it does not matter that I am gay. The songs are ultimately about the human condition. Perhaps there are people who can look past my sexual orientation and connect to my heart…and to my head, you know.

[SusieFierce]

So exciting about the JEZEBEL event. Should be lots of Atlanta publishing bigwigs there. And did I see Mayumi is going? I was hoping that would be the case!! Yaay!!! Sounds like a swank party.

I love that he's doing these private gigs, not just for the PR and $$, but because there are likely tons of people who may never have heard him sing before – and certainly not live. He'll be racking up converts in his wake. And d'awwwww that he went to Children's Hospital today. So sweet.

I hadn't given much thought of his costume/outfit for Queen concerts until rabbitrabbit mentioned "detachable cape" and I went I could get into that concept. (So long as it's subtle )

But really, I imagine he wants to be edgy, but not too OTT (for that crowd), stylish, original – but also comfortable – it will be a long, challenging set and weather could be anything. Last thing he needs is to get overheated or be constricted in any way, so if he went w/Pugh, I vote for the more "air-conditioned" options.

[virg1877]

Adam Lambert @ Hard Rock Cafe



At the fans signing along with Adam in beginning and Adam's reaction.

ETA:

LindsayInTheSky citygirl36 we weren't suppose to video & station still hasn't posted any vids so I'm really glad we have that one!!

LindsayInTheSky citygirl36 lol at the end he pointed to them & goes "and thank you to my back up singers!!"

[stardust]

Mar 8, 2012 0:29:02 GMT -5 Craazyforadam said:

Here finally the translation that I promised earlier. Had a challenge to hear Adam through the German translation running in the foreground and sometimes I just could not make out the original. In that case, I opted to rather give you a translation of the German text, because in the end it is more important what info the German's get to hear, as none of this is news and each of these sentences have been said by Adam gazillion times already. If anybody can make out more of the original, just let me know.

Thanks craazyforadam!! I know that must have been difficult. Glad he is getting good press in Germany, and hopefully, will have a bigger presence there this time!! Thanks again!!

[reihmer]

Thank you for translating Craazyforadam.