Here it is…the cover art for Adam Lambert’s upcoming album, For Your Entertainment.
It’s Sparkly! Otherworldly! Adam has landed from the Planet Fierce to lay some sick beats on y’all. Heh. I can’t wait to see where the Michelin Man fits into all this…
…shades of Blake Lewis hmm…
For Your Entertainment will be available everywhere November 23.
there is no way Adam will “lose an audience” over an album cover. the only way he is going to lose is if his album sucks or worse, is mediocre.
ETA: TFM went up a couple of spots on Itunes to #79.
Insanity rules.
Me too. It’s the same thing really just aimed in the opposite direction — assuming an ulterior motive as opposed to accepting a stated opinion as genuine.
It’s interesting to me too that some would characterize “one side” as presenting more “compelling” reasons for their opinions of the cover. For me, it’s a matter of appeal, not argument or analysis. I’m not going to convince anyone that the cover “logically” is good, I’m not even going to try. Why would I? I’m merely going to tell you that I like it and find it expressive and appealing — that I find beauty in it, if I do — and that I do not see it as offensive or objectionable. If you find it to be the latter, how would anything I say “compel” you to “see” it differently?
Could I find all kinds of things to criticize, if I wanted to? I suspect so, but I don’t know, I haven’t actually tried. Why do that when it pleases me? For this, I choose to synthesize with my eyes, not analyze it using critical thought. I guess, for me, it’s a left brain, right brain distinction. Who really knows.
I am a fan, but I do not feel he’s superhuman, without error, or above criticism. Quite the contrary. Regardless, I’m not going to spam comments or twitter with hate for either Adam or the people involved in his various creations if I don’t like them. I’ve been a fan of plenty of folks whose efforts or works have not always pleased me, and I just never felt the need to bombard them directly with pointed criticisms to be sure they knew and understood my view of it. But that’s me.
Has anyone in the thread – sorry can’t possible wade through 1,200 posts – brought up the idea that maybe the back cover artwork on the CD, which is usually covered with liner notes, could be a completely different photo (not to mention the booklet inside) but the back in particular could be the opposite or something again so new and so Adam we can’t conceive of it yet?
I want to hear the music, see the back cover, and look at all the artwork, now!
So many words . . . .
It’s still brilliant.
I have seen it discussed that the cover could be part of a concept that we will not fully understand until we see all the album work, yes. But honestly I couldn’t tell you if I saw it here or somewhere else.
So the back cover could be Butch Adam, and the inside (hope it’s a doozy “Library” thingie like Muse was) is everything from Michelin Man to Puss ‘n Boots?
Somehow nothing would surprise me at this point.
Get The Look: Adam Lambert’s Truly Outrageous ‘For Your Entertainment’ Album Cover
http://buzzworthy.mtv.com/2009/10/28/get-the-look-adam-lamberts-truly-outrageous-for-your-entertainment-album-cover/
Adam’s CD cover was discussed today on a New Orleans radio station…the topic was “Who wears fingerless gloves”…..
Old LP covers were necessary to hold the vinyl record. Cd pics slide right out and you still have your case, if you want it.
I’ve been trying to figure out what bothers me about Adam’s album cover. I think this is it: He has that sexy gaze that we all love, but with all that femininity, it’s just confusing. But not in a provocative, Adam-type way. Oh, well, Adam is beautiful with or without makeup, inside and out. And, more importantly, he has an amazing voice. I hope he has a long and illustrious career.
I think there is a collective conciousness among a large group of Adam fans that makes them feel they have parental rights to “scold or control
self expression by Adam. It is, almost, as though their guidlines are…..I will love and support you as long as you are never totally honest and as long as you never become the version that “you have of yourself ,and your art,” but what we want you to be for us….”our fantasy”!!!!
So disturbing on so many levels, especially, as some of the fantasies border on being highly risque or worse.
I am so glad that he did twitter about At least getting your attention!!
I too, was shocked when I first saw the cover because it challenges me
to re examine “why” I might be shocked ?Am I really that shallow ,or do I have a hidden level of predjudice to non conformity of common traditional values??
On the conclusion of my reflection, I am thinking……..Thank you Adam for being in our collective face! You may be “The Crack in the Cosmic Egg”. Some of us will be a part of the evolution of love and acceptance
of all the wonderful differences of Humans!!!!!
My experience within Adam fandom has been completely the opposite.
Most of us enjoy him precisely because he won’t be controlled and because his vision of himself is 100% his own.
I love Adam because he is non-conformist. I am happy to be part of a smaller group of fans who likes him for who he is. I hate conforming that’s why i never liked the others. Conforming to norms sucks big time. It is so boring and predictable. It doesn’t generate buzz. Let me just clarify that I recognized the others have talent coz hell anybody who can sing better than me definitely has talent.
Adam is a beautiful person in and out, intelligent, fierce and ozzing with talent. All we should do is believe and shell out some money to buy his album. LOL!
Justjude, I love your post. I think it sums up how I’ve been feeling about much of the fan reaction to the album cover. Not the haters; expected that. And not the folks here at MJs that think the cover is a bad business decision because it will alienate new fans. It’s the more fanatical, obsessive peeps that seem to think *they* know what’s best for Adam – that as long as he walks the invisible line they have set (i.e. fingers in ears “nah nah nah I can’t hear you reminding me that you’re gay…it’s hot in fanfic but can’t have you getting too far out of our fantasies”) they will follow him to the ends of the earth. Step out of the predetermined “comfort zone” THEY have set for him and it’s under the bus with him!
I’m having more trouble articulating this whole thing than I thought I would. But I think you did it for me.
PS: Buderschnookie – I think you are referring to the more rational fans out there. I’d like to think I’m in that group with you. But there are some very scary peeps out there that have projected their own idealized version of Adam onto him. He’ll never live up to who they *want* him to be, and their reaction to his album cover I can only describe as hysteria.
I get it! and I love Adam, just can’t understand why so many are in an uproar, really! some say cheesy~ I say well, who doesn’t like cheese? infinite variety, something for everyone, creamy to sharp, Fondue please! The Font? really now, some probably just won’t buy the CD because they don’t like the font, remember it’s ALL about the MUSIC, can anyone forget the thrill of his voice? I am amazed how much Adam has given us this year, his performances, his change it up beauty and style, interviews, magazine articles, photographs, boundless energy and drive, can’t we just lay back and let him have a little “glam fun” and appreciate the show – and let him know that its alright, everything he does can’t please all the demands and “want it this way” after all the WLL and the super shots in Details, let the man have a soft moment & let his starry message come through, he has been going non stop for months, and now just when the gift is going to be given, some are not liking the gift wrap ~ pout! Makes me want to cry, just saying, imo!
AOL “hate” vote is up to 80 pct. Y’all need to vote.
Thankfully I have not run into too much of that, but if I did I would back out slowly and leave no trace of ever having been there.
and not verbalized or God forbid put in print.
It’s hard enough for me to know what is right for me on this earth without concerning myself with what is right for a complete stranger. Pedestal positioning a fantasy never makes for clear thought anyway- it is always a construct.
And I see nothing wrong with such a fantasy as long as it remains in one’s own head
Yeah, I know the thread is dead…
Gee, everyone hates the cover so much that FYE has gone from #14 to #2 on Amazon in the last 24 hours? Hhmm … is there more hate here inside the bubble than out there in RL?