Adam Lambert is Surprised, Disappointed by Leaked Track List of Pre-Idol Material
Adam Lambert released a statement, reacting to the track list leaked by TMZ early this morning. He says the songs he co-wrote were demos and that he never intended for the public to hear them:
Last Friday I was surprised to find out that songs I recorded back in 2005 were being released. Since then I discovered the entire track listing, revealed online today. I was shocked to learn that songwriting demos of songs that I co-wrote and recorded over the past few years may be released in an album. Like a rough draft that a writer does before finishing a book, I did not intend my work on these demos to be heard by the public. I was unaware that anyone intended to release these recordings until I heard about it in the press, and I’m very disappointed by this entire situation.
A short statement was probably necessary at this point to clarify his initial statement that he was only a vocalist for hire on these recordings. Obviously it was a little more than that.
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Also how would Monte Pittman of all people find himself at a tremendous potential loss? Dont they even know who he is?
Pittman doing mighty fine in his own right. Hes in London with Madonna at the moment.
Exactly. Think you might be right on the money about their not knowing who he is, though, lol!
The thing about Monte Pittman is interesting as well. Adam was working with one of Madonna’s songwriters before Idol. I am at a loss on why Adam needed Idol he was already working with one of the industries top writers. Now the contestants and winners from other years certainly had musical histories but none of them actually worked with such an acclaimed writer as Monte Pittman. They were struggling and putting out indie albums. The production value of some of Adam’s previous work I also find interesting. While previous winners were working in smoky bars or singing at county fairs, Mr. Lambert was working on some highly produced shows with hundreds of folks involved.
Oh sure, very consistent to be sure. “Adam has been consistently what?” would be the question I would ask. And my answer would be consistent in attempts to distance himself from something in which he was into up to his eyeballs.
Adams been more consistant than Hi-Fi and to be honest Hi-Fi should just shut up now, they are not going to sell more records by continuing this.
I really wish Hi-Fi would just release it and be done. They are looking very unprofessional and if I was an artist on their lable I would be a bit peeved by all the unnecessary attention they are giving to someone not even signed to their label.
….Double post
If only Hi-Fi had managed to get this much press coverage for Melinda, who is signed to them.
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From my understanding, Monte is a guitar player for Madonna, not a songwriter. Maybe someone else knows more and can clear that up.
I was wrong in my above post so would like to amend it he was working with her guitar player but they were writing together. I misunderstood some previous posts. Sorry
I have to say I’m really intrigued by HiFi’s latest press release. To a certain degree, they really took the gloves off and more or less called Adam and/or someone on his team a liar (i.e., the story keeps on changing), repeatedly talked about the fact that there was a “plan” for releasing this material and even gave the date of the recording contract (very close in date to when he would have tried out for Idol) and the people that he was potentially damaging by his distancing himself from the project. Based on my assumption (which could well be wrong) that no one would be stupid enough to lie about something this specific, I get the feeling that, no matter how you may view HiFi/Wilshire’s motives (and let’s face it, they are coattail riding opportunists, no matter how you slice it), they likely have been straight about their/Wilshire’s relationship with Adam (and have the documentary records to prove it), otherwise Adam/19R would have gone much further in their disavowals and nailed them for any piece of untruth they may have uttered.
Oh, by the way, on the question as to why HiFi said that they (rather than Wilshire) had a contract with Adam: It’s easy enough for these contracts to contain a clause that says that record company can assign the contract (or any right under the contract) to anyone without the consent of the artist. Therefore, if Wilshire assigned the contract (or a portion of the contract) to HiFi, voila!, there’s a contract between HiFi and Adam.
lucy
Jun 26th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
lucy, that’s the best question I have read all day! As we have all witnessed, Adam appears to be a perfectionist in everything he does. Demos are not perfect, finished products and only a preview of the artist’s actual abilities. If they were complete and perfect, there would be no need for demos!
As stated in MJs article today:
“Ryan read Adamà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s latest statement on the Hi-Fi release of his pre-Idol material, and while Adam stopped short of telling fans not to buy it, he made it clear heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s pissed. à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“The songs arenà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t finished,à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ he says.”
That says it all for me, lucy. I am finished with this subject. Have a good day everyone.
Someone above mentioned that Hi Fi has “documentary proof” about Adam’s relationship with Wilshire. What proof is that? I only saw a letter (could have been typed up by anyone at any time) with a list of songs and who wrote them. IMO they have NOT been straight up about the relationship with Wilshire – first they only released WANT – a song that was NOT written by Adam, and was in fact up on the Wilshire website sung by someone else (this alone could substantiate Adam’s claim that he was a session singer for the WANT track).
Hi Fi first said they wanted Adam to do well and they wanted to support him by releasing this music. After Adam claimed he was a session singer (at least on the WANT track which is the only one they released) they then “leaked” this supposed play list – very supportive NOT.
Now they are almost accusing Adam (or his “reps”) of being a liar, and releasing music that he clearly wants to distance himself from and states is unfinished.
I don’t see how this is supporting Adam at all – they bought the rights from Wilshire because they saw an opportunity to make money – Wilshire sold the rights because of this same opportunity. Neither of them is “supporting” Adam. He only has the fans to support him now, and I will.
How many people can admit they they read every single word when they sign a contract? Do you get a lawyer to go over it prior to signing? Do you read the fine print? In the case of artists who are struggling, you are happy to make any money & you gladly sign anything they put in front of you.
No, what happens is someone hands you a long and boring document, they summarize the key points, you sign it, they notarize it, and they give you a copy of the contract. Adam needs to produce his copy of the Feb/2008 signed contract that HiFi says they have and put an end of this debate. If he didn’t keep it then Hi Fi needs to produce a notarized copy for review and put the debate to rest.
There is so much big to-do with Adam Lambert and he didn’t even win the competition, which is good for RCA due to their strict rules about not having a current recording/management contract to be a contestant. The winner definitely has a more lucrative contract for winning. I would venture to guess that if this debate was about Kris Allen with him having possibly violated the terms of A.I. contract, Adam Lambert fans would have demanded Kris be disqualified and the title given to Adam.