Yahoo Music’s Lyndsey Parker got to visit the 19 Entertainment offices today to preview some new American Idol music. She heard 4 songs from Adam Lambert, three of which she reviewed on her Reality Rocks blog HERE.
She also heard 7 previously unheard songs from Kris Allen (review HERE).
First things first. Lyndsey says nothing she heard today sounds even remotely like the retro power ballad “Time For Miracles” from the 2012 soundtrack. And to be honest peeps, I could not be more relieved. Adam kills the song vocally. But the tune itself is a sonic retread, not even good compared to other power rock ballads.
I’m happy to hear that the glittery, alien-inspired, retro-but-not, electro-infused dance music Adam promised is going to be featured on his album, For Your Entertainment, in a major way. The album is set to be released on November 23rd.
“Yes, the music was THAT good, people,” Lyndsey says, “It was EXACTLY the extraterrestrial electro-opus I hoped and dreamed it would be.”
The song I’m most excited about hearing is “Music Again”, produced by Rob Cavallo and written by Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins, who also plays guitar on the track. I love me some Darkness.
Entertainment Weekly revealed the Rob Cavallo produced song as a Hawkins-penned track in a recent EW interview, and let me tell you, THAT caught my attention.
But it was Lyndsey’s description, of “Music Again”, “A falsetto gang chorus like something off a lost Sweet outtakes album, squalling guitar riffs, pumping “Funkytown” beats,” That got me really stoked. OMG. Sweet. I. Am. So. There. It’s Lyndsey’s favorite song. She apologized to the 19 staff for having to clean up brain parts after her head exploded. Heh.
“Entertainment” is a Dr. Luke/Claude Kelly joint, and is the title track of sorts, opening with the lyric, “I’m here for your entertainment!”. It’s Rocky Horror-meets-Robbie Williams style, according to Lyndsey. An “utra-caffeinated party starter” that’s just begging to be remixed.
And “Winners”, also produced by Rob Cavallo, is a “slinky, sexy, salacious dance-rock grinder with a keening, near-orgasmic vocal reminiscent of Adam’s watershed “Ring Of Fire” performance…” Whoa.
And Lyndsey didn’t even cover the Lady Gaga collaboration that went down on Monday. Yoinks. It’s going to be crazy!
Make sure to read Lyndsey’s full review of the songs HERE.
He is receiving several tweets asking him to name his source. No reply. It is interesting that this is the correct title of the Pink song-not what was in the EW articel
Isn’t this the same rumor that was floating around yesterday based on that hoax at Adam Official?
Didn’t he or someone else twitter this a while ago when the controversy about Adam also doing a cover for his first single hit the blogs. I have no way of telling whether this is true but Pink and Max Martin don’t seem to be the type to write a song that is all about fire and explosions and OTT dancers which is what Adam wants to do on the AMAs. But then, I seem to be totally wrong about everything Adam lately.
Not sure which thread to post this on, but I just noticed that the ontd_ai kids are sending out the Adam Signal indicating that there is more rumors on Adam’s possible first single. Anyone know what they’re talking about?
The Pink?Max Martin thing?
Yes it is. He is now answering tweets about his source. I think English is not his first language, but it sounds shaky. I hope its not true-the description of the song doesn’t sound glam-rockish. I would love to hear Music Again as the first single, based on the description in the article.
I actually think the first single is going to be one we haven’t heard about at all yet. Why would Lindsey Parker not even be able to give us the name of the 4th song she heard if it was the Pink song. The name had already been given in the EW photo essay.
Here is one of his responses to the questions about his tweet:
@MelCabral @JandaLee29 @paperrosie53 @Tammy_de is a leak from someone in your label. It’s surely official. It will be unveiled soon
“I know, when I read it I thought he sounded like one of the Children of the Corn or something. Wow, Kris, someone got a gun to your head?
Though I’ll take it. It was nice of Kris to tweet, however robotic.”
Kris is not exactly the most enthusiastic tweeter. He sounds the same, even when he’s talking about his own music.
Adam’s teasing comments to the press are probably not intended to be taken quite so literally.
These press answers are itended to be witty, to entertain, to build enthusiasm. They shouldn’t be viewed as sworn affidavets.
ITA. I was concerned when I heard that the song would be on the album but I’ll just look at it as a (skippable) bonus track.
Only the tweet you are already discussing. Will see if there’s anything new there, but dont think so.
Key word in when I said Adam’s album is disappointing is the phrase “So far.” and I know he wanted to go the electropop route, but I was hoping he’d kinda pretend he never said that. That’s why it’s disappointing, he didn’t ditch it. I was sad and kinda shocked when he said he wanted to go that route.
A CD full of Time for Miracles-types would be good but not timeless, and lose it’s luster. He should have at least one power ballad and he shouldn’t do as much electropop as he said he’d do. If he really wanted to make people dance, he should look back at his performances of Let’s Dance and Play That Funky Music. Amazing, upbeat, danceable, and NOT electropop.
it wasn’t really electropop/dance, it had such an amazing feel to it. And I honestly thought it blew the original out of the water, David bowie’s sounds like a boring “meh” compared to Adam’s. It’s pretty hard for someone to take someone as timeless as David Bowie and make him sound like crap on his own song.
Hopefully that’s the extent of what Lyndsey and Adam consider “electropop” because it didn’t sound electronic. But if not, well, there’s always 6-8 more songs we don’t have any clue about at all. I’m still looking forward to those, but hoping that he doesn’t go the Lady GaGa/Blake Lewis route.
jammasta, I don’t think this will b a Blake Lewis revisited album. If nothing else, Adam can actually sing. As far as Gaga goes, I love her songs. I don’t find her music anything like Blakes. Although watching her perform is harder.
Also, there should be at least 2 ballads on it, according to things both Adam and Rob Cavallo have said.
From AINOw:
First single has NOT been decided
http://www.ainow.org/index.php/tidbits/1207-19r-adam-lamberts-first-single-hasnt-been-chosen-yet
Heh…hwc, that is exactly what I wrote when he first said it in his interview but I was severly scolded for saying that I didn’t think fire would be part of his AMA appearance. Everyone said that if Adam said it, it would be true and that they use controlled fire on stage all the time. So what the fuck do I know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrBDivsSe3k
Just checked out Sweet”s Ballroom blitz …Lindsey referred to the group when she was describing Music Again…i can’t get the song out of my head now…feeling soooo excited for Adam’s music
Weird – never heard of The Sweet, so I figured she was referring to a more recent cover of the old song Ballroom Blitz, only that IS the old version! Very familiar with the song, but never knew it was by The Sweet. Weird….
Ballroom Blitz will always remind me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMekTvaTLYs
Ballroom Blitz sounded typical 70’s and for a moment I thought I was listening to early Alice Cooper.
I go for this title!
Still loving TfM, and love is growing.
I agree, hwc. And you called him Adam.
Of course we’ll all have to wait until we hear the full album to really know what it will sound like, but FWIW, Adam said several times that the Bowie Medley, and “Let’s Dance” in particular, gave a lot of clues about what his album would be like.
And he said during one interview, when specifically asked about the fear that he would allow electronics to cover his voice, that the electronic element was about the instrumentation, not his vocals.
I quite like Lady Gaga–her lyrics and melodies are often actually very clever. But I would be very sad if Adam’s voice were not highlighted on at least most of his songs, so hopefully he’s sticking to his earlier thoughts on the electronic elements of his music. Lyndsey Parker’s song descriptions, especially the second two, sounded very promising, and Rolling Stone specifically talked about Strut highlighting Adam’s range and falsetto, so signs are positive.
We shall see.
Mila
October 22, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Hey guys go get time for miracles by @adamlambert because he sounds so good on it.
Uh,,, he is as enthusiastic with others as he is with himself.
For those above interested in seeing what the Sweet influences on Adam might sound like, I would suggest, rather than Ballroom Blitz, the song “Action” which truthfully I have thought for a long time was just begging for Adam to do. Sweet initially performed songs that were written by pro songwriters Nicky Chapman and Mike Chinn, who wrote “Ballroom Blitz”. When Sweet started writing their own songs, Action, Lies In Your Eyes, Fox on the Run, etc. they got less bubblegummy more glammy and rock which I think is a better indication of what Adam might sound like on “Music Again” . Just a guess of course.