Before American Idol, Adam Lambert vocal was used for remixes for “America’s Best Dance Crew.” That’s the Randy Jackson produced dance competition show for MTV.
District 78 is the outfit that created the mixes. Check them out HERE. And read their good luck message to Adam HERE.
One of these mixes of Queen’s “We Are the Champions” made it to air:
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Here is the original vocal sample:
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“Also, Adam is compared to Freddie because he has a similar vocal range.”
Adam’s range is much much wider than Freddie’s. Believe it or not, Freddie only sang in about 3 octaves (maybe 3 and a half, to be fair). I think he hit a C5 during Live Aid, and that was extremely rare and one of the few times he did — and only in falsetto, not in head voice. In fact, he said that when he was sick (and dying), he discovered his range expanded further than it ever had before. (That makes me sad to think what could have been.) I just found this website that details his highest and lowest notes: http://www.f-mercury.com.ar/eng_notes.htm
From listening to Adam, I’d say he is able to sing in at least 5 octaves, possibly more — as unlikely as it seems that anyone could. Even on the show, I think he’s hit an A5 in head voice and an F5 in falsetto.
Dig this from Bowie’s Wikipedia page:
“America is a very puritanical place, and I think it stood in the way of so much I wanted to do.”
As a heterosexual Englishwoman living in the US for a long time, I say yay to that statement. I always thought America was “footloose and fancy free” … until I lived here for a while.
I’m listening to Freddie Mercury & Bowie’s “Under Pressure” for the upteenth time. I’m liking the idea of a Kradam “Under Pressure” more and more, just please don’t make Adam just wail “why why…..” like what the Canadian Idol duo did. Adam and Kris can do better than that!
*Waves to fellow 60’s hippie flynnsgirl!*
Is Adam “accepted”? Did adults “accept” Led Zeppelin, the Airplane, Mothers of invention, the Doors, Country Joe (especially his cheer?!)? HELL, NO! And we preferred it that way, thankyouverymuch!
So if there’s a contingent that sees Adam as the anti-Danny who must begone, or a segment that hears a high tenor and calls it “screaming”, or a demographic that watches Jamie Foxx and can’t wait to purchase his work, so be it. That still leaves at least a hundred million Americans!
oddobserver, Clay neither won, nor outed himself until five years later, when he became a parent.
hee, you’re right WinkyDink. Dunno how I could have forgotten even for a moment that Clay was 2nd. Clay lost to Rueben. Anyway, I missed the ‘outing’, so dunno the circumstances that prompted his outing. But his fanbase would have been established already, right? I can’t imagine him making such a move without being sure of his fanbase first, or firmly establishing his career .
Anyway, it’s his choice. I was just wondering in my post if Bowie had a point when he mused that America wasn’t able to accept gay singers for just their talent, and it got in the way of his US career. And I wondered if it’ll be the same situation for Adam.
I just looked at a clip of Freddie Mercury singing “Who Wants to Live Forever”, and in the first minute or so of his appearance he stands bathed in a beautiful blue spotlight, then he descends a large staircase.
Sounds familiar, in a good way!! Showmanship is BACK. Love him or hate him, my guess is that no one watching AI has been bored when Adam performs.
What is so interesting with Adam is he has such a wide voice range with his full voice. He doesn’t always have to use his falsetto/head voice. He is truely gifted, and had one hell of a voice coach as a child!!
Its sad to me that walking down the stairs is considered theatarical and too showy. Do people not go to entertainment venues to see real events/concerts/etc? Or is today’s music just full of jumping up and down and waving arms in the air?? LOL
One could argue that most people in entertainment are gay or bisexual. This isn’t a new development…….. If anything, I think people are more accepting now. Although I know there are still closed/narrow-minded folks out there.
This…
*sign* why why wasn’t I born in 60’s or early ’70’s?
(( (specifically think about Jim Morrison here)
My best friend just said to me last week that if Adam was to compete in Europe or other parts of the world, he would have won the contest already. There would be no question about his sexuality at all. Kinda echo what a lot of you are saying here. I’m glad that many people are accepting Adam for who he is but I understand that many also don’t (we Asians call them middle America, sorry!) but I think that’s the thing about being an artist. You provoke feelings in people, for the best or the worst. People either love or hate you, just the way great artists are. If people don’t care enough about you they just don’t talk at all. I think Adam will have a great future ahead of him outside of Idol bubble where some contestants may not survive it at all. (and who was that grayed haired guy from last Wed again? *cough*)
That’s my 2 cents anyway and I guess I’m the minority here who like ’screeching’ and OTT Adam. That ‘Feeling Good’ is probably one of my fav performance from Adam, what a showmanship! Although I talked to a friend who’s American and she thought it is disturbing, oh well….
OK, since no one else here has said this, I guess I’ll be the one to do so. If Joanna Pacitti was disqualified for her prior experience and ties to the “Idol” producers / judges, then Adam Lambert should be disqualified as well. I admit that the dude can be outrageously entertaining (and I think that this is clouding a lot of our judgment here), but the fact remains that he has the same ties to Randy Jackson for which Carly Smithson was eviscerated on many boards (not just VFTW) last year. Not to mention the fact that he has years of professional voice training from his musical theatre experience that few (if any) other contestants have. There’s a reason that Adam seems head and shoulders above the others at times, and that’s because he’s already a professional singer! To be fair, Adam isn’t the only one left on this show who can be accused of being a plant (he’s only the most blatant example), as Allison had appeared on (and won) a Spanish-language talent competition on Telemundo as recently as two years ago. My point is that the “Idol” producers should stop pretending that the competitors on this show are anything close to being amateurs, or even “undiscovered talent.” It’s flat-out insulting to the audience’s intelligence.
rk349097, the producers don’t pretend anything. The rules state that contestants can’t be under a current contract. That’s all.
Just because America likes the perception that disadvantaged children are plucked from obscurity, discovered after having only sung in the shower at home, doesn’t mean that the show’s rules require that. They don’t. Until they do, it’s not fair to impose such a requirement ourselves and then claim the producers are being less than forthcoming about the show’s premise.
Again, as stated upthread, recording a demo that is then sold does not by itself even suggest a contact with RJ, much less a prior relationship. Joanna had a known and extensive prior relationship. So, at least on the info we have, her situation differs quite a bit.
Joanna had a personal relationship with someone who is now a Fox exec. She considers her to be her “best friend.” Adam did not have a personal relationship with Randy before the show. He just recorded some vocals and the mix was used on Randy’s show. It’s very different.
Also, Joanna was not dq’d because of her previous experience. It was only because she had a personal relationship with a Fox employee.
Adam’s connections to the show are the worst I’ve ever seen in any “reality” show. He does appear to have friendships to people connected to the show and 19Entertainment, there’s a photo of him with Brian Friedman for one, who is connected to his friends from the Zodiac Show, Alisan Porter and Lee Cherry. Brian Friedman did choreography for the Zodiac Show that Adam was in.
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He also does choreography for various shows like DWTS and SYTYCD, and was a judge on SYTYCD in Season two (also made by 19Entertainment, and where Nigel Lythgoe’s gone). He was the Creative Director on X Factor last year, working directly with Cowell. Creative Director is a big deal and he was given the job when the plans for him to be a judge fell through.
Cowell isn’t just a judge either, he is a producer of both shows.
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Now Adam knows Randy too…LOL
I half-expected something to pop up with Paula, but I wasn’t expecting that.
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So what? How does recording a demo that is used on Randy’s show by a friend of Adam’s imply that Adam knew Randy or got on AI because of it? Where’s your proof? It’s all speculation and conjecture on your part.