May:

There are a lot of white male artist who have achieved success on the pop charts but as groups rather than solo artists (JoBros, Weezer, AAR, 3OH!, Nickleback, etc, etc) . Adam is in that unique position of coming from Idol where you are forced into being a solo artist even if you have a “band” sound, which is what happened with Cook and Daughtry initially. I’m not sure if there is necessarily a force working against the white male solo artist. I think that guys in the pop/pop-rock/rock genre like to form bands, because half the fun is coming up with the musical arrangements…it’s a culture that starts in high school. There are always tons of young guys who want to be drummers, guitarits or bass players and aren’t really interested in singing, so it makes sense to form a band. Not so much with females…most want to sing with or without their own instrument. Idol sort of skirts the issue and provides these solo male artists with ready-made “bands”, but it’s just not the way things naturally happen. Even Adam had a band before idol, correct?

By the way…Eminem is another solo white male artists who kills on the pop charts. I still can’t tell what kind of music will dominate on Adam’s album, but he once mentioned wanting to duet with Missy Elliot, so I would say that anything’s possible. If Adam wants to dance and have dance videos, he will probably need some songs that sound like Timberlake or Madonna or even BEP. You can’t dance to too many other genres without looking stupid, especially if you’re a guy (I’m pretty sure he won’t be doing hip-hop, reggae or latin pop). Unless he wants to faux dance like Lady Gaga…I hope not.