Adam Lambert: Under Pressure!

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The American Idol star admits he’s nervous about taking his place with the remaining Queen members in London next week and starts to sing the songs that Freddie Mercury made so famous.

“I’m not superstitious about it. I do recognize the pressure and the expectation and I want to do a great job, I don’t want to let anybody down. I want to put on a good show. But I also feel confident that I’ll be able to do that,” Lambert told the Huffington Post.

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“It’s very prestigious gig, but taking it would have been a harder decision to make had they not been, and my confidence levels would have suffered. And to do this music, you have to be secure.

“I met the band, and there was a connection. They were so down to earth, positive and sociable, and I came away thinking ‘what dudes’ and we had kind of mentioned doing… something.”

http://www.showbizspy.com/article/248187/adam-lambert-under-pressure.html

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Just in case you missed it.

Also...

Roger and Rufus Taylor's drum duet was nuts! Brian and Roger can still sing. And seeing them tour again makes a lot of people very happy and clearly makes them very happy too! Does it make them money? Sure, but none of them need money. And Adam, while never Freddie, brings new things and new audiences to rock royalty, what the hell. There are no rules, maybe they'll cut an album...

So what do you think?

[msongs]

1. compare him to the hip-hop closet case who says he is loves men but is not gay lol nt

[Lint Head]

2. I think when the original singer dies in a group that mimicking

the original singer as if they are not dead is no different than seeing an Elvis impersonator. Originality and creativity has been homogenized by corporate committees in to a banal continuous auto tuned tone noise. The template is used over and over in music and movies. Remakes of movies and even some books has reached a critical mass. This generation is witness to rehashed ideas. It's time for something radical to happen in music and the arts in general. The problem is with the up tight corporate music business model. It's sad that there is really nothing new in the last several decades.


What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.

[Papa]

3. While I don't disagree with your sentiments....

Did you even watch this video? I would hardly call this performance mimicry. He sounds just like Adam Lambert singing Queen songs. He does not sound like Freddie Mercury.

[Lint Head]

4. I did.

It's still the original band. Freddie Mercury can't be touched even by a different style. If Adam Lambert is just doing Adam Lambert why not use you're own band and creatively do an arrangement that is also different.

[Papa]

5. Good.

While I tend to have the same outlook as your own, it just doesn't apply to me here in this case. I'm not sure i would want to attend a Queen concert and not hear the original versions, and with a different arrangement. Some of those songs are so ingrained into people that to change it would be suicide.

For me, Queen was not just about Freddie Mercury, it was about the whole band. Being a guitarist, my focus was more on Brian May. I would still like to see Brian May perform Queen songs, and hear the music. Brian shouldn't just hang it up if there is a demand for the music, so I enjoy that Adam and Paul Rodgers have performed with them and that they have kept the Queen legacy alive.

One possible outcome from this mash up might be that if there is any chemistry between Adam and the original band, we might see a new release in the future with original material, satisfying our need for some new artistic expression!