Adam is a handsome, sexy man and I loved the Details photos. On the cover and in his solo pics, Adam projects an alpha male aura and smoldering sensuality far more intense than any other male model in the issue. And, collectively, all his photos are the most provocative. FYI ‘“ Seeing the article and photos isolated online vs. in the context of the magazine are different experiences.</blockquote

I agree with this so much. Especially the point that Adam is sexier than every other male model in the magazine. And the magazine photos are WAY more gorgeous than the online photos.

And he has funny tweets.

Obviously a matter of opinion. I think his sarcastic tweets translate more as mean-spirited. Not funny at all.

I wasn’t really intending to state my opinion. I should have said, “One of the things he’s known for is having funny tweets.”

Although my opinion is that he has funny tweets.

And he has funny tweets.

Obviously a matter of opinion. I think his sarcastic tweets translate more as mean-spirited. Not funny at all.

But in a country (the US) where Owl City “Fireflies” is number 1 –who know?

OK this was several pages, if not days back, but I had to LOL at this! BTW, Amazon gave this song away several weeks back. I know because I downloaded for free! I wouldn’t buy it though, so I agree with the sentiment…

Carry on…

P.S. Add me to those who believe Adam Lambert will indeed be immensely successful. I am among those who measure success more broadly than by US record sales, however. I also agree that the poor guy has some heavy expectations heaped upon him, from all sides and by everyone. While true all of this buzz and media love is amazing for him, I can’t help but see some of it as hopeful coattail riding as well. To be expected, but not optimal in my view for someone so new on the scene. Happy for him though!

Lynne, Alex Trugs is Alex Trugman, an unsuccessful contestant on Idol this past year.

His name is actually Alex Wagner-Trugman.

I’m curious about how you define “an unsuccessful contestant on Idol”, though. Are the ones who make Top 36 successful? (He was Top 36.) What about Top 13? Top 10? Top 4? Or the winner? I don’t see how you can draw a line on that one.

http://newsroom.mtv.com/2009/05/19/american-idol-finale-diary-catching-up-with-alex-wagner-trugman/

He likes to tweet.

Lynne, as far as I know: Alex seems to be friends with a lot of the Top 13 and he sometimes hung out with them during the show; he lives in LA. He goes to college in Florida. He has done some work for MTV, including some stuff with Jim Cantiello. And he has funny tweets.

I think Adam’s team pretty much gave up on sales for TFM when they decided to post the video on Myspace.

Agree with this but I don’t think “gave up” are the right words. In fact I would think that TfM was NEVER intended as a money maker nor was it ever intended to elicit sales as a single or to chart…at least in the pure marketing sense.

IMHO the intent of TfM was two-fold. One, it’s placement as a credit’s song for 2012 and two, an introduction of Adam to the world outside of the AI bubble. Look at it’s roll out: a short blip trailer at the 2012 site that was picked up by on-line media, a few strategically placed tv entertainment shows (known to be favorable to Adam), the announcement of a longer version of the song at TII, and then the whole video (free) on MySpace.

No radio spins, no off-line press hyping “The song” per se, no “live” performances on TV talk shows. I think it only went to I-tunes add because the fanbase was clamoring for it…I think the initial intention was to see the response at TII and the movie and then add it to I-tunes.

The bottom line is the song was recorded for the movie and the movie soundtrack. If it moves beyond that (like it apparently has because it looks like it may be added to the debut album) then it is only because their seems to be a “market” for the song standing on its own. Considering how many songs are incorporated in a movie, or played over the credits it’s always interesting when one breaks free and becomes a “hit” on its own. See: Clarkson, Kelly–Breakaway.

Even Shania Twain had a power ballad in her live arena rock show. They are kind of a rock n’ roll staple and have been since ‘” oh, I don’t know ‘” maybe Led Zeppelin.

‘Stairway From Heaven’  is my least fave Zepplelin song, unless sung by Dolly. Her version is beautiful.

Even so, TFM is not a good power ballad, no matter how well Adam sings it.

In your opinion it’s not a good power ballad. Taste is subjective.

….and it’s dangerous water to tread thinking that Adam might have been drunk or drinking…..he could just have been pissed off.

jts323
October 25, 2009 at 12:39 am
I didn’t buy Kris’  itunes bc I don’t have an IPOD’ ¦.waiting for the actual CD’ ¦.yes there some of us out there

I don’t have an iPod or even an mp3 player. But I do have computers and they all can burn CDs and DVDs so I can take my music with me.

I bought Kris’ single and then went back and bought his iPass (or whatever it’s called) so I get the album when it comes out. Odd thing though, I do not have 2 copies of the single even though it downloaded twice and did not get a credit for buying it twice.

With all that said, many people do prefer the physical CDs manufactured by the labels feeling it will be better quality, plus they want the liner notes.

I do wonder whether Adam ‘” if he’s actually in Florida ‘” will stick around and go to Kris’ concert tomorrow. Or whether he’d skip it (in part as to not take any of the attention off Kris)

I’d say, given from what we’ve seen from Adam so far, if he is still in Florida and not booked, he’ll go.

I saw that tweet by Pittman- sure sounds like it! I like how Adam is loyal to friends.