Adore Delano has come a long way since her American Idol season 7 days, when known as Danny Noriega. After leaving the competition in the Top 16, she went on to create a drag persona Adore Delano, who made the finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 6, then abruptly quit Drag Race All Stars 2. These days, Adore is channeling her pent-up emotions in the performer’s third album, Whatever.
Describing the album in a recent interview with Yahoo Music:
“It’s a 100 percent alternative rock album, inspired by all the greats before I was on American Idol. Everything that inspired me when I was a little angry kid and when I was younger, during the Bush administration, came out of me during this political climate. I just wanted the kids to have something to be fun and dance around with and be angry about,” Delano says of Whatever. “It’s important to be angry and paint the town red sometimes. … I feel like there’s a lot of angry kids that need to have some type of stuff to get crazy with, like punch a hole in your wall. … Sometimes you do need to question society, you do need to question your parents, you do need to question the media. There is a lot of things right now that are going on that you do need to question, and I hopefully put that into this music.”
Adore shares the current political climate in America has inspired the anger expressed on Whatever. It’s directed at “ignorance” which she says “isn’t bliss at all. It just makes me want to punch somebody. I just think the political climate right now is really, really concerning, to say the least, but that definitely inspired the anger. … If I don’t get this out, I feel like it would be bottled up and I would go crazy and eventually light my house on fire or something.”
Watch Adore Delano’s “Negative Nancy” music video here.
