3.7.12 Adam News and Info
Mar 8, 2012 0:29:02 GMT -5
Post by Craazyforadam on Mar 8, 2012 0:29:02 GMT -5
Here finally the translation that I promised earlier. Had a challenge to hear Adam through the German translation running in the foreground and sometimes I just could not make out the original. In that case, I opted to rather give you a translation of the German text, because in the end it is more important what info the German's get to hear, as none of this is news and each of these sentences have been said by Adam gazillion times already. If anybody can make out more of the original, just let me know.
In general, the translation was very close to the original, wherever I could make it out, so it is not a big issue.
A bit more concerning is that the "gay" discussion ends up being dominant, even though the coverage is even-minded and rational. But still, it dominates too much as a topic. Could have used a few other questions beyond that.
Here now the translation (my own comment in italics)
www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/adam-lambert-die-zweite-1.1302218
Adam Lambert – The second (album)
AL became instantly famous after first reaching second place on US-Casting show AI and then entering the charts with the hit WWFM.
But from early on, the 30-year old talent show star saw himself often as an outsider. In the general system of the music industry, I certainly seem to be perceived as different from the typical pop artist, I’m an outsider that way. And as a person, I also always saw myself as a bit different. I was a strange kid in school, kind of odd, I did not feel that I belonged of fit in, until my parents enrolled me in a theater group. There for the first time I found more friends, we accepted each other, no matter how weird we happend to be. It was celebrated instead of being judged.
Note: in the video you can see some of the Germany video hack job that was so much discussed here. The scenes that are plonked into the BTIKM video are from that German comedy flick “Tuerkisch fuer Anfaenger”. (the film trailer indicates to me that this film is absolutely terrible, btw...sexist, racist, primitive, dumb, vulgar ...there is no end to the level of SHE I feel even talking about having seen those movie trailers. No Glambert deserves the punishment to endure this garbage, just to somewhere hear BTIKM. What a crime to even make such a film! Even more to use a perfect video like BTIKM in it.
Female commentator:
Perhaps this being different is also one of the secrets to his success. He also is one of the very few mainstream singers in the US, who openly proclaim their homosexuality from the onset. In the US this still seams to be a stigma.
Adam: In America its just, its just one area that in the music industry there hasn’t been that many out artists, if any. And even a few legendary artists who have come out as gay have came out as gay after the fact. It definitely is a bit of a challenge. People jump to conclusions and are a bit narrow minded when it comes to sexuality, especially the men. And so it is difficult in commercial pop music to get somebody to listen to your song, when they know that you are gay, they say maybe: “I don’t like this person, he is gay”. So sometimes it is difficult to get them to listen to the song, to like it just for the song. To see that the emotion of the song is an universal emotion, something everybody goes through.
Commentator: With his second album, Trespassing Lambert wants to now show even more of his personality. On many tracks he could bring himself into the song and co-write. Whether it will be a chart success like the first album, will have to be seen. Fact is, Adam Lambert has a special purpose or mission.
Adam: And on T, one of the things that I was really focused on, was creating music that was very autobiographical. Songs, which are about real moments in my life, real things that I have encountered, but that hopefully everybody can relate to. The very deep emotional topics and motives of each songs are quite wide, therefore I hope that in the end it does not matter that I am gay. The songs are ultimately about the human condition. Perhaps there are people who can look past my sexual orientation and connect to my heart…and to my head, you know.
In general, the translation was very close to the original, wherever I could make it out, so it is not a big issue.
A bit more concerning is that the "gay" discussion ends up being dominant, even though the coverage is even-minded and rational. But still, it dominates too much as a topic. Could have used a few other questions beyond that.
Here now the translation (my own comment in italics)
www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/adam-lambert-die-zweite-1.1302218
Adam Lambert – The second (album)
AL became instantly famous after first reaching second place on US-Casting show AI and then entering the charts with the hit WWFM.
But from early on, the 30-year old talent show star saw himself often as an outsider. In the general system of the music industry, I certainly seem to be perceived as different from the typical pop artist, I’m an outsider that way. And as a person, I also always saw myself as a bit different. I was a strange kid in school, kind of odd, I did not feel that I belonged of fit in, until my parents enrolled me in a theater group. There for the first time I found more friends, we accepted each other, no matter how weird we happend to be. It was celebrated instead of being judged.
Note: in the video you can see some of the Germany video hack job that was so much discussed here. The scenes that are plonked into the BTIKM video are from that German comedy flick “Tuerkisch fuer Anfaenger”. (the film trailer indicates to me that this film is absolutely terrible, btw...sexist, racist, primitive, dumb, vulgar ...there is no end to the level of SHE I feel even talking about having seen those movie trailers. No Glambert deserves the punishment to endure this garbage, just to somewhere hear BTIKM. What a crime to even make such a film! Even more to use a perfect video like BTIKM in it.
Female commentator:
Perhaps this being different is also one of the secrets to his success. He also is one of the very few mainstream singers in the US, who openly proclaim their homosexuality from the onset. In the US this still seams to be a stigma.
Adam: In America its just, its just one area that in the music industry there hasn’t been that many out artists, if any. And even a few legendary artists who have come out as gay have came out as gay after the fact. It definitely is a bit of a challenge. People jump to conclusions and are a bit narrow minded when it comes to sexuality, especially the men. And so it is difficult in commercial pop music to get somebody to listen to your song, when they know that you are gay, they say maybe: “I don’t like this person, he is gay”. So sometimes it is difficult to get them to listen to the song, to like it just for the song. To see that the emotion of the song is an universal emotion, something everybody goes through.
Commentator: With his second album, Trespassing Lambert wants to now show even more of his personality. On many tracks he could bring himself into the song and co-write. Whether it will be a chart success like the first album, will have to be seen. Fact is, Adam Lambert has a special purpose or mission.
Adam: And on T, one of the things that I was really focused on, was creating music that was very autobiographical. Songs, which are about real moments in my life, real things that I have encountered, but that hopefully everybody can relate to. The very deep emotional topics and motives of each songs are quite wide, therefore I hope that in the end it does not matter that I am gay. The songs are ultimately about the human condition. Perhaps there are people who can look past my sexual orientation and connect to my heart…and to my head, you know.
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At the fans signing along with Adam in beginning and Adam's reaction.
