Good morning. I just woke up from the most amazing dream, checked Twitter, noticed Adam was trending, and discovered this.
American Idol’s glamtastic runner-up Adam Lambert opens up in the next issue of Rolling Stone, speaking frankly about his sexuality, though he doesn’t think his revelation is particularly shocking.
“I don’t think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I’m gay,” Lambert says in the new issue of Rolling Stone, hitting newsstands this week.
The flamboyant Idol singer hits our cover and bares all, talking about his childhood (”I started to realize I wasn’t like every other boy,” he says), the drug-fueled Burning Man epiphany that led him to AI (”I realized that we all have our own power, and that whatever I wanted to do, I had to make happen,” he tells RS) and his run on the show (”I was like, ‘I’m going to glue rhinestones on my eyelids, bitch!’ “). And yes, he talks about his sexuality. “Right after the finale, I almost started talking about it to the reporters, but I thought, ‘I’m going to wait for Rolling Stone, that will be cooler,’ ” he tells us. “I didn’t want the Clay Aiken thing and the celebrity-magazine bullshit. I need to be able to explain myself in context.
“I’m proud of my sexuality,” Lambert adds. “I embrace it. It’s just another part of me.” Ultimately, however Lambert tells RS contributor Vanessa Grigoriadis that there are other parts of his life that he’s trying to keep front and center. “I’m trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader,” he says.
It was that mission — and his Burning Man “psychedelic experience” — that lead him to Idol after years in musical theater. “I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it’s fast and broad,” he tells RS.
He details his experience on Idol, his true thoughts on winner Kris Allen and how his sexuality impacted his Idol run in our cover story, “Wild Idol: The Psychedelic Transformation and Sexual Liberation of Adam Lambert,” which hits newsstands this week.
(Make sure you check out the site for more pictures and an exclusive video from Adam's photo shoot)
USA Today writes:
Now we know why Adam Lambert told People to "keep speculating."
He was saving himself for Rolling Stone.
Having decided that coming out to the music and pop culture magazine "will be much cooler," the American Idol runner-up gave Rolling Stone writer Vanessa Grigoriadis the statement every media outlet had been clamoring for: "I don't think it should be a surprise to anyone to hear I'm gay."
Once Adam cleared up that issue, he went into greater detail, talking about the pictures that surfaced in March of him and his ex kissing, about experimenting with girls in high school and of losing his virginity in Hollywood on his 21st birthday.
Some of Adam's juicier quotes in the article:
• On American Idol roommate Kris Allen: "He's the one guy I found attractive on the show: nice, nonchalant, pretty and totally my type -- except that he has a wife."
• On current boyfriend Drake LaBry: "Cajun, voodoo-down, dreamy.”
• On the female fans that went crazy for him during his Idol run: "Just because I'm not sticking it in there doesn't mean that I don't find it beautiful."
• On Justin Timberlake: "Yum."
And I can't even tell you the one thing he said he and Clay Aiken have in common.
The article doesn't give many clues as to what Adam's forthcoming album might sound like, but his musical likes include Thievery Corporation and Goldfrapp, while his dislikes include Nickelback and Creed. He's not that into musical classifications like "rock" and "pop," but he does enjoy the fantasy aspect of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle.
"Being a rock star is just playing," he tells the magazine. "It’s Halloween, make-believe. I can’t believe I get to play dress-up for a living now!”
Another article about it here..
and one more from USA Today.
YAY! In other news, Adam has officially signed with RCA.
(Los Angeles, CA – June 9, 2009) – American Idol season 8 runner-up Adam Lambert has been signed to 19 Recordings and licensed to RCA Records. He is preparing to start work on his debut album which is due for release in fall 2009.
“To find a talent as exceptional as Adam Lambert is a rare and special event,” says Simon Fuller, Creator and Executive Producer of American Idol and Founder & CEO of 19 Entertainment. “I am thrilled that American Idol was the platform for the world to discover this brilliant young man. He is unique and unforgettable and a certain star of tomorrow.”
“There are no longer any rules in terms of where the world’s next superstars may come from,” says Barry Weiss, Chairman & CEO RCA/JIVE Label Group. “We are thrilled to be getting involved with Adam Lambert as we all at RCA Records believe he is one of those rare, future global stars”.
“I’m thrilled that we’ve come to a creative and collaborative partnership and look forward to developing a really exciting album,” says Lambert. “We are 100% on the same page and are all anxiously awaiting the start of the recordings. It’s going to be ridiculous! Get Ready!!!”
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