BUY – Adam Lambert’s ‘Trespassing’ OR Adam Lambert Brings ‘The Album’ Back.
THIS IS MY CAPSULE REVIEW – JUST LISTEN TO THE ALBUM AND THEN YOU WILL WANT TO BUY IT TO OWN AS IT IS JUST SHEER FUNK SOUL MOTHER FUCKING BRILLIANT.
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WOW. That was my first thought on finishing ‘Trespassing’. He has dance hits, he has radio ready hits, he has love songs and he plummets to the depth of his soul for the ‘real shit’. I did not expect the album to be this good. Adam’s first album was rushed and just seemed like a collection of songs with no theme. Lambert has surpassed himself here, making the most complete album of ideas and emotions for years.
Right from the first song Adam is laying it all on the line, dancing up a storm in your pants with the very cool title track ‘Trespassing’…..
Great dance track. Needs to be a single. But next he leaps into the sexy and playful ‘Cuckoo’, which needs also to be a single…….
‘Kickin’ In’ is the sexiest song about drugs Prince never wrote……
‘Pop that Lock’ is sex on legs……
‘Naked Love’ is an assured radio hit…..
OK, this has changed from being anywhere near a review and turned into ‘Listen to this song, it is really good’. But I have not felt like this about an album for decades.
Adam sometimes does the whole ‘fake diva scream like a banshee Xtina/Mariah/Whitney Diva school’ crime. Well, he does have the best voice in music in the 21st century. He very much controls the ‘shrieking ell’ stuff here, flying when the songs demands and needs it, but also showing a lower register I think few were aware he posessed. The vocals and control are above reproach.
As a whole, the album makes you anticipate the next song and then the next, as it just seems to get better and better. Well, doesn’t ‘seem’ too, it does.
The latter half is quite different in tone from the first half. Searing honesty and a voice that seems to be coming from his boots, with song after song, – ‘Underneath, Chokehold, Broken English, Runnin’, Nirvana’ – all have an emotional intensity and honesty that brings one to tears. Well, I cried during ‘Underneath’. I feel that song can be taken many ways, all that lay emotions bare. This is stellar quality.
This is an album that actually encourage people to buy albums again.
There has been much talk about ‘gay music’ recently and why ‘gay artists’ never make it big. Well, most of them make crap, insular music that does not travel out of their bedroom. Adam Lambert is making music for humans. We have all love, hurt and have been hurt. This comes through his songs in such a human way I found my breath taken away.
JUST BUY IT NOW. YOU SHALL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED. DOUBLE PINKY SWEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UPDATE – I CANNOT STOP LISTENING. ‘BROKEN ENGLISH’ ALWAYS GIVES ME A LITTLE SCARED.
UPDATE – IT FEELS LIKE A GREAT EPISODE OF EXCELLENT EPISODIC TV. YOU FEEL SO HIGH AND LIKE YOU HAVE BEEN ON A JOURNEY. THAT IS RARE.
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When the album first came I was somewhere between concerned and appealed that an earlier than Adam expected leak would hurt his sales. I know nothing about the music business and it felt like stealing to me. I didn’t downloaded it. I didn’t listen to it when I saw everyone flailing over each song and lyric. My choice was to wait until I could download it from itunes. I had already pre-ordered many cd’s from multiple outlets and knew they would arrive soon. Truth is, I had a date with my husband to listen to it together. He’s not a fanatic but he gets it. It was a beautiful night. We’d listen to a song. Play it back. Not gonna lie, the first time was a good time.
Today I heard “Neveh” twice on Sirius Radio. I do a double take every time I hear the first couple of notes. “I still get a thrill” whenever I hear Adam on the radio. In fact I get a thrill no matter where I hear his voice.
I played the first album to death. I’m sipping this one like a fine wine. Between the two albums, concerts and now the Queen phenomenon there is Trespassing. He has the tracks down and he is on cloud nine. He defined the perfect Adam album. What a brilliant thing to accomplish. From concept to execution he performed well. You would have to be clueless to not appreciate this album.
I think that being with Queen is going to liberate him in ways we can’t imagine. What is Adam going to give us next? This is the best ride I have ever been on. Adam said he was here for our entertainment and he certainly delivers.
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Thank you. Wow, we are so in-line with this. wow just wow thank you
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Brilliant review, love it! Thank you for finding the words to descibe the album so perfectly.
Your review was one I was waiting for. I know you like Adam but would critique it honestly – not like me who “OMG! OMG! He sang the phone book and I LOVE IT!!!!” I loved your review and love that you loved the album. I agree about the “encourage people to buy albums again.” BTIKM and NCOE feel different when listening to the whole album. Thank you!
Thank you so very much.
Steve, the heartbreaking fact is that the PDs in radio are so resistant to playing Adam’s music. What a effin shame if this music is not heard by the masses. Adam Lambert is a musical genius, screw the ignorant and judgemental.
90% of American radio us programmed from the same place. is an awful situation, especially that charts are still based on last century technology x
We knew he had that unbelievable range during Idol, he is simply THE BEST, astonishing control and range, and, oh yeah, phrasing, let’s not forget that. Have you heard Can’t Let You Go from the
Euro release of For Your Entertainment? It’s amazing and live this man is just indescribable