Adam Lambert joins us to discuss his self-funded new album Adam, why moving to New York changed his sound, navigating modern dating after a long-term relationship, the evolution of LGBTQ+ representation in music, and why he's finally learned to be a little kinder to himself.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I remember the day I said brand new music from
Adam Lambert.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Oh my god, that's forever.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
I remember that, Adam, Adam.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
It's so good to see you, will I mean, I
love it Like I'm a blind man right now, So
it's good to see you.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
To see you, Okay, let me explain.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And when you see the photos of Adam, he is
wearing these massive, massive sunglasses because he's it's too early.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Is too early?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
It is? I mean, well, I still have like a
pillow print on my face, on your face, and you
wake up and it like, how do you get.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Rid of that? You don't?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
You do? It just fades in time. You just have
to like pour coffee on it. I don't really know
my secret.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
May may I give you my beauty secret for yes?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Please, things on the face. Eat carbs, carb up. It'll
boil you and you'll be fabulous.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
More salt.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Hey, how are you loving living in New York City?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I love it, I really love it. I mean it's
definitely a different pace than LA But I needed the change.
I just needed like new energy. And I find that
there's like more weirdos like me out here, you know
what I mean. Like there's a lot more like individuals.
People are expressing themselves. I like the the the energy
of the city, even like the horns hall riding on
(01:14):
a Friday and Saturday night outside of my building. You know,
I'm into it to the Tony Awards on Sunday night.
Not this time. No, no, I'm gonna. I'm resting because
I got like, I got some performance stuff going on
early next week.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, well, let's get to that. So the album is
coming out in July, right, tenth, Yes, July tenth. But
you've you've been giving us little hints and pieces, bits
and pieces already. I know we're gonna play a single
on a second. Which when are we playing?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I'm saying under the Rhythm, which just came out last
night at midnight.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Oh that's why we just heard. We heard it here
in the studio.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Wait did you like?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Sorry, it was a Nie Slapper fizz pumper. But wait,
I just saw a video from an other cut. Hold on,
hold on, don't tell me, don't tell me what it is.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Where did it go? Oh? Here? It is called Eat
You Alive?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yes, Bone Appetite. Yes.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
The video brought up a thought of mine and I
was saying this before you came in. When you put
music out, you dink beyond what's sonically hitting us in
the ears. You also work really hard on the visuals. Yeah,
the the video is just I could watch it without
listening to the music. You can you can hear that.
You can hear the song without hearing the song through
(02:34):
the visuals.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And yeah, no, thank you. That's a great compliment. I
you know, I think this project, in particular, this album,
I'm like really trying to put some emphasis on it.
I've always wanted to, you know, and I've done videos
in the past, but it's been a minute since I've
like really gone in on the music videos. So we're like, we're.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Going for it.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You were in Paris for this, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I did.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I did that video in Paris. I did the video
for under the Rhythm comes out like momentarily, like it
comes out in the next couple hours. And we did
that one in La. So I'm I have an amazing,
amazing creative team this time around, and I'm like enjoying
it so much.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Where are you releasing all the visuals because now that
MTV's gone, where are people watching the majority of their video?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah? YouTube and actually Spotify just added a feature where
you can watch the music video like it's linked directly
to the song. It says if you like, if you're
looking on Spotify just says switch to video and music
videos are now readily available. All you to do is
you turn your phone and it's on. I don't know
what took them so long. This is brilliant. It's brilliant.
So all of my music videos I've ever done are
(03:36):
now on my my Spotify page.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Uh yeah, Well, as we prepare for the album to
come out July tenth. The album is called Adam Yes,
which to me sounds like the first album.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
But this is what your sixth studio.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Album on the week, right, I feel like the idea
behind it is. You know. First of all, I was
looking at all the songs and I went, well, how
do I sum this all up? And quite simply, I
was like, well, this is me right now in twenty
twenty six, based on what I've been through over the
past few years, what I've learned, what I've experienced, what
I've struggled with, where I've championed, you know, it's like
everything and it's just me. So I was like, well,
(04:10):
what's we gotta call.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
It what have you been through? What have you what
challenges have been through?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I'm just gonna give me a list where to go
if you could go alphabetic.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well as far as like what inspired a lot of
the songs? I mean I got out of a long
relationship and that whole experience and aftermath and the highs
and lows of that being single again afterwards, you know,
moving from LA to New York, the New York move
definitely has an impact on the sound of this album.
(04:38):
Like I tried, Yeah, everything's kind of like more industrial.
It's a bit like heavier, dirtier, grimier. You know, there's
still some like joy and there's some angst, you know, emotionally,
but all the songs sound a bit more like concrete
and metallic and a little muddy.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
So you are a Murican idol in two thousand and nine, Like,
if we go all the way back, what do you
think has changed most about you since then to now?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Oh? God, well, it's like I'm forty four, I mean changed.
I look at these classes. It's a cataract, no full
of it right now. Good morning, that one cup of
coffee is only doing so much. But what's changed the
(05:23):
most about me since.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I mean, I don't think I've changed that much, but
yet at the same time, I feel like I've like
a whole new person. I don't really know. I think
I have more perspective, Like I feel like I kind
of like can appreciate certain things more than maybe I
used to, you know, because you figure out that, like
you know, the validation from you know, attention or whatever,
(05:47):
it only goes so far, you know. And so I
think I've been putting more and more emphasis on like
my friendships, my family, my my my workplay balance, you
know what I mean, and like making sure I'm like
enjoying life because I think that make sure your work better,
the good stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Yeah, so you mentioned that you moved and you also
went through a breakup from a long term relationship. Is
the dating world as trash for celebrities as it is
for us normal people?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Yeah? Yeah, it sucks. It doesn't make any sense. I'm like,
I wish someone would hand out like a you know,
like a how to manual. I mean, even at this
stage in my life, I'm like, what what do I
supposed to say? And then at the same time, like
I've been so focused on this project that I've kind
of like been tunnel vision and haven't really been getting
out there that much over the last like six months
(06:33):
since we've been working on this. So I feel like
it's all in the music, Like there's some kind of flirty,
you know, sexy stuff in the album, and it's all aspirational,
like it's making up for the fact that I'm not
out there playing the field really hard. Now that it's
coming out, now you get to be outside. Well, yeah,
maybe maybe this will be maybe someone will be like,
oh really, okay, I want to talk to you. You know,
(06:54):
let's just put it all on the songs.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
You got me thinking, I mean, wait till you way
to You're my age. But I'm married though, but you know,
God forbid if I was back in the dating world,
I would be lost. So I'm assuming going from in
your twenties to your forties, you your you have to
you have to find your you have to find your
your path, you have to find your.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
And this is definitely like aging myself. But what I
find interesting is that everything is online now. Like you
go to if you go to like a bar or
a club and you try to talk to somebody, they
like a stranger you like hit on somebody or whatever.
That is very weird for people, Like everyone's like what,
like what do you what? It's like the people in
the club have their phones out and they're on like
(07:36):
the location based you know, dating apps, you know, like
in the club. So it's it's very strange to me,
Like we need to get back to like in person,
eye to eye. Hello, what's your name? You know exactly?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Well, yeah, we're talking about this our friend Gary Vee.
I don't know if you're familiar with Gary v He says,
we need to move from this world of digital back
to analog. We need to get back to real connection.
We need to get back to that. And we've been
really hitting on that a lot lately. Like you're just
turning it's just like a movement. I feel like that's
gonna happen, Like you can it. Like there's like talk
of it. People are talking about embracing like analog technology.
(08:11):
People are like are trying to put their phones down,
They're trying to I think it's gonna be like a
thing that catches up it needs to be. Yeah, if
you're just turning us on. Adam Lambert is here his
new album is coming out July tenth. He says, now
that he's moved to New York City, the album's reflecting
that because it it sounds more industrial and it smells
like urine.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
I'm thinking that's what New York does, Froggy. When New
York smells like you're a in pot, you know what's
what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
And it's strange.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, and if you're walking through times like hot nuts,
hot nuts and hot trash, yes, Froggy for say, how
to Adam Frog?
Speaker 3 (08:49):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Hey? Adam?
Speaker 6 (08:51):
So you you have done so much over your the
period of your career. Is there anything if you could
go back that you would do differently? You would change? Like,
either's something you would do or would do moving forward.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I don't really have any regrets, to be honest, Like,
I think everything's worked out pretty well. I mean I
think I think, you know, it's the thing where people
ask you like, what would you say to your younger self?
And I definitely think that in moments I've I've stressed
out and made myself crazy about things and overthought things.
I think the one thing I would try to work
on differently is just like let myself off the hook.
(09:23):
A little bit, you know, just be a little bit
nicer to myself. But that's a journey and a process
and and I'm in a good place on it now,
so that's good. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
What do you think your hardest on yourself?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
For every I mean everything, I mean, I'm you know,
it's like the minute you get into like, you know,
a bunch of people looking at you, like all those
little things that you that you're hard on yourself about,
they get amplified. You know, It's like everything turns up.
So you know, I've definitely struggled with like you know,
self image issues, body issues, you know, things like that,
(09:55):
and I the minute you get online with X amount
of followers commenting, it's like it turns up. So that's
it's like you have to really like get get right
with yourself, you know what I mean, and like get
into a healthy place with yourself in order to like
do this as a as a living.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Do you ignore like all the stuff online?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Can you?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Can you ignore it? How You've come to a place
where it's like I'm not gonna let that bother me anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, I'm better at it now. It took a while,
but yeah, fully, I mean I remember when when I
just like right after American Idol, Twitter was brand new,
and it was like this was you know, Twitter was
like this new thing. We were all like what is it?
And it was it was like a learning curve. Like
I would say, I would like just write things on
there and then get like torn apart and I had
(10:41):
to learn really quickly, Oh okay, not everyone agrees with you,
you know. So it was it was like a like
an experience.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
It was like the Wild West when we started. It's
still is.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Yeah, it's easy to let one comment like destroy you. You
can get one hundred things people that agree with you,
and one person says one thing that bothers you and
that completely negates the one hundred people.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Said nice things and that and like that right there.
That's exactly what I've learned to tell myself, like this
is one person, look at all this positivity on the
other side. Pay attention to the positive or the negative.
But you know, it's it's like a it's like a
muscle you have to sort of exercise to get used
to it.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Hey, So here it is. It's June. It's Pride month.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Are you getting more phone calls in the month of
June than normal, and I'll tell you why iHeart where
we work.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I am the token gate I bring June seriously.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
We actually we have this incredible special out now it's
the Elton John Awards, and he does some interviews. I
do some interviews and it's really great. But it seems
like every June I get the phone call, Hey, we
need you to do this thing. Are you getting like
a lot of Pride event calls?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah yeah, And we're like my team and I are
like we're like, okay, what should we do? Like what
which ones do we do? Which? What do we say
yes to? Where do we go? And we're excited. I
mean this is like, especially like Pride in New York's
really fun. I mean I've been coming here for Pride
for a while as like a visitor before I lived here.
So I'm definitely getting involved in a couple of things.
I think that schedule still like kind of solidifying. But yeah,
(12:06):
I'm excited as it can be a good week.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Well, you know, there's two things I want to talk
about it as far as the business goes this album,
I feel like maybe a good another reason you called
it Adam and took it back to something pure and simple.
Is this album is different for you business wise? I
mean you actually funded this thing yourself. This is this
is your baby, is it not?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Yeah? It is?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah. I Mean I've done like a bunch of differences.
You know, I've done the major labels, I've done an
indie label, I've had different managers all this stuff. The
thing about this business that I've learned is like, if
you don't have the right people around you, the right team,
like it's it's kind of it can it can suck
or it can be great. So I'm so lucky, like
I have this incredible team and luckily on this one,
(12:49):
I'm like I got to hire everybody, so you know,
I got to pick who I wanted to work with
based on like their vibe, their ability. There's we get
to like bypass a lot of politics this way and
and just like make what we want to make. And
it feels incredible.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
About to play the single and you actually sample around
the world. How much does that does it cost? Is
it called sampling or do you call it something else?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I've learned the word that the technical term is interpolate.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
What what is the difference between.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
You sample that's technically like your copy pasting from the
original recording, right, But interpolating is like you're you're writing
it into your melody and you you create it yourself.
Is different, I think. So yeah, yeah, how much does
it cost?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
How much does it cost? Around the world.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
It's a negotiation, like it's it's a publishing thing, so
you got to go in with the people that published
the song and you negotiate. So we did.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
And it wasn't how much.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
It wasn't cheap cheap, No, it was definitely cost a coin.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Uh if if if it costs the same amount as
a car, it's like, you know, it's like it's like
it's a little more than a curl, not an outing,
not an out. Okay, well, keep keep in mind he's
in New Yorker now, he has no idea what cars
Austin where he doesn't need. So, so what's it like
(14:19):
for a gay man, woman or whatever in this music business?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
What's it like? Is it different?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
It's interesting? You know, when I started, it was it
was wild because there was very few gay men doing
like contemporary pop music. So it was it was like
everyone was like hopeful that it would work out, but
no one really knew if it would and everyone was
sort of like their fingers were crossed. It felt like,
you know, the people I was working with, the record label,
and and like some of it was great, some of
(14:49):
it there was some obstacles that I ran into and
things I had to learn. But what I love about
it now is it like there's so much more visibility,
like over the last fifteen years. It's just like it
just changed, Like there's space for a lot more people now,
and there's artists that identify within the LGBTQ community that
have done incredibly well. So it's it's great to like
(15:11):
see the progress. Of course now with everything going on
in the country, there's there's definitely like some you know,
the suits and the corporate powers that be are definitely
taking a little steps backwards. But I think that'll pass.
So you can be gay but not too gay. Well yeah,
well you can identify that. Don't show us yeah yeah yeah,
yeah yeah, But like I don't want to see it.
(15:32):
It's like sometimes really and I'm always like my whole
thing is like I'm like, listen, double standards are really
annoying to me because I'm like, but you're fine with
so and so, you know, doing all this over there,
but I can't, you know. So I've always been sort
of like I've been like I like to prove a point.
I I I like to get into a debate. I'm
I'm never shy about, you know, going against the grain,
(15:53):
and I've always stuck to that. So sometimes I I
I will just you know, I'll say the thing that
you know will inflame, just for fun, Okay, just for.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Fun, like a cat playing with a mouse. Look, Adam.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
The album is out July tenth, and it's so great
to see you again, Adam. And even though you can't
see us with those glasses on, we're still.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Here for you.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Oh I can see you, I can see you can
see me.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Okay from the album from the who hasn't seen that?
I'm sure?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Like under the rhythm, Under the rhythm. Adam sold his
tesla just so he could get an interpolated have a
tesla had a Bentley bitch? Oh, it's making more sense, Adam.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
We love you.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Thanks for coming to see us. Thank you,
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I remember the day I said brand new music from
Adam Lambert.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Oh my god, that's forever.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
I remember that, Adam, Adam.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
It's so good to see you, will I mean, I
love it Like I'm a blind man right now, So
it's good to see you.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
To see you, Okay, let me explain.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And when you see the photos of Adam, he is
wearing these massive, massive sunglasses because he's it's too early.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Is too early?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
It is? I mean, well, I still have like a
pillow print on my face, on your face, and you
wake up and it like, how do you get.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Rid of that? You don't?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
You do? It just fades in time. You just have
to like pour coffee on it. I don't really know
my secret.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
May may I give you my beauty secret for yes?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Please, things on the face. Eat carbs, carb up. It'll
boil you and you'll be fabulous.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
More salt.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Hey, how are you loving living in New York City?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I love it, I really love it. I mean it's
definitely a different pace than LA But I needed the change.
I just needed like new energy. And I find that
there's like more weirdos like me out here, you know
what I mean. Like there's a lot more like individuals.
People are expressing themselves. I like the the the energy
of the city, even like the horns hall riding on
(01:14):
a Friday and Saturday night outside of my building. You know,
I'm into it to the Tony Awards on Sunday night.
Not this time. No, no, I'm gonna. I'm resting because
I got like, I got some performance stuff going on
early next week.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, well, let's get to that. So the album is
coming out in July, right, tenth, Yes, July tenth. But
you've you've been giving us little hints and pieces, bits
and pieces already. I know we're gonna play a single
on a second. Which when are we playing?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I'm saying under the Rhythm, which just came out last
night at midnight.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Oh that's why we just heard. We heard it here
in the studio.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Wait did you like?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Sorry, it was a Nie Slapper fizz pumper. But wait,
I just saw a video from an other cut. Hold on,
hold on, don't tell me, don't tell me what it is.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Where did it go? Oh? Here? It is called Eat
You Alive?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yes, Bone Appetite. Yes.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
The video brought up a thought of mine and I
was saying this before you came in. When you put
music out, you dink beyond what's sonically hitting us in
the ears. You also work really hard on the visuals. Yeah,
the the video is just I could watch it without
listening to the music. You can you can hear that.
You can hear the song without hearing the song through
(02:34):
the visuals.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And yeah, no, thank you. That's a great compliment. I
you know, I think this project, in particular, this album,
I'm like really trying to put some emphasis on it.
I've always wanted to, you know, and I've done videos
in the past, but it's been a minute since I've
like really gone in on the music videos. So we're like, we're.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Going for it.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You were in Paris for this, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I did.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I did that video in Paris. I did the video
for under the Rhythm comes out like momentarily, like it
comes out in the next couple hours. And we did
that one in La. So I'm I have an amazing,
amazing creative team this time around, and I'm like enjoying
it so much.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Where are you releasing all the visuals because now that
MTV's gone, where are people watching the majority of their video?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah? YouTube and actually Spotify just added a feature where
you can watch the music video like it's linked directly
to the song. It says if you like, if you're
looking on Spotify just says switch to video and music
videos are now readily available. All you to do is
you turn your phone and it's on. I don't know
what took them so long. This is brilliant. It's brilliant.
So all of my music videos I've ever done are
(03:36):
now on my my Spotify page.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Uh yeah, Well, as we prepare for the album to
come out July tenth. The album is called Adam Yes,
which to me sounds like the first album.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
But this is what your sixth studio.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Album on the week, right, I feel like the idea
behind it is. You know. First of all, I was
looking at all the songs and I went, well, how
do I sum this all up? And quite simply, I
was like, well, this is me right now in twenty
twenty six, based on what I've been through over the
past few years, what I've learned, what I've experienced, what
I've struggled with, where I've championed, you know, it's like
everything and it's just me. So I was like, well,
(04:10):
what's we gotta call.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
It what have you been through? What have you what
challenges have been through?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I'm just gonna give me a list where to go
if you could go alphabetic.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well as far as like what inspired a lot of
the songs? I mean I got out of a long
relationship and that whole experience and aftermath and the highs
and lows of that being single again afterwards, you know,
moving from LA to New York, the New York move
definitely has an impact on the sound of this album.
(04:38):
Like I tried, Yeah, everything's kind of like more industrial.
It's a bit like heavier, dirtier, grimier. You know, there's
still some like joy and there's some angst, you know, emotionally,
but all the songs sound a bit more like concrete
and metallic and a little muddy.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
So you are a Murican idol in two thousand and nine, Like,
if we go all the way back, what do you
think has changed most about you since then to now?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Oh? God, well, it's like I'm forty four, I mean changed.
I look at these classes. It's a cataract, no full
of it right now. Good morning, that one cup of
coffee is only doing so much. But what's changed the
(05:23):
most about me since.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I mean, I don't think I've changed that much, but
yet at the same time, I feel like I've like
a whole new person. I don't really know. I think
I have more perspective, Like I feel like I kind
of like can appreciate certain things more than maybe I
used to, you know, because you figure out that, like
you know, the validation from you know, attention or whatever,
(05:47):
it only goes so far, you know. And so I
think I've been putting more and more emphasis on like
my friendships, my family, my my my workplay balance, you
know what I mean, and like making sure I'm like
enjoying life because I think that make sure your work better,
the good stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Yeah, so you mentioned that you moved and you also
went through a breakup from a long term relationship. Is
the dating world as trash for celebrities as it is
for us normal people?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Yeah? Yeah, it sucks. It doesn't make any sense. I'm like,
I wish someone would hand out like a you know,
like a how to manual. I mean, even at this
stage in my life, I'm like, what what do I
supposed to say? And then at the same time, like
I've been so focused on this project that I've kind
of like been tunnel vision and haven't really been getting
out there that much over the last like six months
(06:33):
since we've been working on this. So I feel like
it's all in the music, Like there's some kind of flirty,
you know, sexy stuff in the album, and it's all aspirational,
like it's making up for the fact that I'm not
out there playing the field really hard. Now that it's
coming out, now you get to be outside. Well, yeah,
maybe maybe this will be maybe someone will be like,
oh really, okay, I want to talk to you. You know,
(06:54):
let's just put it all on the songs.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
You got me thinking, I mean, wait till you way
to You're my age. But I'm married though, but you know,
God forbid if I was back in the dating world,
I would be lost. So I'm assuming going from in
your twenties to your forties, you your you have to
you have to find your you have to find your
your path, you have to find your.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
And this is definitely like aging myself. But what I
find interesting is that everything is online now. Like you
go to if you go to like a bar or
a club and you try to talk to somebody, they
like a stranger you like hit on somebody or whatever.
That is very weird for people, Like everyone's like what,
like what do you what? It's like the people in
the club have their phones out and they're on like
(07:36):
the location based you know, dating apps, you know, like
in the club. So it's it's very strange to me,
Like we need to get back to like in person,
eye to eye. Hello, what's your name? You know exactly?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Well, yeah, we're talking about this our friend Gary Vee.
I don't know if you're familiar with Gary v He says,
we need to move from this world of digital back
to analog. We need to get back to real connection.
We need to get back to that. And we've been
really hitting on that a lot lately. Like you're just
turning it's just like a movement. I feel like that's
gonna happen, Like you can it. Like there's like talk
of it. People are talking about embracing like analog technology.
(08:11):
People are like are trying to put their phones down,
They're trying to I think it's gonna be like a
thing that catches up it needs to be. Yeah, if
you're just turning us on. Adam Lambert is here his
new album is coming out July tenth. He says, now
that he's moved to New York City, the album's reflecting
that because it it sounds more industrial and it smells
like urine.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
I'm thinking that's what New York does, Froggy. When New
York smells like you're a in pot, you know what's
what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
And it's strange.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, and if you're walking through times like hot nuts,
hot nuts and hot trash, yes, Froggy for say, how
to Adam Frog?
Speaker 3 (08:49):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Hey? Adam?
Speaker 6 (08:51):
So you you have done so much over your the
period of your career. Is there anything if you could
go back that you would do differently? You would change? Like,
either's something you would do or would do moving forward.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I don't really have any regrets, to be honest, Like,
I think everything's worked out pretty well. I mean I
think I think, you know, it's the thing where people
ask you like, what would you say to your younger self?
And I definitely think that in moments I've I've stressed
out and made myself crazy about things and overthought things.
I think the one thing I would try to work
on differently is just like let myself off the hook.
(09:23):
A little bit, you know, just be a little bit
nicer to myself. But that's a journey and a process
and and I'm in a good place on it now,
so that's good. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
What do you think your hardest on yourself?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
For every I mean everything, I mean, I'm you know,
it's like the minute you get into like, you know,
a bunch of people looking at you, like all those
little things that you that you're hard on yourself about,
they get amplified. You know, It's like everything turns up.
So you know, I've definitely struggled with like you know,
self image issues, body issues, you know, things like that,
(09:55):
and I the minute you get online with X amount
of followers commenting, it's like it turns up. So that's
it's like you have to really like get get right
with yourself, you know what I mean, and like get
into a healthy place with yourself in order to like
do this as a as a living.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Do you ignore like all the stuff online?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Can you?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Can you ignore it? How You've come to a place
where it's like I'm not gonna let that bother me anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, I'm better at it now. It took a while,
but yeah, fully, I mean I remember when when I
just like right after American Idol, Twitter was brand new,
and it was like this was you know, Twitter was
like this new thing. We were all like what is it?
And it was it was like a learning curve. Like
I would say, I would like just write things on
there and then get like torn apart and I had
(10:41):
to learn really quickly, Oh okay, not everyone agrees with you,
you know. So it was it was like a like
an experience.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
It was like the Wild West when we started. It's
still is.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Yeah, it's easy to let one comment like destroy you. You
can get one hundred things people that agree with you,
and one person says one thing that bothers you and
that completely negates the one hundred people.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Said nice things and that and like that right there.
That's exactly what I've learned to tell myself, like this
is one person, look at all this positivity on the
other side. Pay attention to the positive or the negative.
But you know, it's it's like a it's like a
muscle you have to sort of exercise to get used
to it.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Hey, So here it is. It's June. It's Pride month.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Are you getting more phone calls in the month of
June than normal, and I'll tell you why iHeart where
we work.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I am the token gate I bring June seriously.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
We actually we have this incredible special out now it's
the Elton John Awards, and he does some interviews. I
do some interviews and it's really great. But it seems
like every June I get the phone call, Hey, we
need you to do this thing. Are you getting like
a lot of Pride event calls?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah yeah, And we're like my team and I are
like we're like, okay, what should we do? Like what
which ones do we do? Which? What do we say
yes to? Where do we go? And we're excited. I
mean this is like, especially like Pride in New York's
really fun. I mean I've been coming here for Pride
for a while as like a visitor before I lived here.
So I'm definitely getting involved in a couple of things.
I think that schedule still like kind of solidifying. But yeah,
(12:06):
I'm excited as it can be a good week.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Well, you know, there's two things I want to talk
about it as far as the business goes this album,
I feel like maybe a good another reason you called
it Adam and took it back to something pure and simple.
Is this album is different for you business wise? I
mean you actually funded this thing yourself. This is this
is your baby, is it not?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Yeah? It is?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah. I Mean I've done like a bunch of differences.
You know, I've done the major labels, I've done an
indie label, I've had different managers all this stuff. The
thing about this business that I've learned is like, if
you don't have the right people around you, the right team,
like it's it's kind of it can it can suck
or it can be great. So I'm so lucky, like
I have this incredible team and luckily on this one,
(12:49):
I'm like I got to hire everybody, so you know,
I got to pick who I wanted to work with
based on like their vibe, their ability. There's we get
to like bypass a lot of politics this way and
and just like make what we want to make. And
it feels incredible.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
About to play the single and you actually sample around
the world. How much does that does it cost? Is
it called sampling or do you call it something else?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I've learned the word that the technical term is interpolate.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
What what is the difference between.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
You sample that's technically like your copy pasting from the
original recording, right, But interpolating is like you're you're writing
it into your melody and you you create it yourself.
Is different, I think. So yeah, yeah, how much does
it cost?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
How much does it cost? Around the world.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
It's a negotiation, like it's it's a publishing thing, so
you got to go in with the people that published
the song and you negotiate. So we did.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
And it wasn't how much.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
It wasn't cheap cheap, No, it was definitely cost a coin.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Uh if if if it costs the same amount as
a car, it's like, you know, it's like it's like
it's a little more than a curl, not an outing,
not an out. Okay, well, keep keep in mind he's
in New Yorker now, he has no idea what cars
Austin where he doesn't need. So, so what's it like
(14:19):
for a gay man, woman or whatever in this music business?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
What's it like? Is it different?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
It's interesting? You know, when I started, it was it
was wild because there was very few gay men doing
like contemporary pop music. So it was it was like
everyone was like hopeful that it would work out, but
no one really knew if it would and everyone was
sort of like their fingers were crossed. It felt like,
you know, the people I was working with, the record label,
and and like some of it was great, some of
(14:49):
it there was some obstacles that I ran into and
things I had to learn. But what I love about
it now is it like there's so much more visibility,
like over the last fifteen years. It's just like it
just changed, Like there's space for a lot more people now,
and there's artists that identify within the LGBTQ community that
have done incredibly well. So it's it's great to like
(15:11):
see the progress. Of course now with everything going on
in the country, there's there's definitely like some you know,
the suits and the corporate powers that be are definitely
taking a little steps backwards. But I think that'll pass.
So you can be gay but not too gay. Well yeah,
well you can identify that. Don't show us yeah yeah yeah,
yeah yeah, But like I don't want to see it.
(15:32):
It's like sometimes really and I'm always like my whole
thing is like I'm like, listen, double standards are really
annoying to me because I'm like, but you're fine with
so and so, you know, doing all this over there,
but I can't, you know. So I've always been sort
of like I've been like I like to prove a point.
I I I like to get into a debate. I'm
I'm never shy about, you know, going against the grain,
(15:53):
and I've always stuck to that. So sometimes I I
I will just you know, I'll say the thing that
you know will inflame, just for fun, Okay, just for.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Fun, like a cat playing with a mouse. Look, Adam.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
The album is out July tenth, and it's so great
to see you again, Adam. And even though you can't
see us with those glasses on, we're still.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Here for you.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Oh I can see you, I can see you can
see me.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Okay from the album from the who hasn't seen that?
I'm sure?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Like under the rhythm, Under the rhythm. Adam sold his
tesla just so he could get an interpolated have a
tesla had a Bentley bitch? Oh, it's making more sense, Adam.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
We love you.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Thanks for coming to see us. Thank you,
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