July 20, 2023 • 25 mins
Singer-songwriter Adam Lambert joins Elvis to talk about touring with Queen, learning to cope with anxiety, and how he's embraced rest as international music sensation.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The New York Post here is kind of famous for
their crazy headlines and your posts. And they found a
murder victim in a strip club and the headline was
headless girl in a topless club. And that was the
headline on the front page of the newspaper. All sold out.
They've never sold it. Thank god you're listening. They said
(00:20):
it wouldn't last, and here it is on this podcast.
We're talking to my friend Adam Lambert. And at the
end of these thirty minutes, he'll be your friend too.
Just the nicest guy, and he already has this rich
history even after only fourteen years since American Idol when
he first hit the scene. Let's talk about being on
the road with Queen filling the shoes of Freddie Mercury.
(00:41):
Is that what he's doing or is he doing his
own thing. Let's talk about his new album. Let's talk
about anxiety, Let's talk about how he looks, his glam
everything about him is so interesting. Well, you'd be the
judge of that. Here we go, Oh, hi, is it
time to roll the fourth podcast? They said we would
(01:05):
never make it this far, and I'm thanking the God
above that we did. Because Adam Lambert's here. Hi Adam, Hi,
thank you for being.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Here, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Look here you are in New York City. I know
you've got a lot going on. You're talking about the
new album called High Drama. You've got beauty products that
you're pushing.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I am, I'm like a jack of all trades right now.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Let's do this. Let's play a game. Let's play the game.
Name everything you're doing? This not music related?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Oh lord? Okay, nail polish, but orly we did a collaboration.
I've been doing some voiceover work stuff like for some
cartoons you have to be revealed later. Okay, all right,
what else am I doing that's not music? And it
all kind of comes back to music, actually, So I
don't know. I don't think there's anything else to report.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I mean, it was what ten, eleven, how many years
ago when you were on idol, when we first were
introduced you, fourteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Okay, isn't that crazy?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So fourteen years ago you're like, Okay, I don't know
what the f we're doing here, but let's get up
the next stage. And you totally won our hearts and
you won us over. But back in the day, did
you ever think that one day you'd be in New
York talking about this line of fingernail polish.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
This sounds silly, but it's such a fantasy of mine,
you know, Ever since I literally when I was like
probably like a freshman in high school, I remember watching
TV and seeing Dave Navarro talking about wearing nail polish,
and it was it was like he was putting on
this like gun metal color and he just looked so cool.
And I remember being like, Oh, I want to wear
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nail polish. And I went to a hot topic at
the mall. H I found some nail polish and I
put it on. It's just I've always loved it. And
so the fact that I got to develop these colors
and name them, that's so fun.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Well, then the next time we read them all you stopped,
obviously by piercing Pagoda, because you've got lots of piercings,
going yeah, if you do, you have any down below? No.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
No, I had my nipple pierce once though, but only one.
You made it sound like that was thing in the past.
It was terrible. It got I was on tour. This
is so gross.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
It got infected, right, which is not fun. So you
were like spotting your blouse on swell more or less.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, I mean when you're sweating and stuff, like on
stage and working and you you know, it gets in
there and it literally swelled to the size of a
golf ball. It was terrifying. Okay, and we had to
have a doctor. This is so gross. You don't want
this on your podcast?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yes I do.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh my god, oh boy. The doctor had to come
in and like drain it.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I'm telling you have never felt anything more painful in
my life.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Well, so, so therefore you didn't you didn't do more piercings. No, No,
have you ever dated a guy that had like Prince
Alberts and stuff like that? Is this getting too personal?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
No? I have not dated a guy that had a
Prince Albert, but I've definitely experienced one.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Okay, because I mean, because that shit can ship a tooth,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Exactly? Okay, well exactly. I was like, take it out.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Let's get back to the music, shall me. I don't
feel like you started with that. The reason why I
love it when you visit us because when Adam Adam
visits the station and the show, it usually means there's
a promo ahead, and you're always glammed up. You've got
the hair looking spiked and fun, You've got the makeup on,
you've got the wardrobe. Of course, I.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Feel like at this point if I didn't, it would
be like weird because people like that's just what they
know of me. And then I feel like if I
came in like full, like you know, day off vibe,
which is different. I mean I like to wear like
sweatpants and a baseball hat when I'm walking around, right,
I think I just think people would be disappointed in me.
Do you still well? I know this is radio, so
that's funny. But there are cameras, I swear, you know,
(04:30):
we have proof he's looking great. But do you I
and for lack of a better term, do you enjoy
playing dress up?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Do you enjoy it? I love it.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I you know, there are days every once in a
while if it's a busy schedule, I'm like, oh, I
gotta do it. I gotta get ready. You know, it
becomes a bit of a chore. But once I start,
I get into it.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
It puts me in a mood, It makes me feel creative,
it puts me in like it gives me confidence, makes
me feel like, you know, I'm stepping into my uniform
almost like this is my this is my world, this
is my job.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
So you know, when you're when you're made up and
looking really really really beautiful, you must that means there's
something going on, an event, there's something outside. Typically yeah,
so you're it's psyching you up for whatever event.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Exactly be I mean, there's nothing like getting ready for
even if it's not work, if it's like a night out,
there's nothing like that, like getting ready for a night out.
You have your music playing.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I like that feeling. I want you to take all
of us to a place that we will never know
unless living it, like caiously through you. Let's say you're
going to an award show, a big let's say it's
a Grammy. Let's say it's a big award show. Yeah,
and so start out with the people who come over,
and they they they style you, they or they help
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you with your decisions. I'm sure, I'm sure no one
helps man.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I do it myself.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You do all yourself.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Okay, so you.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Don't have a stylist right now, I don't have makeup
or hair.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
And you don't need one. I mean you you hit
it out of the park every time.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I mean, I've definitely used them in the past, but
I currently know yeah, not recently.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Okay. It's the day of the event, let's call it
the Grammys, Okay, okay, and you're in home, you're at
home or in your hotel room, and you're look in
the mirror, you're putting it all on, you're getting that
hair just right, and you're taking your time. Hopefully there's
no rush because you want to, like I.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Mean, there's for some reason, there's always a rush. I'm
always running behind. But you know, I work well under pressure,
so maybe that's part of it. I don't know. And
then on.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Comes big heavy metal jewelry, and then comes all the
piercings and you know what am I going to put
my ear holes? And then the clothing. Then you hop
into the back of an suv. Yeah, and they pull
up in front of the whatever theater where all the paparazzi.
Paparazzi's out front. It's going to be and you know
it's going to be a lightning flash or seventeen of flash.
(06:41):
What are you feeling? Right as the door opens and
you step that eight inch platform heel outside the suv
and you have to get from that truck to the
door and inside. What's it like that rush of going
through that red carpet? Do you know?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I think if I go back, like six seven years ago,
it used to kind of give me like I would
be excited, but it would also give me like a
little pang of anxiety, like because it was just a
lot of energy. But these days, I just I think
I've grown into it as best I can, and it
just feels like another day of what I do. And
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I love getting dressed up, so it feels like, oh,
look what I could show off, what I did, what
I made, what I put together. You know, it doesn't
freak me out at all like it used to in
the beginning, right, So it feels good. It feels like, hey,
a lot of the photographers look familiar, you know, like,
hey guys, you know, it's kind of like I've gotten
used to it.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You know. There was a there was actually it was
the Grammys, and I was working with a news organization.
We were a first position, so people would stop at
us first, so we would interview them and talk about
what they were wearing on that bullshit there was one
artist who I'm not going to say who. She her name.
She had so much anxiety she had to get back
in the suv and lead. Oh and later on we
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had a private moment talking about it, and she said
that it just it was just overwhelming for her. Yeah,
it just took her mentally to a place where she
can be. Yeah, it was a lot. It was a
rush of just fright because she knew as soon as
she made through made it through the photographers, she came
to us and we had questions.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
She Yeah, sometimes it takes a second to kind of
like ground yourself afterwards, because it can be very like dizzying,
you know. I think for me, like, and I've talked
openly about this, like I'm I'm on medication for anxiety,
so that like that helps me so much deal with
all the crazy energy that comes out. It helps me
stay centered and grounded. So I feel like, you know,
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and it's not for everybody, but I feel like, you know,
in talking about mental health stuff, I discovered a couple
of years ago, oh this is what anxiety is. I
didn't realize that I had been suffering from it for
so long. And so after like some therapy and you know,
some pharmaceutical help. It's like so much easier to go
to work now, it's like way more I can just
be the moment, which is so nice.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
If you're a friend and said, hey, Adam, you've been
so vocal about your mental health and anxiety. I'm going
through that too, Convince me to do something about it,
because I can't tell the difference with just what's reality
and what I should be dealing with as a human
being versus what is over supercharged in my head. And
(09:31):
do you have an explanation you could give. Let's say,
if I.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Leave you as a friend, I mean, I would definitely say, like,
it's up to you, because I do think it's different
for everybody. Some people react really well to therapy and medication.
Some people don't want to be on a medication daily
like that bothers them. The idea of it bothers them,
or the physical feeling of it bothers them. I think
it's kind of to each their own, really, And there's
also a lot of other, you know, alternative therapies now
(09:54):
you know that they're coming up with that are very interesting.
So I don't know, I would say, like, is it
worth it? Is it worth suffering. I mean, is it
ruining your lifestyle? Is it getting in the way of
you enjoying yourself and being present in these amazing moments
or not.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
You wonder, like, how many moments have I missed out
on because I just felt it better to stay home? Yeah,
because I just didn't want to deal.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
With or I was in my head, or you know,
or I was thinking too much about what if? What if?
What if? You know? What are they thinking? What?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
You know?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
It's it. I think everyone's different, like I said, But
for me, I also didn't realize that I had any
sort of like issue. I just thought, Oh, I'm just stressed,
you know. Oh, I'm just in you know, I'm just
an overthinker, which is true. But like you know, when
I finally like hit the wall at one point, was
like getting panic attacks out of nowhere for no apparent reason.
(10:44):
I was like, oh, dang, Like this is more serious
than I thought. And I think as we get older,
our bodies change, and these things can be become worse
or become you know, more, you know, easily recognized than
we once recognized them. And once I found that to
be the case, I was like, well, Okay, let's get some.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Help, could you? And if I get too personal, just
say no, it's fine.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I'm pretty Would you.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Count the number of panic like serious attack panic attacks
you've had in your life on one two hands or I.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Never had one before in my entire life until like
twenty eighteen or nineteen. During that year, it was just
I think some of it was like burnout, like I
was working a lot and traveling a lot, and jet
lag will take it out of you. You know, it
will zap you. I mean, and from what I've learned,
like it actually attacks the you know, the chemical in
your brain that that that causes this anxiety thing when
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it's out of whack. So I think it was a
combination of a lot of things. But that was when
it first started, and it was terrifying because I didn't
know what was going on. I didn't know why I
was having a panic attack. Half the time it was
for no apparent reason. It was literally just a physical reaction.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Isn't that weird?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
It is weird because someone goes, well, why, and I'm like,
I don't know. It's not logical.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
You can't. You can't announce the trigger. You can't. I've
had it. I've had two and I could absolutely And yeah,
I thought I was having a heart attack, right, because
I would, you know whatever, right, But you know what,
once you once you seek help, you learn, you learn
about it and you can learn how to.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Make and honestly like the pandemic, you know, it was
a lot of things for a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
It was.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
There were a lot of disappointments associated with it. For me,
but also once I got over the disappointments, which was
my album Velvet that came out a week before everything
shut down, I was like, oh, but once I got
over that, it actually became a really beautiful time of
sort of self care and sort of getting back to
myself and you know, starting some creative projects, not on
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a tight timeline, but being able to focus on them,
you know, and unencumbered and with full attention. And you know,
I think I'm grateful for that time. You know, I'm
grateful for the time off so that when I got
back into this career and our lifestyle that we're all
in hustling all the time, it like kind of gave
me new energy behind it.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
And the things we learn from pandemic is learning how
to push a button shut it down. Yeah, and we
didn't know that before.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
And it also like I think it reminded me of
priorities were like it kind of it got me back
in check with like the things that I need to
stay happy and content. And it's not all career stuff.
As much as I love what I do and I
put a lot of work and time into it, I
also was like, you know what, I need to maybe
balance this out with like my personal life a little
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bit more.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I deserve that everyone needs to listen to that carefully
because it's very that balance thing. People hear that word balance.
I think we use that life professional balance conversation too much.
People don't hear it anymore. It's so important.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
It's nice too, you know. I think I think it's
I think our lifestyle here in America is very like
hustle mentality. It's go go, go, go go. We won't
want to win, and there's a healthy amount of competition
that can be a great motivator. But I have some
friends over in Europe and there's other countries that like
collectively just look at certain things differently, like the way
of life is different. And my partner right now, he's Danish,
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and like the in Denmark, like the Danish way of
sort of life. There's a different emphasis on work, there's
a different emphasis put on competition and winning. It's it's
less emphasis, and they put more time and thought into
lifestyle and just enjoying themselves and sharing time with family.
And it's like, oh, and live longer. Probably probably they're
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all one hundred and fifty years old over. I also
have a lot of rules for like healthier food and
all that. It's a beautiful place. I'm not saying that
I don't love being here, but you know, it's it's
just reminds you that there's other ways of doing things.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
That's why it's important to have a passport to see
the world and see how they live and do a
lot in life. So you know what, ten years on
the road with Queen. Of course this meeting happened, thank god,
because of American idol, and these guys said, look, you
know what, no one else can do it like Adam Lambert.
I know, but you know, stepping into those those those shoes,
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Freddie Mercury, you know, and you never came in and
wanted to be Freddie Mercury. You came in and you
were Adam Lambert with Queen and it's just worked out
so beautifully. But ten years it still go. And then
you said earlier that you just don't see you don't
see it the plug being pulled anytime soon, because people
are still selling out. People still come.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah. I mean it's really like, you know, if Brian
and Roger wanted to do another tour, I mean, that's it,
that's all it takes. I mean, luckily people will still
want to come see us. And I mean we sold
out this North American tour that's coming up in October November.
We sold it out in like a day ish.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
If you guys ever looked into the demographics of who's
coming to these shows, well.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I can see I look out in the audience a lot.
I really love you can see the hairstyles, yeah, or
the baldings exactly. But it's interesting because you know, we
were always pretty successful as a collaboration, and we were
selling really well for years. But then when the movie
came out, the Bohemian Rhapsody film, that like took things
into the stratosphere because all of a sudden you had
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different generations, more of them. You know, I've never seen
so many young people at our shows until after that movie.
It's amazing. I mean it's you know, in Europe, we
were on tour last summer. We did ten shows in
London at the O two and a bunch around Europe
and they had standing room on the floor, like you know,
the floor of these arenas and it was just like teenagers.
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It was crazy and they're just like they love rock
and roll. It's it's almost like, I think, because it's
a generational thing, it's like they're discovering something new for them, right,
this classic rock thing too.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Don't tell them it's old, yeah, right right, brand new,
brand new from this new It's though, everyone.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Loves to discover music, and I think there's like this
resurgence of rock and roll right now, which is really cool.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
So back to the movie. When you saw the movie, yeah,
did it? Did it shift anything in your mind and
how you performed with the guys? Did it change your
outlook on Queen? Where did you see it? For the
A lot of things to learn, a lot of things
for the first time that made you great?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I am I had heard a lot of those things before,
you know, I think being with them for the previous
what eight years before that movie, I guess it was
like eight years. I guess that was longer ago anyway,
being on the road for them for that long before
where the movie came out. I was actually on the
plane while they were planning the movie. I mean I
was like I was a fly on the wall. So
I wasn't surprised by anything. I was actually really excited
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to see it all like come together. I thought the
music was so well like edited and like the music
really shown in that movie. I thought that was really
important is that their catalog of amazing hits was sort
of on display, you know that. I mean that's what
they're known for us.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
That was really important. Oh, absolutely, But especially the scenes
where the camera is behind Freddy Mercury.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Look like yes, I mean, how many millions of.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
People around the world were watching, But how many people
were there at live A do we?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I don't know. I actually just performed in that stadium,
so a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
It was eighty thousand, okay, So that's where I lost
it when I saw the view from the stage. Yeah,
because it's daytimes, so there's no lighting like blinding you
see every right little head out there. That's gotta be
just nuts. I mean, do you do you think of
eighty thousand people as individuals or is it just one
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big piece of energy.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
It is. That's a good way to put it. It
is energy. It's like plugging into a battery. It feels
really good actually, as long as everything's going well.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Right.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
But like we did right before the pandemic, we did
a tour down in Australia and we were playing stadiums
and that was my first time with Queen playing that
large of space and it was nuts. I mean, you
do get extra extra momentum from them, you get extra juice,
you know. It's like, I don't know, it's like you
get off stage from a crowd that big and you're
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really hyped. I mean that's funny because it's almost like
I've gotten numb to you know, oh, eighteen thousand whatever.
But that's become normal.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
You know, It's not a numbness, I don't think. And
I was thinking, I'm making this observation because I remember
when we first met you back in the idle days
or just beyond long time ago, to see how you have.
You have changed and we all have. I'm not in
just physically being older and wiser, but you have just
grown into this incredible you. And so to hear you
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talk about walking out in front of eighty thousand people
or walking in front of the paparazzi was just, oh,
it's another day at the office, but still looks like
you enjoy that living hell out of it.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
It took a long time to get to this point too,
you know, because there was a point maybe it was
you know, some of this anxiety stuff, but also just
just typical stuff of like putting, you know, hanging your
worth and your happiness on certain things that you can't control.
I think that learning that lesson really helped me of
just being like, you know what, I'm doing my best
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and I want to enjoy this. So like shifting my
thought process behind it, I think allowed me to like
sink into it a bit more, you know, And I
do feel that way. I do feel like I've sort
of I've grown up a bit. I'm like in a
sweet spot right now, which feels really good.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
You know what that is the best advice ever is
just figuring figuring out what it is you can or
cannot control, and then you got to let loose. And
that's so hard to do. It's so hard to do,
but you know, being a performer, there is there's got
to be this certain level of control. You've got to
be able to control the decisions you make on what
projects you do and what you don't want to do.
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And now you want to look, and now you don't
want to look. But you sound like you're comfortable with
being in control of those things as well.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
So yeah, I think I've learned a lot, you know,
And I learned a lot from like Brian and Roger
for example, being in their camp. It's taught me a ton.
And just you know, I think you pick and choose
your battles, and you just figure out how to surround
yourself with the right people. That's super important, both professionally
and personally as well. And just make sure that there's
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joy in it. If there's not joy in it, you
need to fix something.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Amen. Yeah, and there's something we're all yeah grappling with. Yeah,
you should always grapple with the fight for joy, I
guess I think. So, Okay, we'll only have a few
seconds left. I want to talk about High Drama, this
album that's out right now. And I was telling I
was telling Adam earlier that back in the early nineteen eighties,
using a fake id. I was going to a gay
club in Dallas called The Landing and there's a performer
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there that night named Sylvester. And we'd already dance, already
danced to Sylvester's songs. Yeah, but the one that you
cover on your album is you make Me Feel Mighty Real,
And of course it immediately took me back to a space,
to a place. It was it was like reading a history,
my history book of me. It to me to that night,
the smells of the Landing, which just stunk. You know,
it's just you know those back in the day of
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the old gay bars. It didn't have lighting. I mean,
it didn't have windows.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I mean, there was a gay bar in West Hollywood
it closed only three years ago. That was like the
same thing. They also dish.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Oh yeah, exactly. This meant like urine anyway, moving on, Yeah,
but that song took me there, and this song, this
album is full of covers you're doing in your own
unique way that are going to take people places in
their memories.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yeah, I mean mighty real. It's interesting because we put
the album out actually in the spring, but we decided
to put another song out. We just you know, there's
no rules anymore, you can do whatever you want. And
my labels I'm working with a label in the UK,
and I came up with this idea. I was like,
what if we redid you make me feel mighty real
by Sylvester, but do it with like a modern DJ
and like modernize it. And so we we approached Sagala,
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who I've actually done some writing with in the past,
but we didn't have anything that we had put out yet,
and he was really excited for it, and we collabed
on this and I was like, I wanted to be
able to be played like now in the club and
people you know, enjoy themselves and dance to it. And honestly,
it really is like a tribute to Sylvester because he
was so ahead of his time. He was so the
things that you know, he basically was gender fluid before
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before that word was.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
A thing exactly. He was there before there was, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I mean, he really was like a pioneer and a
trailblazer in who he was and how he was so
bold and brave about it. He didn't give a crap.
He was like, this is me whatever everybody else can
you know?
Speaker 1 (22:57):
F off.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
It was really he was really bold.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
And other great songs that you're covering on here. Was
there one or two that really are your favorites?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I mean, I did a version of holding Out for
a Hero, like a little guilty pleasure of Bonnie Tyler song.
But we did it like a glam rock, like a
very seventies glam rock kind of arrangement. That one's fun.
I can't Stand the Rain is really fun. I did
some current stuff too. I mean I did Chandelier by Sia.
I did Pink's My Attic, which is kind of a
B side on one of her last albums. I did
(23:27):
Lona del Rey West Coast. That's a really fun one.
And I did a song by Billie Eilish as well.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
And you chose every single song on this album. Yeah,
and a great I think I'll do this one in
that one, no, and that one no.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I mean it was definitely like a collaboration, and it
was like as far as you know, working through some
of these decisions and choices, for sure. But I didn't
do it alone. But I but yeah, I feel like
I'm in the driver's sea, which feels really good.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
I love hearing that. Yeah, next time you're here, I
want to catch up again. I'm sure between now and
then a billion and one great things so I hope
so a lot of great things are going to happen.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
We like being busy now well good, you know, stay busy.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
It keeps us out of prison. Absolutely exactly, Adam Labrett,
thank you so much for being on the podcast, which
is called called Thinking out Loud with Elvis Duran.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
This one's this one.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
They wanted to call it. What do we want to
call it? I'm contractually obligated to do this podcast dot com.
It's great having you here.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Thank you, Adam, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Wow. Wasn't that awesome spending time with Adam Lambert? Loved it.
Hope you loved it as much as I did. As always,
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(24:50):
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this episode, tell your friends. Until next time, I'm Elvis Durant.
The New York Post here is kind of famous for
their crazy headlines and your posts. And they found a
murder victim in a strip club and the headline was
headless girl in a topless club. And that was the
headline on the front page of the newspaper. All sold out.
They've never sold it. Thank god you're listening. They said
(00:20):
it wouldn't last, and here it is on this podcast.
We're talking to my friend Adam Lambert. And at the
end of these thirty minutes, he'll be your friend too.
Just the nicest guy, and he already has this rich
history even after only fourteen years since American Idol when
he first hit the scene. Let's talk about being on
the road with Queen filling the shoes of Freddie Mercury.
(00:41):
Is that what he's doing or is he doing his
own thing. Let's talk about his new album. Let's talk
about anxiety, Let's talk about how he looks, his glam
everything about him is so interesting. Well, you'd be the
judge of that. Here we go, Oh, hi, is it
time to roll the fourth podcast? They said we would
(01:05):
never make it this far, and I'm thanking the God
above that we did. Because Adam Lambert's here. Hi Adam, Hi,
thank you for being.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Here, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Look here you are in New York City. I know
you've got a lot going on. You're talking about the
new album called High Drama. You've got beauty products that
you're pushing.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I am, I'm like a jack of all trades right now.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Let's do this. Let's play a game. Let's play the game.
Name everything you're doing? This not music related?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Oh lord? Okay, nail polish, but orly we did a collaboration.
I've been doing some voiceover work stuff like for some
cartoons you have to be revealed later. Okay, all right,
what else am I doing that's not music? And it
all kind of comes back to music, actually, So I
don't know. I don't think there's anything else to report.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I mean, it was what ten, eleven, how many years
ago when you were on idol, when we first were
introduced you, fourteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Okay, isn't that crazy?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So fourteen years ago you're like, Okay, I don't know
what the f we're doing here, but let's get up
the next stage. And you totally won our hearts and
you won us over. But back in the day, did
you ever think that one day you'd be in New
York talking about this line of fingernail polish.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
This sounds silly, but it's such a fantasy of mine,
you know, Ever since I literally when I was like
probably like a freshman in high school, I remember watching
TV and seeing Dave Navarro talking about wearing nail polish,
and it was it was like he was putting on
this like gun metal color and he just looked so cool.
And I remember being like, Oh, I want to wear
(02:35):
nail polish. And I went to a hot topic at
the mall. H I found some nail polish and I
put it on. It's just I've always loved it. And
so the fact that I got to develop these colors
and name them, that's so fun.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Well, then the next time we read them all you stopped,
obviously by piercing Pagoda, because you've got lots of piercings,
going yeah, if you do, you have any down below? No.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
No, I had my nipple pierce once though, but only one.
You made it sound like that was thing in the past.
It was terrible. It got I was on tour. This
is so gross.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
It got infected, right, which is not fun. So you
were like spotting your blouse on swell more or less.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, I mean when you're sweating and stuff, like on
stage and working and you you know, it gets in
there and it literally swelled to the size of a
golf ball. It was terrifying. Okay, and we had to
have a doctor. This is so gross. You don't want
this on your podcast?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yes I do.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh my god, oh boy. The doctor had to come
in and like drain it.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I'm telling you have never felt anything more painful in
my life.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Well, so, so therefore you didn't you didn't do more piercings. No, No,
have you ever dated a guy that had like Prince
Alberts and stuff like that? Is this getting too personal?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
No? I have not dated a guy that had a
Prince Albert, but I've definitely experienced one.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Okay, because I mean, because that shit can ship a tooth,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Exactly? Okay, well exactly. I was like, take it out.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Let's get back to the music, shall me. I don't
feel like you started with that. The reason why I
love it when you visit us because when Adam Adam
visits the station and the show, it usually means there's
a promo ahead, and you're always glammed up. You've got
the hair looking spiked and fun, You've got the makeup on,
you've got the wardrobe. Of course, I.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Feel like at this point if I didn't, it would
be like weird because people like that's just what they
know of me. And then I feel like if I
came in like full, like you know, day off vibe,
which is different. I mean I like to wear like
sweatpants and a baseball hat when I'm walking around, right,
I think I just think people would be disappointed in me.
Do you still well? I know this is radio, so
that's funny. But there are cameras, I swear, you know,
(04:30):
we have proof he's looking great. But do you I
and for lack of a better term, do you enjoy
playing dress up?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Do you enjoy it? I love it.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I you know, there are days every once in a
while if it's a busy schedule, I'm like, oh, I
gotta do it. I gotta get ready. You know, it
becomes a bit of a chore. But once I start,
I get into it.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
It puts me in a mood, It makes me feel creative,
it puts me in like it gives me confidence, makes
me feel like, you know, I'm stepping into my uniform
almost like this is my this is my world, this
is my job.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
So you know, when you're when you're made up and
looking really really really beautiful, you must that means there's
something going on, an event, there's something outside. Typically yeah,
so you're it's psyching you up for whatever event.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Exactly be I mean, there's nothing like getting ready for
even if it's not work, if it's like a night out,
there's nothing like that, like getting ready for a night out.
You have your music playing.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I like that feeling. I want you to take all
of us to a place that we will never know
unless living it, like caiously through you. Let's say you're
going to an award show, a big let's say it's
a Grammy. Let's say it's a big award show. Yeah,
and so start out with the people who come over,
and they they they style you, they or they help
(05:39):
you with your decisions. I'm sure, I'm sure no one
helps man.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I do it myself.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You do all yourself.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Okay, so you.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Don't have a stylist right now, I don't have makeup
or hair.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
And you don't need one. I mean you you hit
it out of the park every time.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I mean, I've definitely used them in the past, but
I currently know yeah, not recently.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Okay. It's the day of the event, let's call it
the Grammys, Okay, okay, and you're in home, you're at
home or in your hotel room, and you're look in
the mirror, you're putting it all on, you're getting that
hair just right, and you're taking your time. Hopefully there's
no rush because you want to, like I.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Mean, there's for some reason, there's always a rush. I'm
always running behind. But you know, I work well under pressure,
so maybe that's part of it. I don't know. And
then on.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Comes big heavy metal jewelry, and then comes all the
piercings and you know what am I going to put
my ear holes? And then the clothing. Then you hop
into the back of an suv. Yeah, and they pull
up in front of the whatever theater where all the paparazzi.
Paparazzi's out front. It's going to be and you know
it's going to be a lightning flash or seventeen of flash.
(06:41):
What are you feeling? Right as the door opens and
you step that eight inch platform heel outside the suv
and you have to get from that truck to the
door and inside. What's it like that rush of going
through that red carpet? Do you know?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I think if I go back, like six seven years ago,
it used to kind of give me like I would
be excited, but it would also give me like a
little pang of anxiety, like because it was just a
lot of energy. But these days, I just I think
I've grown into it as best I can, and it
just feels like another day of what I do. And
(07:18):
I love getting dressed up, so it feels like, oh,
look what I could show off, what I did, what
I made, what I put together. You know, it doesn't
freak me out at all like it used to in
the beginning, right, So it feels good. It feels like, hey,
a lot of the photographers look familiar, you know, like,
hey guys, you know, it's kind of like I've gotten
used to it.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You know. There was a there was actually it was
the Grammys, and I was working with a news organization.
We were a first position, so people would stop at
us first, so we would interview them and talk about
what they were wearing on that bullshit there was one
artist who I'm not going to say who. She her name.
She had so much anxiety she had to get back
in the suv and lead. Oh and later on we
(07:59):
had a private moment talking about it, and she said
that it just it was just overwhelming for her. Yeah,
it just took her mentally to a place where she
can be. Yeah, it was a lot. It was a
rush of just fright because she knew as soon as
she made through made it through the photographers, she came
to us and we had questions.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
She Yeah, sometimes it takes a second to kind of
like ground yourself afterwards, because it can be very like dizzying,
you know. I think for me, like, and I've talked
openly about this, like I'm I'm on medication for anxiety,
so that like that helps me so much deal with
all the crazy energy that comes out. It helps me
stay centered and grounded. So I feel like, you know,
(08:40):
and it's not for everybody, but I feel like, you know,
in talking about mental health stuff, I discovered a couple
of years ago, oh this is what anxiety is. I
didn't realize that I had been suffering from it for
so long. And so after like some therapy and you know,
some pharmaceutical help. It's like so much easier to go
to work now, it's like way more I can just
be the moment, which is so nice.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
If you're a friend and said, hey, Adam, you've been
so vocal about your mental health and anxiety. I'm going
through that too, Convince me to do something about it,
because I can't tell the difference with just what's reality
and what I should be dealing with as a human
being versus what is over supercharged in my head. And
(09:31):
do you have an explanation you could give. Let's say,
if I.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Leave you as a friend, I mean, I would definitely say, like,
it's up to you, because I do think it's different
for everybody. Some people react really well to therapy and medication.
Some people don't want to be on a medication daily
like that bothers them. The idea of it bothers them,
or the physical feeling of it bothers them. I think
it's kind of to each their own, really, And there's
also a lot of other, you know, alternative therapies now
(09:54):
you know that they're coming up with that are very interesting.
So I don't know, I would say, like, is it
worth it? Is it worth suffering. I mean, is it
ruining your lifestyle? Is it getting in the way of
you enjoying yourself and being present in these amazing moments
or not.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
You wonder, like, how many moments have I missed out
on because I just felt it better to stay home? Yeah,
because I just didn't want to deal.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
With or I was in my head, or you know,
or I was thinking too much about what if? What if?
What if? You know? What are they thinking? What?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
You know?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
It's it. I think everyone's different, like I said, But
for me, I also didn't realize that I had any
sort of like issue. I just thought, Oh, I'm just stressed,
you know. Oh, I'm just in you know, I'm just
an overthinker, which is true. But like you know, when
I finally like hit the wall at one point, was
like getting panic attacks out of nowhere for no apparent reason.
(10:44):
I was like, oh, dang, Like this is more serious
than I thought. And I think as we get older,
our bodies change, and these things can be become worse
or become you know, more, you know, easily recognized than
we once recognized them. And once I found that to
be the case, I was like, well, Okay, let's get some.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Help, could you? And if I get too personal, just
say no, it's fine.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I'm pretty Would you.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Count the number of panic like serious attack panic attacks
you've had in your life on one two hands or I.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Never had one before in my entire life until like
twenty eighteen or nineteen. During that year, it was just
I think some of it was like burnout, like I
was working a lot and traveling a lot, and jet
lag will take it out of you. You know, it
will zap you. I mean, and from what I've learned,
like it actually attacks the you know, the chemical in
your brain that that that causes this anxiety thing when
(11:34):
it's out of whack. So I think it was a
combination of a lot of things. But that was when
it first started, and it was terrifying because I didn't
know what was going on. I didn't know why I
was having a panic attack. Half the time it was
for no apparent reason. It was literally just a physical reaction.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Isn't that weird?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
It is weird because someone goes, well, why, and I'm like,
I don't know. It's not logical.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
You can't. You can't announce the trigger. You can't. I've
had it. I've had two and I could absolutely And yeah,
I thought I was having a heart attack, right, because
I would, you know whatever, right, But you know what,
once you once you seek help, you learn, you learn
about it and you can learn how to.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Make and honestly like the pandemic, you know, it was
a lot of things for a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
It was.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
There were a lot of disappointments associated with it. For me,
but also once I got over the disappointments, which was
my album Velvet that came out a week before everything
shut down, I was like, oh, but once I got
over that, it actually became a really beautiful time of
sort of self care and sort of getting back to
myself and you know, starting some creative projects, not on
(12:33):
a tight timeline, but being able to focus on them,
you know, and unencumbered and with full attention. And you know,
I think I'm grateful for that time. You know, I'm
grateful for the time off so that when I got
back into this career and our lifestyle that we're all
in hustling all the time, it like kind of gave
me new energy behind it.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
And the things we learn from pandemic is learning how
to push a button shut it down. Yeah, and we
didn't know that before.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
And it also like I think it reminded me of
priorities were like it kind of it got me back
in check with like the things that I need to
stay happy and content. And it's not all career stuff.
As much as I love what I do and I
put a lot of work and time into it, I
also was like, you know what, I need to maybe
balance this out with like my personal life a little
(13:19):
bit more.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I deserve that everyone needs to listen to that carefully
because it's very that balance thing. People hear that word balance.
I think we use that life professional balance conversation too much.
People don't hear it anymore. It's so important.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
It's nice too, you know. I think I think it's
I think our lifestyle here in America is very like
hustle mentality. It's go go, go, go go. We won't
want to win, and there's a healthy amount of competition
that can be a great motivator. But I have some
friends over in Europe and there's other countries that like
collectively just look at certain things differently, like the way
of life is different. And my partner right now, he's Danish,
(13:54):
and like the in Denmark, like the Danish way of
sort of life. There's a different emphasis on work, there's
a different emphasis put on competition and winning. It's it's
less emphasis, and they put more time and thought into
lifestyle and just enjoying themselves and sharing time with family.
And it's like, oh, and live longer. Probably probably they're
(14:17):
all one hundred and fifty years old over. I also
have a lot of rules for like healthier food and
all that. It's a beautiful place. I'm not saying that
I don't love being here, but you know, it's it's
just reminds you that there's other ways of doing things.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
That's why it's important to have a passport to see
the world and see how they live and do a
lot in life. So you know what, ten years on
the road with Queen. Of course this meeting happened, thank god,
because of American idol, and these guys said, look, you
know what, no one else can do it like Adam Lambert.
I know, but you know, stepping into those those those shoes,
(14:51):
Freddie Mercury, you know, and you never came in and
wanted to be Freddie Mercury. You came in and you
were Adam Lambert with Queen and it's just worked out
so beautifully. But ten years it still go. And then
you said earlier that you just don't see you don't
see it the plug being pulled anytime soon, because people
are still selling out. People still come.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah. I mean it's really like, you know, if Brian
and Roger wanted to do another tour, I mean, that's it,
that's all it takes. I mean, luckily people will still
want to come see us. And I mean we sold
out this North American tour that's coming up in October November.
We sold it out in like a day ish.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
If you guys ever looked into the demographics of who's
coming to these shows, well.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I can see I look out in the audience a lot.
I really love you can see the hairstyles, yeah, or
the baldings exactly. But it's interesting because you know, we
were always pretty successful as a collaboration, and we were
selling really well for years. But then when the movie
came out, the Bohemian Rhapsody film, that like took things
into the stratosphere because all of a sudden you had
(15:49):
different generations, more of them. You know, I've never seen
so many young people at our shows until after that movie.
It's amazing. I mean it's you know, in Europe, we
were on tour last summer. We did ten shows in
London at the O two and a bunch around Europe
and they had standing room on the floor, like you know,
the floor of these arenas and it was just like teenagers.
(16:11):
It was crazy and they're just like they love rock
and roll. It's it's almost like, I think, because it's
a generational thing, it's like they're discovering something new for them, right,
this classic rock thing too.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Don't tell them it's old, yeah, right right, brand new,
brand new from this new It's though, everyone.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Loves to discover music, and I think there's like this
resurgence of rock and roll right now, which is really cool.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
So back to the movie. When you saw the movie, yeah,
did it? Did it shift anything in your mind and
how you performed with the guys? Did it change your
outlook on Queen? Where did you see it? For the
A lot of things to learn, a lot of things
for the first time that made you great?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I am I had heard a lot of those things before,
you know, I think being with them for the previous
what eight years before that movie, I guess it was
like eight years. I guess that was longer ago anyway,
being on the road for them for that long before
where the movie came out. I was actually on the
plane while they were planning the movie. I mean I
was like I was a fly on the wall. So
I wasn't surprised by anything. I was actually really excited
(17:08):
to see it all like come together. I thought the
music was so well like edited and like the music
really shown in that movie. I thought that was really
important is that their catalog of amazing hits was sort
of on display, you know that. I mean that's what
they're known for us.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
That was really important. Oh, absolutely, But especially the scenes
where the camera is behind Freddy Mercury.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Look like yes, I mean, how many millions of.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
People around the world were watching, But how many people
were there at live A do we?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I don't know. I actually just performed in that stadium,
so a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
It was eighty thousand, okay, So that's where I lost
it when I saw the view from the stage. Yeah,
because it's daytimes, so there's no lighting like blinding you
see every right little head out there. That's gotta be
just nuts. I mean, do you do you think of
eighty thousand people as individuals or is it just one
(18:03):
big piece of energy.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
It is. That's a good way to put it. It
is energy. It's like plugging into a battery. It feels
really good actually, as long as everything's going well.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Right.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
But like we did right before the pandemic, we did
a tour down in Australia and we were playing stadiums
and that was my first time with Queen playing that
large of space and it was nuts. I mean, you
do get extra extra momentum from them, you get extra juice,
you know. It's like, I don't know, it's like you
get off stage from a crowd that big and you're
(18:33):
really hyped. I mean that's funny because it's almost like
I've gotten numb to you know, oh, eighteen thousand whatever.
But that's become normal.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
You know, It's not a numbness, I don't think. And
I was thinking, I'm making this observation because I remember
when we first met you back in the idle days
or just beyond long time ago, to see how you have.
You have changed and we all have. I'm not in
just physically being older and wiser, but you have just
grown into this incredible you. And so to hear you
(19:06):
talk about walking out in front of eighty thousand people
or walking in front of the paparazzi was just, oh,
it's another day at the office, but still looks like
you enjoy that living hell out of it.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
It took a long time to get to this point too,
you know, because there was a point maybe it was
you know, some of this anxiety stuff, but also just
just typical stuff of like putting, you know, hanging your
worth and your happiness on certain things that you can't control.
I think that learning that lesson really helped me of
just being like, you know what, I'm doing my best
(19:38):
and I want to enjoy this. So like shifting my
thought process behind it, I think allowed me to like
sink into it a bit more, you know, And I
do feel that way. I do feel like I've sort
of I've grown up a bit. I'm like in a
sweet spot right now, which feels really good.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
You know what that is the best advice ever is
just figuring figuring out what it is you can or
cannot control, and then you got to let loose. And
that's so hard to do. It's so hard to do,
but you know, being a performer, there is there's got
to be this certain level of control. You've got to
be able to control the decisions you make on what
projects you do and what you don't want to do.
(20:22):
And now you want to look, and now you don't
want to look. But you sound like you're comfortable with
being in control of those things as well.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
So yeah, I think I've learned a lot, you know,
And I learned a lot from like Brian and Roger
for example, being in their camp. It's taught me a ton.
And just you know, I think you pick and choose
your battles, and you just figure out how to surround
yourself with the right people. That's super important, both professionally
and personally as well. And just make sure that there's
(20:48):
joy in it. If there's not joy in it, you
need to fix something.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Amen. Yeah, and there's something we're all yeah grappling with. Yeah,
you should always grapple with the fight for joy, I
guess I think. So, Okay, we'll only have a few
seconds left. I want to talk about High Drama, this
album that's out right now. And I was telling I
was telling Adam earlier that back in the early nineteen eighties,
using a fake id. I was going to a gay
club in Dallas called The Landing and there's a performer
(21:13):
there that night named Sylvester. And we'd already dance, already
danced to Sylvester's songs. Yeah, but the one that you
cover on your album is you make Me Feel Mighty Real,
And of course it immediately took me back to a space,
to a place. It was it was like reading a history,
my history book of me. It to me to that night,
the smells of the Landing, which just stunk. You know,
it's just you know those back in the day of
(21:34):
the old gay bars. It didn't have lighting. I mean,
it didn't have windows.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I mean, there was a gay bar in West Hollywood
it closed only three years ago. That was like the
same thing. They also dish.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Oh yeah, exactly. This meant like urine anyway, moving on, Yeah,
but that song took me there, and this song, this
album is full of covers you're doing in your own
unique way that are going to take people places in
their memories.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yeah, I mean mighty real. It's interesting because we put
the album out actually in the spring, but we decided
to put another song out. We just you know, there's
no rules anymore, you can do whatever you want. And
my labels I'm working with a label in the UK,
and I came up with this idea. I was like,
what if we redid you make me feel mighty real
by Sylvester, but do it with like a modern DJ
and like modernize it. And so we we approached Sagala,
(22:17):
who I've actually done some writing with in the past,
but we didn't have anything that we had put out yet,
and he was really excited for it, and we collabed
on this and I was like, I wanted to be
able to be played like now in the club and
people you know, enjoy themselves and dance to it. And honestly,
it really is like a tribute to Sylvester because he
was so ahead of his time. He was so the
things that you know, he basically was gender fluid before
(22:41):
before that word was.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
A thing exactly. He was there before there was, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I mean, he really was like a pioneer and a
trailblazer in who he was and how he was so
bold and brave about it. He didn't give a crap.
He was like, this is me whatever everybody else can
you know?
Speaker 1 (22:57):
F off.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
It was really he was really bold.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
And other great songs that you're covering on here. Was
there one or two that really are your favorites?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I mean, I did a version of holding Out for
a Hero, like a little guilty pleasure of Bonnie Tyler song.
But we did it like a glam rock, like a
very seventies glam rock kind of arrangement. That one's fun.
I can't Stand the Rain is really fun. I did
some current stuff too. I mean I did Chandelier by Sia.
I did Pink's My Attic, which is kind of a
B side on one of her last albums. I did
(23:27):
Lona del Rey West Coast. That's a really fun one.
And I did a song by Billie Eilish as well.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
And you chose every single song on this album. Yeah,
and a great I think I'll do this one in
that one, no, and that one no.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I mean it was definitely like a collaboration, and it
was like as far as you know, working through some
of these decisions and choices, for sure. But I didn't
do it alone. But I but yeah, I feel like
I'm in the driver's sea, which feels really good.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
I love hearing that. Yeah, next time you're here, I
want to catch up again. I'm sure between now and
then a billion and one great things so I hope
so a lot of great things are going to happen.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
We like being busy now well good, you know, stay busy.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
It keeps us out of prison. Absolutely exactly, Adam Labrett,
thank you so much for being on the podcast, which
is called called Thinking out Loud with Elvis Duran.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
This one's this one.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
They wanted to call it. What do we want to
call it? I'm contractually obligated to do this podcast dot com.
It's great having you here.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Thank you, Adam, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Wow. Wasn't that awesome spending time with Adam Lambert? Loved it.
Hope you loved it as much as I did. As always,
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