barb4Adam' date='Nov 18th 2012, 8:33 PM
Awesome @adamlambert EXCLUSIVE! Article/Art Work by @FoxVegas:"American singer-songwriter Adam Lambert"
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EXCLUSIVE! Article
By Brenda English (@FoxVegas)
Timeline: On a lazy Sunday afternoon, while reading stacks of glowing articles and reviews about your South Africa concerts, Adam.
Truth: Move one grain of sand on the beach, you will change the Universe forever.
Adam, do you remember when you talked with Oprah on her show a couple of years ago? You said in that interview that it felt to you like the whole world was thinking of you as "openly gay Adam Lambert?” You wondered then if that was how you would always be known. Oprah reassured you that it was already changing and would continue to do so. You paused, then said wistfully, “…..I hope so…”
Good news, Adam Lambert! Not any longer, duderoonie! I've read a lot of articles in the last couple of weeks written about you, your South Africa concerts and your upcoming VH1 Diva concert. Know something?
Not once have I see any headline that used the words openly gay in conjunction with your name! Really, truly...not once.
The novelty has worn off and the media is starting to GET you. It seems they needed to use the adjective “openly gay” to get themselves used to saying and writing those words, and to become more comfortable seeing the same words appearing in their by-lines. I don’t think it ever had anything to do with who you are, at all. It had everything to do with the person interviewing you about your concerts or writing about you and your music. The truly good interviewers and journalists never used the words openly gay in their work. Ever.
Now, the level of personal comfort experienced by these same journalists and reviewers in coming to terms with the fact that you are openly gay has reached a tipping point, and they no longer need to say or write the words. They accept you more as an entire package, no longer seeing you as a compartmentalized person to be broken down into describable segments. Their level of comfort has continually increased over the past few years ... now they are part of your posse!
In the last few weeks, I'm seeing the words "singer songwriter,” "amazing artist," "headliner," & my personal favorite, "A-Lister" all attached to your name in various reviews. You've shown them from the very beginning who you are and what you're all about, and they are now getting with the program. I’m also noticing a cosmic acceptance among the media of who you are as a man and what makes you so interesting. Being openly gay is only a part of the whole person and the media is learning what the rest of the world already knew about you from the get-go … that you’re a multi-dimensional, multi-faceted man who just happens to sing like a glorious, glamorous bat racing lightning-fast out of the gates of some silvery glitter-splashed hell!
Just as openly gay is only a part of the whole, so is the music. Although that music is what first caught the world’s attention, the press now understands that being a rippin’ good vocalist and songwriter is also only part of who you are. Combined with the bits of yourself that you allow the public to see of you as a family member, a best friend, a boyfriend and a guy who loves music and a kick-ass good party, they are learning that you are a very interesting and divergent man, simply doing your best to walk the walk and not just talk the talk. What they see is that you are living your life, while balancing those elusive shadows of fame and celebrity-hood that come with being on the Universal stage. The media’s been given glimpses of you in your private life, as well as while you are at work onstage ... and they’re gradually morphing into effusive Glamberts!
What we as fans know is that you changed the very essence of this Universe the first time you and your siippa walked your first Red Carpet as a couple. That changed everything. By that gentle act of courage, integrity and honesty, you stirred the proverbial pot just enough to shake out the moths and dust from the staid and stolid threads of every Red Carpet event to come. That act of love helped to stoke the media firestorm around your being openly gay, and it breathed life into those two words that lasted in the press for a couple of years.
No longer, though. They’ve begun to see you as more than who you sleep with and more than how you apply your eyeliner. They are now beginning to understand you as a human being with a good heart, and for that, your fan base thanks them profusely.
It’s jolly about time, I say!
©BrenEnglish