Adam Lambert Week in Review May 16-22

by Juneau and Xena, co-authors of On the Meaning of Adam Lambert

Wiping tear of sadness: adamlambert Unfortunately not performing on Idol Finale. Guess they have plenty of artists booked. Catch me on Ellen tommorow and Leno on Friday.

adamlambert Yup RT @theboygeorge: Staying in is the new going out!

ACTION ITEMS

Flex those joints, shake it out, and Nail These Flash Mob Moves

Our exclusive faux tattoo

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You can also enter to win a set of tattoos by submitting a caption for our IIHY Caption Contest!! Deadline to enter is midnight May 24.

Help Adam Lambert make VH1 history by voting for his WWFM video.

Sign on to this Facebook campaign to put Adam on Saturday Night Live.

Don’t forget to vote for Adam on Billboards Best American Idol Ever poll.

Sign this petition to 19 Entertainment for a high-quality live stream of a Glam Nation concert.

Vote for your Fave International Video Artist of the Much Music Video Awards

Clearchannel’s KIIS FM poll on If I Had You

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From GlamRockGodUK – Slash Praises Adam Lambert
From the Mix 941 radio interview, former Guns n Roses guitarist Slash reveals the back story of how he became a mentor on American Idol last year. It was all about Adam…

Here’s the full interview (audio only)

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Adam Concerts and Appearances

BE SURE TO WATCH ADAM ON JAY LENO TONIGHT

Ellen interviews Adam (broadcast May 19) – “That was not my… cockatoo”

Adam performs If I Had You on Ellen

Adam’s backstage message to Ellen

Sneak peek…

Ellen Show taping May 18, 2010

German Radio Energy performance of Whataya Want From Me

German Radio Energy interview with Adam Lambert

Tweet from @adamlambert Backstage at the Staples Center Glamming up for Wango Tango! Who’s coming??

Tweet from @adamlambert: I love my fans who showed up to Staples tonight! Next up: THE GLAM NATION TOUR!

Tweet from @adamlambert: Wango Tango! I love my Band and Dancers!!! Thank you Monte, Tommy, LP, Cam, Brooke, Terrence, Taylor, Sasha!

Tweet from @adamlambert: So there! RT @GlamPimpLinda: @AnnieWT Asking why the harem pants is like asking Madonna why the pointed bra! Right @adamlambert We love ya!

Check out our Wango Tango Photos and Videos post for more gorgeous pictures of Adam in his Count Vronsky-invades-the-harem look, like this one….

Photo Credit: Chris Hatcher / PR Photos

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News and Updates

Adam’s upcoming tour dates and appearances on Ellen and Jay Leno are posted on our Calendar. Check out this Google Map showing Glam Nation tour locations!

Xena’s editorial No dancing please..did I read that right? continues to get lots of hits and loads of comments (great fun to read!)

Adam Lambert is nominated 2010 Much Music Video Award‘s International Video of the Year – Artist. He will be performing on the awards show, June 20. There’s a contest to win tickets to the show…but you can’t be older than 24. Ahem!! Here’s a Skype interview with Adam about the MMVAs:

Simon Cowell on Oprah – Are we seeing a softer side of Simon in Season 9 because of his Susan Boyle experience? Oprah mentions Adam as “a star”. Talks about X Factor.

WWFM video makes UK Dozoo’s Breakin’ Out list

WWFM included in German RTL Sommer Hits 2010 CD

USA Today Idol Chatter – Adam’s WWFM hangs on to top spot…IIHY makes strong gains

Adam’s Worldwide Certifications and Chart Placements for Singles and Album – updated May 16

Whataya Want From Me reaches Platinum in Australia – Aria Charts

Adam Lambert singing Live the Life, at J. Scott G’s MySpace page

Paper Magazine’s photo shoot behind the scenes video – nice shots of Adam

Adam Lambert On Meatloaf’s New Album, Hang Cool Teddy Bear – posted at Adam Lambert’s Official Unofficial Site, includes this classic Meatloaf interview about Adam: “Adam Lambert is the only singer …on that I was completely awestruck since [Janice] Joplin –  I don’t think anyone actually comprehends how great this guy is…”

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If I Had You Video Updates

From Entertainment Tonight, behind the scenes

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LA Times Idoltracker dishes on Adam…

Credit: Lisa Rose / Zuma Press

From Robert Kovacik: “Another pic from #AdamLambert video shoot. Allnighter turns to day. But crew wants fans to know, ur rocker “never turned mean or demanding” More to come.“

From Robert Kovacik another photo from IIHY shoot – Adam walking down misty forest path

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Department of Eye Candy

Fabulous new fashion images by Thomas Whiteside – check them out. (Warning! Hands-in-pants shot will provoke naughty thoughts…) This embroidered jacket looks like it could have come from the late Alexander McQueen’s fall line. If anyone ID’s it, let us know!

Photo by Thomas Whiteside

Grrrr! Photo by Thomas Whiteside

Here are these photos in an intensely sexy fan vid…

Just can’t get enough of those eyes in this INROCK portrait….

@LALALAMBRIT has created some wonderful photo collages of Adam. Some faves:

From IIHY video shoot - collage by LALALAMBRIT

IIHY video shoot - Band collage by LALALAMBRIT

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Press Picks of the Week

That ’90s Show: Adam Lambert Rocks Vanilla Ice Hair, Hammerpants at Wango Tango – Lyndsey Parker’s review of Wango Tango – actually, only of Adam’s set – for Reality Rocks. Is she going to review the other performers too, or did Adam’s performance blast all the others into oblivion? (She’s such a fangirl!) Some gems: “Yep, only Adam Lambert could take the signature fashion looks of fallen pop-rappers and make them look glam” and “just as Adam stole the show at Staples last summer, when he performed there in the second-to-last spot on the Idols Live Tour, he commanded the stage like Wango Tango’s main attraction.” Don’t know if Adam converted any Beiberbots, but he probably floored their parents…

The latest on Adam Lambert: New video, ‘Ellen’ performance, rehearsals for Glam Nation from LA Times Idoltracker. Nothing here that we haven’t already told you, but we like this description of the IIHY video: “Rocking an Oliver Twisted, “Clockwork Orange”-inspired look, the imagery seemed even zanier than first described by media outlets, like this report by MTV.”

Adam Lambert Says ‘If I Had You’ Clip ‘Gets Kind Of Psychedelic’ (MTV)
“The thing about the video [is] there is a love interest: It’s all my friends,” he explained. “It’s about the love that you have with your circle of people that you surround yourself with…I invited my friends to come party in my video, so there’s a real authentic joy,” he explained. “And it gets kind of psychedelic.”

Let Us Now Praise Effeminate Men – Autostraddle
We loved this editorial from our favorite lesbian blog. The writer takes on the now-infamous Newsweek opinion piece “Straight Jacket”. Best line (for Adam fans): “We’re often asked here at Autostraddle.com why exactly we are so f*cking wet for Adam Lambert. Because Adam Lambert is a genderf*cker!”

Reviews of the CD from German press with English translations.

Interview in Canadian teen magazine YouThink: Adam Lambert: Living the Idol Dream
“It’s something that’s coming back – thank God – live performance.” – We couldn’t agree more!

The outtakes from the YouThink interview are also well worth reading.

Unreality TV – Has the video of WWFM performance on the Dutch TV show De Leeuw op Zondag

OK! EXCLUSIVE: Adam Lambert Talks Touring, ‘American Idol’ & Bieber Fever

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Intimate Peeks

Adam’s dancer Sasha Mallory answers questions

The Ustream footage of Adam and the band working on Voodoo is now on youtube:

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Our dear friend Janet Kofoed’s jewelry is featured at Cassidy Haley’s online store!

Cassidy wearing a Janet Kofoed pendant

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Tweet Beat

May 18: adamlambert @theellenshow had so much fun on your show today! Always the best, most positive energy!! Bam!

May 16: @UhHuhHerMusic Band practice with @TommyJoeRatliff, @monterrific, @Longineu today. Longineu let me bang on his drums. It was epic.

After Wango Tango: @alisanporter I’m so proud of adamlambert he was by far the best thing on that stage. BY FAR. You were perfection. Best ever

@idolator We talked 2 adamlambert at Wango Tango tonite-look 4 r chat on mon! Live performance was perfection the man’s voice is ridic

@scarlett_cherry ..Love you @adamlambert…thank you for inviting us to be a part of such a special moment in time..you were wonderful..couldn’t b prouder..x

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Favorites from the Video Archives

Larry Flick interview with Adam Lambert on Sirius Satellite radio -Youtube

Byron Cooke’s “Sydney Hook-up” interview

Adam sings Happy Birthday to a friend

I Make You Crazy – So Hot! From Art 4 Life benefit, May 2008

And because she’s Adam’s “little sister” and fiercely talented, and because I love this song Scars: