Adam Lambert has taken to Twitter to assure us that the cover for his debut album, For Your Entertainment, which Slezak dutifully dissected last night, is, purposely,”ridiculous.”
“Thank you to those who appreciate and understand that the album cover is deliberately campy. It’s an homage to the past. It IS ridiculous,” he wrote this morning. “For those that don’t get it: oh well… Glad to have gotten your attention,” he continued. “Androgyny. Rock n Roll.”
Apparently happy with the response from his followers, he also offered details about what we’ll hear on the album, due out Nov. 23. “The upcoming single was produced by Dr. Luke!!” he added. “There is also a song called ‘Soaked’ written by Muse! Also a tune called ‘Music Again’ written by Justin Hawkins of the Darkness!” (That last bit just made me happier than it had any right to.)
Lambert, who was photographed by EW while recording earlier this month, told us then of his goal for the album. ”I wanna rock; I want people to dance, I want people to cry, I want people to smile and laugh,” he said. ”And I wanna play dress-up!”
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It IS fun. I love it. It’ll sure catch shoppers’ attention in a Wal-Mart aisle, lol.
Gay guys (aka the people who would actually gawk at this cover) do NOT shop at WalMart LOL
Yes we do.
Gay guys shop at Target. Only we call it Tar-zhay.
Yes we do. I shop at Wal-mart all the time. Big deal.
Ah, stereotypes, gotta love ‘em. 1) Yes we do shop at Wal-mart when it’s necessary (and shoot me if I ever say, as someone else suggested, “Tar-zhay”). 2) Not all of us would “gawk” at this cover. I can appreciate campiness, but I don’t find feminine-looking guys attractive at all. I’d be much more inclined to “gawk” at Kris Allen’s cover.
ROFLMFAO
I’m sorry to hear that Mike, Telly and HD….that’s unfortunate.
Ah, internalized homophobia, gotta love it.
crispy: +10
mike: Fail
Adam: FTW
Gay guys shop everywhere… and wouldn’t necessarily gawk at the cover. (Incorrectly) Stereotype much?
Kevin, boy oh boy, what’s the deal with you hating on the gays? I sense some jealousy here! Get a life you idiot! Speaking rudely about someone you don’t even know in real life is very upsetting, don’t you think?
I thought you guys shoped at Costco!!
you mean “Modern Family” was wrong???
So Kevin, since you don’t shop at Wal-Mart where do you shop? Assholes R Us?
Actually most of the gay guys I know (my son is gay, 28 and a Human Rights Activist) choose not to shop there unless absolutely necessary. The HRC in 2008 gave Walmart a rating of a red 40 on a scale of 100, down from a yellow 65 in 2006. It was among 54 companies that scored 45 or lower in HRC’s 2008 Corporate Equality index, which assigns ratings to 519 large companies. HRC said that the USA’s biggest private employer has “more work to do in furthering equality.” It advised gays and their supporters to shop elsewhere. One issue was Walmart’s changes in policies and also refusal to offer domestic partner benefits to its gay and lesbian workers. Target TGT rated a green” 80, meaning that “consumers should make every effort to support these businesses.”
It’s not always about fashion or good taste.
Gay people = WalMart’s Cash Cows
I love how he dismisses people with taste as if we’re all idiots. “Ha ha! Glad I got your attention!” His head has swelled to five times its original size in the months since Idol. What a maggoty douche.
Sarah, I’m afraid you’re right
Seriously, I love this guy. Glam rock baby!
this guy isn’t the New York Dolls. He’s just a mainstream pop artist which = suck
Glad he’s not taking it too seriously. Better this than some smoldering Zoolander pose.
if he does Zoolander in a campy way too, then bring it on.
This IS a smoldering Zoolander pose. The only thing funny about is that he thinks he’s being ironic and edgy, when really he’s just showing his lack of taste and inability to innovate.
i just think he’s a genius, a music god, he’s just perfect! and the cover….ART.
But that’s the thing… he probably meant it to be “ART,” got the reaction, and now it is deliberately “campy.” I’m not offended by the androgeny, just the crappy design. That is some 5-year-old with Publisher graphic design.
IKR? It looks like it was designed by my little sister. Bleh.
Having said that, I do realize he intended it to be campy because he had said beforehand numerously that the cover is “completely OTT” and he said on the first day of Idol his performing style is sometimes “campy” and that he doesn’t take himself seriously so others shouldn’t either.
Am sure Fuko the senior Art Director at Sony wouldn’t take 2 kindly to your remark. She has designed many incredible album covers, this one included. See it got your attention.
I agree with you. I don’t believe for one minute he deliberately wanted it to be campy and ridiculous. I don’t think the cover is getting the attention that he thought it would.
Shows how little you know about Adam. Of course it’s getting the attention he thought it would – he’s said time and time again that it was going to be over the top – and it is. Trust – there in nothing about him, his image or this CD that isn’t calculated.
hahaha american idol sucks and your taste = suck
And I know this because I suck (and well from what I’ve been told)
“A music god.” Um, let’s hear the album first before we put him up in the ranks of people like Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley or Bob Marley.
You’re on. Listen to him and then decide. A CD cover doesn’t mean anything.
If you had read all Fuko’s Tweets while she was working on this cover you would know that after meeting with Adam her biggest concern was that TPTB would want to play it safe and would not like the direction they wanted to take it. She submitted 200 changes before this final one was approved. She now has her Twitter account protected. Perhaps because her tweets were being published elsewhere on the internet (I’m guilty). If you don’t like the cover that is fine, but you cannot say Adam did not intend it to be campy and OTT.
@carr perhaps you need to check the definition of “ridiculous” that Adam intended. See urban dictionary for current use meaning: “Where something is hot, cool, or off the hook” That is exactly what Adam was going for! ;D
Lol!! The guy is brilliant! He always has them talking. Love the cover. Very retro yet modern. Makes you talk and makes you remember.
the 80’s sucked except for early punk rock.
Early punk rock was in the 70s.
Actually its 70’s Glam Rock and it didn’t suck!
Lindajean, to me, that just shows how hollow he is if all he wants is for people to talk about him. Attention doesn’t = success or money, especially when a lot of it is negative attention and it can distract from his talent or his music… I just fail to see how that makes him “brilliant”
Album cover is cool very glam
as cool as all the throwaway records at the goodwill and salvation army combined. only rock’n'roll matters and the stuff is disappearing in more ways than one.
I can’t get his version of Mad World out of my head since the moment I first heard him sing it. That’s the sign of a great artist-anything he does on his album or on the cover is fine by me.
They’ve been playing pieces of Adam’s version of Mad World on General Hospital and everytime they do it’s stuck in my head forever. lol I can’t wait for Adam’s album. I know it will be fantastic. Can’t wait for the 1st single too.
Heavens to besty if it wasn’t “deliberate”.
I used to look like that too…picture it….Arcadia…1985..So Red the Rose
TOTALLY! OMG. I REMEMBER. HAHAHAHA. R U REALLY NICK???
JK! funny. good comparison. that and Bowie. relax people. what do you expect? whatever it is, he’ll do the opposite so don’t bother “expecting” just enjoy..it’s all fun.
2012 and that atrocious cover were two steps back, but Muse and The Darkness… holy crap, two BIG steps forward!
Don’t forget Lady Gaga!!
wow, muse and the darkness. you are dumb.
Another Kristard!
Oh wow, MUSE? That’s amazing. And the Justin Hawkins reference makes a lot of sense with that cover.
Yes its Duran Duran all the way…pick up RIO and love it today
ADAM LAMBERT & MUSE = IAM IN HEAVEN!!!
DuranDuran are true legends…will the Glambert be around 30 yrs from now??…I bet he’ll be some 55 yr old fat Boy George…you think?
He definitely has it in him….but Boy George just isn’t as talented (please don’t hurt me 80’s fans!)
Well Adam definitely has more talent – a glittery planet size.
But I do really want to hurt you.
Boy George may be crazy on a cracker, but he is (or was) definitely talented. Adam Lambert? Magic 8 Ball says “future uncertain.” On the issue of the cover, I think it’s silly and stupid more than out-there or interesting. I still think it looks like Katie Couric got glam pictures at the mall.
I adore Adam and I love the CD cover for what it is. He is a smart and talented man.
Being a child of the eighties, um, yeah, I “got” it immediately, and thought it was brilliant, and I love his smurf-colored hair, too!
When I listen to his CD I will most likely rock, smile, and laugh, but I’m a lousy dancer and I hate to cry. I might even go heavier on the eyeliner tomorrow!
SMURF! LOL!! OMG this IS starting to get entertaining…
Yes, what do you expect. The album title is “For Your Entertaiment” Good that you are enjoying it. See how fabulous and fantastic Adam is. You haven’t heard the single yet and your are entertained. God i can’t wait to get the album.
Well look at it, it couldn’t be a mistake.
Although I think it is a bit of a mistake. But if he thinks it’s funny, well, it is his album.
The concept is not to be funny but to pay homage to the ’80s. The Glam years. So if you don’t get that then i guess you don’t get it.
Just as Adam “delibertly” chose to go in this direction, the masses will choose to “delibertly” ignore him.
If he keeps this up his career will fizzle.
And we do get it Adam. Glam is one thing, female is another.
Your thinly-veiled homophobia is showing. Frankly, if mouth-breathing Walmart-shopping Middle America doesn’t get it, it’s their loss.
Travis, why so defensive? It’s just someone’s opinion. Besides, the people who don’t like Adam won’t feel they’re losing anything by not purchasing his album.
Maybe it should all be about music and not about male/female, masculine/feminine.
Honey, it’s “deliberately.”
re: “If he keeps this up his career will fizzle.”
Thank you, Gene Simmons.
(and we see how right HE was)
What?!?!?! Lambert sang a song written my MUSE?!?! HOW COOL IS THAT!! Muse wrote it and gave it to Adam??!?! I still can’t believe it. MUSE IS A HUGE BAND!
note to self: only huge bands rock.
Yay! I’m glad it was intended to be campy. That means the icky feeling it gives me was the intended effect. I still can’t look at it for fear that a magical glam-rock nymph will sneak into my bedroom tonight and whisk me away to a land beyond the stars to meet the Care Bears, Jem, Rainbow Bright, and She-ra.
And such a thing happening would be a bad thing?
What, you didn’t see the South Park episode where that happened? It was dire, with hacked-off bits of Strawberry Shortcake and Smurfs strewn everywhere.
Annie, Oh my hell that was funny!
This instantly ranks among the worst album covers of all time. Deliberate or not it’s horrible and will actually hurt sales for the record mark my words.
name one album that was hurt sales wise because of the cover. That’s what I thought. MUSE!
Well, that’s easy. The Black Crowes – Amorica. The record label had to change the cover because of the controversy and to get it into WalMarts
Yes, as “Crispy” just said that’s one…although that cover was banned because of content. In this case the cover is simply so campy and stupid that it polarizes part of the audience you are trying to reach thus hurting potential sales and on a debut album that’s about the last thing you want. Yes indeed he has people talking; about how bad it sucks. Why not give yourself a better chance of overall sales with a different cover…and by the way “MUSE” will contribute very little to it’s success. Who are they? barely more famous than Lambert himself; sorry.
To start with if you don’t get Lambert, you are not a fan. The fans might argue about the cover but they will buy the album because Lambert can sing. It is the masculine community that is really acting up on this. Most of the ill feelings are driven by homophobic bigotry rather than artistry. Muse might not be that big in America but they are big in other parts of the world. Europe and Asia.
yesterday Adam was at #13 on Amazon.com, but now he’s #8.
the cover doesn’t hurt sales.
ppl are savvy enough. that’s good!
I doubt i-tune shoppers care about album covers. Gee I thought we bought albums for the music not the covers. How do you listen to a cover?
MUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEE!!!!!!
Seriously- how cool is that? And Justin Hawkins? Scared and intrigued all at the same time.
f..k muse
The picture is FABulous as is Adam..and peeps..it’s just the cover LOL can’t wait for what comes inside it!
This album is gonna be a kick-ass for sure! I am lovin every min of it…Whot Whot! Get down baby…Alright!
PS. I luv the cover, it is 1.artistic, 2.Bold 3.glamorous 4.totally Adam(which we really love btw) 5.hypnotizing 6.totally 70’s 80’s feel to it 7.unique 8.unexpected (we all expected some of that micheline-man look photos and other reg ones like the Detail ones) 9.Catchy and 10. Totally out of this f###n’ world…..Horay, Horay….
I agree. You need to add one more. 11. Elvis look alike. This is what Elvis would have looked like if he grew up in the 80’s as a performer. Love the Cover. Can’t stop looking at it. The eyes have it.
12.hottt 13.mysterious
lets add to this list people…I am lovin Lambert in and out…Wooohoooo
I think the cover is genius. Adam has everyone talking about it. What more could he want? Wait til the music comes out. This is gonna seem tame.
Being of the age (and then some) to have enjoyed the beginnings of MTV – I have to say – I loved the Glamrock era! I was a big Bowie fan. Adam is bringing that all back and I love it!! I am so tired of all the hiphop and rap music. I was also old enough to enjoy the 60s which is also a favorite of Adam. He just keeps rockin’ my world…………love me some Adam. Keep it coming……..And I think the album cover is fabulous. He is beautiful – outside and in.
You got it girl.
Right on! ADAM is a breath of fresh air from all the hip hop and rap music dominating this generation, the reason I’ve stopped listening to the radio. Bring on real music and entertainment, ADAM baby!
I ‘GOT’ the album cover, but it was NOT well done, at all.
THE FONTS ARE HORRID, AS WAS IS THE PHOTOSHOPPING. Instead of camp, it turned out tacky, laughable and cheap.
I GOT and LIKED the concept, but not the execution. The end result is beyond poor, it’s embarrassing.
If they wanted to go for adrogynous and campy, they failed.
Some of my absolute favorite photos and moments of him are him in drag! I LOVE dress-up, I think camp is fabulous and adrogyny is beautiful, ie Bowie. But the airbrushing and photoshop editing is THAT bad.
There are stunning REAL PHOTOS of him looking GLAM and ADROGYNOUS.
THIS however looks like it was designed by a 12 year old.
I would SUE the girl who designed it.
This!!
Tacky and cheap does NOT equal campy and adrogynous Adam. I love you so much but babe, you need to f-n change this cover. And sue that girl.
How do you know a girl designed it?
No, this really is the point. That’s what camp is! And if they used a real picture with that background and theme, it would totally look cheesy and superimposed. The airbrushed adam looks like a mural and fits it perfectly. It looks exactly how it’s supposed to look. If I have to look at Adam pix, UH YEAH, I definitely prefer the ones in Details! But I get this and it’s cool and edgy and exactly what I love about him.
minus 1 for ADROGYNOUS. ugh. not into that AT ALL.
Glad it got so much attention from you (i.e. the whole point of a CD cover)
@ July – what middle america. Didn’t you watch the concert? And if you didn’t get the concept behind the cover then you don’t get it. LMAO!!
It reminds me of this big Barbie head I had as a kid- the one you could make up on and do her hair. It WAS pretty campy! His music will be his legacy- not this cover.
And what if his music is as bad as this cover?
Ohhh…that what be bad!
I believer you haven’t heard Adam sings. Coz if you do, you wouldn’t think it is bad. Don’t jump to that conclusion before you hear the music. It seems like you already conditioned yourself to dislike Adam’s music. And i hope that the core issue is not gender in nature. LMAO at you!
@HDG – before you spew words, checkout first who did the artwork. This is the same guy who did MJ’s This is it.
Check it out. Research it.
Erm, no it’s not. The girl who did this is an Asian girl, NOT the TII guy LOL. She had to lock her twitter yesterday because people were sending her awful comments.
Sorry, hun Fuko did BOTH of them you can see it on her blog. Marjorie was incorrect calling her a guy but it’s still the same person.
Marjorie, waht I meant that it would be bad if the music was as bad as the cover (which I certainly don’t think it will be). I saw Adam on tour and he is a wonderful performer. By gender, I assume you meant sexual orientation- not liking the cover does not make one a homophobe.
Oops! Sorry about my typos!
It’s still so fu*king BAD!!!!
MJ sux as well
@euryth
“DuranDuran are true legends…will the Glambert be around 30 yrs from now??…I bet he’ll be some 55 yr old fat Boy George…you think?”
— I think this is your homophobia talking. Bad boy…bad!!