Adam Lambert as the Love Doctor: Q= question, AL= Adam Lambert


Q: My partner is reading 50 Shades Of Grey, should I be worried or excited?
AL: “I have a feeling that you probably could get a lot of ideas from the book. I haven’t read it. I’m sure it’s thought-provoking and inspiring. You can take notes, get positions, props. There’s probably a lot of creativity that comes from it in the bedroom, I would guess.”

Q: Can you find true love on the dance floor?
AL: “Yes you can. I didn’t know if it was possible or I didn’t think it was that likely, but I met my current boyfriend at a club.”

Q: Is taking a break ever a good idea?
AL: “I’m sure it is. I mean, if things are not flowing correctly. If you and your partner are butting heads or it just doesn’t feel like there’s a spark, maybe taking a break is the answer. I mean not always, but I’m sure it can help.”

Q: Is it ever okay to mention your Ex to your partner?
AL: “Depends on the conversation. I’ve definitely brought up past lovers before. I try to be sensitive about it, obviously. I think if you’re trying to work on your own relationship and you’re citing your past experiences, you’re just making conversation.”

Q: I was drunk and kissed my best friend’s boy, should we keep it a secret?
AL: “Oh God. I’m not one to ask about that. I don’t know. It depends on your situation. I have lots of friends that are in really healthy serious relationships and they’re very committed. I have friends that have strayed. I have friends that are in relationships outside of their current relationship. And it’s not really for me to judge. I don’t know. I think to each their own. You have to live with it though. You have to live with the guilt and that’s not always good, is it?”

Q: Best way to deal with a breakup, get over or get even?
AL: “I think just get over it. I think the revenge thing is childish.”

Q: Can long distance relationships ever work?
AL: “It depends. I think if you have a strong foundation. I think if you’ve spent a lot of time together at the beginning of your relationship and kind of built something, I think that if there comes a point where you have to go long distance, I think it’s possible. I think starting out long distance is probably not gonna work though.”


Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GToo_uWEQak&list=FLn3Hy9RB0Tz1oMb5gfPizCg&index=8&feature=plpp_video

“The biggest misconception about being famous is that it’s all glamor and you get everything you want and everybody opens the door for you. It’s work. It looks glamorous from the outside looking in, but it can actually make you kind of anxious and it can be a little overwhelming. And it can be kind of like ‘whoa’. You don’t have a lot of control over your environment. One of the things that I’ve heard before is kind of this sentiment people will say like ‘well you asked for it’. And I guess in a way, I did. But I don’t think anybody realizes what they’re asking for when they do something to become famous. The fame is really more of a side effect of what I’m doing.” -Adam Lambert

“Well I think the album has 2 sides to it. And I think from the first upbeat, dance side of the album, I hope that people get strength, confidence, encouragement to be who they are, to do what they wanna do in life, and connect with other people and find love and joy freely. And then the back half of the album is more for those moments where you need a friend, where you need to commiserate, and you need to heal, and you need to get through something, and you need to face your own demons in the mirror when you look in it. Or when your heart is broken by somebody. I think there is a lot of support on both ends. It’s like a bra.” -Adam Lambert

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“Broken English is kind of a sexy song about communication. And there’s so many different ways to communicate. You can communicate with words, and then sometimes it’s not about the words at all, it’s about, maybe, body language. I think there can be some challenges that come with not being able to communicate verbally. And then there’s also a lot of beauty in that disconnect. And that’s what Broken English is about.” -Adam Lambert

“My whole thing is- I write from my experiences, I write from a first person perspective but I’m trying to write music that anybody could relate to. And so yeah I’m the gay guy that was on American Idol but I’m also the human guy that sings. Like, if you’re into like going out with your friends and partying and wanting to meet somebody and fall in love and have a good time, I think that’s something we all relate to right?” -Adam Lambert

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ADAM LAMBERT - Rolling Stone article - May 24th issue:

Adam Lambert’s Emotional Rescue

The ‘Idol’ star cleans up his act, scores a boyfriend and aims for the charts

By Jonah Weiner

     Adam Lambert’s Hollywood home sits atop a long driveway so steep that you could mistake it for a concrete wall. When Lambert began renting the midcentury modern with stunning city views, he thought the driveway was a pain. “To get up, you’ve got to overshoot it, turn around, come back and then turn in really fast at, like, a 90-degree angle, or else you scrape the whole bottom of your car,” he says. But after photographers caught wind of the American Idol star’s address, Lambert came to appreciate the driveway: “They’re not coming up that thing!”

     Lambert in his kitchen, making a pot of Throat Coat tea. His jet-black bangs, tipped with blond, soar high above his forehead. His eyes are ringed with black makeup. There’s a dirty wok on the brushed-metal stove - Lambert and his boyfriend, a Finnish reality-TV star named Sauli Koskinen, have been “getting pretty domestic” lately. They’ve decorated the living room in haute-goth style: skulls in bell jars, a steer skull painted black and white on one wall. A security monitor displays video feeds from a half-dozen camera mounted around the house. “My mom insisted I put them in,” Lambert says. She was like, ‘Did you hear what happened to Lindsay Lohan? Robbers stole her jewelry!’ I was like, ‘Mom, it’s Lindsay Lohan. She probably stole something from them first.’”

     Lambert, 30, moved from his native San Diego to L.A. a decade ago. He dropped out of college after five weeks and spent the next few years singing on cruise ships and in a production of Wicked before deciding to audition for Idol in 2009. Lambert was a phenomenon out of the box: His siren-wail high notes won standing ovations from Simon Cowell, while his ambiguous sexuality prompted titillated chatter. Lambert had lived uncloseted since just after high school, but he didn’t come out publicly - in Rolling Stone - until after the Idol finale, because he didn’t want to distract from his singing. “He’s a real artist, very comfortable doing difficult stuff,” says Chic mastermind Nile Rodgers, who collaborated with Lambert on a new song. “He reminded me of when I was working with David Bowie - it was so natural, this laser-focused jam.”

     Looking out past his pool, Lambert can gesture down at the city and point out various crappy apartments he has called home. The funny thing, though, is that despite all his success - the Idol triumph; the fact that Justin Timberlake once compared him to Freddie Mercury and then Queen actually hired him to fill in for Mercury at several shows; the “low-five-figures” rent he can afford; the gleaming BMW 650i coupe parked in his garage - Lambert still feels like an impostor. “It’s still kind of nuts to me that I’m standing here,” he says.
     That feeling animates Trespassing, Lambert’s new album. “It’s the Idol stigma,” he says. “On red carpets at awards shows, other musicians are either really open to embracing and being friendly and being associated with me, or they just don’t want to.” The feeling is also a function of his 2009 debut, For Your Entertainment, which didn’t ignite the way it could have. And, of course, it’s partially about Lambert’s sexuality. “A lot of times it’s in my own head, but it feels like a political move to be friends with someone like me,” he says. Elton John invited him to an Oscar party in February, and he’s chummy with Katy Perry, but he says he has no real famous friends: “Everyone I’m friends with now, I knew before.”
     ”This guy sang his heart out and expressed himself, and still he felt he wasn’t garnering the respect he deserved,” says Pharrell Williams, who worked on Trespassing. “And he felt his sexual orientation was always at the helm of any conversation about him.” With Trespassing, rather than shying away from the confrontation, he doubles down, as on “Outlaws Of Love,” a wounded ballad about gay persecution. “I wanted to be careful it wasn’t too much about the empowerment stuff,” he says. “With the title track it’s not like, ‘You can do it.’ It’s more like, ‘Fuck that shit.’
     ”I still feel like I’m not welcome,” Lambert adds. ” I went to the Grammys this year and felt really weird, like an outsider. Pop music feels like high school again - like, there’s the really cool kids, and I’m not one of those.”
     You can’t talk about Lambert without talking about the blow job. He inaugurated his post-Idol career with the most scandalous display of fake felatio in pop history. It was November 2009, and Lambert was performing at the American Music Awards. At one point, he grabbed a male backup dancer’s head and thrust it toward his crotch. “It just kind of happened,” Lambert says. He says it wasn’t intended as a statement, it was just rock & roll spontaneity. Ditto his decision to kiss his male keyboardist. “The network people got upset, because there were complaints from a parent religious group - like, 1,500 complaints out of however many millions watched the show,” Lambert says.
     The broadcast’s West Coast feed edited out the blow job and while it kept in the kiss, it switched to a faraway shot. Lambert says the controversy killed his single at radio. “My biggest confession afterward was, I felt like it was a double standard,” he says, “Female performers get away with anything they want, practically, and even straight male performers get away with a lot more than that.”
     Defiant as this sounds, there probably won’t be any fake-blow-job headlines in Lambert’s near future. Since turning 30, he’s mellowed a bunch. “I have a very gluttonous, hedonist personality,” he says. “I love the idea of a wild night out, and if there could be an orgy in the corner and a hookah over there - I love the idea of that. But I’m moving out of that phase of my life.”
     His romantic life has stabilized too. From 25 to 28, Lambert was single. “It was a brutal four-year period,” he says. “I was romantic, but life whittled that away. Gays don’t date. Most guys, you ask them out and they’re like, ‘What?’ I was hurt a lot.”
     Not that he didn’t have fun. “I had some great nights - and some great mornings.” He reveals that he had sex with a woman for the first time. So how did he like straight sex? “I’m open, but it’s personal, so I’m not going to go into that,” he says. “I’m just a person that likes to try everything, so I’ve tried everything.”
     At a Helsinki club in November 2010, while on tour in Europe, Lambert met Koskinen - a Finnish Big Brother winner with the carved cheekbones, chilly affect and overall undead hotness of a Blade villain. “I had a lollipop in my mouth, and he kind of smiled at me, so I took the lollipop out of my mouth and put it in his mouth,” Lambert says. “I was like, ‘He’s open-minded!’” A month later they rendezvoused in Paris and vacationed in Bora Bora.
      Last December, Lambert awoke with a brutal hangover in a Helsinki jail cell. “I still had on leather pants and high-heel platforms from the night before,” he recalls, chagrined. He was in town to celebrate Christmas with Koskinen’s family; at a club, he’d been drinking peppermint vodka and blacked out (Lambert suspects someone spiked his drink). He got into a drunken brawl with Koskinen that spilled onto the street. “We were on the floor wrestling,” Lambert says, relaying what the police told him. “There were no charges, thankfully.” Lambert describes the night as “a wake-up call” - he hasn’t been drunk since, and he and Koskinen have taken to juicing and jogging together.
     Lambert heads to a rehearsal studio, where he’s practicing with his band as they prepare to hit the road for a month. He steps to the microphone in a black T-shirt, fidgeting with his in-ear monitor, ironing out the kinks in the arrangement of “Outlaws Of Love.” “This feels too big, too loud,” he says. “Do the recorded backing vocals just come in at the end? Turn ‘em off.”
     He gives the song another go, then flops at the edge of the stage, running his hand through his hair. “I have to stop singing,” he says. “My ears are getting tired. I have a headache.” Lambert is happier promoting this album than he was with For Your Entertainment, the making of which was rushed and somewhat haphazard. “The last one, we were guessing,” he says at lunch. “There was no time to let it settle and live with the music. It was ‘Get it out there before people forget about you.’” For Trespassing, he took his sweet time exploring a fun, hybrid sound. “I’m not borrowing so much from classic rock this time - more from disco, funk, house. Dance-oriented stuff. I want to make something that’s new, that feels like it’s mixing a bunch of things together.” You can hear that on the Pharrell-produced title track, where a house-music thud, screeching guitar, funk bass line, and “we will rock you” hand claps war with one another for space.
     But he clearly isn’t overjoyed about the marathon of album-plugging, which starts the next day. Lambert used to sell makeup at Macy’s - “I learned a lot about being the professional ‘gay best friend;’” - and this aspect of the business reminds him of those days. “When I go to radio stations and meet fans, it’s retail in the most fucked-up way,” he says. “What I’m so grateful for this year is I didn’t have to do anything except work on the album.”
      As Lambert pulls on his leather jacket, an assistant tells him to “pack for a month,” and he groans theatrically. He hugs everyone and heads out to the parking lot. Koskinen’s at home, and they’re going to spend their last night together greatly, cooking and watching TV. “It’s cool.” Lambert says. “Making the album was the art part. Now comes the work part.”
     He climbs into his BMW and heads for the hills, where he will zigzag higher and higher up narrow streets, reach his house, and try his best not to scrape the car going up his driveway.
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Adam Lambert
* * * * (4 Stars)
Trespassing RCA
All the disco sleaze and cheddar bombs you can eat
     So here’s the great pop album everybody was hoping Adam Lambert would make, ever since he ran wild on American Idol three years ago. It wasn’t just Glambert’s dynamite-with-a-laser-beam voice that got him into our national knickers: It was his warmth, humor, his burlesque bravado. His 2010 debut, For Your Entertainment, was a typical Idol quickie - decent, but it needed more personality. Trespassing delivers, with a mix of tinsel disco-club sleaze and leather-boy love ballads. While he excels in a radio cheddar bomb like “Naked Love,” he gets deeper in slow jams like “Underneath” and “Outlaws of Love.” But all over Trespassing, Glambert sings everything like Zeus in a thong.
Rob Sheffield

Key Tracks: “Shady,” “Outlaws of Love”

“I love Finland and you know if I hadn’t been to Finland, I wouldn’t have met my current partner, Sauli. And I have to say- I am so happy! I spent a lot of time looking for love and looking for that type of connection, and I couldn’t find it. And I tried to pursue lots of different people and I’ve been through my fair share of heartaches and rejections and being involved with somebody that didn’t really like you back the same way. That’s happened to me way too many times. So when I finally met Sauli, it was kind of a chance encounter and we REALLY clicked! He’s a great guy and his energy’s fantastic and we really get along really well. We have a lot in common. The language barrier was obviously something that was a little bit of a challenge, but that made it so exciting! You know? And exotic I think for both of us. So, I’m VERY happy! I feel like for the first time in my life I have this great balance between my personal life and my work. So I love that and it gives me a lot of strength.

No, he’s not shy. He’s really outgoing and really comfortable in his own skin. That’s one of the first things I really recognized about him that I thought was so great!

This is one of the first relationships that I’ve had that actually worked. I don’t think it matters where you’re from. I don’t think it’s about that. I think it’s like either you have a connection or you don’t and that connection and that energy that you have with somebody- it transcends language and age and other things. So I think that our relationship is definitely a testament to a very strong connection.” - Adam Lambert♥

“I’m still learning to be open & at the same time keep some things private. I love Sauli so much & thats all everyone needs to know”- Adam Lambert