Metal Glambert ♂ · @MetalEmpress
7th Apr 2012 from Twitlonger
Article that goes with scanned Adam Lambert photo from "People's American Idol Where Are They Now?" issue....
After * Idol
Four million singles and more than a million albums sold make this Season No. 8 finisher one of Idols' winningest losers.
From the moment he performed "Bohemian Rhapsody" as his Idol audition, it was clear Adam Lambert was made to emote. And get people out of their seats: After his rendition of "The Tracks Of My Tears", none other than Smokey Robinson, the song's lead singer and an Idol mentor, stood and applauded, and Lambert's number got a standing-O even from Savage Simon, who earlier dissed the man-in-black-eyeliner's version of "Ring of Fire" as "indulgent rubbish". Another class moment: When the heavily favored Lambert came in second, and winner Kris Allen told the audience, "Adam deaserved this".
His post-Idol career has combined concerts and controversy: Viewers protested loudly when Lambert, during 2009 American Music Awards, seemed to simulate oral sex with a band member. He told Ellen Degeneres that he "maybe went a little bit too far", he said. "I am gay. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that."