Adam Lambert Taking Over: I Play Pretend, I Entertain

Fuse’s interview show brings a fresh dose of Adam Lambert this Monday, when it will air a new interview with the American Idol alum. In it, the singer talks anything and everything from his image, his coming out of the closet in Rolling Stone magazine, his musical influences and, of course, his debut album, the record-breaking and critically acclaimed “For Your Entertainment.”

Speaking of the cover for the album, Lambert says he did not even imagine it would get so much press, not to mention criticism. It was all in good fun, while also a homage to other stars who had made music history by imposing an image that was outside the norm, Adam says. Just like before, he makes no excuses, neither for who he is as a person and an artist, nor for the cover that many critics deemed “downright ridiculous.”

“People saw that cover and they were like ‘he looks a little feminine to me, I don’t understand.’ I’m like yeah… I had so much airbrushing on that picture on purpose. The hunky dory cover that Bowie did, Boy George and Motley Crue and Prince – like all these artists that did this over the top, lipsticky glammy thing,” Adam says in the new interview. However, since he came from Idol and was open about his orientation, people seemed to have a problem with it, he adds. To this, he can only say, “This is who I am.”

And who Adam is, and some fail to understand, is a very genuine person. In the same interview, the singer also explains that his highly mediated coming out was not orchestrated and certainly not a ploy for attention. As a matter of fact, he stresses, he did not pay much attention to the issue (or what it could mean for the public) until it was picked up and made into this big thing in the media. In reality, he never hid his orientation from anyone.

“It’s funny… This whole thing, talking about coming out. I don’t even think about it anymore until all of this started happening with my career. And it’s interesting now, because I am open and visible. I suppose it is important to talk about it, but the past eight or nine years of my life I haven’t thought twice about it, it’s just who I am,” Adam says.