14 DAY TRIAL // Adam Lambert should be, by now, accustomed to stirring up a controversy whenever he opens his mouth, it is being said, especially since he seems bent on always speaking his mind with honesty. However, even he was taken a bit by surprise by the backlash that started once his comments on Susan Boyle’s debut album went to press and he was misquoted in the media, as he has recently explained on his Twitter page.
The American Idol runnerup gave an interview to a British publication and, in it, it certainly seemed that he was not only being resentful against Boyle for defeating him in the charts, but also mocking her debut material. Fans doubted that Adam was actually doing so the instant the interview ended up online, but naysayers argued that he was finally showing his true colors or, even worse, that he was letting fame get to his head and that he was on a very slippery road.
To clear that up, Adam took to his Twitter the other day to say that his words had been taken out of context, though he did not offer more details. “I WAS horribly mis-quoted though... :) Oh and... I’m referring to everything I’ve ever said that is ‘controversial.’ Just being honest which I prize over being full of [expletive],” Adam tweeted. Earlier, he answered questions of whether he’d choose a Mac over a PC saying, “I’d like to remind everyone that we ALL are entitled to our own opinion.”
As the Los Angeles Times Blogs was also saying shortly after the Susan Boyle comments got online and started causing a frenzy, Adam did say those things, but the context was different from the one painted in the media. He’s joking and laughing while he’s addressing a fact, namely that he got beaten in the charts by Susan and her “I Dreamed a Dream.” With this in mind, it could be that Adam’s mockery of Susan was just good old fashioned, inoffensive fun. As for the part of the comment where he calls the “Wild Horses” cover “horrendous” and “sacrilegious,” perhaps that’s why he says on Twitter he too is entitled to his opinion.
“Does that read as if the Real Adam Lambert was twirling his villainous imaginary mustache, or shaking a fist at the heavens, and, in the spirit of ‘Scooby-Doo,’ cursing, ‘If only it hadn’t been for Susan Boyle and those meddling kids! I would’ve gotten away with it!’ Or does it read as if, perhaps ... the singer is responding to a fact-based mention that Boyle’s first album debuted higher than Lambert’s? Did the reporter note that Adam laughed at that moment perhaps to make it clear that the glittery one wasn’t cursing his non-competition?” the LA Times Blogs asks. In the end, it’s up to the fans to decide.