14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier this week, the unspeakable happened and Adam Lambert, a singer very open about his orientation, came under fire with Out magazine for trying to come across as “straighter” in a recent number of the mag. The Editor-in-Chief and interviewer both assured that Lambert’s team made absurd demands, and did not fail to go public with it, thus causing quite a stir.
Adam tweeted about it saying nothing is as “deep” as the two made it seem, but it’s just now that he’s talking about the entire brouhaha in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly. Strictly on the topic of his team asking the people at Out to make the issue and conduct the interview in such a way that Adam came across as straighter than he was in real life, Lambert is adamant everything was said and done on the occasion was taken out of context.
The problem is, he says, that, by doing so, Out made him look like a puppet on a string, just a cog in the ever-grinding pop machine, which is far from the case. The Out controversy made him look like a hypocrite for saying one thing and then doing another, also because he has no freedom as regards his own actions. Again, this couldn’t be farther from the truth, Adam insists in the frank interview with EW, adding that he has no hard feelings about it.
“What people don’t realize is, I am managing my image, more than maybe the editor of OUT magazine likes to give anybody credit for. My team is a team. And I really feel fortunate that 19 Management and Simon Fuller said to me, from the get-go, ‘We want to do what you want to do. You need to tell us how you want to do things, what interests you have,’ and they’ve been incredibly supportive of me. I really mean it. I’m not being puppeted around.” Lambert explains.
“It was my desire to stay away from talking about certain political and civil rights issues because I’m not a politician. I’m an entertainer. That is not my area of expertise. I can talk about relationships and personal experiences because as an artist those things involve writing lyrics and that part of my process. But I didn’t feel comfortable talking about the March on Washington. I didn’t feel comfortable, so I asked my publicist to ask the interviewer to stay away from the political questions. I take full responsibility for that. I think that the editor has his agenda and has his opinions, which I respect, but they’re not necessarily my opinions. And I wish there was a little respect for that.” the singer further says.
Both the Out editor and the interviewer were out of line is all Adam Lambert can say about the entire “controversy” on a topic that is no longer a secret to anyone. Nevertheless, he’s also the first to say that the entire thing is “fun.”