14 DAY TRIAL // Although it’s been quite a while since Adam Lambert’s controversial performance at the 2009 American Music Awards, which cost him a string of public appearances and interviews on ABC, it’s a topic that continues to get tongues wagging. Kris Allen, season 8 American Idol winner and once Adam’s biggest rival, says that the AMAs gig was just Adam “being Adam,” and fans should get used to that idea.
Speaking with People magazine in a recent interview, Kris revealed that he was convinced that that much originality and spontaneity as Lambert showed at the AMAs was just markers of the beginning of his brilliant career. Clearly, the Adam the world got to know on American Idol was only a fraction of the Adam he really is, meaning, of the performer he wants to be. Even if much criticized and a result of too much emotions and getting carried away, the AMAs performance is who Adam really is, Kris believes.
“Yeah, that’s who he is. Obviously, he couldn’t do that stuff on Idol. And so you’re getting to see the real Adam now. I thought it was Adam being Adam. I’m going to get a shirt that just says, ‘That’s Adam’,” Allen told People just recently. Of course, as we reported on previous occasions, this was what Adam himself said shortly after the performance and right after the backlash began, although he also stressed that he wouldn’t want people to judge him as a performer on that performance alone.
On the same occasion that Allen went public with his opinion on the AMAs show, Adam also revealed that one way of finding the key to who he was as a singer was, of course, through his music. “[The single ‘Whataya Want From Me’] is a great way for me to say to the public, ‘What do you guys want from me? I’m doing my best.’ And the best lyric in the song is ‘I’m a freak but thanks for lovin’ me. ‘Cause you’re doing it perfectly’,” Lambert explained.
Moreover, his biggest fear is that, one day, people will stop loving him for his music or that too much media attention on mistakes from which he’s already learned his lesson (such as the AMAs gig) will distract the fans from what is important: namely that he is a singer, he revealed. Adam Lambert, the runner-up of the latest season of American Idol made his music debut with the “For Your Entertainment” album, the second biggest seller of 2009.