{"id":973863,"date":"2019-12-04T07:24:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T14:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=921413"},"modified":"2019-12-04T07:24:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T14:24:29","slug":"so-how-was-your-decade-adam-lambert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/so-how-was-your-decade-adam-lambert\/","title":{"rendered":"So, How Was Your Decade, Adam Lambert?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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So, How Was Your Decade is a series in which the decade\u2019s most innovative musicians answer our questionnaire about the people, places and things that shaped their decade. We\u2019ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. <\/em><\/p>\n

From joining Queen<\/a> to donning a red outfit reminiscent of Elmo, Adam Lambert<\/a> had had a packed 10 years. Lambert famously broke out in 2009 as the runner-up of the eighth season of American Idol<\/em>. Since then, he has released three solo albums, as well as joined Queen for several tours over the last 10 years \u2014 most recently on the band\u2019s Rhapsody trek, which came in the wake of 2018 biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Lambert spoke with Rolling Stone<\/em> at the end of the decade to recall his best moments (meeting Patti Labelle), biggest lessons (maybe warn someone if you\u2019re going to go sexy for the AMAs) and more.<\/p>\n

My favorite album of the 2010s was: <\/strong>Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s Beyonc\u00e9. <\/em>This was the surprise visual album that no one was prepared for! It was a new sound and incredibly hooky! The memes were everywhere! She informed and reflected the zeitgeist and elevated herself to full icon.<\/p>\n

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My favorite song of the 2010s was: <\/strong>\u201cUptown Funk\u201d by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars. This song is an absolute beast. They ignored the trends of the moment and just went for the most badass sound they could. The groove, the vocal, the energy! This contagious track got everyone moving. Bravo!<\/p>\n

The artist who had the best decade was:<\/strong> Lady Gaga has found a way to give a voice to the weird kids and forged ahead as a champion for the artist\u2019s quest for integrity. Her performances always seem raw and wild but at the same time just polished enough to allow the audience to surrender.<\/p>\n

And with some commercial hits and misses, she doesn\u2019t give up! She manages to both compete in the music industry game and transcend it and reject it with rebellious reinventions. She\u2019s also made the giant leap from recording artist to actor to great acclaim. I find her majorly inspiring.<\/p>\n

The craziest thing that happened to me in the 2010s was:<\/strong> My work with Queen \u2014 aside from being in the finals of American Idol<\/em>. That was pretty monumental in my last decade. It\u2019s really defined my career, lifestyle, a lot of my travel and a lot of relationships.<\/p>\n

The TV show I couldn\u2019t stop streaming in the 2010s was:<\/strong> I liked True Blood <\/em>a lot. I really liked what they were exploring. They used this device of modern-day vampires, but I think they were really exploring people that are others [and] outsiders. That\u2019s very symbolic for a lot of different things. They definitely explored human sexuality; they explored race. They explored all these very current social issues, but they did it within the terms of the show, which I thought was really clever.<\/p>\n

The best new slang term of the decade was: <\/strong>I think that\u2019s lit. It\u2019s lit. Like L-I-T, lit. My new favorite new slang term.<\/p>\n

The best live show I saw in the 2010s was:<\/strong> A couple of Lady Gaga concerts that were pretty bananas. Such a good performer and her showmanship and her commitment to the performance is always really inspiring.<\/p>\n

The most surprising encounter I had with a fellow artist this decade was:<\/strong> I met Patti LaBelle during an intermission of the musical Motown<\/em> in New York. I was waiting in line for a drink and she was on the other side of the bar. We locked eyes and I mouthed, \u201cI love you\u201d to her, and she goes, \u201cNo, I love you.\u201d And I was like, \u201cWhat?\u201d Then she walked over and I\u2019m like, \u201cDo you know who I am?\u201d And she was like, \u201cAbsolutely.\u201d And I\u2019m like, \u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n

The misstep I learned the most from in the 2010s was:<\/strong> If you\u2019re going to do something on TV, do it during rehearsal. It might piss some people off. I\u2019m referring to the [2009] AMAs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The best book I read this decade was:<\/strong> The House of Fallen Leaves<\/em> [by Mark Z. Danielewski]. It was pretty crazy. It\u2019s a thriller\/horror\/sci-fi kind of thing and it was very, very abstract. In order to help tell the story and disorient the reader, the characters in the book were disoriented midway through. They started breaking up the text on the page and putting it upside down; they took the text of the book and they screwed it all up in order to create this feeling of confusion. I thought that was really interesting.<\/p>\n

Something cool I did this decade that nobody noticed was:<\/strong> I recently bought a house that I really love and decorated it and that\u2019s not something that\u2019s necessarily out there for the public, but I love it. It\u2019s my sanctuary.<\/p>\n

The strangest thing someone said about me in the media this decade was:<\/strong> That my friend Sam Smith and I were dating after we hung out at a London club together. Don\u2019t jump to conclusions. But we did laugh.<\/p>\n

The best outfit I wore this decade was:<\/strong> I borrowed this jacket from [fashion designer duo] The Blonds; it\u2019s a leather biker jacket with oversized red fur sleeves<\/a>. And I wore that for a couple of different things, including a Queen performance, and my fans nicknamed it the Elmo jacket.<\/p>\n

The most \u201c2010s\u201d moment of the 2010s was:<\/strong> When Brett Kavanaugh tried desperately to defend himself against the allegations of sexual assault by Christine Blasey Ford. This moment really summed up the #MeToo movement by shedding some light on a serious issue in our culture.<\/p>\n

My biggest hope for the 2020s<\/i> is:<\/strong> I hope that the next generation that\u2019s coming up really come into more power, because I think that they have the right idea of where we need to go with things.<\/p>\n

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