by Fred You know how when you learn a strange word (say, “eschew?”), and then suddenly you hear it everywhere? Or when you turn a weird age (say, hell, I don’t know, 41?), and then, apropos of nothing, everyone from there on out is 41 years old? Adam Lambert is 41. Your co-blogger is 41. [...]
Top Ten LPs of 2009
by Fred. Damn! what a year. We lost Michael Jackson and we gained Girls. The Decemberists put out an LP almost as good as Picaresque, but what with the stiff competition you won’t find it on top 50 lists anywhere. Similarly, considering the new relative logic of the last twelve months, Muse and Mars Volta [...]
“Freddie Mercury meets Shirley Bassey”
In what promises to be a lively interview, Adam Lambert discusses the unreleased Muse track “Soaked,” which he covers on his (ironically titled?) debut For Your Entertainment. Listen to the Muse version below. I simply can’t post anything from Adam Lambert’s album. It is so overproduced and overmixed and overhydrated that it begins to sound [...]
New Music Tuesday
Co-blogger has this expression he unpacks from time to time: “do I have to turn in my indie music blogging license if I admit that quack quack quack honk honk honk?” My response is usually something like this: “the Muse isn’t an indie music blog. It’s a music blog. To wit, posts about Adam Lambert [...]
Would Adam Lambert have won American Idol if he had come out some time before the final vote?
Who knows? Recall that I originally wanted him to win, but now I’m glad he didn’t. Toss it around in the comments section or bring it up to the missus tonight at dinner. I’m riding the fence actually. And I won’t insult your intelligence with a Here’s All the Evidence For/Here’s All the Evidence Against [...]
“Adam wins!”
How many times was that phrase — or one of its infinite permutations — nearly loaded onto Blogger or WordPress simply out of diligent but rushed preparedness? By point of fact Adam Lambert did not win AI v8.0. About an hour ago American Idol crowned a new beltholder. And it wasn’t the electric gay heavyweight [...]
AA on AI
Ann Althouse, who if memory serves retired from American Idol blogging, slays us with this American Idol blog post: 7:07: Allison Iraheta is singing “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing.” (The theme is music from movies.) Q thinks she’s gonna do a great job. She shrieks about watching “you” sleep. The judges talk about [...]
