Want-gate follow-up: My Old Hood Reviews the Single
If "Want" is going to get reviewed, this is probably the best sort of review it could get (from Philly.com):
THAT LAMBERT SINGLE: iTunes is your place today to score the (semi) "new" single from "American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert called "Want" (B-). It's from a soon-coming album called "On With the Show," a project made before his run to glory, and music he's now kinda disavowing.
The releasing label, Hi-Fi Records (home to "A.I." runner-up Melinda Doolittle, Smashmouth, Todd Rundgren, Dionne Warwick and Donnie and Marie Osmond), says Lambert was integrally involved in the project, co-writing eight tracks. But a statement from the singer intimates he was there basically as a hired gun, a needy performer lured in to make some preliminary demos and hear how he'd sound in a professional studio.
Oh, and some of the material on this "new" album dates back to 2005. Whatever.
His performance on "Want" proves the point that he could sing the phone book. It's a cloying, dull-witted variation on a John Lennon all-you-need-is-love piano ballad, but the guy sells the hell out of it. Lambert's officially sanctioned debut for 19 Records is expected out sometime in the fall.
What's really funny is that it's an article reviewing a bunch of new summer releases - and they review "Want" first, before the Jonas Brothers new album.
Is anyone else feeling perversely torn about "Want"s climb up the charts. It's #60 on the iTunes pop chart. I haven't bought it, but I feel totally weird about not buying an Adam track. Hold me, ontd_ai.
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