TRESPASSING, or A Post! A Post! Errrrbody dance now.
So! Adam Lambert's second album TRESPASSING was conveniently "leaked" by the Malaysian branch of Sony about a week early. The fannish horde wasted no time at all to have all the feelings and emotions:
wax_jism: OKAY! A GIRL IS READY.
bexless: OKAY
wax_jism: plaaaaay
bexless: \O/
TRESPASSING
bexless: *IMMEDIATE DANCING*
wax_jism: this one is very funky!
bexless: I feel like there should be a routine. you know, where you clap and jump to the side.
wax_jism: possibly leotards. headbands. afros.
bexless: relatives getting it wrong at weddings. ADAM getting it wrong at weddings. and on stage.
wax_jism: I may be seeing some kind of wack retro top of the pops performance video with turquoise eye shadow, glitter balls and lens flares
bexless: THE PANTS PEOPLE. doing their trademark literal dancing.
wax_jism: it's a bit michael jacksony
bexless: a lot of this album is quite michael jacksony
wax_jism: like if michael jackson was the lead singer of, like... kool and the gang.
CUCKOO
wax_jism: wow, this is also super retro! this is so much COOLER than a lot of the top 40 stuff we're hearing rn. like... it's got the same elements that are happening currently, but it's skipped the tedious parts.
bexless: it's really stylish. plus his voice is such a great gild over everything. UGH I LOVE THE WAILY PARTS. WOOOOAHAAAOOOAOAOAH.
wax_jism: oh I see some bridgework. adam is the master of the bridge.
bexless: he is! see pick u up. which he never performed >:(
wax_jism: the greatest bridge of all times.
SHADY
bexless: I LOVE THIS. this is one of my joint favourites. unfffffffffffffffffffffffffff his voice. this is SO jacksony
wax_jism: holy shit.
bexless: I KNOW. it's SO GOOD
wax_jism: bibblebibble.
bexless: it is like, LEGIT REALLY GOOD DISCO MUSIC. not just good because of his voice or we love him. ACTUALLY REALLY GOOD.
wax_jism: this needs, like, jeremy renner doing a lunge in the video or something. THIS IS SOME SLINKY ASS MUSIC.
bexless: I cannot stay still. NILE. THIS NEEDS TO BE A SINGLE. no more BTIKM bullshit, let's have THIS
wax_jism: srsly, following trends is bullshit-- SETTING A FUCKING TREND IS WHAT YOU NEED. a shady trend. gdi it's too short.
NEVER CLOSE OUR EYES
wax_jism: okay, now you can groove to ncoe. it's very very pretty.
bexless: I like it so far!
wax_jism: and singalongy.
bexless: he sounds great and I like the guitar
wax_jism: lol when it was released some bitch got in my face totally randomly to hate on it. like, just to tell me that IT DOES NOT HAVE A HOOK. and I was like, what is wrong with you, I'm STILL HUMMING THE FUCKING HOOK ARE YOU DEAF IN YOUR STUPID ASS EARS. and... it's got nothing but hooks! it'll play in your head.
bexless: oh I love this part! it's so strummy and pretty! and now I am bouncing in my chair! this is SO NOT WHAT I EXPECTED from the lyrics. I thought it was going to be some aerosmith don't wanna miss a thing type. which I love that song but...aerosmith already did it. but no!
wax_jism: well, it's a bruno mars song. and it's been dr luke'd or sth. I mean, it has the bruno mars melody flava, and the boy can write really really pretty melodies. my problem with bruno is always his douchey lyrics, never his tunes.
bexless: I mean...i still can't really understand why it's a single over trespassing or shady but I would never have chosen WWFM either so what do I know, right?
wax_jism: yeah, what do we know. there's a lot of horrible shite on the radio that turns out to be enormous hits. and obvs none of the adam songs are SHITE.
bexless: zackly. it's why I rarely listen!
wax_jism: and I only listen under duress.
bexless: naked love is a bit shite but lots of people on my feed seem to love it so
wax_jism: eh, there has to be one. for the shite lovers.
wax_jism: like wwfm for me on FYE, tbh.
bexless: yeah that song is no good. it did give us an hilarious video tho.
wax_jism: like, that just never pinged me as a good song. listenable b/c adam sounds pretty, but boring as fuck.
KICKIN IN
wax_jism: still feeling seventies!
bexless: I like this one. I imgine it to be about him and danielle going out :D
wax_jism: or early eighties... but more, like, kraftwerk remixed this.
bexless: still very MJ I think, with a bit of prince and j-timb if j-timb still made music instead of cushions
wax_jism: is it kickin in. ahahah. this is about getting high and dancing all night, right. with your gurls.
bexless: setting him up with eddie, whoever eddie is
wax_jism: what does she put down?
bexless: her shot glass
wax_jism: I see, I see.
bexless: I imagine this is like danielle leading the charge on a night out and adam is all GURL but following along because beffies!
wax_jism: this is hilarious and awesome. and I LOVE the funk beats on these songs. I mean, I LOVE that era of disco nonsense b/c of the basslines.
bexless: I do! he should do a proper old school video where he just steps from side to side on a light-up squares dancefloor the whole time, with like a plain orange background
wax_jism: when you just wanna decorate in orange and blue wavy patterns and grow an afro and put a glitter ball and some lava lamps inyour bedroom.
POP THAT LOCK
bexless: I have naked love?
wax_jism: this one isn't as immediately likeable. wait, I don't have naked love at all.
bexless: pause!
wax_jism: hang on, I think I... didn't download it by mistake. pause abort abort!
bexless: I can send it to you?
[brief tangential interlude deleted to protect the innocence of your ears, while we were getting everything sorted]
bexless: (song sent)
wax_jism: okay! downloaded...
bexless: ok. ready?
wax_jism: ready!
NAKED LOVE
wax_jism: ahhahahahaha wat, sudden nineties boyband attack.
bexless: I really don't like this one tbh. I mean it's not offensive or anything, but it's just 90's europop snooze whatever
wax_jism: [now talking to herself due to plumbers] it does have a nice fat bass in the bg, but it's a whole diff genre. like, it's not CRAPPY europop, it's just way generic in comparison. it'll be a good cheesy singalong tho. it's very summery. could be a Katy Perry song, just sung competently, ha ha.
wax_jism: okay, it's like off the soundtrack of a mid-nineties teen soap, when they're driving to the beach after graduation and there's a montage of frolicking.
POP THAT LOCK
wax_jism: pop that lock is dubstep, but not enough to be obnoxious, but it'll start sounding dated faster than the retro-flavad stuff. okay, waily bit is shuweeeeet.
BETTER THAN I KNOW MYSELF
bexless: Ok I skipped
wax_jism: well, I just philosophised over how Naked Love is like a Katy Perry song but competently sung.
bexless: ....well now I hate it even more
wax_jism: hmm, but not one of the GOOD kp songs. she does have them. they're only a bit ruined by her singing them.
bexless: Yeah it's not good like firework, which I WISH was an Adam song
wax_jism: or Teenage Dream. Teenage Dream has been redeemed by Darren Criss, really, since it now only has lovely teenie boylove connotations. I've forgotten Katy's version.
bexless: I have Mama Mia syndrome with Darren Criss :( too much gleesquee has made me hate him
wax_jism: aw.
bexless: Poor Darren Criss! It's not his fault
wax_jism: it's not. he's just a little Pete Wentz who can sing.
bexless: Lol shows how bored we are of BTIKM, we're talking about glee XD
wax_jism: I like it, it just... pales in comparison. it's not special.
bexless: well, we've heard this one! And watched the embarrassing video!
bexless: It really isn't. And yet...single.
wax_jism: trying to relive WWFM.
bexless: I like pop that lock, it's fun and dancey
BROKEN ENGLISH
bexless: THE SAULI SONG. one of them anyway.
wax_jism: ooooooh ilovethisbeat. it's like... spaceship retro! swooshy.
bexless: Yeah this one is sexy and yum
wax_jism: this is GREAT. it's BIG.
bexless: It is!!! Really lush and evocative and mmmmmmmm
wax_jism: I love that WHAO WHAO WHAO thing.
bexless: His voiiiiiiiice
bexless: Me too! Like a spaceship
wax_jism: this is aboard the cobra starship
bexless: In fact I imagine them bonking in space when I listen to this
wax_jism: yeah, pretty much.
bexless: In zero gravity
wax_jism: barbarella style.
wax_jism: 'in communion with the universe'? I see Adam has written these lyrics.
bexless: Right? Lolololol
wax_jism: but it's beautiful. this is SO SPACEY. now he's doing the ring of fire oeeoooeeeooooaaaaooooeooooeee which is awesome.
bexless: Imagine knowing this was written about you
bexless: I love this oooooaaaaaaahooooo bit
wax_jism: BEST.
bexless: Now they're bonking in a temple in ancient greece
wax_jism: yeah, no, no, they're bonking in a pyramid that is actually an alien spaceship. stargate or fifth element, you pick.
bexless: Fifth element. Adam can be the opera singer. Sauli can wear the bandages. And they can have sex on the love stone
wax_jism: okay, that was beautiful.
UNDERNEATH
wax_jism: yeah, which is about bonking anyway... what is this piano ballad realness!
bexless: OH THIS IS UNDERNEATH. DUDE. IT'S THE BOTTOM ADAM SEX TEARS SONG AND IT IS AMAZING.
wax_jism: okay, okay, electronic piano ballad SEX TEARS REALNESS. VOICE.
bexless: he says there was NO production on his voice at all on this one
wax_jism: SWELLING EMOSHUNS.
bexless: So beautiful
wax_jism: jesus christ his voice voiiiiiceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
bexless: And like...it should be cheesy? But it's SO GOOD
wax_jism: okay, er, tears?
bexless: adammmmmmmmmm
wax_jism: he's found the sound frequency TEARZ and is bapping it over and over.
bexless: OH GOD IT IS SO GOOD
wax_jism: this is ridiculous. I can't even hear the lyrics over the TEARZ BUTTON SLAMMING.
bexless: SO RAW AND VULNERABLE AND TENDER ANS AAAAAAAAAAAH
wax_jism: grackssshhhpoofff
bexless: yes
wax_jism: okay, perfection.
bexless: PERFECTION
bexless: this will be the blarty one live
wax_jism: they need to make this one a late fall single or sth, people need to cry when it's dark. and gdi people like ballads.
bexless: I get shivers. His VOICE. WHAT THE FUCK IS IT EVEN. SO POWERFUL and then all small and soft
wax_jism: he's just putting that out there like it ain't no thang.
bexless: Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
wax_jism: okay, jesus fuck, let's calm our minds.
CHOKEHOLD
wax_jism: another sexy beat. I see what he means abt the ~duality of the album.
bexless: I LOVE this one
bexless: I think it's so sexy
wax_jism: this has the clenchy heart thing too, although not as blatant as underneath. but def not FUN HAPPY FROLICK SEX
bexless: yeah it's such a good foil to the BEND OVER of shady and the sextears of underneath
wax_jism: more like that kind of crazy intense sex where, uh, they touch souls with their penises.
bexless: yes! it is! where you realise that you actually have completely failed to protect yourself emotionally and are just following this person around going o________________________o love me o____________________________o
wax_jism: in conclusion. SEX. I bet that happened to Adam. at least that's what I gather from how he can't shut up about it... also it's crazy intense sex with breathplay TO BETTER REACH THE SOUL.
bexless: I feel like he was all, woo gonna ship over my boytoy from finland hooray and then suddenly found himself crying into sauli's jacket that he left behind after he flew home
wax_jism: it was haaaaaaaard! until Sauli moved there. he was a bit mopey for a while! that was while things were up in the air!
bexless: and then they had a lot of very intense sex and adam felt better!
OUTLAWS OF LOVE
wax_jism: oh I see! the production!
bexless: another tears one
wax_jism: is very... close to the skin
bexless: I like this much better than the live one we heard. it's much sadder and more angry-making somehow
wax_jism: it's like, REPUBS SEE WHAT YOU'RE DOING YOU DICKSMACKS
bexless: yes! because like....i feel like it makes the injustice we're all aware of more immediate somehow. like...not for US but maybe for other people
wax_jism: HEARTS AND HOMES ARE BROKEN!
bexless: who maybe don't have gay friends and family and things
wax_jism: yeah, for people who might not think abt it.
bexless: will listen and be like YOU'RE MAKING ADAM LAMBERT SAD, etc
wax_jism: obvs we think about it >:|
bexless: >>>>>:(
wax_jism: oh shit the falsetto ooohh aaaaaahh ooooh uuuuuh. it's almost like, er, a country ballad.
bexless: the tories got a kicking in the polls this week and all the right-wingers started going 'well now they will drop the marriage euqality push' and they interviewed the second in command who is an awful prick but to his credit, he said 'we did not lose votes because we support marriage equality. we are a progressive country and will continue to support that.' go, awful conservative! you GO with your correctness about this ONE THING
wax_jism: like, wow, you have a conscience abt this! surprise?
bexless: I know! but about NOTHING ELSE-- he likes gays but hates the poor, single mothers and the disabled
wax_jism: otoh, it's probably more to keep up with the joneses. it's not super a propos to be conservative abt marriage in europe. you don't want to hang out with, like, Poland and those murder places.
RUNNIN
bexless: DUDE. THIS MIGHT ACTUALLY BE MY FAVOURITE ON THE ALBUM. I CANNOT EVEN COPE WITH IT
wax_jism: oh SHIT
bexless: his VOICE. CAN YOU EVEN????
wax_jism: THE LOWER REGISTER WE ARE NOT SO WELL ACQUAINTED HOW ARE YOU SIR
bexless: UNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGH THE WAY IT BUILDSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS MY HEARTBEAT ACTUALLY SPEEDS UP. THE DRUMS.
wax_jism: runnin runnin runnin RUNNIN RUNNIN RUNNNNIINNNNN RUNNNIN GDI
bexless: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH RUNNIN FROM MY HEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAART *super low mumble mumble* I AM REELING
wax_jism: down down baritone register down
bexless: I love his falsetto but DAMN
wax_jism: this has a great stadium sway
bexless: DOESN'T IT
wax_jism: it's a bit Queen-sized.
bexless: how is it only a bonus track?? should be on the main album! RUNNIN RUNNIN RUNNIN RUNNIN RUNNIN RUNNIN RUNNIN RUNNIN
wax_jism: shit with the drumroll build
bexless: WOAHOOOOAHAHAHAO IT MAKES ME ACTUALLY GET SLIGHTLY PANICKY
wax_jism: this is def rock band bigness.
bexless: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
wax_jism: and then MASSIVE WAIL ABOUT THIRTY OCTAVES ABOVE THE BEGINNING
bexless: I KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
bexless: IT'S SO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
wax_jism: HOW DO YOU SAAAAANG
bexless: HOW IS YOUR VOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOICE
wax_jism: shit, my hormones are reacting to the crescendo
bexless: I know!!!!
wax_jism: THE TENSION IS NUTSSSSSS
bexless: it makes me want to like....get a gun and go to the front line!
wax_jism: okay, now I gotta catch my fucking breath. oh shit, it's like a MCR song, you know?
bexless: yes! it reminds me of Sing
wax_jism: it's got that flava, it could be on that album. basically Adam is running the gang just over the hill from Gerard's merry multicolor band.
TAKE BACK
wax_jism: this one's for driving. (runnin I would not recommend in a car b/c you will end up driving off a cliff)
bexless: yeah don't drive on runnin seriously
wax_jism: it should come with a red triangle.
bexless: this one I didn't like at first but it's grown on me and now it's fine
wax_jism: I love it right off the bat, but not as much as runnin obvs.
bexless: it's like a song on a smallville soundtrack. but Runnin is like....Buffy Season Two finale
wax_jism: like madness, weeping fangirls, send your boyfriend to hell, the end of everything WAHHHHHH
bexless: YES. it's like an epic space battle, fighting for the empire and his man, UGH I LOVE IT
wax_jism: man, you could write a SPACE OPERA SEQUENCE OF FIFTEEN BOOKS to this album.
bexless: it plays out like a movie in my head
NIRVANA
wax_jism: more cool beats.
bexless: nirvana - this sounds hilarious, but it makes me feel like I am being flown over Metropolis by Superman. Through the night sky. Like, after all the TRAUMA of the last few songs, this one feels comforting.
wax_jism: yeah, yeah, it's got flying and science fiction going. superman is showing you the world. it's not shining shimmering splendid, but it def looks prettier from above.
bexless: after he saves it! and you helped. adam would ROCK a superman outfit
wax_jism: it can suck, but it's still here, and look, it'll be ALL RIGHT.
bexless: I am just saying he has the build and the eyes and the hair. and sauli is sort of a reporter. I would read about them having super-sex on adam's cloak
wax_jism: and he's definitely got, like... moxy. and is perky. and intrepid.
bexless: god IMAGINE BEING SAULI and knowing that at least half this album was INSPIRED BY YOU
wax_jism: THIS AWESOME FUCKING ALBUM.
bexless: THIS ALBUM
wax_jism: that is SUPER INTENSE and PERSONAL.
bexless: and A LOT ABOUT YOUR ROMANTIC AND SEXUAL LIFE
wax_jism: ABOUT YOUR FUCKING AND CRYING.
bexless: I would just walk around going YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH in people's faces all the time... actually sauli kind of does do that to paps, which is hilarious and awesome
wax_jism: the problem/greatness of dating a creative person.
bexless: you can take his picture, but I get to take him home >:)
wax_jism: ahahahhahahahah, he can rock the 'I look too sweet to be smug or SO YOU THINK ha ha' face.
bexless: mmmmmmmmmmmmmm his voice here. it is def soothing
wax_jism: this reads like an album even though three songs are bonuses! poor americans. stopping it on OoL! that's like ending the story with a knife in your back! now it's like ending on the part where evil immigration agents have thrown the foreign boyfriend on a plane!
bexless: like, we met, we danced, we fucked, we fell in love, we fought and cried and got arrested, you left me, I FOUND YOU, now let's go and get it on in the fortress of solitude-- BUT I do kind of like the swing back into trespassing from ool. it's kind of cyclical, like, we're bummed about the law but not enough to give a shit about it
wax_jism: well! I was never worried that this album would suck, but it's definitely absolutely more good than FYE enough to be a sophomore triumph.
bexless: yes! hoorah hooray
wax_jism: he has moved on up. and it's got a fuck on there, doesn't it. it'll get an explicit lyrics sticker!
bexless: i'll bet he's always wanted one of those. it's easily the best idol album i've ever listened to. I like kelly clarkson a lot but I don't like her actual MUSIC as much as I like this. it's good but it's more generic pop. like, I would have said I liked hers more than FYE, but not this
wax_jism: it's still way more genre-eclectic than any of them ever go. Kelly still sticks to genre.
bexless: plus none of them have had this voice. J-Hud does, but her music is super boring which I always thought was a huge shame.
wax_jism: and nobody DOES as much with the voice. I mean, he doesn't contend himself with being all yo I can saaang. there's... stuff in here. he has such a versatile voice. adventurous!
bexless: so much breadth of technique and textures and pitch and tone and mmmmmmmmmmh
wax_jism: it doesn't sound like there's very much electronic work done on the voice
bexless: not at all
wax_jism: like, even when the song is really tricksy, the voice stays close and raw. and by raw, I mean, 'whatever Adam wants it to sound like' and you can tell he can do all of it live.
bexless: I think there may be some excruciating dancing but it will be eclipsed by the AMAZING SANGING
wax_jism: wtf, I saw someone say there are ppl who don't want the ~sexy vibes on the album? who likes Adam Lambert but doesn't like sexy?
bexless: the sexy vibes are what makes it so GOOD. sex is important! it can be fun or intense or awful and sad or joyful...it's an expression of emotion and adam has ALWAYS expressed himself that way
wax_jism: music is for making you feel sexy! while also making you cry, making you a sex tearz lunatic.
bexless: have they not ever seen adam blow a microphone? hump tommy? spring an enormous boner on stage? give an interview about condoms and porn?
NAKED LOVE again
wax_jism: okay, naked love is like some early Kylie... like maybe it should be a duet with Jason Donovan.
bexless: it's PLEASANT, it's just boring in the way that other people being contentedly in love IS boring
wax_jism: it's like about a beach party, and I hate partying on beaches.
bexless: bring us your conflict, your sex tears, your intense conversations!
wax_jism: unless there's a fist fight, like on the OC.
bexless: I DO like the part where you can hear him laughing between words. that's cute
wax_jism: I'm not entertained until someone calls the cops.
bexless: oh man, remember how the OC was so good at first?
[long digression into teen TV land, Lenny Kravitz, our childhoods]
bexless: AVENGERS THO
wax_jism: AVENGERS SHIIIIIIIIT I can't handle all of these emotions.
bexless: AVENGERSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
wax_jism: now I have Adam feels too! what is this.
bexless: SO MANY EMOTIONS I KNOW *flails*
wax_jism: otoh, I can just listen to this as a soundtrack for my LokiTonyThorSteveClintashaBANNER!coulsonetc feels.
UNDERNEATH some more
wax_jism: wait, Underneath.
bexless: well, now I have Banner feels TO UNDERNEATH
wax_jism: UNDErNEATH UNDERNEATH UNDERNEATH... that's bad. I mean, that might get OVERWHELMING. LOOK AT ME NOW DO YOU SEE
bexless: also the combination of Banner and Adam and Underneath have just made me type my first involuntary 'feels'. WHAT HAVE YOU WROUGHT
wax_jism: he's always angry. ;____________________________; sorry, sorry!
bexless: pulling back from banner for a sec... this song, I just. ugh
wax_jism: yeah. shit.
bexless: it's like, what adam was sort of trying to do with WWFM. this turns that up to about four thousand and eleven. as ever, he is much better when left to his own devices
wax_jism: pink does not have THIS in her. or at least she wouldn't give *that* song up.
bexless: I can FEEL HIS EMOTIONS
wax_jism: THEY BECOME MY EMOTIONS. that's what music is about.
bexless: like it IS scary as SHIT to let someone see your actual self! and there are SO MANY SONGS about it but THIS ONE... ADAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. and like, obviously this is about adam and sauli and there's the line about 'beautiful release you inside of me' but it's easy to relate to all relationships. like friends and things too.
wax_jism: bottoming tearz. touching the soul. the one slash writers are always on about.
wax_jism: the broken english-underneath-chokehold-ool-runnin stretch is fucking ridiculous. how do you even pick yourself off the floor!
edited for coherence and to remove gratuitous tangents. also to pretend we spell better in the heat of the moment.
this reminded me of back in 2001 when rrrosa and I watched NSYNC's Madison Square Garden concert this same way and I posted the transcript on my GeoCities site. It was like a month before I got my first LJ. and in 2003 or whatever when rossetti and I had our Norman Reedus swing and watched a bunch of his more suspect films and posted the transcripts on my entirely random Norman Reedus fanpage that I made for no purpose at all.
aww, fannish nostalgia.
wax_jism: OKAY! A GIRL IS READY.
bexless: OKAY
wax_jism: plaaaaay
bexless: \O/
TRESPASSING
bexless: *IMMEDIATE DANCING*
wax_jism: this one is very funky!
bexless: I feel like there should be a routine. you know, where you clap and jump to the side.
wax_jism: possibly leotards. headbands. afros.
bexless: relatives getting it wrong at weddings. ADAM getting it wrong at weddings. and on stage.
wax_jism: I may be seeing some kind of wack retro top of the pops performance video with turquoise eye shadow, glitter balls and lens flares
bexless: THE PANTS PEOPLE. doing their trademark literal dancing.
wax_jism: it's a bit michael jacksony
bexless: a lot of this album is quite michael jacksony
wax_jism: like if michael jackson was the lead singer of, like... kool and the gang.
CUCKOO
wax_jism: wow, this is also super retro! this is so much COOLER than a lot of the top 40 stuff we're hearing rn. like... it's got the same elements that are happening currently, but it's skipped the tedious parts.
bexless: it's really stylish. plus his voice is such a great gild over everything. UGH I LOVE THE WAILY PARTS. WOOOOAHAAAOOOAOAOAH.
wax_jism: oh I see some bridgework. adam is the master of the bridge.
bexless: he is! see pick u up. which he never performed >:(
wax_jism: the greatest bridge of all times.
SHADY
bexless: I LOVE THIS. this is one of my joint favourites. unfffffffffffffffffffffffffff his voice. this is SO jacksony
wax_jism: holy shit.
bexless: I KNOW. it's SO GOOD
wax_jism: bibblebibble.
bexless: it is like, LEGIT REALLY GOOD DISCO MUSIC. not just good because of his voice or we love him. ACTUALLY REALLY GOOD.
wax_jism: this needs, like, jeremy renner doing a lunge in the video or something. THIS IS SOME SLINKY ASS MUSIC.
bexless: I cannot stay still. NILE. THIS NEEDS TO BE A SINGLE. no more BTIKM bullshit, let's have THIS
wax_jism: srsly, following trends is bullshit-- SETTING A FUCKING TREND IS WHAT YOU NEED. a shady trend. gdi it's too short.
NEVER CLOSE OUR EYES
wax_jism: okay, now you can groove to ncoe. it's very very pretty.
bexless: I like it so far!
wax_jism: and singalongy.
bexless: he sounds great and I like the guitar
wax_jism: lol when it was released some bitch got in my face totally randomly to hate on it. like, just to tell me that IT DOES NOT HAVE A HOOK. and I was like, what is wrong with you, I'm STILL HUMMING THE FUCKING HOOK ARE YOU DEAF IN YOUR STUPID ASS EARS. and... it's got nothing but hooks! it'll play in your head.
bexless: oh I love this part! it's so strummy and pretty! and now I am bouncing in my chair! this is SO NOT WHAT I EXPECTED from the lyrics. I thought it was going to be some aerosmith don't wanna miss a thing type. which I love that song but...aerosmith already did it. but no!
wax_jism: well, it's a bruno mars song. and it's been dr luke'd or sth. I mean, it has the bruno mars melody flava, and the boy can write really really pretty melodies. my problem with bruno is always his douchey lyrics, never his tunes.
bexless: I mean...i still can't really understand why it's a single over trespassing or shady but I would never have chosen WWFM either so what do I know, right?
wax_jism: yeah, what do we know. there's a lot of horrible shite on the radio that turns out to be enormous hits. and obvs none of the adam songs are SHITE.
bexless: zackly. it's why I rarely listen!
wax_jism: and I only listen under duress.
bexless: naked love is a bit shite but lots of people on my feed seem to love it so
wax_jism: eh, there has to be one. for the shite lovers.
wax_jism: like wwfm for me on FYE, tbh.
bexless: yeah that song is no good. it did give us an hilarious video tho.
wax_jism: like, that just never pinged me as a good song. listenable b/c adam sounds pretty, but boring as fuck.
KICKIN IN
wax_jism: still feeling seventies!
bexless: I like this one. I imgine it to be about him and danielle going out :D
wax_jism: or early eighties... but more, like, kraftwerk remixed this.
bexless: still very MJ I think, with a bit of prince and j-timb if j-timb still made music instead of cushions
wax_jism: is it kickin in. ahahah. this is about getting high and dancing all night, right. with your gurls.
bexless: setting him up with eddie, whoever eddie is
wax_jism: what does she put down?
bexless: her shot glass
wax_jism: I see, I see.
bexless: I imagine this is like danielle leading the charge on a night out and adam is all GURL but following along because beffies!
wax_jism: this is hilarious and awesome. and I LOVE the funk beats on these songs. I mean, I LOVE that era of disco nonsense b/c of the basslines.
bexless: I do! he should do a proper old school video where he just steps from side to side on a light-up squares dancefloor the whole time, with like a plain orange background
wax_jism: when you just wanna decorate in orange and blue wavy patterns and grow an afro and put a glitter ball and some lava lamps inyour bedroom.
POP THAT LOCK
bexless: I have naked love?
wax_jism: this one isn't as immediately likeable. wait, I don't have naked love at all.
bexless: pause!
wax_jism: hang on, I think I... didn't download it by mistake. pause abort abort!
bexless: I can send it to you?
[brief tangential interlude deleted to protect the innocence of your ears, while we were getting everything sorted]
bexless: (song sent)
wax_jism: okay! downloaded...
bexless: ok. ready?
wax_jism: ready!
NAKED LOVE
wax_jism: ahhahahahaha wat, sudden nineties boyband attack.
bexless: I really don't like this one tbh. I mean it's not offensive or anything, but it's just 90's europop snooze whatever
wax_jism: [now talking to herself due to plumbers] it does have a nice fat bass in the bg, but it's a whole diff genre. like, it's not CRAPPY europop, it's just way generic in comparison. it'll be a good cheesy singalong tho. it's very summery. could be a Katy Perry song, just sung competently, ha ha.
wax_jism: okay, it's like off the soundtrack of a mid-nineties teen soap, when they're driving to the beach after graduation and there's a montage of frolicking.
POP THAT LOCK
wax_jism: pop that lock is dubstep, but not enough to be obnoxious, but it'll start sounding dated faster than the retro-flavad stuff. okay, waily bit is shuweeeeet.
BETTER THAN I KNOW MYSELF
bexless: Ok I skipped
wax_jism: well, I just philosophised over how Naked Love is like a Katy Perry song but competently sung.
bexless: ....well now I hate it even more
wax_jism: hmm, but not one of the GOOD kp songs. she does have them. they're only a bit ruined by her singing them.
bexless: Yeah it's not good like firework, which I WISH was an Adam song
wax_jism: or Teenage Dream. Teenage Dream has been redeemed by Darren Criss, really, since it now only has lovely teenie boylove connotations. I've forgotten Katy's version.
bexless: I have Mama Mia syndrome with Darren Criss :( too much gleesquee has made me hate him
wax_jism: aw.
bexless: Poor Darren Criss! It's not his fault
wax_jism: it's not. he's just a little Pete Wentz who can sing.
bexless: Lol shows how bored we are of BTIKM, we're talking about glee XD
wax_jism: I like it, it just... pales in comparison. it's not special.
bexless: well, we've heard this one! And watched the embarrassing video!
bexless: It really isn't. And yet...single.
wax_jism: trying to relive WWFM.
bexless: I like pop that lock, it's fun and dancey
BROKEN ENGLISH
bexless: THE SAULI SONG. one of them anyway.
wax_jism: ooooooh ilovethisbeat. it's like... spaceship retro! swooshy.
bexless: Yeah this one is sexy and yum
wax_jism: this is GREAT. it's BIG.
bexless: It is!!! Really lush and evocative and mmmmmmmm
wax_jism: I love that WHAO WHAO WHAO thing.
bexless: His voiiiiiiiice
bexless: Me too! Like a spaceship
wax_jism: this is aboard the cobra starship
bexless: In fact I imagine them bonking in space when I listen to this
wax_jism: yeah, pretty much.
bexless: In zero gravity
wax_jism: barbarella style.
wax_jism: 'in communion with the universe'? I see Adam has written these lyrics.
bexless: Right? Lolololol
wax_jism: but it's beautiful. this is SO SPACEY. now he's doing the ring of fire oeeoooeeeooooaaaaooooeooooeee which is awesome.
bexless: Imagine knowing this was written about you
bexless: I love this oooooaaaaaaahooooo bit
wax_jism: BEST.
bexless: Now they're bonking in a temple in ancient greece
wax_jism: yeah, no, no, they're bonking in a pyramid that is actually an alien spaceship. stargate or fifth element, you pick.
bexless: Fifth element. Adam can be the opera singer. Sauli can wear the bandages. And they can have sex on the love stone
wax_jism: okay, that was beautiful.
UNDERNEATH
wax_jism: yeah, which is about bonking anyway... what is this piano ballad realness!
bexless: OH THIS IS UNDERNEATH. DUDE. IT'S THE BOTTOM ADAM SEX TEARS SONG AND IT IS AMAZING.
wax_jism: okay, okay, electronic piano ballad SEX TEARS REALNESS. VOICE.
bexless: he says there was NO production on his voice at all on this one
wax_jism: SWELLING EMOSHUNS.
bexless: So beautiful
wax_jism: jesus christ his voice voiiiiiceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
bexless: And like...it should be cheesy? But it's SO GOOD
wax_jism: okay, er, tears?
bexless: adammmmmmmmmm
wax_jism: he's found the sound frequency TEARZ and is bapping it over and over.
bexless: OH GOD IT IS SO GOOD
wax_jism: this is ridiculous. I can't even hear the lyrics over the TEARZ BUTTON SLAMMING.
bexless: SO RAW AND VULNERABLE AND TENDER ANS AAAAAAAAAAAH
wax_jism: grackssshhhpoofff
bexless: yes
wax_jism: okay, perfection.
bexless: PERFECTION
bexless: this will be the blarty one live
wax_jism: they need to make this one a late fall single or sth, people need to cry when it's dark. and gdi people like ballads.
bexless: I get shivers. His VOICE. WHAT THE FUCK IS IT EVEN. SO POWERFUL and then all small and soft
wax_jism: he's just putting that out there like it ain't no thang.
bexless: Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
wax_jism: okay, jesus fuck, let's calm our minds.
CHOKEHOLD
wax_jism: another sexy beat. I see what he means abt the ~duality of the album.
bexless: I LOVE this one
bexless: I think it's so sexy
wax_jism: this has the clenchy heart thing too, although not as blatant as underneath. but def not FUN HAPPY FROLICK SEX
bexless: yeah it's such a good foil to the BEND OVER of shady and the sextears of underneath
wax_jism: more like that kind of crazy intense sex where, uh, they touch souls with their penises.
bexless: yes! it is! where you realise that you actually have completely failed to protect yourself emotionally and are just following this person around going o________________________o love me o____________________________o
wax_jism: in conclusion. SEX. I bet that happened to Adam. at least that's what I gather from how he can't shut up about it... also it's crazy intense sex with breathplay TO BETTER REACH THE SOUL.
bexless: I feel like he was all, woo gonna ship over my boytoy from finland hooray and then suddenly found himself crying into sauli's jacket that he left behind after he flew home
wax_jism: it was haaaaaaaard! until Sauli moved there. he was a bit mopey for a while! that was while things were up in the air!
bexless: and then they had a lot of very intense sex and adam felt better!
OUTLAWS OF LOVE
wax_jism: oh I see! the production!
bexless: another tears one
wax_jism: is very... close to the skin
bexless: I like this much better than the live one we heard. it's much sadder and more angry-making somehow
wax_jism: it's like, REPUBS SEE WHAT YOU'RE DOING YOU DICKSMACKS
bexless: yes! because like....i feel like it makes the injustice we're all aware of more immediate somehow. like...not for US but maybe for other people
wax_jism: HEARTS AND HOMES ARE BROKEN!
bexless: who maybe don't have gay friends and family and things
wax_jism: yeah, for people who might not think abt it.
bexless: will listen and be like YOU'RE MAKING ADAM LAMBERT SAD, etc
wax_jism: obvs we think about it >:|
bexless: >>>>>:(
wax_jism: oh shit the falsetto ooohh aaaaaahh ooooh uuuuuh. it's almost like, er, a country ballad.
bexless: the tories got a kicking in the polls this week and all the right-wingers started going 'well now they will drop the marriage euqality push' and they interviewed the second in command who is an awful prick but to his credit, he said 'we did not lose votes because we support marriage equality. we are a progressive country and will continue to support that.' go, awful conservative! you GO with your correctness about this ONE THING
wax_jism: like, wow, you have a conscience abt this! surprise?
bexless: I know! but about NOTHING ELSE-- he likes gays but hates the poor, single mothers and the disabled
wax_jism: otoh, it's probably more to keep up with the joneses. it's not super a propos to be conservative abt marriage in europe. you don't want to hang out with, like, Poland and those murder places.
RUNNIN
bexless: DUDE. THIS MIGHT ACTUALLY BE MY FAVOURITE ON THE ALBUM. I CANNOT EVEN COPE WITH IT
wax_jism: oh SHIT
bexless: his VOICE. CAN YOU EVEN????
wax_jism: THE LOWER REGISTER WE ARE NOT SO WELL ACQUAINTED HOW ARE YOU SIR
bexless: UNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGH THE WAY IT BUILDSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS MY HEARTBEAT ACTUALLY SPEEDS UP. THE DRUMS.
wax_jism: runnin runnin runnin RUNNIN RUNNIN RUNNNNIINNNNN RUNNNIN GDI
bexless: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH RUNNIN FROM MY HEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAART *super low mumble mumble* I AM REELING
wax_jism: down down baritone register down
bexless: I love his falsetto but DAMN
wax_jism: this has a great stadium sway
bexless: DOESN'T IT
wax_jism: it's a bit Queen-sized.
bexless: how is it only a bonus track?? should be on the main album! RUNNIN RUNNIN RUNNIN RUNNIN RUNNIN RUNNIN RUNNIN RUNNIN
wax_jism: shit with the drumroll build
bexless: WOAHOOOOAHAHAHAO IT MAKES ME ACTUALLY GET SLIGHTLY PANICKY
wax_jism: this is def rock band bigness.
bexless: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
wax_jism: and then MASSIVE WAIL ABOUT THIRTY OCTAVES ABOVE THE BEGINNING
bexless: I KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
bexless: IT'S SO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
wax_jism: HOW DO YOU SAAAAANG
bexless: HOW IS YOUR VOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOICE
wax_jism: shit, my hormones are reacting to the crescendo
bexless: I know!!!!
wax_jism: THE TENSION IS NUTSSSSSS
bexless: it makes me want to like....get a gun and go to the front line!
wax_jism: okay, now I gotta catch my fucking breath. oh shit, it's like a MCR song, you know?
bexless: yes! it reminds me of Sing
wax_jism: it's got that flava, it could be on that album. basically Adam is running the gang just over the hill from Gerard's merry multicolor band.
TAKE BACK
wax_jism: this one's for driving. (runnin I would not recommend in a car b/c you will end up driving off a cliff)
bexless: yeah don't drive on runnin seriously
wax_jism: it should come with a red triangle.
bexless: this one I didn't like at first but it's grown on me and now it's fine
wax_jism: I love it right off the bat, but not as much as runnin obvs.
bexless: it's like a song on a smallville soundtrack. but Runnin is like....Buffy Season Two finale
wax_jism: like madness, weeping fangirls, send your boyfriend to hell, the end of everything WAHHHHHH
bexless: YES. it's like an epic space battle, fighting for the empire and his man, UGH I LOVE IT
wax_jism: man, you could write a SPACE OPERA SEQUENCE OF FIFTEEN BOOKS to this album.
bexless: it plays out like a movie in my head
NIRVANA
wax_jism: more cool beats.
bexless: nirvana - this sounds hilarious, but it makes me feel like I am being flown over Metropolis by Superman. Through the night sky. Like, after all the TRAUMA of the last few songs, this one feels comforting.
wax_jism: yeah, yeah, it's got flying and science fiction going. superman is showing you the world. it's not shining shimmering splendid, but it def looks prettier from above.
bexless: after he saves it! and you helped. adam would ROCK a superman outfit
wax_jism: it can suck, but it's still here, and look, it'll be ALL RIGHT.
bexless: I am just saying he has the build and the eyes and the hair. and sauli is sort of a reporter. I would read about them having super-sex on adam's cloak
wax_jism: and he's definitely got, like... moxy. and is perky. and intrepid.
bexless: god IMAGINE BEING SAULI and knowing that at least half this album was INSPIRED BY YOU
wax_jism: THIS AWESOME FUCKING ALBUM.
bexless: THIS ALBUM
wax_jism: that is SUPER INTENSE and PERSONAL.
bexless: and A LOT ABOUT YOUR ROMANTIC AND SEXUAL LIFE
wax_jism: ABOUT YOUR FUCKING AND CRYING.
bexless: I would just walk around going YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH in people's faces all the time... actually sauli kind of does do that to paps, which is hilarious and awesome
wax_jism: the problem/greatness of dating a creative person.
bexless: you can take his picture, but I get to take him home >:)
wax_jism: ahahahhahahahah, he can rock the 'I look too sweet to be smug or SO YOU THINK ha ha' face.
bexless: mmmmmmmmmmmmmm his voice here. it is def soothing
wax_jism: this reads like an album even though three songs are bonuses! poor americans. stopping it on OoL! that's like ending the story with a knife in your back! now it's like ending on the part where evil immigration agents have thrown the foreign boyfriend on a plane!
bexless: like, we met, we danced, we fucked, we fell in love, we fought and cried and got arrested, you left me, I FOUND YOU, now let's go and get it on in the fortress of solitude-- BUT I do kind of like the swing back into trespassing from ool. it's kind of cyclical, like, we're bummed about the law but not enough to give a shit about it
wax_jism: well! I was never worried that this album would suck, but it's definitely absolutely more good than FYE enough to be a sophomore triumph.
bexless: yes! hoorah hooray
wax_jism: he has moved on up. and it's got a fuck on there, doesn't it. it'll get an explicit lyrics sticker!
bexless: i'll bet he's always wanted one of those. it's easily the best idol album i've ever listened to. I like kelly clarkson a lot but I don't like her actual MUSIC as much as I like this. it's good but it's more generic pop. like, I would have said I liked hers more than FYE, but not this
wax_jism: it's still way more genre-eclectic than any of them ever go. Kelly still sticks to genre.
bexless: plus none of them have had this voice. J-Hud does, but her music is super boring which I always thought was a huge shame.
wax_jism: and nobody DOES as much with the voice. I mean, he doesn't contend himself with being all yo I can saaang. there's... stuff in here. he has such a versatile voice. adventurous!
bexless: so much breadth of technique and textures and pitch and tone and mmmmmmmmmmh
wax_jism: it doesn't sound like there's very much electronic work done on the voice
bexless: not at all
wax_jism: like, even when the song is really tricksy, the voice stays close and raw. and by raw, I mean, 'whatever Adam wants it to sound like' and you can tell he can do all of it live.
bexless: I think there may be some excruciating dancing but it will be eclipsed by the AMAZING SANGING
wax_jism: wtf, I saw someone say there are ppl who don't want the ~sexy vibes on the album? who likes Adam Lambert but doesn't like sexy?
bexless: the sexy vibes are what makes it so GOOD. sex is important! it can be fun or intense or awful and sad or joyful...it's an expression of emotion and adam has ALWAYS expressed himself that way
wax_jism: music is for making you feel sexy! while also making you cry, making you a sex tearz lunatic.
bexless: have they not ever seen adam blow a microphone? hump tommy? spring an enormous boner on stage? give an interview about condoms and porn?
NAKED LOVE again
wax_jism: okay, naked love is like some early Kylie... like maybe it should be a duet with Jason Donovan.
bexless: it's PLEASANT, it's just boring in the way that other people being contentedly in love IS boring
wax_jism: it's like about a beach party, and I hate partying on beaches.
bexless: bring us your conflict, your sex tears, your intense conversations!
wax_jism: unless there's a fist fight, like on the OC.
bexless: I DO like the part where you can hear him laughing between words. that's cute
wax_jism: I'm not entertained until someone calls the cops.
bexless: oh man, remember how the OC was so good at first?
[long digression into teen TV land, Lenny Kravitz, our childhoods]
bexless: AVENGERS THO
wax_jism: AVENGERS SHIIIIIIIIT I can't handle all of these emotions.
bexless: AVENGERSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
wax_jism: now I have Adam feels too! what is this.
bexless: SO MANY EMOTIONS I KNOW *flails*
wax_jism: otoh, I can just listen to this as a soundtrack for my LokiTonyThorSteveClintashaBANNER!coulsonetc feels.
UNDERNEATH some more
wax_jism: wait, Underneath.
bexless: well, now I have Banner feels TO UNDERNEATH
wax_jism: UNDErNEATH UNDERNEATH UNDERNEATH... that's bad. I mean, that might get OVERWHELMING. LOOK AT ME NOW DO YOU SEE
bexless: also the combination of Banner and Adam and Underneath have just made me type my first involuntary 'feels'. WHAT HAVE YOU WROUGHT
wax_jism: he's always angry. ;____________________________; sorry, sorry!
bexless: pulling back from banner for a sec... this song, I just. ugh
wax_jism: yeah. shit.
bexless: it's like, what adam was sort of trying to do with WWFM. this turns that up to about four thousand and eleven. as ever, he is much better when left to his own devices
wax_jism: pink does not have THIS in her. or at least she wouldn't give *that* song up.
bexless: I can FEEL HIS EMOTIONS
wax_jism: THEY BECOME MY EMOTIONS. that's what music is about.
bexless: like it IS scary as SHIT to let someone see your actual self! and there are SO MANY SONGS about it but THIS ONE... ADAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. and like, obviously this is about adam and sauli and there's the line about 'beautiful release you inside of me' but it's easy to relate to all relationships. like friends and things too.
wax_jism: bottoming tearz. touching the soul. the one slash writers are always on about.
wax_jism: the broken english-underneath-chokehold-ool-runnin stretch is fucking ridiculous. how do you even pick yourself off the floor!
edited for coherence and to remove gratuitous tangents. also to pretend we spell better in the heat of the moment.
this reminded me of back in 2001 when rrrosa and I watched NSYNC's Madison Square Garden concert this same way and I posted the transcript on my GeoCities site. It was like a month before I got my first LJ. and in 2003 or whatever when rossetti and I had our Norman Reedus swing and watched a bunch of his more suspect films and posted the transcripts on my entirely random Norman Reedus fanpage that I made for no purpose at all.
aww, fannish nostalgia.