What's wrong with being different?!
Ok so I came across beautiful voice and face Adam Lambert tonight. I've heard bits and pieces about him but never looked him up until I heard a song on the radio today: For Your Entertainment.
So here is my complaint. He's similar to Lady Gaga in that his music travels a bit back in time and it's not something you hear on the radio everyday.
For those who don't know, he is a big gay boy and could be a female Lady Gaga in the sense that his songs have slight sexual undertones (he never mentions a girl once in his songs but a boy once) and his outfits definitely fit into the category of outrageous and not normal mainstream. He is also not shy on "strut"ing his stuff on stage and flaunting himself for who he is.
During his performance during the American Music Awards, it was his first live performance since being a runner up in American Idol. The performance included men in collars and leashes and him holding onto them, slutty dressed women whom he ignored for the most part, having the men at his crotch and giving the illusion of oral sex, and during the final chorus of his song he went and full on kissed the drummer of the band who was a man.
This cause 1500 calls to the network complaining that it was indecent and immoral. However if a woman does it to a man it's ok....bullshit. That is such bullshit and he said in a later interview "my performances and music aren't for everyone and if you don't like it, don't listen." It's totally true, you can always change the channel or turn the volume down but people instead choose to bitch about it cause it's "taboo."
Get with it people!
It's just irritating that these kind of problems still are occurring. So she dresses in odd outfits outside of performance and writes songs about stalking people (she's not the first time to do it since we all know the "I'll be watching you" song) and he is gay and doesn't mind people knowing and his songs have sexual under tones that are about being with a man. Seriously people get with it.
They are both artists and both have talent to some level and are just doing what they love. Just cause they are in the public eye does that mean they should tone it down so it's more acceptable...fuck no!!!!! They aren't little mall goths walking the streets trying so hard to fit in so they will be liked. No they do what they want to do and, in my opinion, have the courage to do it on such a grand scale. They are both full grown adults who know exactly what they are doing.
I'll admit I think what some people I know do is a little extreme but it's because they are trying so hard to be noticed and want the attention and will do whatever it takes to gain that attention.
These two and many more don't. Did David Bowie care when he was glam? Did Freddie Mercury care about people knowing he was gay? Did Madonna tone down her outfits and performances cause they were too risque? They were just people who wanted to show who they were to the fullest and had the ability to do so.
I've been told that I should change my appearance to be more cleaned up and tone down the gayness that I give off but why should I do that?
Life is short and you gotta be who you are and the reason I like people like Lady Gaga, Adam Lambert, Birthday Massacre, Combichrist, Cher, Abney Park and many others is because they all knew going into it that even if they weren't the top artist in the world or that they would be smeared and trashed for whatever reason that they would do what they wanted and accept the consequences that would come with it and that takes courage.
I accepted my lifestyle and who I was and what I liked and put it out there knowing that my orientation, my appearance, my work could all be criticized and put down (which it has many times) but that's a risk I'm willing to take. Sure the work I've done in class is never the most liked on a grand scale but ya know I am not going to lie to myself and make something I don't like or this looks awful.
In a book I recently got it said, paraphrasing and additions....Other [artists] are getting attention because their work is so hip and now but those will soon be forgotten because they are out of style...if you [create] around the concept and meaning, not the audiences expectations of current stylistic [ideas] then it has the chance of being understood for longer than the 15 seconds of fame people strive for.
However these artists are standing out because they are being different and getting rid of the images they should have and rather are having the ones they want to have and taking what they want to convey and creating a new image out of those ideals and the messages they want to convey whether it be a message they are sending to a specific group, the meaning of a song or anything else. Lady Gaga says that when she is writing music she thinks about what clothes she'd like wear so that what she wants conveyed.
So I send my respect to these artists who risked their lives to be themselves and could go down in history as crazy and insane but at least they were themselves. This goes for my friends who I know don't care what other people think of them and even if they get odd looks for their hair, outfits, make-up, mannerisms, personalities or whatever it may be they are comfortable in their own skin and it's the only one you get so you should do all you can to make it reflect who you are.
Good luck to those courageous people out there.
So here is my complaint. He's similar to Lady Gaga in that his music travels a bit back in time and it's not something you hear on the radio everyday.
For those who don't know, he is a big gay boy and could be a female Lady Gaga in the sense that his songs have slight sexual undertones (he never mentions a girl once in his songs but a boy once) and his outfits definitely fit into the category of outrageous and not normal mainstream. He is also not shy on "strut"ing his stuff on stage and flaunting himself for who he is.
During his performance during the American Music Awards, it was his first live performance since being a runner up in American Idol. The performance included men in collars and leashes and him holding onto them, slutty dressed women whom he ignored for the most part, having the men at his crotch and giving the illusion of oral sex, and during the final chorus of his song he went and full on kissed the drummer of the band who was a man.
This cause 1500 calls to the network complaining that it was indecent and immoral. However if a woman does it to a man it's ok....bullshit. That is such bullshit and he said in a later interview "my performances and music aren't for everyone and if you don't like it, don't listen." It's totally true, you can always change the channel or turn the volume down but people instead choose to bitch about it cause it's "taboo."
Get with it people!
It's just irritating that these kind of problems still are occurring. So she dresses in odd outfits outside of performance and writes songs about stalking people (she's not the first time to do it since we all know the "I'll be watching you" song) and he is gay and doesn't mind people knowing and his songs have sexual under tones that are about being with a man. Seriously people get with it.
They are both artists and both have talent to some level and are just doing what they love. Just cause they are in the public eye does that mean they should tone it down so it's more acceptable...fuck no!!!!! They aren't little mall goths walking the streets trying so hard to fit in so they will be liked. No they do what they want to do and, in my opinion, have the courage to do it on such a grand scale. They are both full grown adults who know exactly what they are doing.
I'll admit I think what some people I know do is a little extreme but it's because they are trying so hard to be noticed and want the attention and will do whatever it takes to gain that attention.
These two and many more don't. Did David Bowie care when he was glam? Did Freddie Mercury care about people knowing he was gay? Did Madonna tone down her outfits and performances cause they were too risque? They were just people who wanted to show who they were to the fullest and had the ability to do so.
I've been told that I should change my appearance to be more cleaned up and tone down the gayness that I give off but why should I do that?
Life is short and you gotta be who you are and the reason I like people like Lady Gaga, Adam Lambert, Birthday Massacre, Combichrist, Cher, Abney Park and many others is because they all knew going into it that even if they weren't the top artist in the world or that they would be smeared and trashed for whatever reason that they would do what they wanted and accept the consequences that would come with it and that takes courage.
I accepted my lifestyle and who I was and what I liked and put it out there knowing that my orientation, my appearance, my work could all be criticized and put down (which it has many times) but that's a risk I'm willing to take. Sure the work I've done in class is never the most liked on a grand scale but ya know I am not going to lie to myself and make something I don't like or this looks awful.
In a book I recently got it said, paraphrasing and additions....Other [artists] are getting attention because their work is so hip and now but those will soon be forgotten because they are out of style...if you [create] around the concept and meaning, not the audiences expectations of current stylistic [ideas] then it has the chance of being understood for longer than the 15 seconds of fame people strive for.
However these artists are standing out because they are being different and getting rid of the images they should have and rather are having the ones they want to have and taking what they want to convey and creating a new image out of those ideals and the messages they want to convey whether it be a message they are sending to a specific group, the meaning of a song or anything else. Lady Gaga says that when she is writing music she thinks about what clothes she'd like wear so that what she wants conveyed.
So I send my respect to these artists who risked their lives to be themselves and could go down in history as crazy and insane but at least they were themselves. This goes for my friends who I know don't care what other people think of them and even if they get odd looks for their hair, outfits, make-up, mannerisms, personalities or whatever it may be they are comfortable in their own skin and it's the only one you get so you should do all you can to make it reflect who you are.
Good luck to those courageous people out there.