As we all witnessed last night, American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert shocked the world with his American Music Awards performance. With the whole world talking about his risky and controversial night, it’s safe to wonder what the motive was behind all of this. His new album For Your Entertainment is hitting stores this Tuesday and I don’t think its a coincidence to think that his outrageous performance had a motive to try and boost sales while trying to be the front page in every aspect of the news. With reported lackluster first week sales from American Idol’s own Kris Allen, who beat Adam just last May, it looks like by the performance Adam did last night, there is nothing Adam wont do to get the media talking and hopefully beat Kris in first week sales.
But is this really going to help him boost sales or for that matter gain popularity? With 1,500 viewer complaints generated from ABC and in a poll by MTV where it showed 78% of voters did not like the performance at all, it definitely has become a negative topic in so many music fans eyes. With in what I saw, an awful lead single to his major label debut, I dont see how this album will sell. For Your Entertainment, the same title as the album, seemed very lackluster at best. Without the provocative performance, we would be talking about how bad his singing really was and how truly this song is not catching anybody’s ear for radio play. Last time I checked, this lead single does not even crack the Top 50 on the Itunes charts and can’t be heard playing over and over in anybody’s car. Yes Adam has caught a lot of people’s attention right now but when the dust settles people will realize that this major label debut of his is not very good, and that there are some people who might have checked it out but now have turned away from it.
Next time, let’s see an up and coming singer shock the world with his music and not what he or she can do on stage. By the way Kris Allen’s debut is pretty good and should be looked at by fans who saw him grow on American Idol. There is a lot of good music out right now and music fans should be concentrated on that. There are a plenty of ways an artist can become popular and get his name out there but hopefully this will show that this is not one of them. We need to get back to focusing on the music aspect of everything and really create the next big star in music by what they can create behind the music.
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