Why has Paul Rodgers been snubbed for Lambert

Plus, you realize this is a last ditch effort to appeal to a younger audience. It's actually a clever way of marketing, if the kids will actually go out and buy the back catalog just because Adam sang them.

With Paul, you're not opening it up to that crowd. Here, you're hitting both demographics.

Finally, Paul did become a Canadian citizen last year. Who would want to tour with that, eh?

you still never know, didnt Roger say a few singers?

I'm not sure why Queen thinks Adam will bring a younger audience. Have you seen the people who attend his concerts? A very large percentage are women in their 50s and 60s.

Only classic Queen or new material can bring an younger audience .

Only classic Queen or new material can bring an younger audience.

two words...


den (whistle) tures..




;P

just kidding.


Obviously it's marketing AGAIN... same as Paul Rodgers kinda sorta was.


they wanna be big in the USA again.

this might get all those godawful twits (YOUR BRitish phrase) GLEE buying public to consider the greatest band again..

TWATS, Matt, it's TWATS :-)

i thought TWIT was like a dimwit.... TWATS are poonanny

I don't think Adam Lambert is still a name big enough so as to bring new and younger audience to Queen's music. If the choice was made for such reasons, wouldn't Adele have been a better choice?

I was never into Q+PR, but when compared to Q+Al its classic.

ParisNair wrote: "I don't think Adam Lambert is still a name big enough so as to bring new and younger audience to Queen's music. If the choice was made for such reasons, wouldn't Adele have been a better choice?'

Can you really imagine Adele (whom is terrific IMO) singing Queen songs? I certainly can't.

Can I just go on record as saying I'm fully looking forward to Sonisphere

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN_91b2-KuQ

Fuck the haters.

if you think his use of vibrato is good, you need to clean your ears. seriously.
he f**** slaughters the songs

[QUOTE] [b]ParisNair wrote: [/b] I don't think Adam Lambert is still a name big enough so as to bring new and younger audience to Queen's music. If the choice was made for such reasons, wouldn't Adele have been a better choice?[/QUOTE] It's hard to tell how big a name Lambert is really.  He has a fervent core of really dedicated fans in the thousands or tens of thousands who actively conspire to skew the numbers through a number of tactics.  Buying the multiple, multiple copies of songs and CDs, spending hours on the internet cycling through voting, dumping history and cookies, voting again, etc..   There is a whole user generated technical how to guide on the official forum that instructs users how to navigate through massive sites likes Billboard, VH1 etc. to rig the web stats, including avoiding bounces, so it appears like there is significant grassroots interest in Adam Lambert.  It's not an exaggeration in some cases to compare it to a religious fervor.  They see themselves as loyal, obligated supporters of an immense talent  who sometimes must toil against an unfair and homophobic music world, necessitating and justifying these tactics. Adam and his management had to tell them to put a lid on it at one point in the past because they were driving station managers so nuts with requests and harassment it was backfiring. It doesn't seem to have occurred to many that the latest single tanked because it's simply not that good. One year, last I think, they tried to organize themselves to buy him a Maserati for his birthday.  It's fascinating really.  I don't mean to put it down - I mean to puzzle over it.  His fan base is in significant part women over 40 up to about 60.  Is it a nurturing kind of maternal instinct at the core of it? Not entirely as they're always on about his groin thrusting and alleged hotness.  I don't get it, at all, but I can't help but find it oddly compelling. He's not the only idol either that has inspired that demographic.  Long before Adam's fans there were Clay Aikens "Claymates" and David Cook has an obsessive following of his own on a smaller scale.  I stumbled over this the other day, which would seem sweet and delightful in the room of a girl, but I do find it difficult to understand in the home of a well grown woman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17_WhSk0CAY.  I get, totally, the passion for somebody's music but I confess I don't get the qualities of this particular fandom.

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[b]e-man wrote: [/b] if you think his use of vibrato is good, you need to clean your ears. seriously.
he f**** slaughters the songs[/QUOTE]
Somebody, on QOL I think, wrote that you could drive a Pontiac Bonneville through his vibrato.  Ha ha.