Superpower — Adam Lambert

SweetCaroline wrote:

Adam does not have the same TONE in his voice as Freddie. That is why he does not sound exactly like him. But his voice is powerful and not thin. Tacky? Did you think Freddie was tacky? Harsh and grating? Some people think his voice is too mellow and theatrical and not raw and gritty enough to be rock. Give me a break. Which is it? B & R are glad that he can sing anything they ask him to sing!

Regarding the auto analogy, my son always says that Freddie was like a peppy sports car, a Thunderbird, and Adam is like a smooth Lamborghini!

Doesn't sound exactly like him? Lambert doesn't sound ANYTHING like Freddie Mercury.

And no, it's a thin voice.

Mercury singing Save Me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUyPyTn-IS4

Lambert singing Save Me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZec-6X00Pk

Lambert's voice sounds thin, generic and, well... shit. Mercury's voice is wonderful.

And yes, Lambert's voice is harsh and grating. It's not "mellow" at all. It's a headache to listen to, It's not a voice that's powerful enough for rock. It's a cabaret sounding voice.

Brian May thinks collaborating with Dappy was a good idea too. In fact, I could list many things Brian and Roger have done over the last 20 years or so that are at least questionable, and at the most dodgy as fuck! Not sure why you think I'd want to ask his opinion these days.

Everyone likes something different, I find Adam's voice pure and melodic and it sounds beautiful and very rich to me. Considering all the concerts that have been selling out and fans clamoring to come to their neck of the woods, I would assume hundreds of thousands of people are enjoying the music and the singers. Read the remarks after the concerts and the vast majority mention how amazing Adam's voice is, not something you normally read in tweets and reviews. There is something about his voice that resonates with most people, just not with you. Even Cher shed a tear on hearing him sing that gorgeous version of "Believe". We can't all be wrong! You just prefer something more like Freddie, which is great, but doesn't make us wrong either in enjoying Adam's voice. If Brian and Roger were so wrong, then they wouldn't still be touring since 2012 to bigger and bigger audiences.

Thanks to the film, the attendance is bigger than ever.

Day dop wrote:

SweetCaroline wrote:

Adam does not have the same TONE in his voice as Freddie. That is why he does not sound exactly like him. But his voice is powerful and not thin. Tacky? Did you think Freddie was tacky? Harsh and grating? Some people think his voice is too mellow and theatrical and not raw and gritty enough to be rock. Give me a break. Which is it? B & R are glad that he can sing anything they ask him to sing!

Regarding the auto analogy, my son always says that Freddie was like a peppy sports car, a Thunderbird, and Adam is like a smooth Lamborghini!

Doesn't sound exactly like him? Lambert doesn't sound ANYTHING like Freddie Mercury.

And no, it's a thin voice.

Mercury singing Save Me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUyPyTn-IS4

Lambert singing Save Me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZec-6X00Pk

Lambert's voice sounds thin, generic and, well... shit. Mercury's voice is wonderful.

And yes, Lambert's voice is harsh and grating. It's not "mellow" at all. It's a headache to listen to, It's not a voice that's powerful enough for rock. It's a cabaret sounding voice.

Brian May thinks collaborating with Dappy was a good idea too. In fact, I could list many things Brian and Roger have done over the last 20 years or so that are at least questionable, and at the most dodgy as fuck! Not sure why you think I'd want to ask his opinion these days.

You are spot on especially with Save me. Lamebutts version sounds like a lounge version with no power at all while Freddie is belting it out with passion and power.

MisterCosmicc wrote:

Thanks to the film, the attendance is bigger than ever.

Thats why the call this year's shitfest "The Rhapsody TOur", named after a song, Freddie wrote.

I can’t bring up your link to save me. This one seems to be a music video version:

http://youtu.be/Iw3izcZd9zU

Doesn’t sound very powerful to me!

One of many audience filmed live videos of Save Me by Adam:

http://youtu.be/vZec-6X00Pk

Not hearing the big difference. Freddie sounds pretty quiet and breathy in the beginning of the song and has a lot of music to back him up when he gets to the Save Me Part. Adam has a beautiful clear tenor and keeps it more restrained until the second set of Save Mes and then his powerful voice is also heard and his musical backing is really subdued. I just don't hear this vast difference in what you call power. Adam's voice is much lighter due to being a real tenor and the weight of the voices is going to differ and it has nothing to do with power. He can blast you out of this forum with some of the power in songs such as SMGO, WWTLF, and many more. None of you seem to understand that deeper voices sound different and to the untrained ear, you attribute that mistakenly to power. I have sat in a venue with Adam singing at least 10 times and his voices hits the rafters. You people do not know what you are talking about!

SweetCaroline wrote:

One of many audience filmed live videos of Save Me by Adam:

http://youtu.be/vZec-6X00Pk

Yeah, that's the one of Lambert. It sounds horrendous, especially compared to the Freddie Mercury version I posted.

SweetCaroline wrote:

I can’t bring up your link to save me. This one seems to be a music video version:

http://youtu.be/Iw3izcZd9zU

Doesn’t sound very powerful to me!

Erm, that's the studio version.

runner_70 wrote:

Day dop wrote:

SweetCaroline wrote:

Adam does not have the same TONE in his voice as Freddie. That is why he does not sound exactly like him. But his voice is powerful and not thin. Tacky? Did you think Freddie was tacky? Harsh and grating? Some people think his voice is too mellow and theatrical and not raw and gritty enough to be rock. Give me a break. Which is it? B & R are glad that he can sing anything they ask him to sing!

Regarding the auto analogy, my son always says that Freddie was like a peppy sports car, a Thunderbird, and Adam is like a smooth Lamborghini!

Doesn't sound exactly like him? Lambert doesn't sound ANYTHING like Freddie Mercury.

And no, it's a thin voice.

Mercury singing Save Me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUyPyTn-IS4

Lambert singing Save Me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZec-6X00Pk

Lambert's voice sounds thin, generic and, well... shit. Mercury's voice is wonderful.

And yes, Lambert's voice is harsh and grating. It's not "mellow" at all. It's a headache to listen to, It's not a voice that's powerful enough for rock. It's a cabaret sounding voice.

Brian May thinks collaborating with Dappy was a good idea too. In fact, I could list many things Brian and Roger have done over the last 20 years or so that are at least questionable, and at the most dodgy as fuck! Not sure why you think I'd want to ask his opinion these days.

You are spot on especially with Save me. Lamebutts version sounds like a lounge version with no power at all while Freddie is belting it out with passion and power.

Absolutely.

snifflese wrote:

Everyone likes something different, I find Adam's voice pure and melodic and it sounds beautiful and very rich to me. Considering all the concerts that have been selling out and fans clamoring to come to their neck of the woods, I would assume hundreds of thousands of people are enjoying the music and the singers. Read the remarks after the concerts and the vast majority mention how amazing Adam's voice is, not something you normally read in tweets and reviews. There is something about his voice that resonates with most people, just not with you. Even Cher shed a tear on hearing him sing that gorgeous version of "Believe". We can't all be wrong! You just prefer something more like Freddie, which is great, but doesn't make us wrong either in enjoying Adam's voice. If Brian and Roger were so wrong, then they wouldn't still be touring since 2012 to bigger and bigger audiences.

I've read the remarks. It's mostly, "He's no Freddie."

And by that, they clearly mean he's nowhere near in Freddie Mercury's league.

Justin Bieber has fans clamouring to his shows too. I'm not sold on him either.
Thing is with the Queen+ shows, people are happy with that in the same way they're happy with the We Will Rock You theatre shows where the audience sings along, and by the end of the show they're all standing up clapping along too. Like the Queen+ shows, the We Will Rock You theatre shows have had high attendance levels. It's a feel good thing, kinda like going on a karaoke night out and having a few drinks. But it's also fucking tacky with Lambert singing. Ir'a like the ABBAfication of Queen.
And there's a good reason Lambert hasn't got millions upon millions of fans like Queen does. He's boring! He's about as edgy as your Nan performing with Brian and Roger in one of the tackiest 70s throwback outfits she could've found.
He can hit the notes but his voice and (lack of) style isn't ever going to gain him a following like the other artists mentioned have Again, look at the low number of his Spotify followers. The data tells us all we need to know.Why are the numbers so low? Well, because he's embarrassingly shit. That's why. He's a third rate artist that managed second place on American Idol. For many long term Queen fans, Lambert is a cringe-fest.

I don't think anyone is under any illusion that it's an authentic / proper Queen show. It's not Queen without Freddie Mercury and John. Everyone knows that (most likely apart from Brian lol).

snifflese wrote:

Not hearing the big difference. Freddie sounds pretty quiet and breathy in the beginning of the song and has a lot of music to back him up when he gets to the Save Me Part. Adam has a beautiful clear tenor and keeps it more restrained until the second set of Save Mes and then his powerful voice is also heard and his musical backing is really subdued. I just don't hear this vast difference in what you call power. Adam's voice is much lighter due to being a real tenor and the weight of the voices is going to differ and it has nothing to do with power. He can blast you out of this forum with some of the power in songs such as SMGO, WWTLF, and many more. None of you seem to understand that deeper voices sound different and to the untrained ear, you attribute that mistakenly to power. I have sat in a venue with Adam singing at least 10 times and his voices hits the rafters. You people do not know what you are talking about!

Are you a little hard of hearing?


This bit of bullshit here what you wrote...

snifflese wrote:
None of you seem to understand that deeper voices sound different and to the untrained ear,
.

That's fucking ironic considering that you wrote "not hearing the big difference"

Clearly you do not have a trained ear.

Not that anyone would need a trained ear to hear there's a vast amount of difference between them.

Lambert sounds like absolute SHIT compared to Freddie Mercury. Lambet's voice, as I said, is thin, harsh, and grating.


I'm not sure whether you're half deaf, in denial, or trolling. Maybe all three.

That is your opinion and not mine. The reason he is not as popular is that IMO he is not singing the right music for his voice. He is really good at singing a lot of the Queen music, and some of his covers are better than the original when he has covered other artists. I enjoy his own music, but it sure isn't Queen or some of the others I enjoy. I like his new video but I am not feeling Velvet so far, other than that one and the first that came out. Adam doesn't do a great job at picking out songs that really illustrate his voice, I think if he sang Classical or what I call Light Classical, he would be tremendously popular. I think it is much more about the musical choices than anything to do with his voice. I don't find him boring. He is anything but that! He puts on a dynamite show with Queen. I could also find lots of really tacky outfits Freddie wore. I don't think anything beats those ballet slippers and onesies. I wouldn't bring up fashion choices if I were you. Freddie was way out there for the times. Goodness knows what he might wear today. I have a feeling he might give Adam a run for his money. I am sure Adam doesn't fit the bill for some long term Queen fans, but there are many that have gone to the darkside and have enjoyed the concerts. Both Freddie and Adam are acquired tastes. Not everyone liked Freddie back in the day. He is much more popular now than he ever was back then, so you never know where Adam's popularity will fall at the end of the day. Music is in the ear of the beholder! It would be boring if we all loved the same thing!

snifflese wrote:

That is your opinion and not mine. The reason he is not as popular is that IMO he is not singing the right music for his voice. He is really good at singing a lot of the Queen music, and some of his covers are better than the original when he has covered other artists. I enjoy his own music, but it sure isn't Queen or some of the others I enjoy. I like his new video but I am not feeling Velvet so far, other than that one and the first that came out. Adam doesn't do a great job at picking out songs that really illustrate his voice, I think if he sang Classical or what I call Light Classical, he would be tremendously popular. I think it is much more about the musical choices than anything to do with his voice. I don't find him boring. He is anything but that! He puts on a dynamite show with Queen. I could also find lots of really tacky outfits Freddie wore. I don't think anything beats those ballet slippers and onesies. I wouldn't bring up fashion choices if I were you. Freddie was way out there for the times. Goodness knows what he might wear today. I have a feeling he might give Adam a run for his money. I am sure Adam doesn't fit the bill for some long term Queen fans, but there are many that have gone to the darkside and have enjoyed the concerts. Both Freddie and Adam are acquired tastes. Not everyone liked Freddie back in the day. He is much more popular now than he ever was back then, so you never know where Adam's popularity will fall at the end of the day. Music is in the ear of the beholder! It would be boring if we all loved the same thing!

Give Adam a run for his money? Lambert isn't edgy. He's tacky. He's about as edgy as someone's Nan.

Do you know what "acquired taste" means? The way you used it suggests otherwise. Freddie Mercury isn't an "acquired taste" at all. People fall in love with that voice instantly. He's widely regarded as one of - if not thee greatest rock singer ever.
Lambert? The more I hear that thin, grating, harsh voice, the more I can't stand it.

Lambert is not, nor will he ever be. But 10 out of 10 for attempting to put an unpopular American Idol runner up on the same level as a legend lol.

You wrote, "He is much more popular now than he ever was back then, so you never know where Adam's popularity will fall at the end of the day."

Well, tacky Lambert has been around a for a decade now, so let's compare Queen's popularity after a decade with Lambert's. I think after a decade Queen were hugely popular, compared to Lambert, who is not.

Or what about songs? What song has Lambert written that's on the same level as Bohemian Rhapsody? Or We Are The Champions? Or Somebody To Love?

None? I see.

How is Lambert ever going to achieve the legendary status that Freddie Mercury has? He hasn't given any indication in the first decade that he has any of Mercury's talent. Well, it's clear that he doesn't.