Adam Lambert will soon release his sophomore album, Trespassing, and he sat down with Yahoo! recently to chat about the album’s themes (love gone wrong and love gone good, being gay), on the AMA controversy, and on turning 30.
Here are some juicy excerpts:
On finding his true voice:
“I think I’m fully embracing the gay community on this album, maybe even more so than the last one. I think I’m really talking about where I come from.”
On the American Music Awards controversy:
“I think that whole thing was kind of me proving a point. I think I had something to say that was bigger than just the music. Now I’m going back to, ‘Let’s make some great songs.’ I don’t have as much of an agenda or a point to prove. I think it’s been done.”
On Trespassing vs. For Your Entertainment:
“With this album I was able to play it for friends along the way–in various states of consciousness! Like on Halloween, I rented a party bus with friends and we were having a great time, and I played some of the dance music to see how they would react, and it was like an explosion….The last album was kind of this showy, theatrical, over-the-top thing..
On past relationship troubles, before falling in love with his boyfriend Sauli Koskinen:
“There was a lot of me trying to be a ‘fixer.’ I was that kind of guy. I’d meet someone who had ‘so much potential’ that needed ‘help.’ I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.”