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Adam Lambert has amazing artistic skills. This, combined with his formal vocal training, business acumen, incredible conviction, dedication to his craft, and first-hand perspective, means the experience and mentoring Adam could bring to the AI judging table are invaluable.
Talent shows allow access to an otherwise inaccessible, robotic music industry who frown upon diversity as if it is a form of leprosy. The public is not only bored, but angry with producers allowing pathetic, noisy attention-seekers to squander the limited cache of opportunities on this stellar platform, instead of performers who clearly have great talent. In my opinion, they should also modify the format from X-whatever-week to broader categories, not necessarily a 'decade', or selected 'performer' criteria. Songs from 40 or 50 years ago do not in any way prepare a novice, nor reflect what is commercially viable in recording contracts or live talent productions of any form in 2012.
This show is obviously about finding talent; but it is also important to install a familiar content concept that is the equivalent of a killer hook in a song. If Adam did sign up as a judge and they changed the format to include regular performances by him, they are guaranteed continual media and public focus. Idol have been lacking the visual and theatrical content that Adam excels in, which completes a performance and leaves audiences fully sated. Viewers need someone with huge talent, versatility and vision to electrify their aural experience. Adam not only easily delivers this, but his innate understanding and connection to the production side of performances including staging decisions, mean he should also be the creative director of all his performances.
With regard to mentoring, judges have had good and bad results, and I like some of them. I found the main issue is they become static, predictable, and impotent. They continually spit out irrelevant drivel rather than fully-fledged, invaluable and tangible critiques, commensurate with the performer's actual talent. These judges penchant for wishy-washy pats on the head and superfluous standing O's are highlighted when the under-par contestant proves them wrong soon after. Their over-indulgence in self-entitlement robs valuable time from contestants and makes for really shoddy content production-wise. There's also a huge difference between infantile and fun. It's scary to imagine some judges inferior offerings at a meeting within any other industry. It really needs to be reined in. Despite and because of Jimmy's amazing success and industry position, it means he can't be impartial, and sometimes misses the mark entirely. He doesn't have the personal & intuitive connection, and unfortunately delivers his message in a negative light. When Adam mentored on AI, his critiques were spot-on. You can re-trace the steps. The contestants who listened to him altered their approach and won their places into the next levels, and each one that did not, failed to continue. On a dollar for time basis, this show has sadly wasted millions of dollars, which could have been used with the judges not only correctly mentoring the artist in front of them, but as an off-shoot. Their comments also assist people who wish to enter or enhance their experience in the music business.
Idol desperately needs new life and a slightly different take to make it a valid show. I know Adam's superior vocal skills can showcase genres from pop to rock, ballads, electro-pop, funk, operatic and just about anything else. I'm yet to find this aspect, along with his multi-octave range of something like 3.5, his vocal power, artistic interpretation, looks, fashion and other show-stopping skills in other judges or mentors. Adam's spectacular European gigs, fronting iconic Queen easily attest to this. His opinion and performances are always hot media and water cooler topics. He has the ability, along with format changes, to help make Idol the leader in new talent finds once again.
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Talent shows allow access to an otherwise inaccessible, robotic music industry who frown upon diversity as if it is a form of leprosy. The public is not only bored, but angry with producers allowing pathetic, noisy attention-seekers to squander the limited cache of opportunities on this stellar platform, instead of performers who clearly have great talent. In my opinion, they should also modify the format from X-whatever-week to broader categories, not necessarily a 'decade', or selected 'performer' criteria. Songs from 40 or 50 years ago do not in any way prepare a novice, nor reflect what is commercially viable in recording contracts or live talent productions of any form in 2012.
This show is obviously about finding talent; but it is also important to install a familiar content concept that is the equivalent of a killer hook in a song. If Adam did sign up as a judge and they changed the format to include regular performances by him, they are guaranteed continual media and public focus. Idol have been lacking the visual and theatrical content that Adam excels in, which completes a performance and leaves audiences fully sated. Viewers need someone with huge talent, versatility and vision to electrify their aural experience. Adam not only easily delivers this, but his innate understanding and connection to the production side of performances including staging decisions, mean he should also be the creative director of all his performances.
With regard to mentoring, judges have had good and bad results, and I like some of them. I found the main issue is they become static, predictable, and impotent. They continually spit out irrelevant drivel rather than fully-fledged, invaluable and tangible critiques, commensurate with the performer's actual talent. These judges penchant for wishy-washy pats on the head and superfluous standing O's are highlighted when the under-par contestant proves them wrong soon after. Their over-indulgence in self-entitlement robs valuable time from contestants and makes for really shoddy content production-wise. There's also a huge difference between infantile and fun. It's scary to imagine some judges inferior offerings at a meeting within any other industry. It really needs to be reined in. Despite and because of Jimmy's amazing success and industry position, it means he can't be impartial, and sometimes misses the mark entirely. He doesn't have the personal & intuitive connection, and unfortunately delivers his message in a negative light. When Adam mentored on AI, his critiques were spot-on. You can re-trace the steps. The contestants who listened to him altered their approach and won their places into the next levels, and each one that did not, failed to continue. On a dollar for time basis, this show has sadly wasted millions of dollars, which could have been used with the judges not only correctly mentoring the artist in front of them, but as an off-shoot. Their comments also assist people who wish to enter or enhance their experience in the music business.
Idol desperately needs new life and a slightly different take to make it a valid show. I know Adam's superior vocal skills can showcase genres from pop to rock, ballads, electro-pop, funk, operatic and just about anything else. I'm yet to find this aspect, along with his multi-octave range of something like 3.5, his vocal power, artistic interpretation, looks, fashion and other show-stopping skills in other judges or mentors. Adam's spectacular European gigs, fronting iconic Queen easily attest to this. His opinion and performances are always hot media and water cooler topics. He has the ability, along with format changes, to help make Idol the leader in new talent finds once again.
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