If the Shoe fits….. Are Adam Lambert & Brian May desecrating Freddie’s memory?
[Update 26 February 2012. Through a long labourious process of elimination I discovered which bit of the video was causing the blanket ban. It was the footage of Adam & Queen from the EMA's. SO I have removed that and changed the ending. The altered version is now available on Youtube - see link in article below]
[Update 25 Feb: VIDEO BLOCKED AGAIN! At Metacafe this time. Uploaded to Vimeo now.If the Vimeo one disappears please try the Ru.TUBE link and then let me know on twitter @feraltwirler so I can try another upload site - thank you!]
[Update 24 feb - video has been blocked worldwide. Garrgghhhh! GOd I'm over Youtube - will post elsewhere if I can - Anudder update - just posted it on Metacafe - let's see if it lasts on there. If not I'll keep uploading it at different places till I run out of video sites LOL - link below. BTW - THREE different companies sent Youtube claims of copyright over the content in this video!! THREE of them! Is that some kind of record yathink?]
You know, sometimes it’s hard to be a fan in Adam’s fandom (sounds like a line from a country song!). Take this last few weeks for example. we’ve witnessed our boy running himself ragged, literally making himself sick, as he threw himself into the nitty-gritty work of promoting his new music. From remote ski resorts in Austria to the familiar surrounds of The Grammy’s, Adam has been tirelessly talking and singing and answering the same damn questions millions of times but never failing to show a smile to the world and treat everyone as if all their questions are new. Every single one of those seemingly MILLIONS of performances have been perfect (well except for the odd WWFM lyric fail hee hee) and Adam consistently puts in 110% each time he opens his mouth to sing, no matter how small the audience. You just gotta love him.
He is totally dedicated to his profession and a genuinely nice guy – aside from his extraordinary talent which he’s so amply demonstrated in a gruelling schedule of live acoustic performances.
And then we fans, who’ve exhausted ourselves trying to keep up with the bloke, get the most exciting news possible. HE IS PERFORMING WITH QUEEN AT SONISPHERE!!!
But instead of just being able to flail and joyfully celebrate this momentous news, we have to deal with haters rushing in from all points with knives at the ready, viciously tearing into Adam as if he has committed the most heinous (my fave word) sin imaginable.
Fancy someone AGREEING to perform with Queen! What kind of monster does that?
SHEESH!
Anyway – I don’t mind the people who debate the whole thing with intelligence and fairness, but those haters that just post ridiculous ill-informed nonsense really get up my nose. Most of the time I dismiss them as just anonymous internet troll losers with nothing better to do than hate on visible gay people (or disgruntled Kris Allen/David Cook fans – they always give themselves away LMAO) but one person deserves more than a mere dismissal from mind. Because HE fancies himself to be some kind of music journalist AND he appears to be an AUSTRALIAN!!! Shame!!!
I’m talking about a twat named Michael Carr. Don’t bother looking him up on google – I did already. You’ll get nothing but a vague Linked-In profile – the dude is not exactly famous, or even mildly well known. But even so, he’s AUSTRALIAN and he wrote the jerkiest most insanely vicious piece of garbage about Brian, Roger and Adam – and the point is, this makes all of us Aussie’s look bad. If this is supposedly the literate, thinking bit of our society how bad must the rest of it be?
I won’t link to the little dweeb, he doesn’t deserve it. But I will just say he clearly knows very little about Adam, Queen OR even Freddie Mercury – although he claims to know exactly what Freddie would think about Adam singing with his fellow band-members. And according to Michael, Freddie has a really bad attitude towards other artists and would be attacking Adam’s credibility for no particular reason – just like Michael did. Moron.
So, I got so riled up by his rubbish article I just had to make a video. It’s my therapy I guess.
And here it is. Don’t be misled – things are not as they seem and the video changes quite dramatically half way through.
Hope you enjoy it. If not, just soak in the good old 70′s band Skyhooks audio I used. That’s always fun!
So I’ll stop banging on about it and just post the thing shall I?
THE VIDEO!!! One or more of these links might work! Fingers crossed!
YOUTUBE
Update!!! I have edited the original version so that it would be allowed to stay on Youtube. The edited version is below, see the Vimeo video further down for the original version.
youtube link
Metacafe Link! Hit the button to go to site or make bigger once you start playing it. ;D
The original version
METACAFE LINK – might work for some
VIMEO LINK
Adam Lambert & Brian May Desecrate Freddie’s memory? from Jim Doe on Vimeo.
Thanks to ‘Jim Doe’ for putting my ‘wildly controversial’ vid on his channel! XXX
LAST RESORT LINK
Emergency back up link if the other one fails. (But be warned – many people find the site very VERY slow loading. If there’s an alternative still available above use that one)
And to all those idiotic hate-spewers out there I say, STFU, GET YOURSELF SOME KIND OF USEFUL LIFE AND GROW THE HELL UP.
Adam has a wonderfully positive attitude towards the whole thing, once again showing how much more class he has than the people who are gleefully prattling on in their safe little internet worlds and putting Adam down.
Haters: y’all just adding fuel to my fire! U make me work harder. Thank you for the motivation.
Lucy Lawless @RealLucyLawless Adam Lambert singing with Queen is the best idea since George Michael. Pure genius! #AdamLambert #Americanidol
There’s a lot more info than that, lol – but I tried to keep it relevant to your post. I know I’m crossing a few conceptual boundaries, but Adam inspires me to “come out of the closet” with all this stuff. I’m glad to see that Adam fans are a bit more open than Queen fans. And because this connection was made, and Adam really “sees” Freddie intuitively/intelligently, I had a huge sigh of relief there. I was blown away by his comment about spirit and about “making it ok to be who we really are” – I sense how that crosses the boundary of just “being gay” because (Adam may or may not know this) Freddie wasn’t gay in the exact same way that Adam is, but he did work for a return of the Queen (Goddess), he was born with it too (re: “musical prostitute”), and I have always sensed that “he gave me back my true self” (I also sensed that he was an incarnate Fairy, as in aware of Multidimensional existence – so that’s how it works, him being aware, we also remember). So in a way, one of the things that are “ok” now are *liking* Queen and seeing them in a different light – or rather, seeing more than image and seeing the Magic behind the image. Believe it or not, many Queen fans are in the closet about being Queen fans!
But just as Adam rocked our socks off with his stage moves and head thrown back and strutting and so on (lol – like it says someplace else on this site: pole-dancing with speaker-boxes! haha), that sexiness and power (“stage presence”) is fuelled by his connection, which is open, visible (he tweeted!) and it was the same for Freddie, though it wasn’t open and it doesn’t seem like they’re going to publicize “who” did that to him. But if you look up “Queen on Fire: Live At The Bowl” (i.e Milton Keynes 1982), Body Language & Somebody To Love… the extraordinary thing here is (and this affects everyone, which is why I try to communicate as much as possible about it) is that this “Love in the air” people feel at a concert is not just a metaphor. It really exists in the air – “more than your touch” – it’s something only soulmates have, and that “Baby” is the one who’s “drawing everyone in” and makes them see the Star person as “ideal”. It’s one of the reasons I was so keen to go to this concert, because I wanted to confirm Adam’s bf (not because I had anything against him but because I really needed to know this: I’ve wanted to know for a long time if gay guys can have that, *beyond* my own fantasy image of them. Not sure if I was living under a rock, lol, but certainly around me these deep/meaningful relationships were very rare, gay or straight) … And this thing is a key to our own “identity” because then you realize you’re not just a piece of meat, pinned down to your separate brain, BUT you’re made of this energy stuff, and that sort of changes everything. As in, now I finally get it why it’s important to “express yourself” (I didn’t get it before: why, and what was I was supposed to express? What self? lol). I really love this vid on Youtube which has Adam’s song “Broken Open” and many many images of Northern Lights – this is exactly how soulmate love looks, the stimuli happening. What he’s saying in the song is that he was visited prior to meeting that person, and that this type of relationship destroys your false projections (that image). True love is, as such, the bravest thing in the world (to say you want that and to make it happen). But it’s part of current Evolution (rediscoveries).
So as for all these misguided Press articles about “having got what it takes”, they’re onto something but they’re really on the wrong track, as the result is not supposed to be any “new Freddie” (AMAZING though, how all the newspapers in the world are sync’ed on that! Do they just repeat each other’s nonsense? We all have our Michaels-prefabricated-Crap!). But they still suggest this stuff about stage power having some kind of meaning. And if you ask me, yes he has what it takes: two snowflakes! lol (re: the article cover image – see the two snowflakes? Those are the same electromagnetics as the Northern Lights, and no two snowflakes are ever alike… for they express themselves from within…).
OK, now I gave you even more stuff to take in. I do have to wonder though, among us here it’s all fine, there’s humour, there’s fun… no-one takes these “evil terrible” and “God” labels seriously. But I noticed that if you try to get other outside people to look at this stuff, they go all “omg, occult devil worship” and all that crap, and I really don’t want to unknowingly do that to Adam, i.e. incite people to demonize him because of his Magical awareness. It’s going to be a tough balancing act. I must state on the outset that no matter what kind of stuff I discuss, I still care about people as people and not about what they represent symbolically. But whatever helps people find pride in themselves as who they are, such as the myth of Queen Ereshkigal which is written into “The March of the Black Queen” (where there’s an explanation for the entire LGBT community), if we can somehow “open” those things on our own terms, without fears, then I think it can be very healing. I personally feel that by knowing who they are in this manner, it’s healing for my Subconscious and as a result, I put more positivity out than I used to. And then there’s all the Greek stuff too – again something about powerful, positive figures.
But I will talk everyone’s ear off about this! I’ll stop now before I get ridiculous. Anyhow, this is a great site and I’m happy it’s there. I came to it via “Avoid”. I lived in New Zealand for three years and so Aussies feel familiar to me. New Zealand has an unexpected connection with Adam that you’ll not believe!!
I was at the concert in London and I have to say, your comment about lifeline is spot on. THAT is what it’s all about. They finally *lived* onstage (although I do like what came out of the Paul Rodgers collab, it just wasn’t “up there” where the Love was concerned).
The problem, however, all this time, have been Brian and Roger themselves (I won’t bring John into it because Brian, Freddie and Roger have always been the psychic guys in Queen, being of true royal blood – and, more and more I think that is also what Adam is – no “muggle” could ever pull off that Dragon, let’s face it). They love Freddie so much it vampirizes them, so his death was this huge collective trauma, because they were so rudderless for a long time – failing to find this “Spirit” that they talk about, within themselves. They always looked to Freddie, no matter what they did. And they created this false vision of him as “matchless”. That is to say, being such an idol, he remained lonely, even amid millions of fans and even while being obsessed with love.
But spiritually, there is a true match for each and every one of us. Adam had found his prior to performing with Queen, having been through a very similar evolution. So Freddie’s fans (some of them, not all) are upset because they sense as if finally, Freddie’s “memory” is being desecrated. But what they don’t understand is how healing this really is. I wrote a letter to Adam the day I heard him say “I believe Freddie’s spirit LIVES ON” (Brian pulled a pained face there, and he still did not want to admit what’s going on during the Polish press conference – like, Adam was sitting right there, being polite, and Brian went into his head instead, saying “For ME there is no-one that comes close to Freddie!” – he resists that Counterpart who “destroys” the image) – because it was like a veil was lifted off my eyes, and I understood why everything had been so crazy until then, and I wanted to thank him for helping me move on (from the hurt that Freddie’s lower-vibe times produced – when we couldn’t step in and make it a better experience).
Freddie as part of Queen played “the Black Queen”, whereas “Snow White” (and the HuntsMEN, like Adam typed it, lol) is destined to surpass. Most people just see that Black Queen as “eternal”, failing to understand that it was a “living death”, that “the real Freddie” isn’t that Black Queen anymore (also Adam went onstage wearing a t-shirt saying “Black – Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen – Rock – Black Rock”, and bowed to Queen who were this time dressed in white).
So by bowing to and accepting those dark feelings, they managed to produce a catharsis that finally lifted the veil and showed how “Freddie’s spirit lives on” – as in, he’s not just a legend or dead, but actually – there. From Black Queen, onto “Funny How Love Is” within everyone of us. And I do not imagine how anyone could ever manage this catharsis unless they were of the same make-up – meaning of Royal blood, as said.
Which might also explain why they called Adam “their little brother” after having already said they couldn’t have another brother. They were check-mated by the Universe, and it was so beautiful to see. This doesn’t mean I see royals as better than everyone else, but at the end of the day, the Magical is something more than we’re normally used to – it’s there and it’s real. It doesn’t make them have more confidence in themselves, quite the opposite as you will see: they often question everything about themselves and feel like they can’t live up to people’s expectations… But Adam has got himself a nice-looking fandom and I am looking forward to creating this future experience as part of that “Now” moment.
This is an amazing comment! I have to think on it a while tho. A lot to take in. Thanks for your thoughts. Fascinating stuff!
You’re so awesome! I do not believe I’ve truly read a single thing like this before.
So wonderful to discover somebody with unique thoughts on this
topic. Really.. thank you for starting this up. This site is something that is needed on the internet, someone with some originality!
I just wanna say that I think I love you, bb! The video is awesome. You did a great job putting it together. I was really ticked off when I read the original article that prompted this response. The author (Michael C. or whatever it was) really upset me with his ignorance. He deserves a boot to the head….
Just have to say what a brilliant video and I am one of many who just don’t get all the hate. I wish I were one of the lucky ones able to see what I think will be an epic performance. I so hope there will be a video or even a live stream. Adam has said many times he is not replacing Freddie as no can replace someone else, but why can’t someone with the amazing vocals that Adam has pay tribute? I am sure Freddie would be proud and certainly not hating as so many are. I think all the haters are just jealous. Again, thank you for this.
Well, speaking for myself, I love men with big feet. tee hee. Great video
Who doesn’t honey!!!
Love the article and the video..thank you
Magnicent work on the video! Haters can go screw themselves! Enuf said!
Well, finally someone else has noticed the David Cook and Kris Allen fans agenda…yes the ninjas HAVE found them out…stupid shits…not only do they hate on Adam in articles which they so openly canvas, they follow the polls and vote him down…once again stupid shits…and guess who calls Glamberts crazy…GUESS…don’t leave out the Durbin fans..they have been found out too…don’t they know that what goes around comes around…once again stupid shits…
Only some of them. I don’t know any David Cook fans but I know lots of Kris Allen fans and they are nice. All fandoms have their idiots. But I wish the cray ones would move on from “Idol” – and I wish Cook fans would stop blaming Adam for Cook’s apparent lack of success. That’s just plain stupid and insulting to both Adam and David. Fan wars are so last decade.
The video is epic I love it! Says it all! Thanks soooooo much
Its such a pity that hate comes between people instead of just leaning back and enjoying a freakin awsome band performing some freakin awsome songs with a freakin awsome singer! Why are they pissed????I dont get that!Adam is Adam and Freddy is Freddy and we ll never ever have another FM on this planet,hes a genious and an idol and will never ever forgotten,theres no chance to re emplace him. Everybody knows and its NOT Adam s whish at all to be the “new” FM ! He lets everybody know loud and clear that hes absolutely honored that he got asked to sing with QUEEN and has no intentions to be the next frontman. So…why the hate?????? Adam loves Freddy and Freddy would have LOOOOVED Adam!
I couldn’t agree more(except on the KA fan thing(yes I know there are crays, but not all of us hate Adam))! I envy those lucky benches that gets to see Adam and Queen perform live, and I cross my fingers in hope that some kind soul(s) will upload everything on youtube or something like it so that those of us unlucky enough not to go gets to enjoy the sheer awesomeness too!
Hey camilla – I agree it’s only idiot Kris fans who write this stuff! I know lots of lovely Kris fans and I think Kris is great too. All the anti-Adam comments I used were real, I might have twisted them a little LOL but I took them from actual comments people made on articles about Adam & Queen! People were posting stuff about Kris as objections to Adam performing with Queen – clearly not getting it.
So.. what kind of stuff that Kris fans posting about their idols on the Adam & Queen articles.. it’s really relevant subject, isn’t it? Was it something like, it should be Kris who sing with Queen, since he’s the winner and also sang with Queen on the finale or was it something like Adam shouldn’t sing We’re The Champion coz it’s Kris song.. LOL
Oh just silly stuff. When someone defends Adam’s singing ability they’ll write “Kris is better” – one example I remember was someone posted that they thought Adam was the best male vocalist around today and a Kris fan jumped in “Oh what, did Kris Allen die or something?” Just plain silly and annoying. This has nothing to do with Kris Allen and sorry, Kris is great but he doesn’t have Adam’s vocal chops no matter which way you slice it. It’s funniest when they’ve posted earlier as if they were a Queen fan objecting to Adam taking over from Freddie and then make a Kris Allen comment LOL.Dead give away.
What a dickhead Michael C is.
What would have happened to AC/DC if Brian didn’t step in ? Sure he became lead singer and Adam is just guesting for a few songs.Would Michael rather Queen’s music die than be released to a new audience ?
Why do other bands get replacements when band members leave or die ? Should the Rolling Stones have quit ? I think not. Stop being so narrow minded and take it for what it is .An amazing way to honour Freddie and the rest of the band.
Should be Living in the Cemetry ! as it is better known. Maybe this would keep Michael Happy. LOL
Hahahaha @ Living in the Cemetery!
WOW, Wonderful work of art, Love everything about the article and the video,Thank you, may this be an educational tool for the fools who are stuck in the past and have closed their mind to wonderful talent that is Adam Lambert,Brian And Roger don’t have to let the life pass them by but enjoy what they love, To perform and sing their songs,That is what they love,that is their life line.
Why the hell was your video blocked and by whom? I wanna see it.
Hi Sharon!
Thanks for commenting. I’ve put up a metacafe link that should work for a while LOL. I’ll keep moving it if need be. There were THREE separate copyright infringement claims on it. Viacom, WMG & Orchard Music. One of them or more had the video blocked worldwide. I wish they’d actually LOOK at the video’s they block and see if it’s a genuine breach or just someone using their music for humour – and not even full tracks. Anyway. Hopefully that works. Hope you like it/understand it – my humour can be a bit odd sometimes