Almost exactly a year ago we wrote about Beyoncé's latest album (although due to the nature of the article we shall henceforth only refer to it as 'an opus') and described it as "officially the campest, silliest, cheesiest, funnest, gayest album in the history of music ever".Well it STILL is, and probably always will be. But vying for second place is Adam Lambert with her (christ, that was a genuine typo... we meant HIS) debut 'opus', For Your Entertainment. We're unsure of how all this is going to play out. The first single isn't setting the American charts alight, and last night Lambert performed it at the American Music Awards during which time he rubbed a male dancer's face in his crotch!
We think Adam's a brilliant idea, and welcome the concept of a wilfully gay pop star. He's also a brilliant singer and apparently fairly intelligent, but if you want to win over America, isn't it best to wait until you've established yourself as ubiquitous before simulating gay fellatio live on stage? It's a tricky subject, and we wish (in an ideal world) that every gay artist could be open and unapologetically themselves, but you have to sort of be a Trojan horse, because we don't live in a perfect world (and we are still riddled by homophobia).
It's not just gay-related, though. Imagine if Madonna had released "Erotica" or "Justify My Love" as her debut single? Or Björk had done "Pagan Poetry" for her very first video... Imagine if Tori Amos... oh wait, her first single was about rape, that's a bad example. Anyway, if you're going to try (emphasis on 'try') to be sexually controversial, especially if you're gay, maybe you should build a fanbase first, or at least work up to it, no?
Anyway: we'll write you an album review when we've listened in more depth. Or maybe we'll forget. Probably we'll forget. Sorry, Adam, we're busy people.
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