Okay, so before Adam? I appreciated when bands would play different versions of their music at shows, just to change things up, but I didn't like it if I turned on like, Leno and they were doing a free-form jazz rendition of their latest single or something like that. I think part of that comes from the fact that I was listening to a lot of pop-punk, and there are only so many ways you can change that without changing the genre completely.
With Adam, I'm excited to see what he's got coming next (granted, my Itunes is like "WTF?! THIS IS THE SAME SONG, WOMAN! WHY DO YOU HAVE 5 VERSIONS OF THIS?"), because I know it's not going to be anything like what I've heard before. It bugged me at first that WWFM was the only one getting tweaked, but now that I've seen/heard the acoustic SW and DTRH (which is my new musical lover), I'm pretty sure we'll see different versions of Everything before he's done with this album.
I think part of it also seems to be him keeping things fun for himself. If he did the songs the same way every time, he'd get bored, just like if he wore the same outfit every day. He's basically redressing the songs so that he can ooh and at at it along with everyone else.
To me, between theater and Idol, he hasn't had a whole lot of say in getting to change things up. Theater, sure, you can put your take on who the character is in to the performance, but in the end? Everything is planned out for you: Where you move, when you do it, what you're saying when you move, how you're saying it, what song it leads in to, what the notes are in the song, etc. It's a very paint-by-numbers situation. Idol was kind of the same thing, with a little more freedom when it came to picking what version of each song he want wanted to do, but in the end there were still a lot of limitation on what could/couldn't be done in relation to Idol's demographic, and FOX's "family programming" and everything like that.
I don't know, I think that a lot of Adam doing different versions is also kind of like when a baby learns to walk. They spend a lot of time just wandering around, trying to see what everything looks like from their new vantage point, because things have been put in a completely new perspective. Adam's doing that with his songs now, because he has even more control over them than he did in the studio because it's (literally) his show now.
*shrugs* That's just my opinion though. Sorry this is so long, I like talking about music.
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With Adam, I'm excited to see what he's got coming next (granted, my Itunes is like "WTF?! THIS IS THE SAME SONG, WOMAN! WHY DO YOU HAVE 5 VERSIONS OF THIS?"), because I know it's not going to be anything like what I've heard before. It bugged me at first that WWFM was the only one getting tweaked, but now that I've seen/heard the acoustic SW and DTRH (which is my new musical lover), I'm pretty sure we'll see different versions of Everything before he's done with this album.
I think part of it also seems to be him keeping things fun for himself. If he did the songs the same way every time, he'd get bored, just like if he wore the same outfit every day. He's basically redressing the songs so that he can ooh and at at it along with everyone else.
To me, between theater and Idol, he hasn't had a whole lot of say in getting to change things up. Theater, sure, you can put your take on who the character is in to the performance, but in the end? Everything is planned out for you: Where you move, when you do it, what you're saying when you move, how you're saying it, what song it leads in to, what the notes are in the song, etc. It's a very paint-by-numbers situation. Idol was kind of the same thing, with a little more freedom when it came to picking what version of each song he want wanted to do, but in the end there were still a lot of limitation on what could/couldn't be done in relation to Idol's demographic, and FOX's "family programming" and everything like that.
I don't know, I think that a lot of Adam doing different versions is also kind of like when a baby learns to walk. They spend a lot of time just wandering around, trying to see what everything looks like from their new vantage point, because things have been put in a completely new perspective. Adam's doing that with his songs now, because he has even more control over them than he did in the studio because it's (literally) his show now.
*shrugs* That's just my opinion though. Sorry this is so long, I like talking about music.