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[winterlive]

i was just talking to thenyxie about adam, and about how while i do love the bejesus out of him for his sexy filterless diva qualities, i have Many Thoughts in my music nerd brain about him. i love music. i've made an informal study of music for a long time and if you have Thoughts about adam's musical skills and stratagems, you should comment below.

as an appetite whetting, here are three songs adam usually performs (two covers and one original) that have been totally rearranged just for kicks. because when you're a musician and not just a performer, you do amazing shit like this for funsies.

mad world, but funked up and rocked out.

wwfm, but stripped down acoustic and zero falsetto.

and then just in case by some horrible crime you missed it, whole lotta love, but dreamy drugged out vocal tantra.

Comments

[winterlive.livejournal.com]

where to start omg. he's doing a lot of tiny live shows in australia. he loves to do the morning shows, which i'm starting to think is because it's an intimate setting, so he can see his audience one-on-one. he loves arena rock and he's going to keep doing arena rock, but i'd be surprised if we don't see him continue to fuck around in little bars, too.

he's not the best musician right now. he's got lots to learn, especially about his voice and what he can make it do, what will sound good when he does it, where's a good place to improvise on a song when he's in the middle of singing it. but the thing that kills me is that he's TRYING. he's not afraid to take risks. sometimes he tries something and it sounds fucking amazing, sometimes it sounds like crap. he doesn't care. he's out there trying shit on.

when he takes this album of his on tour, he'll be using that time to play around with more covers, more variations on his songs. when he was on the idols tour, you could almost watch him learning how his voice works, how far he could push and still have something left the next day.

his voice is his instrument, and it is un by god believable. it's a gift. and the more he learns how it functions, the longer he spends singing his fucking heart out, the better he's gonna get. his second album is going to murder us all.

adam's disdain for his IEMs is a big deal to me, because i want to know more. he always yanks one out, and he always gets a billion times better when he does. is it cutting out his treble? is the occlusion hurting his jaw? is he just pissed because can't hear the audience? some combination! idk. but i wish to know. somebody ask him this shit.

[bathsweaver.livejournal.com]

Eeee--oh, this is making me so happy. I'm all ♥_♥ over this--this process of his, pushing and nudging and fine-tuning himself-as-instrument in a very evaluative, critical, purposeful way. IDEK. ::flaps::

Yes. SOMEONE ASK HIM THIS SHIT, PLEASE.