Adam Lambert - Glam Nation Tour December 16, 2010

Adam Lambert knew exactly what he wanted when it came time to record his major label album debut. "I wanted it to be dance, I wanted it to be pop, I wanted it to be international. I really wanted to do a new pop glam thing. I didn't want to create an album that was cohesive because that's not my personality. I wanted something that was all over the map like the music I like to listen to. I wanted there to be something for every mood you might be in when you were listening to it."

"For Your Entertainment" turned out to be exactly the kind of album Adam wanted to make. "It's very eclectic," he told People magazine. "There are anthems, there are songs that make you want to dance, there are songs that make you feel sexy and there are songs that touch you, hopefully, with emotional, insightful, deeper lyrics."

The recording process started even before Adam embarked on the "American Idols Live" tour last summer. He spent a month writing songs before going on the road, and while on tour he worked on the concept for the album and listened to demos. "The cool thing...was that we took a lot of the songs from demos and developed them, tried to tailor them to the vibe I was going for on the album," Adam told Rolling Stone.

The album begins with a love song - to music. "Music Again" was written by Justin Hawkins and produced by Rob Cavallo. "Justin was the lead singer and guitar player for the Darkness. He has a great point of view, musically," says Adam. "We recorded all the vocals at Capitol Studios in Hollywood. It was an honor to work there." Adam says the song has a sexy classic rock riff, influenced by bands like Queen and the Sweet, and is meant to show off his sense of humor. "It's supposed to be kind of campy," he told Rolling Stone. Adam adds that the song is a message to his fans. "That's why we put it at the beginning of the album. It's like an intro that says, 'Welcome to my world.'"

During his "Idol" journey, he sang songs from many different genres and impressed the judges every week, with songs like "Mad World" ("It's haunting and beautiful and it gets in your head. I knew it would be different and very non-'Idol.'"), "Ring Of Fire" ("I was really inspired by David Cook's approach to the show the year before. Country week was one of those moments where you could take a song and make it work for you, like David did with 'Billie Jean'"), "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" ("My mom is a huge Stones fan. I picked 'Satisfaction' because I wanted to associate myself with icons") and "The Tracks Of My Tears" ("the week before I did 'Ring Of Fire" and pushed everyone's buttons so I wanted to go in the opposite direction and be super cleaned up and and kind of pretty, acoustic and organic").
After the season finale of "Idol," Adam toured the U.S. with the other top 10 finalists. Even before he hit the road, he had conquered the Billboard charts, with multiple debuts on the Hot 100 and the Hot Digital Songs charts, but the release of "For Your Entertainment" gave him a solid debut at No. 3 on the Billboard album chart, where the album is still sailing high after almost half a year on the tally.

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