Adam Lambert is featured in the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly where he opens up about his much anticipated sophomore album, his current sense of fashion, and how his music has evolved. He also speaks candidly about being gay.
On being gay:
“I mean, it’s a tough life. And contrary to popular belief, it’s not a f—ing choice.”
On his current fashion sense:
“I’ve kind of started to tone it down in the respect that [my look] is not as flashy now. It’s still different and avant-garde, but it’s a bit more chic; a bit more designer as opposed to Vegas. I’d love to work on my own fashion line, accessory line, shoes or something, but obviously right now I’m focused on my music.”
On his new song “Outlaws of Love”:
“Love is such a beautiful thing. When you’re lucky enough to find love it’s one of the greatest feelings in the world. And the particular challenge for gay people, and particularly gay men, from my perspective, is [that] monogamy and true love works. Because we are brought up in a society that tells us it’s wrong.”
On his next album, Trespass:
“The style [on the new album] is a little bit evolved. I think the last album I was trying to update the style of the late ‘70s, early ‘80s with the glam rock and with rock music on a whole visually and aesthetically. I think this album is more in the direction of contemporary again. It’s fresh and it’s something people maybe haven’t heard before. Lyrically, it’s very honest and real. We’ve been trying to take great songs and then as far as the production and the sonic nature of them, we try to give them a funk sensibility. I think it’s a really cool new sound.”
