Pam Kragen from North Country Times has made the telephone interview with Mombert aka Leila Lambert, Adam Lambert’s mom in connection with the Idol Tour, published on the 15th of July at nctimes.com.
Mrs. Lambert talks a lot about Adam and explains a lot of the background for his way of thinking, his earlier experience and destroys some of the myths about Adam that have occurred in the meantime.
This is a long and very interesting interview, a must read for every Adam Lambert’s fan.

Some excerpts below:

Moving to LA

I’m moving because of Adam. He thought it would be great for me to start a new life in L.A. I will be working for him. I’m not sure what I’ll do. I’ll help with the fan mail, I think, and we’ll play it by ear. I think I’ll just be a mom; that’s always been the best job in the world. (…)
It’ll be easy. We’re very close, but we won’t live together. He doesn’t need his mommy living with him, I’m quite sure. But there are a lot of things I could help him with because he’s not going to be around a lot. The hardest part for me is moving. I love my house and it’s hard to give it up, but I’m totally amazed that he wants me there. He wants me to be a part of it, and to meet the people he’s meeting. There aren’t a lot of kids out there who would want that. I’m so blessed. He’s got a really big heart.

Adam on stage on IdolTour

Just before Adam was to appear onstage,the crowd went wild. The energy was so powerful. I was asked last night by one of the fans “What was your favorite part?” and I would definitely say that as I stood there it appeared that everyone was on their feet. Watching Adam perform, I took a moment to do a 360-degree turn to take in the crowd and realized at that moment that Adam’s dream had come true. He was singing “Starlight” and I just started to cry. That was my favorite moment.

Googling Adam and the Bradam photos

I have a ritual of “Googling” Adam every morning when I get up and every night before I go to bed.
I’d seen those photos before and I’d told him to get the stuff off the Internet after he made it through the auditions. But there was one place he forgot (a social networking page for fans of the free-spirited Burning Man festival). I remember going on the Internet one morning and seeing these photos and saying to myself there’s no way this is ever going to be able to fly. He’s history.
I remember I couldn’t reach him so I called his dad, and then when I finally got Adam on the phone, he wasn’t upset at all. He said, “You know, Mom, it is what it is. Whatever happens, happens. I don’t care.” The “Idol” people said, “Do what you want to do and we’ll support it.” And Adam just said, “I’m not going to give a dissertation on it, we’ll just go with the flow.” In fact he thought it was funny that there were pictures of him online kissing girls, too, so there was some mystery that he enjoyed.

Ring of Fire – rebel

¨Q:Were you nervous every time he sang on “Idol”?
Leila Lambert: Not that he wouldn’t perform well, because he has that gift and ability to do that well. But there were times I was worried that he’d picked the wrong song. Like when he did “Ring of Fire” (performed during “Country Week” in a sitar-heavy psychedelic style). That was risky. I didn’t like it because it was eerie and strange.
Q: I remember the horrified look on Randy Travis’s face.
Leila Lambert: You should’ve seen his wife’s face. It was 10 times worse.
Q: Did you think he went too far with the provocative nature of his performances?
Leila Lambert: Yes, I definitely thought he was pushing the envelope. I told him he needed to appeal to middle America, and he said, “I’m not going to do the Cheez Whiz and compromise.”
Q: But he did switch gears after “Ring of Fire,” putting on a suit, combing back his hair and singing “Tracks of My Tears” like Frank Sinatra during “Rat Pack” week.
Leila Lambert: When I saw him come out in that suit, I couldn’t believe it. He knew exactly what he was doing. He was mixing things up and showing people another side.

Adam-Danny Rivalry

That’s a myth. They’re good friends.

Adam and Kris

They have developed an amazing friendship. Adam and Kris will be friends forever. Neither one of them has a mean bone in his body, and they are so supportive of each other. I was so happy that our families got along so well. The night after the finale was my birthday and the Allens came to my birthday party, not just Kris and his wife, but his brother and his parents. We’re also planning to meet up at one of the tour stops this summer and go see the concert together.

Mom’s feelings reading The Rolling Stone article

That was extremely hard. Everything in the article that was negative jumped out at me. I wanted him to be a little more discreet. Ever since he was 17, I’ve been telling him to be discreet. Not everyone needs to know your business. But he is very honest and open, and that’s just Adam being Adam.

All women’s idol

He finds it very flattering. He says “I like to flirt, and I flirt with women all the time.” I think the attraction is that he’s so likable. He’s got fans from 8 to 80, from little girls to grandmas. I’ve read the fan letters. They’re so sincere. It’s endearing how they reach out and how they love him and can’t get enough of him.

Not hyperactive, but precocious

He wasn’t hyperactive, but during a checkup when he was little, I did ask his doctor about Adam’s behavior because he was just nonstop. The doctor said “No, he’s not hyper, he’s precocious. He’s just very aware of everything around him.

The look

He was always experimented with his hair. I remember one time he came down the stairs after a bad home dye job and his hair was carrot orange. We had to call his friend Danielle’s mother, who’s a hairstylist, for a hair emergency. When he first dyed his hair black several years ago I thought it was too dark, but now I can’t imagine him any different.
He’s been wearing nail polish for several years. I remember one time at Thanksgiving my stepdad and his wife were coming over for dinner and I asked Adam if maybe he could take it off, but he wouldn’t do it.

Tatoo

Yes, it’s the eye of Horus and he says it means protection. When he was 16 he wanted a tattoo. He wanted to have the Cantonese word for “creative” tattooed on him. I told him, you don’t need to label yourself to be creative. Instead, I got a canvas and got a neighbor to spell out the word in Cantonese, and I painted it for him and gave it to him for his 17th birthday. He still has it in his bedroom.

Most proud of?

I’m so blown away by how well he conducts himself in interviews. He always seems to say the right thing. And a mom always loves to hear people say how impressed they are with his ability to be a true, real person and how sincere he is when he talks to people. He doesn’t love TMZ or the paparazzi, but he loves his fans.

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It hasn’t been published in any official online magazine. Nor a newspaper. Nor a tabloid.

It has been published in a regular and personal blog and fortunately has been noticed by an Adam Lambert-fan and brought to the adamofficial.com discussion forum.

The ultimately best analysis of the phenomenon of Adam Lambert and his impact on the post-Idol 8 world. The best analysis of Adam’s extraordinary friendship with Kris Allen and the meaning of the message they both managed to send – by showing their outstanding human values.

A must-read article of a Ph.D. student ’sometimes teacher, sometimes preacher’, named truecoloursfly:

“Adam Lambert is completely magnetic, and not only because of his astounding voice. He has charisma, he has star power; and he has what many “stars” do not: manners. Grace. Thoughtfulness. And did anyone else mention he’s as beautiful as a screen goddess (hair and makeup by The Cure)? Oh, you probably noticed that.
I had never watched an American Idol episode in my life. But one of my Fave Fab Females started sending me cryptic notes and pictures: “You have to see this guy. Click here, and here, and here…And oh, wait ‘til you hear him sing ‘Brigadoon!’ ” ‘Scuse me, Brigadoon? Sure, and there’s internet footage of Adam in an elegant suit, singing The Prayer at the Yitzhak Rabin Tribute concert; there’s him upstaging Val Kilmer in The Ten Commandments; there’s some extraordinary clips of him vamping some hard-rock burlesque surrounded by dancers of various sexes and persuasions… the boy is clearly a club creature, openly glam, proudly theatrical, but also well-trained and a serious professional.”

“Adam is a compelling personality because he appears so completely at ease in his own skin — and in this world. He knows what he’s good at; he knows what he has to work at, he’s educated about his medium. His confidence — however hard-won it might have been — is … well, kind of infectious. He treats everyone with respect and puts people at ease. In a word, he is likeable. Flamboyant, theatrical, goth, guyliner and all, he is genuinely likeable.
But he is more than just “nice.” So much more. He doesn’t speak in spiritualized terms, but he does speak with disciplined positivity and, I dare say, a certain sense of mission about acceptance and inclusion of difference. Given a new and vast platform, he’s using it to encourage parents to applaud and support their children who are a little “different,” who want to be creative. Send them to dance class, give them vocal training. “Artists are a little bit special, they need the support,” he says.
And he may just be the most effective messenger we could want, a goth boy of the demi-monde who is perfectly comfortable with Middle America (read: American Idol); but one who respects that audience enough to offer them “something maybe they didn’t know they wanted.” Creativity is his message, more than cultural disruption. He isn’t Marilyn Manson – he wants not to bludgeon his audience, but to woo them.
I do think he’s an old soul. Yet, prudently he has no pretensions to Deep Thoughts or Political Statements (in public), he says he just wants to sing, and be judged on his art. Of course he’s more sophisticated than that, and he knows full well that asking to be judged for his art alone IS his political statement.”

“Moving on now, to real three-dimensional people, and the reason Adam Lambert and Kris Allen are important to our spiritual health. (…)
The showdown finale was between Kris and Adam – tagged respectively, Christian and flamboyant, yes, but demolishing the rules of American hit television by refusing to stay in their boxes.
There’s the obvious: LA glamboy, Arkansas country boy; but also their personalities could not be more distinct. Kris was self-effacing even in his moment of triumph, while Adam was eating the Idol soundstage for lunch.”

“In an interview the day after the finale, departed from the usual breezy soundbytes required of him to emphasize what he felt was most important about the competition — that the friendship and respect between himself and Kris might be an example for others in transcending difference, for the reward of becoming enriched by it. Both of them become animated when they talk about how much their new friendship has meant to them. Still, their words never exceed generalities.
But pictures do. (…)”

“When they hugged, they hugged for real – there was none of the typical back-slapping not-too-close! hugs between men in public.
They’ve learned from each other, and they’ve advocated for each other. With and for each other they are respectful and generous. Open. Trusting. And loving.

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The fans of Adam Lambert at the americanidol.com website have created an one and only Adam Lambert Dictionary which aim is to guide fans through the Adam’s fans’ universe.

Please see the excerpts below:

AAA – All About Adam, Adam Addicts Anonymous (thanks, addictedtoadam and VickStiX!)
Adafect (a-da-fect):
The ultimate level of perfectness, that can only be acheived by Adam Lambert. As close to God-like as any mortal can get. Pharaoh.
uses: Adam Lambert is so adafect! (thanks, sunshinexx!)
Ada-gorfic-shock- The State your body goes into after comprehending that Adam is in the bottom three. (thanks, LambertLoverer!)
Ada-gossi-icream- A night when your watching gossip girl, eating icecream wondering if Adam was doing the same thing. (thanks, LambertLoverer!)

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This long article has been published on the 28th of May 2009  in North County Times and has been written by Pam Kragen.

A long, but very interesting insight into the early life and beginning of the Adam Lambert’s almost 20-years long journey on stage until the American Idol breakthrough.

Some highlights for this wonderful written and researched article are below. Read the whole material under this link.

Those who know Lambert say that his seeming ease onstage and his effortless high notes didn’t come out of nowhere. He has been working diligently toward this goal for nearly two decades. He has invested his entire life in music and performing, and that means working at it.

Adam Lambert’s journey on the stage, short overview:

Metropolitan Educational Theatre, San Diego

According to Kathie Bretches-Urban from  Metropolitan Educational Theatre, a San Diego-based youth theater company founded by her late husband .

‘He’d just come out onstage, and it popped. You’d see that sparkle in his eye. That gift is a passion. It’s something in (his) soul that just exudes from every pore. You know that this child has discovered his chosen path, even if he doesn’t know it yet. He had the kind of talent you only see once in a lifetime.”
But his talent didn’t just happen overnight as some people think. (…) Music and performing were the only things I ever knew Adam doing. He was not a kid that did sports. That was just not his thing. I do know that he worked, much like an athlete would do, on his singing with voice lessons for his entire life.’

While enrolled in Metropolitan Adam Lambert made 3-4 shows a year, often as the star, but not always – and that was intentional as the Metropolitan credo is to develop talent, not create “stars” in order to tach the young performers humility and to keep them grounded. So he mentored younger actors and he was cast as often in the ensemble as in the lead. 

Adam truly is as genuine as he looks on television. His family gave him a great foundation, and I like to think we helped give him a lot of good values. Did you see on every ‘Idol’ episode how he thanked the orchestra or the band? Those are the things we still teach our kids today. You get what you give. What you put out there in the universe comes back to you. And you see that sense of kindness and generosity in Adam’s persona.”

However even if ‘Lambert was always humble, he never lacked for confidence. He had an innate comfort onstage, and he knew he had a voice that would one day take him places’.
San Diego’s Lyceum Theatre

His first role in 1991 was as Linus in “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” at San Diego’s Lyceum Theatre.

Mt. Carmel High School

During his years in Mt. Carmel High School, Lambert sang in the choir, played in several school musicals.

Moonlight Amphitheatre in Vista

 He also did several youth- and adult-cast shows at the Moonlight Amphitheatre in Vista. One of his roles was Captain Hook in a youth-cast “Peter Pan” another- Doody in Moonlight’s 2000 production of “Grease.”

Joshua Carr, his director for both productions, remembers Lambert’s ‘laserlike attention to detail’.
“You could see the focus in his eyes and the drive to be the best he could be. He started with me in the youth theater program and immediately displayed commitment and drive even at that young age, and he quickly moved into the leading roles. About his future Carr adds: ‘He makes smart choices all the time; and regardless of the outcome of ‘Idol,’ this young man is going to be a superstar.”

Kathy Brombacher, Moonlight’s producing artistic director, remembers Lambert’s upbeat personality and exceptional voice.
“He is bright, friendly, funny, down to earth and grounded. Despite his talent, he doesn’t have an inflated head, and he’s so articulate and professional in the way he conducts himself.”

Cal State Fullerton, Hair,” band Citizen Vein, The Zodiac Show

In 2000, after graduating from Mt. Carmel, Adam Lambert attended California State UniversityFullerton, but dropped out in order to keep performing full time.

He did regional musical theater, toured with the musical “Hair,” fronted the rock band Citizen Vein and became a regular featured performer in the L.A. glam-rock stage spectacle “The Zodiac Show” —- where he honed his stage swagger and experimented with outrageous makeup, hair, costumes, jewelry and fingernail polish.

The Ten Commandments

In the 2004 he got a role in L.A. rock opera “The Ten Commandments” starring Val Kilmer. Even if the musical has been extremely criticized, Adam Lambert’s performance was the only one which made great impression thanks to his ’scene-stealing vocals’.

Wicked

In 2005 Adam Lambert joined the national tour of “Wicked” as the understudy for Fiyero (the male lead) and later in the L.A. production until it closed in the fall of 2008.

In an interview last week with the Associated Press, “Wicked” casting agent Bernard Telsey said of Lambert’s audition:

He came in and had that amazing voice —- or as I like to say, ‘instrument,’ because he has this incredible range. I literally remember saying, ‘Oh my God, this guy has the highest range.

American Idol

Performing in musical theater was great, but by 2007 Lambert admits that he was at a crisis point. In a teleconference last week, he said

“I was in the ensemble of ‘Wicked’ in LA. It was a great job. It was paying the bills, but I wasn’t satisfied artistically. I wondered, is this it? Is this my life? I want more. There’s more that I should be doing. Then this (American Idol) presented itself to me, and the timing was right’.

Photo by Nancy Hickey, source: nctimes.com

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Michelle Collins from BestWeekEver.tv has no doubt,

Adam Lambert, the enigmatic, timeless, sexy, talented, from another planet amazing American Idol runner-up who has turned the United States into a pigpen of lusty fanboys and fangirls, myself included. Having watched this season of Idol since Day 1, my feelings for Adam went from “casual fan” to “He is the Second Coming of Christ.”

Adam Lambert visited ‘Best Week Show’ and made an episode for the show upcoming on Friday (today) revealing his acting skills.

But also, he was interviewed by Michelle Collins and their dialogue turned into extremely funny, intelligent and informative conversation in which they talk about being  being a magical person, being 27, being Jewish, being more into ‘Sex and the City’ than ‘Golden Girls’. Also about winning, fan fiction written about Kris and Adam, Kris Allen and his wife, NegativeNeil.com  and winning a date with Neil Lambert, Adam’s brother.

Adam about Neil:

He’s hilarious. He makes me look socially awkward. He’s that funny. I told him at the very beginning, you will get ladies because of me.

Also – of course – the American Idol was discussed as well. Adam explained how is to watch himself on TV, he revealed how short is Ryan Seacrest and did not reveal which of the fellow contestants he cannot get along with (but he promised to reveal it after the AI- tour is over).

Great, great, funny and sweet  interview, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Wish I could see the show as well….

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now the fragment of the show is also available to see, so posting it here:

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The long and detailed interview with Adam Lambert about the American Idol.
Adam reveals a lot and this is a MUST WATCH for every Adam’s fan!

see the whole interview under this link.

The short detailed overview over the 4 separate parts:
(part 1) self promotion, his concerns about the future before American Idol, social issues connected with the result (guyliner vs. guy-next-door), Bill O’Reilly, censored pictures (Adam Lambert kissing a man), meaning of the song, connection to the song, ‘Black or White’ – message about civil rights
(part 2) sexuality on stage, ‘Whole Lotta Love’, ‘Mad World’, ‘Donny Darko’, ‘Track of My Tears’, Smokey Robinson, transition from the performance to the ‘mark’ from the judges
(part 3) American Idol as opportunity-not competition, risky choice of ‘Ring Of Fire’, Johnny Cash – a rebel musician, analytical side of himself, ‘Play That Funky Music’, the outfits under ”Ring Of Fire’ and the show with KISS
(part 4) Elvis similarity?, helping others contestants (paternity/big brother tendency), Allison Iraheta, Kris Allen, ‘Slowride’, ‘fusion’-music, recording the album, 19 Entertainment

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