‘I’m not freaking out anymore’ Adam Lambert: amazing pics of rugged new look and attitude
ADAM LAMBERT has always rivalled Lady Gaga in his flamboyant looks and behaviour, but the Queen frontman is ready to settle down as he prepares for new album The Original High.
Gone are the satins and sequins, make-up and mad outfits. Adam Lambert simply doesn’t have the energy any more.
"Someone said to me, 'Oh you're not wearing all that crazy sh**, are you trying to tone it down?'” he explains.
“And I was like, 'No, I just got tired.’ F***! It was a lot of work!”
After taking his career to a whole new level as the frontman for Queen over the past few years – including a dazzling display on the BBC’s New Year’s Eve celebrations – it seems that Lambert has found a form of inner peace.
“The music industry is so crazy, competitive and focused,” he told Notion magazine.
“I kind of had to stop and ask myself, 'Why am I doing this? What do I want? Who am I? What am I about?' and just re-examine at everything.
“I finally became more grounded about all of the fame stuff; it's not freaking me out anymore.”
The outrageous singer was thrust into the public eye in 2009 when he finished as runner-up on the eighth season of American Idol and his debut album For Your Entertainment went to No.3 on the US charts.
He followed that with the No. 1 album Trespassing and hit the headlines as the first openly gay American male pop star.
But now the flamboyant star admits that it was a lot to deal with so quickly.
"There were certain ways in which I triumphed and certain ways in which I stumbled a little bit,” he admits.
“Unfortunately, people were watching while I was learning."
His upcoming third album The Original High marks a new direction and newfound maturity for the 33-year-old.
“I think one of the things I've been learning is the 'less is more' approach to a lot of things. Less is a little easier," he says.
“I've done the more bubblegum stuff, I've done the camp stuff, and now I want to encourage people to face their sh**.
“I want to show them the part of me that's not all polished… I want it to be real, you know?”
Adam Lambert’s new single Ghost Town premieres on April 21 and is released on June 7
The album The Original High follows later this year
