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They started throwing bras in Tacoma. That was the second night of the American Idol Live Tour. More flew in San Diego, Kansas City and DC. They were lacy, flowery bras and perky, polka-dotted bras, and the one that's currently dangling directly over Adam Lambert's head - a spongy E-cup on which some ardent fan has scrawled the initials A.L. over each giant boob. As a friendly prank, crew members have strung the bras up in the bowels beneath the stage at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois, just outside Chicago, among an abundance of other offerings - some of them X-rated. The groupies also hurles riding crops, feather boas, handcuffs, panties; it looks a little bit like a grenade went off in Frederick's of Hollywood. "I've heard about Tom Jones and panties," says Adam Lambert, who has come down to survey the haul. "But me and panties, that's just a little bit freaky." He points to a jockstrap on which someone has written in sequins JOCKS LOVE ADAM. "Oh," he says wryly. "They do?" To the showman in Lambert, a six-foot-one Pan of a man with deep-set blue eyes and a shock of jet-black-and-blue emo-style hair, it's all part of the spectacle. "A lot of times I'll pick up a bra and play with it during a song," he says "It's a way to connect. It's like, 'I threw my bra up on stage and you're spinning it around. Cool. Yay.'" Still, he says, " I think it's weird that I'm having this effect on women. It's flattering. I've never had underwear thrown at me before. Clearly there's something significant about it, because there aren't a lot of openly gay men in the entertainment industry." It's a testament to the sheer mainstream appeal of American Idol that a gay man with an unabashed affection for eyeliner and nailpoilish has emerged from this years competition as a new American sex symbol. "I think it's beautiful, " Lambert says. "That's the way it should be. It shouldn't matter what a person's sexual preference is - it doesn't change their appeal." In the end, Americans of every persuasion proved themselves defenseless against Lambert's vigorous pelvic exertions. "When I'm onstage," he says, "there's definitely a sexual energy that goes into it." Indeed, he gyrated his way through performances like Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love with a libidinous abandon that's rarely seen on primetime network television. Moral majorities found his style scandalous, but Lambert offers no apologies. I have no problem telling people, "'You know what? I'm not your babysitter and I'm not your church', " he says. "They go 'Jesus loves you, too.' One time I just blurted out 'I'm Jewish, okay? I don'T need another crucifix! That's not an appropriate gift for me!'" He laughs. "I know people ar coming from a good place, but it can be offensive. Like, 'Thank you, I'm not Christian! I don't read that book.'" Nor does he beg forgiveness for his outrageous costumes, which often look like cast-offs from a Vegas production of Mad Max. "There's a certain level of pageantry with Idol and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it," he says. Some say the 27-year-old even upstaged KISS during their Idol visit, outshining them with his soaring rock-tenor vocals and Bowie-lite stage presence. Undeniably, it was his voice - shich has been compared favorably to those of Robert Plant and Freddie Mercury - that got him a shot on Idol, but it was his savvy that helped him stay there and eventually steal the show. The gay speculation that surrounded him, shich he never shied away from, probably didn't hurt, either. Although he didn't win the competition - "It doesn't freaking matter who won it," says Lambert, the runner-up - it got him what he wanted: a platform of which to launch a singing career. And fame. When the season ended, he was awarded a sis-figure recording contract with 19 Entertainment, the company that owns Idol and puts out the Albums of headliners, like Clay Aiken and Kelly Clarkson. Simon Fuller, the Great Oz behind the show and one of the most successful producers in history (Idol sales alone have generated close to $100 million), explains Lamberz's appeal as a matter of genuinely unique talen and natural charisma. "His voice is second to none," Fuller says. "It's up there with the all-time great singers I've come across. Many millions of people have already fallen in love with him. He's got that glint in his eye, wheter you're gay , whatever, it's just attractive. He's just a very sexual guy - and he's not threathening to women." Lambert's groupies on the Idol Live Tour follow gim across the country, offering him clothes and books and Jewelery . and they've tried to give him other things. "There was one woman in Jersey who was actually gorgeous," says Lambert. "She had obviously had a couple of cocktails, and during an after-show meet-and-greet, she just slithered up next to me and started kissing my neck. I was cool with it. But then it started to get a little weird because she was, like, moaning. She gave me a note that said, !I want to make out with you, here's my number,' and I was like, wow, this is crazy. But again, it's cool. Because yeah, I'm gay, but I like kissing women sometimes. Women are pretty. It doesn't mean im necessarily sleeping with them. Of course, had I been the one drinking cocktails," he adds, "I probably would've made out with her." He says it wouldn't matter to his 24-year-old boyfriend, whom he won't discuss except to say that he's "Cajun" and has "swagger" ("I like 'em smaller and younger," Lambert says mischieviously.) He smiles. "I don't see how all of this is different than - let's take a modern sex-symbol like Brad Pitt. How many of the women who fantasize about him actually sleep with him?" he asks. "It's all fantasy - that's what entertainment is. I'm here to entertain you, and if my sexuality is apparent and you respond to it, and you're attracted to it, then great, I'm doing my job. It ain't happening anyway!" His road manager arrives to hustle him off to get ready for the show. "It takes him a little longer because he's totally on girl-time," she says affably. "I like to get real pretty, " Lambert says. חוץ מזה שהוא אומר שהוא יהודי, הוא גם אומר שדריק הוא החבר שלו.. מה יותר מושלם מיזה???