ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY REVIEW OF “FYE”
November 20th, 2009 | 
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THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT Adam Lambert’s album is a glammy good time.
It was the album-cover shot shown ’round the world — or rather, the hydra-headed gossip-sphere: Adam Lambert in full gender-bent regalia, a black-leathered, blue-follicled flashpoint of next-level snazzy-dazzlement. And it seemed to make a certain promise: This special snowflake would not tamp down his fabulosity for the masses. He would let his kohl-rimmed light shine, American Idol’s sterile starmaker machinery be damned — nobody puts Glammy in a corner!
For Your Entertainment’s falsetto-laced opening salvo, ”Music Again,” certainly
lives up to the dream of a pop-rock Xanadu. Justin Hawkins, late of Brit libertines the Darkness, conjures a Cheap Trick-meets-Supertramp stadium anthem that fits
Lambert like one of those fantastically nonfunctional fashion gloves he’s so fond of.
The peacocking title track that follows duly fulfills its pledge (Entertained? Synth-ertained!), and Pink, apparently just one of many in the boldfaced fan club, co-writes the hooky, heartfelt lament ”Whataya Want From Me.” Lady Gaga’s contribution, the future-disco glitter bomb ”Fever,” sounds like it was extracted directly from the Scissor Sisters’ sonic DNA, while OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder, a.k.a. the Diva Whisperer (he wrote Leona Lewis’ ”Bleeding Love” and Beyoncé’s ”Halo,” among others), gives Lambert the chance to earn his power- ballad bona fides on the tense, atmospheric ”Sleepwalker.” Though rock purists may blanch at the shamelessly florid pop flourishes, Linda Perry and Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo play to their songwriting strengths on ”A Loaded Smile” and ”Pick U Up,” respectively, and Muse’s Matthew Bellamy makes Lambert his faithful proxy on the Phantom of the Rock Opera aria ”Soaked.”
If there’s a complaint here, it’s that Lambert is almost too malleable. His voice, though supremely capable, doesn’t really have a distinct character; it’s like listening to the world’s sauciest wedding singer. But if For Your Entertainment’s material sometimes wears him rather than vice versa, he’s still the belle of what turns out to be one heck of a glitter-pop ball. B+
OVERALL A PRETTY POSITIVE REVIEW. BUT HIS VOICE HAS NO CHARACTER? IT’S PRETTY DISTINCTIVE TO ME. INSTANTLY RECOGNIZABLE.
AND DID YOU JUST CALL HIM A WEDDING SINGER? OH NO YOU DIN’T! HOLD MY WEAVE!
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that tyra gif-lmao! Yeah, i don’t get the reviews that say it doesn’t sound like him. WUT? He sang different genres on AI, how do ya know his sound? Really peeps, sometimes perfect is just perfect stop the nitpicking. And wedding singer? What weddings has this person been too?! Not any i’ve attended did the singer sound like that lol
WEDDING SINGER? WTF! GLAMBERTS RESPOND!
S’cuse me – wedding singer? A fucking wedding singer???
Oh it’s on!!! I’ll hold your weave and earrings Monk!
i guess a 3 1/2 star out of 4 is pretty good but I think a 4 is more what it should be. But I am biased. I am anxious to hear what Rolling Stone has to say about it.
Does this mean that all his songs should sound the
e so that he has a “distinctive” sound? Any artist would be blasted on that score as well. Whatever…
How can you say is “almost too malleable”. Hello! were you smoking while writing reviews? …LOL
If this album that is so distinctive, with such personal touch, that shows so many different genders and interpretations looks “malleable” for you….you have NO CREDIBILITY AS A reviewer. I have to point out that “THAT THING” you are smoking, REALLY WORKS! Your mind was totally …fffffffff……GONE while writing this review.
Does Tyra hate Adam…. so sad….
We got a good grade. They said some bad stuff, but overall they loved it. Kris got B-, Adam got B+. And when comparing them to current superstars, they did great (Gaga has B-, Adam is better yay)
Alen – is that from Rolling Stone?