Adam Lambert is definitely not making his extremely anticipated new musical period a refined one, unveiling his aptly titled fifth studio album, Excessive Drama, through BMG on Friday (Feb. 24).
The album is a spectacular journey by way of Lambert’s skillset as a canopy artist, as he delivers his personal variations of songs reminiscent of Bonnie Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero,” Sia’s “Chandelier,” Billie Eilish’s “Getting Older,” Duran Duran’s “Bizarre World,” and lots of extra.
“Even after I was doing American Idol, pondering of the way to carry a recent slant on actually well-known songs was at all times paramount in my thoughts. So when the concept got here up for me to do a covers album, I believed, Nicely, why not?” he informed Dig! of the inspiration behind the mission.
He added, “The temporary was to take a bunch of actually nice songs from all genres and utterly remold them. For me, it’s been actually difficult to twist these songs into utterly totally different preparations and make them sound model new. It’s thrilling, and if our new takes of those fantastic songs can shock the artists who recorded the originals, then the file’s positively succeeded.”
Hearken to Excessive Drama in full under.
