![]() Stay tuned for more from Adam’s Pop Shop Podcast interview on Billboard. “Sorry, Empire fans!” Lambert says with a laugh. ![]() 8 and co-stars Terrence Howard - who will not appear in Lambert’s upcoming “Ghost Town” clip. Madonna’s “Ghosttown” music video was released Apr. Released earlier this week, “Ghost Town” previews The Original High, Lambert’s follow-up to 2012’s Trespassing that’s due out June 16. So they’re two different songs - they just share a title.” “My reaction was so complicated,” he says, “because I think I texted my management, like, ‘Did you see this? Did you see this? What are we gonna do?’ And they said, ‘You know, it’s fine because the songs are so different.’ Hers is like a post-apocalyptic love song, mid-tempo, and mine’s like an existential dance goth rave thing. And I see on the track listing a song called ‘Ghosttown.’ And I thought, What are the chances? What is the hell is going on here?”Īt first, Lambert panicked a little. “And I’m on my laptop on a little four-day vacation in Mexico,” Lambert continues, “and I open up my iTunes, I’m searching through, and I’m like, Oh, Madonna’s music is out! I love Madonna! I’ve always loved Madonna - she’s an icon, she’s an amazing entertainer. When I found that out, my song was already finished, it had already been mixed, I had already kind of said, ‘Hey, I think this is the first single,’ and people were like, ‘Yeah I think it is too.’ When asked by Billboard’s Keith Caulfield if he had thought about the clashing titles, Lambert replied, “Oh believe me, I thought about that for more than a second. ![]() It's been a minute since I've been out with a pop song and I dunno, I just wanted to get people's attention.Hear The Full Adam Lambert Pop Shop Podcast Interview! "This one just felt like the right introduction and the right re-introduction of me out into the world. "Our songs are so different, and this kind of thing happens all the time. Lambert says he never considered changing the lead single for The Original High. WATCH: Adam Lambert on Being Single: Will I Ever Find Love Again? I don't know what it was, but it was amazing." Maybe our writers all drank the same Kool-Aid. ![]() "It was funny to me because I'm a huge Madonna fan and have been following her career ever since I was a kid and maybe there's something in the universe going on, I don't know. "This was done, it was mixed, we had already decided that it was the first single and then December rolled around and I opened up my laptop and looked on iTunes and there was another 'Ghosttown,'" he says. Esta canción está incluida dentro del disco The Original High. "How crazy!" Lambert says, revealing that he was "shocked" to come across Madge's song late last year. Ghost Town Adam Lambert Añadir a Favoritas Ghost Town se estrenó el 21 de abril de 2015. VIDEO: Adam Lambert Reveals How Queen Inspired 'The Original High'Īnd yes, the song and video are both very different from Madonna's similarly-titled "Ghosttown," off her recently released Rebel Heart album. "No matter who you were, no matter how old or your race or your sexual orientation or anything, I want it to feel very melting pot." "I wanted to bring in some cool people so that everyone could feel like they were a part of this thing," he says. Lambert jokes that the video vibe is somewhere along the lines of "Coachella gone goth," but - much like The Original High as a whole - he wanted to embrace a universal appeal. "We started talking about ideas and I sent him a bunch of photos that really inspired me, the fashion that I really wanted to bring to the video and the look of it, so it really was a collaboration." "I got in touch with him after I saw that and said to him, 'We gotta work together some day - the next time I have a single ready.' So I made good on my promise and when it came time to shoot this video, I called Hype," Lambert recalls. But after seeing Jack White's Williams-directed "Freedom at 21" video in 2012, Lambert knew that he just had to work with the iconic director. READ: 7 Quotes to Get You Excited for Adam Lambert's ET Takeover!īut it was Williams, whom Lambert had not worked with before, who came up with the initial video treatment. The 33-year-old was ultimately creating a group that "represent real parts of my life, 'cause I wanted it to feel like a piece of me." "I feel like you get better work done that way, and so that's what we did." "I like to work with people that are friends of mine," he says. In addition to casting his own friends in the video, Lambert also called on his personal team of glam pros and dance supervisor to bring the vision to life. It was kind of a party, which made it a very relaxed shoot - I've never shot a video like that before, that felt like a house party." "A lot of the people that we hired for the video are friends of mine. "I really wanted to first communicate the lyrics directly to the viewer, but then I also wanted to kind of highlight a scene of people," he says. ![]()
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