High Drama

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The result, High Drama, (★★★★☆) is more than a throwback to his Idol origins — it’s the kind of collection that could only have been put together and delivered by someone confident in his identity as an artist. Portrayed by young actor Phoenix Notary in a chimp suit, and with some effects assistance, Spanky has plenty to do in this story, though he looks barely credible most of the time.

I just think that it's a beautiful metaphor for life and the challenges that we are dealt and how we deal with those things. His rendition of Billie Eilish’s “Getting Older” delivers a masterclass in adding layers of emotional depth to a song with simple tweaks to its underlying structure.For items that are dispatched using our standard service, we ask that you wait 14 days from the date of dispatch before reporting any items as undelivered. I said to my team, I wish I had new music to put out on the quick side for all of my beautiful fans and the idea for a covers album felt like we could get that done quicker. For me, it’s been really challenging to twist these songs into completely different arrangements and make them sound brand new. Songs range from the more recent, Pink's 'My Attic', Billie Eilish's 'Getting Older', an epic rock re-imagining of Lana Del Rey's 'West Coast', to the beautiful interpretation of Noel Coward's classic 'Mad About The Boy'.

Certain items can take longer to source than the estimated week, particularly during busy trading periods and may take longer to arrive at our warehouse. And so I was like, "Okay let's make an album of this variety of different songs but make it very rock star, make it very honoring all of the different kind of branches of rock and indie an alternative that I love that makes me who I am. Lambert: The source material was obviously important because I wanted songs that had great melodies and had lyrical content that I could relate to or apply my own experiences to. High Drama works best in those moments where Lambert manages to make a cover feel like it belongs to him as much as to the original artist. Given Sylvester's massive singing range, it really does take someone like Adam Lambert to give this a go.I’ve done that on Idol, obviously… and Queen is essentially sort of a covers situation, even though I’m in the band. His queerness is present, from the subtle pronoun shift he sneaks into “Chandelier” to his masterful cover of “Mad About the Boy,” his own proud contribution to a tradition of decidedly gay interpretations of the Noel Coward song. Tracks like "Holding Out For A Hero," the Bonnie Tyler '80s classic, and Sia's hit "Chandelier" ooze Lambert's rocket-high falsettos and thunderous instrumentation.

The irony of Adam Lambert is that now he is the official stand-in for Freddie Mercury in Queen, it's much less exciting when he adopts Queen's trademark stomp in his own electropop.On February 27, 2023, Lambert performed " Chandelier" on America's Got Talent: All-Stars finale with the season's winner. Although he does a great job of adding his own flair to the songs he covers and the standout moments are those where he takes a song in a slightly unexpected and very Adam Lambert direction, he maintains a consistent respect for the original tracks. These arrangements of "Holding Out for a Hero" and "Chandelier" suck out the rhythmic qualities of the originals in favor of that trademark stomp. Renowned for re-imagining songs from American Idol to his stirring viral hit with Cher's "Believe", Adam Lambert - the Grammy-nominated pop icon, LGBTQ trailblazer and Queen frontman - brings you High Drama, a wonderfully diverse collection of covers with a twist, held together by Adam’s once-in-a-generation voice and trademark flair.