Adam Lambert's Ballads: Muse + Shirley Bassey + Freddie Mercury = Hell, Yes!

Adam Lambert: Serving slow jams channeling Shirley, Freddie and cooked up by Muse. Yum.

RollingStone.com has a good interview with Adam Lambert, delving in to all the stuff behind the music of his album, For Your Entertainment, that explodes all over your face next Monday, November 23rd. (It's already #1 on iTunes. Oy!) Love Lambert? Then, it's worth a look.

I was struck by the way Lambert describes his ballads on the album:

There's three songs that are really emotional, a little bit slower, softer. One of them is a song that Muse wrote, "Soaked." That opens up with a real soft vocal, it's very tender, the lyrics are very vulnerable, then it goes into a soaring ballad-type feel.

That was another example — we got the song from Muse>, and I was sh*tting myself, I couldn't believe it, I thought, "This is incredible, I can't believe they're giving me a song." I'm a huge fan, and it, too, like the rest of the three that I'm talking about, have this real retro feel to it, melodically and even in the style of the production, very Seventies, at times very Sixties, almost like a Shirley Bassey song mixed with a Queen record.

"Broken Open" you could put it in the same category as a downtempo Goldfrapp song or even like Radiohead, there's shades of that in there, very electronic but mellow, very ethereal.

Gaaaaaah! Can this come out already????