Of all the six finalists (so far) in American Idol season 8, the musical-theater vet is the most vivacious. Adam Lambert brought his Broadway flair to the AI stage and the judges plus the voters have been liking it! His last performance (the over-the-top cover of Rolling Stones’ Satisfaction) got him in this year’s top 12. So, how did he feel when Simon Cowell said voters would either love or hate his performance? Adam Lambert shared,

I responded on air, and I just kinda said, “Well, I guess that’s kind of music in general — you either love it or you don’t love it.” Obviously, I’m a risk-taker. I’m not easy listening, you know? I’m not going to always be the most digestible thing for everybody across the board. I’m specific, and I kind of like to blow it out the box. And either you like it, or you don’t.

As for the music career that Adam Lambert would most like to emulate, he revealed: “I think David Bowie has been a really, really, really, really cool artist, just considering that he’s reinvented himself. He took a ton of risks, both visually, lyrically and musically. Obviously, vocally we are very different, but I think that along those other lines, we have some similarities, and someone like that is a great model for me.”

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