I'm listening to the Adam snippets that just leaked. Most of them are not my cup of tea, Britney type dance music. Not a big fan of the ballads either. Some of the more pop-rock songs, I kind of like. But in the end, listening to all these snippets one after the other, I have to conclude that I'm just not that big a fan of his voice.
I agree with this. I really don't like the overproduced, generic pop sound of most of the snippets. Britney comes to mind, yeah. One song reminded me of a typical Kelly Clarkson pop number. Soaked had a very B'way sound to me, because I still hear that singing style on Adam's ballads. I don't think any of it sounds bad, I'm just not a fan; I'm not saying it won't sell. But Adam and I have very different musical tastes.
Also, to those who all said that Adam's music would be the most original thing ever and that it would reinvent music as we know it, well, no, it won't. His album is just as "produced for the mainstream" as all the other Idol albums.
One post on mj's was, "Hey, Adam, the 80's called, they want their music back."
It's very hard to actually invent new musical styles, and sometimes I don't like the attempts. I'd much rather hear a singer use an established style or genre as a framework for his/her own personal style, and to be inventive within that framework. Now, with Kris or a singer like that, the singer is everything. The personal connection, etc. With Adam's current style, it's more about the arrangements, with the exception of a couple of numbers. It's like macro vs. micro. I think I like micro.
A lot of people are posting elsewhere that this stuff is "so Adam," and that he's been "true to his own style," which I guess I don't get, because this is the first time I ever heard him doing this kind of music with these types of arrangements, unless you go way back to songs like Pop Goes The Camera. They know a secret I don't know: who he is. How they know this, I don't know. I have never known who he is as an artist, at least until now. I'm not sure why he's been reticent about it, but it's been months, now, and this is the first statement of who he is. I find that bizarre.
