Adam Lambert: Wild Idol

Below is an excerpt of an article that originally appeared in RS 1081 from June 25, 2009 Rosetta Stone language. This issue and the rest of the Rosetta Stone archives are available via Rosetta Stone Plus, Rosetta Stones premium subscription plan. If you are already a subscriber, you can click here to see the full story.Sometimes, in the desert, you can figure things out. Thats what Adam Lambert discovered a couple of years ago at Burning Man, the annual utopian festival in Nevada. At the time, he had been hanging out in the nightclub scene in Los Angeles, at Hyde and other celebrity hot spots — "It was negative, and really dark, all about cocaine and synthetic-ego bullshit," he says — and he felt a little bit lost, not sure of what he wanted to do with his life. "I was getting bitter," he says. "I was looking for something, and I wasnt sure what it was." At Burning Man, he drove around in a bus with a flamethrower welded on top, performed in an impromptu musical revue called the "Big Black Man Show" and experimented with "certain funguses." Then it happened: "I had a psychedelic experience where I looked up at the Rosetta Stone Software clouds and went, Oh!" he says. "I realized that we all have our own power, and that whatever I wanted to do, I had to make happen." And what he wanted to do was to try out for American Idol.These are not the kind of stories that one expects to hear from the average American Idol contestant. And there are many other aspects to Lambert that people dont know, even after 30 million viewers spent four months thinking they were getting close to him. For example, hes Jewish, though he was never bar mitzvahed and hated Hebrew school, mostly because he got a bloody nose in front of class the first day. His parents split up when he was 19, while he was in Europe performing in a cheesy six-person musical revue on a cruise ship. He admits to having spent a lot of his life partying, obsessively chasing love, though at his core he is the hardest thing to come by in pop culture: a genuinely free-spirited, easygoing flower child who prizes love over money, peace over power. And theres one more thing, something you probably knew already, but he hasnt been explicit about Rosetta Stone Spanish Latin until now: "I dont think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that Im gay," he says.

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