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Adam Lambert: 'I want my fans to understand me a little more'

'Ghost Town' sensation Adam Lambert has revealed that the 'American Idol' producers pushed him to style himself under the typical classic rock look while he was on the show. 

Speaking to the Express in New Zealand, the superstar admitted that the darker look wasn't his choice and instead was suggested to him. Lambert confessed that he just 'went with it' because it was something he could personally identify with at the time:

"They said ‘we want to see you doing the classic rock thing’… I thought, I can identify with that, I can pull it off and so I ran with it. That was that chapter. The second one was more funky pop and I experimented with some other sounds. My look was a little bit more modern and contemporary at that point.”

“And now I’m in this chapter and it’s changed. The campy kinda crazy has been taken down a bunch of notches, I wanted to do something a little bit more from the heart, I wanted my fans to understand me a little bit more and understand the stuff I’ve been through emotionally and the places I’ve been. I wanted to talk about the things I’ve noticed about the world I’ve been living in. Like this pursuit of happiness; how do we find it, how does it manifest itself, how we get derailed sometimes by things while looking for happiness.”

“The [Ghost Town] album is very contemporary; it’s pop – stylistically I feel like I was dressing up in crazy costumes a lot and it was really fun, but  I’m into more classic Americana now, I like cleaner looks. I was looking at old pictures of Elvis and George Michael and Chris Isaac and those classic looks.”

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Watch Lambert recreate his original 'American Idol' audition here:

 

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