Stupid American Idol Fangirl of the Week

WARNING: This one is going to take a little set up.

The release of Adam Lambert’s highly anticipated single “For Your Entertainment”…

brought with it a flurry of fangirl activity…reactions were fast and furious.

Click, click, clickity, click. This non-stop clatter must have been like music to a blob mistress’ ear. **insert cash register here**

Thousands of comments instantly appeared on websites, fansites, and blogs across the Internet. Hell, hundreds of comments even appeared on fansites blogs that claim to be running a site for “intelligent discussion” (you know the one, the mistress constantly reminds posters that she is “NOT A FANSITE.”

Comments about Adam’s song ranged from shock and awe being offended to SQUEEEEs full of GLEEEEE.

wordnerdarchie 10/31/2009 at 12:43 am
Regarding the lyrics discussion, I’m not going to comment on specific lyrics of this song, but I will say the following. I’m easily offended with lyrics in music today and think that a lot of song writers go way too far. That said, I’m very quick at changing the radio dial, and Ozarka, I’ve already turned this song off after hearing most of it because of the lyrics. I won’t be listening to it again. Frown
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asifclueless 11/13/2009 at 10:37 pm
let’s squee together……
SQUUEEEEEEE FLAIL FLAIL wildly and then FLAIL and SQUEEE some more!!!
Happy Dance after that, too!!! just love these songs!!!!
ME TOO, ME YOOOO
SQUEEEEEEEEEEE ………. FLAIL… FLAIL
SQUEEEEEEEEEEE ………. FLAIL… FLAIL

Fantards are nothing if not predictable.

Fantards are also fast.

Mere moments of its release/leak came multiple transcriptions of the song’s lyrics. To my knowledge, this is the latest revision

So hot out the box can we pick up the pace[?]
Turn it up, heat it up I need to be entertained
Push the limit, are you with it?
Baby, don’t be afraid
I’m a hurt ‘ya real good, baby

Let’s go it’s my show
Baby, do what I say
Don’t trip off the glitz
That I’m gonna display
I told ya I’ma hold ya
Down until you’re amazed
Give it to you ’til your screaming my name

No escaping when I start
Once I’m in I own your heart
There’s no way you’ll ring the alarm
So hold on until it’s over

[Chorus]
Oooh, do you know what you got into?
Can you handle what I’m about to do?
‘Cause it’s about to get rough for you
I’m here for your entertainment
Oooh, I bet you thought that I was soft and sweet
‘Ya fallen angel swept ya off ya feet
Well I’m about to turn up the heat
I’m here for your entertainment

It’s alright you’ll be fine baby, I’m in control
Take the pain take the pleasure
I’m the master of both
Close your eyes not your mind
Let me into your soul
I’ma work ya ’til your totally blown

No escaping when I start
Once I’m in I own your heart
There’s no way you ring the alarm
So hold on until it’s over

[Chorus]
Oooh, do you know what you got into?
Can you handle what I’m ’bout to do?
Cause it’s about to get rough for you
I’m here for your entertainment
Oh, I bet you thought that I was soft and sweet
You fallen angel swept ya off your feet
Well I’m about to turn up the heat
I’m here for your entertainment

Entertainment…
I’m here for your entertainment
Do you like what you see?
Let me entertain ya ’till you scream

[Chorus]
oooh, do you know what you got into?
Can you handle what I’m ’bout to do?
‘Cause it’s about to get rough for you
I’m here for your entertainment
Oooh, I bet you thought that I was soft and sweet
You fallen angel swept ya off your feet
Well I’m about to turn up the heat
I’m here for your entertainment

Fangirls analyze all things Idol…to death.

Smokeyvera: Joined: Sept 2009, Gender: Female, Posts: 104, Location: Greenville, SC
Re: FYE Album Track Lyrics, Oct 31, 2009, 1:56pm
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I have been thinking about the interpretation of FYE. The sexual inuendo have been bothering me, because I don’t think this dancey pop tune is exuding sex in the lyrics. There was some interpretation that referenced S&M, rough sex and some other inexplicable inuendos. Yes, it exudes sex in the performance of the song, BUT…………….

I don’t think it has anything to do with sex at all. I think this song is what it is about for Adam to be an entertainer. On AI, we saw him as this soft, OTT, humble and tremendously gifted singer and we the audience became so totally mesmerized by his persona and talent. We saw that he was “soft and sweet…… a fallen angel swept you off your feet.”
We became his fans.

We got incling of Adam on tours as he inched his way out of the idol bubble, to show us the sexy, undulating, charismatic, bombastic entertainer that he is. He is now going to show us who is really is an entertainer. He may not be totally in control of his career, but RCA has given him a lot of freedom, so in essence he is now has that needed control.

He is asking us “Can you handle what I’m gonna do.” He is asking us, the fans and his audience, can we handle that he is not going to do covers anymore, but do his own music and in a style that may not be everybody. For many as we have already witnessed based on the response to his album cover, that many may not be able to handle it.

For me, I am in for the ride, a bumpy ride, but I’m in for the duration and longer. He will entertain me.

My humble opinion folks.

Some fantards like to wax philosophically.

I know, it is long, but worth the read. LOL

Mamadeb:Joined: Oct 2009, Gender: Female, Posts: 60, Location: Brooklyn,NY
Re: FYE Album Track Lyrics
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There’s been a lot of conversation about the lyrics of “For Your Entertainment.” This by itself is sort of amazing, because how often do the lyrics of a dance song warrant discussion? They generally “ain’t that deep.” Nor should they be, since most people don’t really pay attention to dance songs, as they’re busy dancing. But these lyrics are, just like the singer himself, controversial. In fact, they’re so like Adam that I think he may have had true input into the single choice, which by itself is unusual for a new artist. I don’t think Adam is being treated much like a new artist at all, and this is just one example. This article will show how these lyrics do, in fact, merit discussion.

The lyrics themselves have three levels of meaning. I’ll call them top level, covert level and meta level. The top level is the one immediately obvious to the listener, the covert one takes some interpretation and the meta level takes the entire song into account for a meaning outside the lyrics. These levels are entirely subjective to the listeners. In fact, this listener personally reverses the top and the covert level when she listens to the song. However, I will use the less controversial meaning first, and let it build.

The top level to these lyrics, then, is the most innocent. “Innocent” here is an entirely relative term, of course, given Adam, but it’s not far. Here, it’s performance, entertainment as a sexual metaphor. This is entirely normal for this type of song, since dancing can be a sexually meaningful act. In this case, it’s not dancing, though. It’s the singer saying that, yes, he’s here for our entertainment, and if we go along with him, we will surely be entertained. However, it will be on his terms. He’s in charge, and he knows what we want more than we do. He will give us what we didn’t know we wanted, in fact. All we need to do is go along for the ride and to trust him. Just turn the music up and dance.

This is a mission statement. This isn’t just for this song, or even for this album, but for all future albums he will make and for all future performances he will give, whether on an awards show, on a arena stage or wherever he decides to go next. And it’s saying that it will be like nothing we’ve heard and that it will take us places we never went before, and that he’s not just the person we saw on American Idol or during the concerts. It’s saying to not predict him because he will always surprise us, and we might also not like everything he does (the pain), but it’s worth it for the things we will love (the pleasure.) In fact, this is Adam, and Adam doesn’t know from middle way. He will always be polarizing, and he’s telling us that, too.

The covert level, which to some of us is the top level, is the sexual imagery. Does he mean it literally? Well, Adam is a very sexual being. He stood out on the mostly “family” oriented Idol by his moves and words and accessories, and he stood out even further during the concerts where his performance raised the temperature of the arena. He oozes so much sexuality that he confuses straight men. And we know he plays around, at least, with S&M devices and knows what they’re for. We don’t know if he’s totally into that scene, or only dabbles, but he’s not unfamiliar with it. So, I believe the sexual imagery is metaphorical (the top level) but also literal.

And there comes a different sort of controversy, because it can be misread, as we saw only recently. If you’re not familiar with the concepts behind S&M, you can perceive these words as nonconsensual and violent – that is, as rape. They do, after all, speak of pain, and holding down and screaming, and these are scary if you don’t know what S&M is about. If you are familiar, however, the images are very strong and not negative. Adam is talking about rough sex, yes, but he’s giving warning to his partner, letting the partner know that he (yeah, well, it IS Adam) can leave before anything happens – just as the people listening to his music can shut it off or not buy or whatever. They’ll miss out on something really good, but Adam can’t/won’t stop them. But if the partner stays, he will not want to stop the experience even though he can (“there’s no way you’ll ring the alarm”, which is how I hear that line.) There is no rape or coercion here, just the promise of an entirely intense experience under this Dominant’s control. And we know Adam is in charge.

And this all leads to the meta level, which I see as expressed in the verse,

“Oh, I bet you thought that I was awfully sweet
A fallen angel swept you off your feet
But I’m about to turn up the heat
I’m here for your entertainment”

Remember that the day before this song came out, Adam’s Oprah appearance was televised, and we all practically cooed about how adorable and precious and cute and squishable he was – that is, how “awfully sweet” he was. And now he’s telling us that he’s not JUST that sweet. That he is, in fact, seducing us in order to entertain us.

But there’s more to it. Adam is gay. We know this. And he’s not the first gay man, real or fictional, to appear on our tv screens, or come through our radio speakers. But, other than in the groundbreaking pay-cable series Queer As Folk, they’ve all been desexualized. Billy Crystal’s Jody, on Soap and Stephen Carrington on Dynasty barely had relationships with men – in fact, both fathered children in the course of their series. And the others were all gay uncles (Paul Lynde as Samantha’s Uncle Arthur in Bewitched) or nephews (Charles Nelson Reilly on The Ghost and Mrs. Muir) – safe, cuddly, asexual men whom we guessed were gay (as were their actors) but there was no proof. They did the same to Tony Randall’s character in Love, Sidney, although that was corrected by the end. But note that Sidney was an old man whose lover was gone and therefore, again, safely non-sexual.

Even more recently, Will and Jack from Will and Grace spoke in sexual innuendo and dated, but it was mostly off-screen. Safe, again. Neil Patrick Harris and TR Knight are in the same mold – we know they have or had boyfriends, but NPH is still Doogie Howser in our heads, and therefore a sweet, safe teen-ager. Plus, like TR Knight’s George, his TV character is actively heterosexual, so our primary sexual images of these men are with women. They also present themselves as the nice boy-next-door – cute and cuddly and able to fade into the crowd as much as very handsome men can.

Clay was very much like this as well – extremely safe and asexual, able to act more or less “straight”. The other possible gays on Idol are asexual in different ways. Many, such as Danny Noriega, are very effeminate and young, and totally non-threatening.

What Adam is saying with this song is that he’s NOT safe and he’s not cuddly and he’s not non-threatening and he most certainly is not asexual. He is, in fact, breaking the mold entirely and on purpose. And he’s telling us that we need to take him on those terms because he’s not compromising on this point any more than he’s compromising on his music. Yes, he’ll pretend to make out with a model in Details and go with Katy Perry to This Is It, because it’s fun, and Adam is all about fun, but he’s an unapologetic gay man, and while his sexuality has nothing to do with his music, it has a lot to do with who he is.

This song that Adam did NOT write is what a first single should be – it presents him as he is to the world, and what he’s presenting is there on more levels than any dance song should have. This is certainly worth discussing.

Comments to the above post on Planet Fierce fansite might provide for a chuckle or two.

While I have been know to pen a mocking lyric or two in my time, here is what happens when FRECKLES the fantard take herself too seriously.

FYE IN COLlEGIATE ENGLISH
Some benches [READ: bitches] on ONTD_AI were playing around with translating Adam Lambert’s single, “For Your Entertainment” into other languages and it got me thinking. What if the lyrics were re-written in snooty, collegiate English?

It might sound like this:

In an excess of temperature, leave confines behind can we move more rapidly?
Increase, increase, make it like a southern August, my boredom must end.
Ignore limitations and convince me that you are capable
My darling, don’t give in to fear
I will impress myself upon you in ways both painful and pleasurable.

Let us proceed, it’s my spectacle
My love, comply with my direction
Do not stumble in the magical afterglow of the luminescence
I will reveal to you
I previously informed you that I will restrain you
Until you are overcome
Continue with my loving until my name bursts from your lips.

You are in my labyrinth once the game begins
I have entered you. Your core, your heart, is mine
You cannot summon aides to assist you
Cling to me until we finish together.

Chorus:

Do you realize what you have stumbled into
Can you mind contain the things that are about to occur?
The seas of your life are about to be tossed wickedly.
I exist to be your distraction.
Mistakenly you believed that I was gentle and safe
A heavenly being come to your rescue
But soon I will disabuse you of this foolish notion
I am here to make you forget that the world exists.

This is fortuitous. You will not falter, darling, my hand is sure.
Take the discomfort take the ecstasy
both are my domain.
Let your lids lower and close out the world,
but let your thoughts explore the possibilities
Allow me in, give me your soul
I shall pleasure you until you break open.

You are in my labyrinth once the game begins
I have entered you. Your core, your heart, is mine
You cannot summon aides to assist you
Cling to me until we finish together.

Do you realize what you have stumbled into
Can you mind contain the things that are about to occur?
The seas of your life are about to be tossed wickedly.
I exist to be your distraction.
Mistakenly you believed that I was gentle and safe
A heavenly being come to your rescue
But soon I will disabuse you of this foolish notion
I am here to make you forget that the world exists.

Diversion,
I have come to delight you
are you pleased with the scene laid out before you?
Let me amuse you until your throat cannot contain your voice.

Do you realize what you have stumbled into
Can you mind contain the things that are about to occur?
The seas of your life are about to be tossed wickedly.
I exist to be your distraction.
Mistakenly you believed that I was gentle and safe
A heavenly being come to your rescue
But soon I will disabuse you of this foolish notion
I am here to make you forget that the world exists.

Again, fantards are predictable.

YankeeFan08 11/13/2009 at 4:35 am
FYE is down to #59 in Itunes. Free falling so far.
LLWD is down to #89

ETA:
FYE = For Your Entertainment by Adam Lambert
LLWD = Live Like We’re Dying by the kid who won American Idol

**insert cash register here**

Heh.

And the others were all gay uncles (Paul Lynde as Samantha’s Uncle Arthur in Bewitched) or nephews (Charles Nelson Reilly on The Ghost and Mrs. Muir)

First Barry Manilow! Then Queen Latifah!! And CLay Aiken!!! Now Paul Lynde and Charles Nelson Reilly!!!!

My gaydar sucks.
LOL

ETA:
Not that it matters, but I may have surmised that Liberace was gay.

Dick.

Rango!!!

I give it a 73 Dick.

Can you imagine the dissertation that Mamadeb from Brooklyn would write using these comments as a launch pad?

If only Daughtry had a crack at this song.

Heh…that would be like a direct page for the good doctor.