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Quote :: Another TV phenom, Adam Lambert, had his own expectations to shatter. Not long after he strutted onto American Idol, his glitter and guyliner wink-winked that he wasn’t your average contender. But no matter how subversive he showed himself to be, Lambert would always wear the sash of an Idol also-ran.
Idol Details

Adam Lambert
For Your Entertainment

Three and a half stars

For Your Entertainment opens with the Lady Gaga-penned “Fever.” At first, the juxtaposition of the Idol machine with the heavily synthed/heavily sexed ode to, um, temperature seems to ring with inauthenticity, Fox’s idea of raunch. But with a second listen, the put-on promiscuity fades, and an authentic Lambert appears.

Armed with A-list writers and producers, For Your Entertainment is an ambitious mixed bag. “Music Again,” written by ex-Darkness singer Justin Hawkins, soars as Lambert showcases his falsetto. “Soaked” brings full orchestra and theatrics befitting Muse (appropriate, since it was written by that band’s frontman, Matthew Bellamy). Even the Lambert-penned “Broken Open” sounds like Chris Isaak in space.

Unlike Boyle, Lambert can’t stop himself from performing—he just needs to hold out hope that his Idol fandom follows him beyond the comfort boundaries of the show.