Controversy Brews Over ‘American Idol’s’ Adam Lambert’s Debut Album Cover & Tiger Beat Magazine Covers, Then and Now
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on October 29, 2009
Tiger Beat magazine is still around, that monthly pop cultural fanzine primarily catering to the pubescent teen-idol fantasies of young females. This month’s Tiger Beat features Adam Lambert, the flamboyant runner-up of the 2009 American Idol competition. His album cover is getting a lot of mixed reactions… mostly negative attention. Actually, I kinda like it.
Did they truly expect something blasé and mainstream from the unconventional grunge-meets-glam Lambert?
I think David Bowie would approve…
From AOL, Adam Lambert Debuts New Album Cover:
Adam Lambert’s first album, ‘For Your Entertainment,’ has an official cover.
The ‘American Idol’ runner-up appears with blue hair, a gloved hand and heavy makeup in his CD artwork debut.
AOL is conducting an online poll on the new album cover. So far, about 78 percent hate it.
Here’s Adam’s debut album cover, with accompanying “slightly creepy, teen-type” text, as featured this month on Tiger Beat’s online site. Click the image to enlarge.
Tiger Beat Magazine Online… 2009
From Heckler Spray, Adam Lambert Wanted His Album Cover To Look Like That, Honest:
The artwork for Adam Lambert’s new album For Your Entertainment has already kicked up one hell of a fuss.
Why? It’s simple. It looks like one of those awful transfer-print T-shirts that people who like wolves buy from tatty market stalls. It looks like something that the redneck wife of a professional wrestling fan would airbrush onto the back of her leather jacket. It looks like a poster that someone you hate would buy. It’s bizarre.
But it’s OK, because Adam Lambert says it’s all deliberate. Unfortunately it means that Kris Allen’s new album artwork will now probably show him covered in glitter and bumming a unicorn, but we’ll deal with that when we have to.
While the faces and hair styles may change from one decade to the next, the teeny bopper hype at Tiger Beat still rocks on…
Here is a nostalgic collection of Tiger Beat magazine covers over the past 40-plus years. The last one is, well, eye catching.
Click the images to enlarge.
Tiger Beat Magazine… Very first big issue, September 1965
Tiger Beat Magazine… October 1965, second issue, Beatles
Tiger Beat Magazine… November 1965
Tiger Beat Magazine… December 1965
Tiger Beat Magazine… Monkees Issue 1965
Tiger Beat Magazine… May 1966
Tiger Beat Magazine… June 1966
Tiger Beat Magazine… August 1966
Tiger Beat Magazine… March 1967
Tiger Beat Magazine… April 1967
Tiger Beat Magazine… November 1967
Tiger Beat Magazine… March 1969
Tiger Beat Magazine… 1970
Tiger Beat Magazine… April 1971
Tiger Beat Magazine… December 1971
Tiger Beat Magazine… 1972
Tiger Beat Magazine… July 1973
Tiger Beat Magazine… 1974
Tiger Beat Magazine… August 1975
Tiger Beat Magazine… December 1975
Tiger Beat Magazine… 1976
Tiger Beat Magazine… May 1976
Tiger Beat Magazine… November 1976
Teen Beat Magazine… February 1977
Tiger Beat Magazine… July 1978
Tiger Beat Magazine… December 1978
Tiger Beat Magazine… May 1979
Tiger Beat Magazine… Summer 1979 Annual
Tiger Beat Magazine… June 1979 Annual
Tiger Beat Magazine… October 1979
Tiger Beat Magazine… March 1980
Tiger Beat Magazine… 1980
Tiger Beat Magazine… May 1980
Tiger Beat Magazine, Israel… early 1980s, Michael Jackson cover
Tiger Beat Magazine… June 1981
Tiger Beat Magazine… October 1981
Tiger Beat Magazine… 1983
Tiger Beat/Rock Magazine… 1983
Tiger Beat/Star Magazine… 1984
Tiger Beat Magazine… 1984 Poster Special, Michael Jackson
Tiger Beat/Star Magazine… 1985
Tiger Beat Magazine… 1987
Tiger Beat Magazine… 1988
Tiger Beat Magazine… 1989
Teen Beat Magazine… 1990
Teen Beat Magazine… 1990
Tiger Beat Magazine… 1994
Tiger Beat Magazine… 1996
Tiger Beat Magazine… June 1996
Tiger Beat Magazine… June 1998
Tiger Beat Magazine… November 1998
Tiger Beat Magazine… April 1999
Tiger Beat Magazine… 1999
Tiger Beat Magazine… 2000
Tiger Beat Magazine… 2002
Tiger Beat Magazine… 2003
Tiger Beat Magazine… 2004
Tiger Beat Magazine… 2005
Tiger Beat Magazine… 2006
Tiger Beat Magazine… 2007
Tiger Beat Magazine… September 2007
Tiger Beat/Camp Rock Magazine… 2008
Tiger Beat Magazine… July 2009
Tiger Beat Magazine… March 2010
Tiger Beat Magazine… November 2010
Tiger Beat Magazine… July 2011
Funniest one of all…
Tiger Beat Magazine Spoof… 2009 (from The Onion)
Additional:
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Adam Lambert’s Controversial AMA Performance: Some Loved It, Some Loathed It (video) and American Idol Theories Abound about Adam Lambert’s Loss: GOP vs. Dem, Cool vs. Uncool, Christian Conspiracy?
OK Magazine: Adam Lambert Admits His Album Cover is Ridiculous
Music Blips: Ziggy Stardust vs. Adam Lambert: Clash of the Cover Art
Shallow Nation: Adam Lambert For Your Entertainment Album Cover Art (Official)
Rolling Stone: Adam Lambert Shocks American Music Awards With Racy “For Your Entertainment”
Michelle Malkin: Adam Lambert at the AMAs: Bottom of the barrel
The Other McCain, Hot Air Greenroom: Adam Lambert: Degenerate Punk
Laura Gallier: If only I could chat with Adam Lambert
The Mock Dock: Wow
ArtsBeat Blog, NY Times: More Adam Lambert Fallout
Global Domination Through Applied Inactivity: Madam Glambert: 14:59 and counting…
Rickey.org: Adam Lambert AMA Performance Censored on West Coast – Here’s the Full Video
Amused Cynic: Not sure why, but I’m going to comment on Adam Lambert….
New Jersey Entertainment: Adam Lambert’s AMA performance: Tongues, leashes and a stumble
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I guess everyone forgets Poison’s album cover for their debut, “Look What the Cat Dragged In”. Although they made better looking girls than Adam does. He looks like Pink done by a drag queen.