アダム、twitterで「公開」反撃！
アダムが、twitterで『Out』の編集長、Aaron Hicklinからの「公開書簡」に関して発言しています！
「Planet Fierce」が、A. Hicklinの「アダムへの公開書簡」に対して返答をしている。書いてくれた人、ありがとう！
adamlambert: Planet Fierce responds to A. Hicklin's "Open Letter to Adam" http://bit.ly/1yTFLP : thank you to the writer! YOU get it.
11/17/09 around 5:00PM ET from Echofon
アーロン、オーケー、これは深刻なことじゃない。リラックスしよう！雑誌は注目を浴びたでしょ。あなたもマーケティング・マシーンの思うがままだよ。
僕たちが意義のある会話をするまで、僕のキャリアのことをあなたの広報活動の一環にすることは、ひかえるべきだね。
Reply Retweet adamlambert: Dear Aaron, it's def not that deep. Chill! Guess ya gotta get attention for the magazine. U too are at the mercy of the marketing machine.
Until we have a meaningful conversation, perhaps you should refrain from projecting your publications' agenda onto my career.
11/17/09 around 5:20PM ET from Echofon
いやー アダム、大人だわー
編集長に向かって、「君もただのマーケティングの道具じゃない」みたいなひとこと、すごいですね！
自分の立場をよくわかっているというか、ものすごく冷静に自分のこともまわりのことも、見ているなー
問題の『Out』のインタビューで（インタビュー自体はとてもいいと思います！）最初のLadyGAGAに関する分析も、感心しました。
音は普通のダンスミュージックで、それでポピュラー性を獲得しておいて、見た目とパフォーマンスはやりたい放題やってやる、っていう。
アダムもそうやっていんでしょうね。自分でも言ってるけど。
この「アダムへの公開書簡事件」（ベルバラみたいだわ）の顛末は、アダムもTWITTERでふれてる「Planet Fierce」を少しだけのっけておきまーす
Planet Fierce OpEd
Response to "Open Letter to Adam"
11/17/09 12:14PM by rowenaaine
（前略）
私が出版物やウエブサイトを見る限り、アダム・ランバートのイメージには2つの派閥がある。一方は主流であるためにはアダムがゲイっぽ過ぎることを恐れる保守派、もう一方はアダムがゲイでないことを非難するゲイのコミュニティである。アダムはその間のどこかにいて、彼のファンベースもそうであり、またそれが真実でもある。
From what I read in print publications and websites, there seem to be at least two factions in the war over Adam Lambert’s image. On the right, we have the conservative heterosexuals who fear that Adam is too gay for mainstream. On the left are members of the gay community, who accuse Adam of not being gay enough. Somewhere in the middle is Adam, his fanbase…and the truth.
ヒックリーは主張する。アダムとそのチーム（公開書簡はアダムも悪者として同じ塊として扱われていると思うので）は、Outの表紙になることを番組の早くから拒絶していた。
それは事実だろう。しかし、それは驚きでも問題になることでもない。なぜなら、候補者たちは番組の間、マスコミとのコミュニケーションを遮断されているものだから。Entertainment Weeklyは審査が終わる前にアダムを表紙にして記事も書いたけれど、彼らはそれまでにある写真と引用のみ用いた。Rolling Stone以外にアダムのカバーストーリを起用したところはない。それも番組が終わって2週間経った後に出版された。そしてそれは彼はミュージシャンでありたまたまゲイだった、というアダムの主張に基づいたもので、ローリング・ストーン誌が彼が番組終了後にカミングアウトする最善の場所だった、ということはほとんどの人が賛成することと思う。すばらしいマネージメントだ。残念、ヒックリン。
これでチーム・ランバートに1点！
Hicklin asserts that Adam and team (because the open letter seems to lump Adam in as one of the bad guys) refused an Out cover early on in the Idol competition.
Likely true. But not at all surprising or problematic. Why? Idol contestants are barred from communicating with the press during the show's run. Entertainment Weekly may have put Adam on their cover before the competition ended, but they used stock photos and existing quotes. No other magazine got a cover story early on except for Rolling Stone, which published their issue two weeks after the show’s conclusion. And based on Adam’s assertion that he is a musician that happens to be gay, rather than a gay that happens to be a musician, most would agree Rolling Stone was the best place for his “outing” after the show’s finale. That’s just good business. Sorry, Hicklin.
1 point to Team Lambert.
という具合に、ヒックリン氏の主張を順番に挙げながら、ジャッジしていく、という内容です。
昼休みが終わるから、つづきはまた。
って言っといてやらないかもしれないので、いちおう、原文を全文掲載しておきます。
どうぞー
#tokyomamaさんが要約してくれましたー
ありがとうございます！！！
結局、アダムファン（ほぼストレートの）からすれば、アダムはゲイすぎない。ゲイコミュニティからすればゲイっぽさが足りない。その中間にアダムがいる。
でも、結局のところは、アダムはゲイのミュージシャンになりたいのでなく、ミュージシャンでたまたまゲイであっただけ！
この編集長のように「ゲイのアダムがポップスターとして活躍するなんて、ゲイコミュニティの誇り！」とまで、アダムに押し付けるべきではない。アダムが何度も繰り返すように、ゲイであることは彼にとってはなんでもないこと。
マネージメントがゲイであることを押さえたかったら、絶対にどんなにアダムが希望しようと、あのアルバムカバーは許されなかっただろうっって事。
アダムファンは彼の音楽について語るけど、ゲイファンからは彼がゲイであること、ゲイ過ぎない事、容姿やファッションの事は語れるけど、肝心の音楽は？彼がゲイである事をサポートするのでなく、アダムの音楽をサポートするべきであること。
そしてこの編集長が間違っているのは、19Eとアダムを失った事で、多くのアダムファンの読者も同時になくしたこと。もし成功していたら、今までゲイしか読まなかったOUTをアダムファンが知る事によって、ゲイコミュニティへの関心や理解を増やせた素晴らしい機会を作れたのに。
After reading Adam Lambert’s candid and revealing interview on the Out website (published in conjunction with their Out 100 print edition) I was disheartened to read an open letter to Adam from Out’s editor-in-chief, Aaron Hicklin, in Out Magazine.
In the letter, Hicklin calls out 19 Entertainment and RCA Records (Adam’s management team and record label respectively) for attempting to “neutralize” Adam’s sexuality and keep his appearances in LGBT publications toned down for fear of his appearing “too gay.” Hicklin expresses frustration that Out was denied a cover during Adam’s American Idol run, and not a little jealousy at the recent Details Magazine cover and photo spread. But further, he criticizes Adam’s management team for heavy-handedness in skewing perceptions in order to not lose potential record sales.
Today, Hicklin's letter is on the Out website, with supporting commentary by the female journalist who interviewed Adam, Shana Naomi Krochmal. I suspect we may never know both sides if 19/RCA ignores what amounts to a school yard challenge over which team gets bragging rights.
Is Hicklin telling the truth? I don’t know. I suspect we may never know if 19/RCA ignores what amounts to a school yard challenge over which team gets bragging rights.
But is Adam Lambert a prize over which sides need scuffle? That’s where I’m coming up empty.
From what I read in print publications and websites, there seem to be at least two factions in the war over Adam Lambert’s image. On the right, we have the conservative heterosexuals who fear that Adam is too gay for mainstream. On the left are members of the gay community, who accuse Adam of not being gay enough. Somewhere in the middle is Adam, his fanbase…and the truth.
I’d like to clarify and refute some of Aaron Hicklin’s claims. Others have already done so on blogs, forums, and the mother of all communication vehicles, twitter. But, indulge me.
Hicklin asserts that Adam and team (because the open letter seems to lump Adam in as one of the bad guys) refused an Out cover early on in the Idol competition.
Likely true. But not at all surprising or problematic. Why? Idol contestants are barred from communicating with the press during the show's run. Entertainment Weekly may have put Adam on their cover before the competition ended, but they used stock photos and existing quotes. No other magazine got a cover story early on except for Rolling Stone, which published their issue two weeks after the show’s conclusion. And based on Adam’s assertion that he is a musician that happens to be gay, rather than a gay that happens to be a musician, most would agree Rolling Stone was the best place for his “outing” after the show’s finale. That’s just good business. Sorry, Hicklin.
1 point to Team Lambert.
19 and RCA insisted that Adam not look “too gay” on the Out 100 cover.
I have a tough time buying this one. Adam’s album cover is one of the most androgynous-leaning-toward-feminine photos I’ve ever seen of a man. If management were worried, the cover would never have been approved. Surely if the cover of Adam’s own CD portrays him as obviously gay, it would have more effect on his record sales than the cover of a magazine normally only read by the LGBT community.
1 point to Team Lambert.
Hicklin claims that Adam’s sexuality was neutralized in the Details cover shoot.
Possibly. Certainly, the gay community could see it that way. What turned out to be a series of beautiful, artsy photographs caused some dismay; people saw Adam as manipulating his female fan base into having “hope” that he will someday participate in heterosexual activities. Others, and I’m in this camp, saw the photos as daring (for a gay man) and fun. Adam was playing with gender roles, looking hot, and stressing in the interview his absolute gayness. Looking closely at the pictures, he does not emotionally connect with the model: his eyes are closed in the shots. And the photo where he is supposedly “suckling a female breast” actually shows him with her thumb in his mouth, not her nipple. Details, unlike Out, is not an overtly LGBT publication; it is a men’s magazine -- targeting “metrosexuals” though clearly with a heavy gay readership. It is not atypical for Details to have photographs of men with women. Adam could have (and would have, I’m sure) refused the shoot if he felt compromised. Lots of debate on either side but I’ll narrowly give this one to Hicklin.
1 point to Team Out.
Adam’s management team thwarted Out’s true purpose:
“If the Out 100 has a purpose it’s to challenge the kind of apartheid that lays down one rule for gay mags and one for all others. We think you probably feel the same way―you even say as much―so we don’t mean to diminish your achievements this year. That’s why you’re in this issue.”
Well, here’s where we fall down the slippery slope and into dangerous territory. Apartheid? Not the word I would have chosen. I’m a vocal supporter of gay rights and marriage equality, but never would I say that the struggle for those rights is akin to apartheid. Aaron, ever been to South Africa ? Your ignorance is showing. Stop being dramatic and focus.
What is your real complaint here? Rolling Stone got the big story, Details got the big photoshoot…and Out is left holding a group photo for their cover? You had a group photo for last year’s Out 100 as well. So, I’m not sure what the concern is. That 19/RCA didn’t want Adam to be the poster child for LGBT rights by being alone on the cover? I can’t argue with their thinking. Adam has said numerous times in countless interviews that he is not taking up the cause at this stage in his career. He feels his being proudly out is statement enough right now. I agree.
1 point to Team Lambert.
Most troubling is the Hicklin’s assertion that:
“You’re a pioneer, an out gay pop idol at the start of his career. Someone has to be first, and we’re all counting on you not to mess this up.”
And so at last we get to the crux of the matter. Hicklin, as editor-in-chief of one of the most visible LGBT publications in the US has arrogantly draped the mantle of Gay Rights over Adam’s broad shoulders. To hell with what Adam wants; it’s not about his career or his life, it’s all about what he can do for the gay community.
Well, I have yet to see the gay community stand up to unequivocally support Adam Lambert. Time after time I read assertions that they “voted for the other guy,” Michael Musto of the Village Voice being just one of the more vocal homosexuals in the entertainment industry to trumpet that -- even tossing the remark into his lead-in to Hicklin’s letter. Blog after blog, comment after comment, I read gay men tear Adam down for his looks, his body type, his choice of clothing and makeup. Not much about the music, I’m afraid. That the most important thing Adam Lambert brings to the table gets swept aside in a debacle to see who can hurl the wittiest and cattiest insults is an egregious and, yes, bigoted, injustice.
1 Point to Team Lambert for even having to read Hicklin’s outlandish quote in print.
Mr. Hicklin, your letter does not vindicate you, your publication, or your cause; it makes you appear petty and bitter. And I'm at a loss for why it was necessary. I’m surprised that you would take this young man and his team to task just as your magazine hits the stands. Since when does a celebrity (and Adam *is* one, whether he chose it or not) get interviewed without certain stipulations from his management?
Surely you’ve considered that a great many Adam Lambert fans were planning to purchase this issue -- that’s a whole new segment of the market that would read the magazine and perhaps learn more about homosexuality and the LGBT struggle for equality. You had a unique opportunity to show how we’re not so very different from one another after all. And instead, you squander that opportunity to launch a personal vendetta -- to rage against the machine and burn the bridge between Out and 19 Entertainment. You’ve effectively alienated a portion of Adam Lambert’s fan base. You may have lost sales. And you put undo pressure on a young man that has said time and again that all he wants to do is make music. All this under the guise of “sacrificing the one for the many.”
This mentality (punish those that don’t conform to a hypothetical “ideal”) is part of why the LGBT struggle is not taken seriously by mainstream America . You do not need to eat your young nor throw your most visible proponents under the proverbial bus. I hope that your tasteless diatribe serves only to bring your hypocrisy to the forefront -- garnering more compassion and support for Adam Lambert than your precious mantle of Gay Rights ever would.
Today, however, we all lose.
Score
Team Lambert: 4
Team Out: 1
Progress: 0