Just out of curiosity ...

[apocalypsos]

... what's the popular fannish opinion on Adam Lambert's 2012 song? Is it that it's bad even for a cheesy power ballad from a fantastically awful disaster movie during which, I imagine, a great many American flags will fly in slow motion?

Because I've been listening to the Movie Tracks station on AOL Radio and they've played it twice since SYTYCD ended and this is ... really kinda bad.

Granted, the one thing I always hate from these overblown overpaid fantastically awful disaster movies, regardless of the fact that I love every other part of them simply for being terrible, are the songs. So I'm perhaps the wrong audience, mostly because I'd much rather see John Cusack drive off a giant plane in a BMW and drive-surf a giant wave to wherever the hell safety is supposed to be when the Earth just says, "Fuck it," and blows up all over.

Say, you knew 2012 is coming out in two and a half weeks, right? \o/

(I have to go write. Writing is haaaaaaard. Why do I want to do this professionally again? *whines*)

Comments

[trinity_clare]

Well, the Adam fans love it unironically, but that goes without saying. I think for a cheesy power ballad from a horrible disaster movie it's not actually that bad.

[medie]

eh, I kinda like it, but I'm in a mood to like it. I'm just not sure where it fits with the movie. But then, heh, with this movie, the more cheesy badness the better :)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I don't think any song would fit into this movie other than Yakety Sax and the music from the "It's a Disaster!" trailer. :D

[medie]

Noooo we need Its The End of the World As We Know It, but it has to be the Great Big Sea version. Theirs sounds absolutely giddy about it. ;p

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

"We Will All Go Together When We Go," by Tom Lehrer.

When I write my disaster movie screenplay, that will feature prominently and be the trailer music.

[wtfbrain.livejournal.com]

I think a lot of people are mostly just pointing and giggling at the overblown cheese of it all. I mean, it's *Glambert, and it's a power ballad from a disaster movie. I'm hard pressed to come up with a way to make it more cheesy.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

See, that's the thing. I expect Glambert + power ballad + disaster movie = overblown awesome craaazy cheesy, and instead it felt like meh cheesy. I've heard it three times today and I couldn't tell you what it sounds like or what any of the lyrics are.

[pandorablu.livejournal.com]

Oh there was the usual OMG over the fact that it was a new song by Adam... but general consensus is that it's your typical cheesetastic ballad thing, with a dollop of Adam's crazy vocal gymnastics.

But what's worse is the video. Dear gods, it's so bad the green screen makes my eyes bleed.

[lavenderfrost.livejournal.com]

*shrugs*
It's not my fav power ballad EVEREVER, but I really do like it in a non-ironic way. I just don't see it applying to disaster movies so much as those angsty reunion scenes you see in romantic movies where there's tearful make-up sex after a long heartbreaking separation over a big fight about something.

Which, I'd totally read if someone wrote it as a Kradam slashfic, btw. (Or Wincest, or J2, or Arthur/Merlin AU. I'm not picky.)

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Too bad there wasn't a way for 2012 to have been -released- in 2012. It just might have been the world's biggest troll.

As it stands, Rick Astley Rick-Rolling the entire friggin' United States leads the pack. Rick is awesome.

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

Not being a major fan of disaster movies, like yourself, I think the song may end up being the thing I like best about the movie. ;-) This, mind you, from someone who haaaaaated the Aerosmith song from Armageddon. Actually, that's past tense; I still do hate it and flip the channel when it comes on. And I normally like Aerosmith, so.

[sparkysparky.livejournal.com]

I think popular fannish opinion is that Adam Lambert is a fierce glittery alien, and therefore everything he does is amazing.

That said, the song grew on me after about the 7th time I heard it, in all of it's epic, awful glory. And I can't wait for the movie, because I love end of the world flicks. :-D

[anoel.livejournal.com]

Well I love it in a cheesy power ballad kind of way and basically Adam takes a....not up to his level song and turns it into gold as he is able to do. But that's me and my Adam love talking so I don't know.