{"id":4879,"date":"2025-07-01T23:27:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T15:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artgardenhub.com\/?p=4879"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:27:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T15:27:53","slug":"adam-lambert-shocks-everyone-on-strictly-come-dancing-with-a-soul-stirring-jazz-rendition-of-mad-about-the-boy-that-unveils-a-vulnerable-unexpected-side-you-have-to-see-to-believe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artgardenhub.com\/?p=4879","title":{"rendered":"Adam Lambert Shocks Everyone on Strictly Come Dancing with a Soul-Stirring Jazz Rendition of \u201cMad About the Boy\u201d That Unveils a Vulnerable, Unexpected Side You Have to See to Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Adam Lambert<\/strong>&nbsp;performed the live debut of \u201cMad About the Boy\u201d on BBC\u2019s celebrity dance competition,&nbsp;<em>Strictly Come Dancing<\/em>&nbsp;on Sunday (Oct 9). The&nbsp;<em>American Idol<\/em>&nbsp;alum performed a mesmerizing jazz standard version of the&nbsp;<strong>Noel Coward<\/strong>&nbsp;song. Pro dancers&nbsp;<strong>Nikita Kuzmin<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Carlos Gu<\/strong>&nbsp;performed a steamy Argentine Tango as Adam performed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/6835b446.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/adamlambertscdfeat.jpg\" alt=\"Watch Adam Lambert's 'Strictly Come Dancing' performance of 'Mad About the Boy' - Entertainment Focus\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The singer was dressed to the nines, in a ravishing tuxedo, his makeup\u2013and especially eye makeup\u2013beautifully done. Speaking of beautiful, Adam delivered an exquisitely phrased version of the song, expressing all the longing of an unrequited love that dare not speak its name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pmstudio.com\/pmstudio\/images\/Adam-Lambert21.jpg\" alt=\"Adam Lambert Covers No\u00ebl Coward's \u201cMad About the Boy\u201d - pm studio world wide music news\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Adam Lambert<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Traditionally, female jazz singers like&nbsp;<strong>Dinah Washington<\/strong>&nbsp;have performed the song, But Coward, who was closeted like every other gay person of his generation, wrote a piece full of queer longing. Adam is able to bring it the stage as it couldn\u2019t have been during Coward\u2019s lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song is the theme of an upcoming Noel Coward biopic\u00a0coming out next year\u00a0to mark the 50th anniversary of the legendary artist\u2019s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adam Lambert performs Mad About the Boy \u2728 BBC Strictly 2022\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qrat9qskTYU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe wrote it about a man and he was never really able to record it because that would have been too taboo for that time,\u201d Adam said about Coward\u2019s creative intent. \u201cSo it\u2019s always been a torch song sung by amazing female vocalists. And when they realized, \u2018It\u2019s 2022, we\u2019re going to put this film out,\u2019 they came up with the idea of having a guy sing it as it was really intended.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen they asked me to do it, I thought, \u2018What a cool opportunity\u2026I haven\u2019t really recorded anything that was sort of jazz-leaning before, but it\u2019s something that I always kind of been interested in,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMad About the Boy\u201d is the first song Adam released on EastWest Records. The singer recently&nbsp;signed a record deal with&nbsp;the Warner Brothers UK imprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, Adam will play&nbsp;a Halloween themed residency&nbsp;in Las Vegas and a handful of dates on the West coast later this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam will return to the judges panel for a&nbsp;second season of the UK singing competition,&nbsp;<em>Starstruck<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Lambert&nbsp;performed the live debut of \u201cMad About the Boy\u201d on BBC\u2019s celebrity dance competition,&nbsp;Strictly Come Dancing&nbsp;on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-musician"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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