Adam Lambert On Being Influenced By Madonna And Why His Boyfriend Is His Greatest Critic: ‘Retains You Humble’

Adam Lambert sat down with ET Canada’s Keshia Chanté for a brand new One-on-One particular, the place he opened up about musical influences.

Discussing the accountability he feels as an LGBTQ+ position mannequin, Lambert was requested to recall the position fashions that influenced him when he was younger.

“Oh, that’s a very good query,” he mentioned.

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“I imply, one of many issues that type of ties into that is that I didn’t actually have a giant position mannequin so far as being a homosexual man, I had position fashions in different methods, you understand?” he defined.

“I grew up with Madonna and Michael Jackson as type of the king and queen, you understand, and so they have been sensible,” Lambert revealed, including that “there’s a number of that really feel like, you understand, touchstones for, like, my love for music and pop and Freddie [Mercury], in fact, Freddie. However I didn’t actually have I feel so far as like being queer, there wasn’t quite a bit.”

In the meantime, when the Queen frontman has new music to share, his boyfriend Oliver Gliese is on the prime of a brief listing of people that get to listen to it first.

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“My boyfriend, my household, my supervisor. I’m actually for everyone — mates,” he mentioned. “I’ve, like a bunch of mates which might be musicians that I at all times ship stuff to. I need to get their tackle it. Yeah, properly, earlier than it’s like combined or mastered or completed first demos, ‘What do you assume? Is that this okay?’”

The truth is, Lambert revealed that his boyfriend isn’t shy about sharing his opinion when he doesn’t like one thing.

“Generally he does say that,” Lambert mentioned. “I imply, we’ve got very completely different music tastes, so it’s tremendous, you understand, however that’s what I like. I like to simply hear an opinion about it, you understand? And I like the individuals in my life that can inform me their trustworthy opinion and the reality and never simply inform me what I need to hear…  it’s very nice really to have that type of suggestions. Retains you humble.”

ET Canada’s One-on-One particular with Adam Lambert airs tonight at 7 p.m. ET/PT on World.