Adam Lambert Criticizes ‘Les Mis’ for ‘Pretend Singers’

I am surprised they had them sing Live. Not one of the actors are singers.

Adam all knows about pretending.

Hey Lambert. WHAM called. They want their haircut back.

I wish I could get my makeup to look that good.

Adam Lambert knows what he’s talking about when it comes to singing and musical theater. I appreciate his willingness to be completely honest, and his extensive vocal training makes his opinion informed and credible. He respects the art above all.

Adam Lambert is an idiot. Clearly Lambert has not seen many of the classic musicals that were good to great movies even with less than stellar singing from some of the stars. So, something Lambert obviously does not understand about movies is the reality that subpar acting will pull people/viewers out (i.e. end suspension of disbelief) and thus ruin a movie much faster than less than stellar singing. In fact, if subpar singing, or even bad singing, fits the character and the flow of the plot well enough the quality of the singing can actually be irrelevant to the quality of a movie. In other words, for movies the quality of the acting and the script and production values are far more important to most viewers than the quality of the singing in a movie musical.

Agreed, it was a boring 2 hours and 45 minutes. I almost walked out. This winter has seen not one good uplifting movie. In the 1930′s during the great depression, Judy Garland had uplifting movie after uplifting movie. Today its all death and destruction and sadness. We like our economy and our government are lost in a whirlwind of despair.

Who gives a flying #### what you think!?

Why was Lea Michelle not in there? Because she can sing, and the director could not put people from the theater who could sing next to these so-called musical actors. This movie is a failure. It started out great and it ended great, all the stuff in the middle is a snoozer; and this Pink Floyd style of singing, I gave up in high school. Please no more movies like this. Either get classically trained singers in the musical or make it a talky. Can you imagine “Lincoln” done like this?

It also begs to the failure of the author. Emile Zola was the original, this Hugo plagiarizer, like the plagiarizer Steinbeck off of Beverly Brannan’s work, are elitist opportunists who do not give proper credit to their sources. They appear fictional, yet they have historical fact.

What some writers perhaps fail to recognize here is that Adam Lambert #1 Has a right to his opinion, just like everyone else here and elsewhere. Many professional movie reviewers/critics voiced similar opinions. #2 Has many years of professional Musical Theater in his resume so logically he will be focused on the vocals #3 Mr. Lambert said that he grew up with this musical and as a result had certain expectations, again his prerogative and right as a movie goer. #4 Has had 20 years of experience singing, with extensive vocal training, including classical Opera, so he is not just some “no talent reality show hack” as one writer above so ..eloquently.. put it.. #5 He did not criticize all of the vocals, and he did not say the movie was bad. Just that some of the vocals were distracting for him, and took away from his experience. He had high praise for some…including Anne Hathaway. #6 This is not a case of sour grapes: again, its an educated OPINION. #7 And that’s MY opinion! : ))

Sorry, my bad – It was not Anne Hathaway who sounded like Glinda. It was Amanda Seyfried as Cosette.

This coming from a runner up with a few medicore “hits”. Why is this even being reported by ABC?

Not sure why the criticism of a passion fruit matters to anyone.

This is nothing new from Lambert. He has a history of slamming other performers and puffing himself up. The guy is just classless, sad to say. Lambert has little cause to criticize anyone else’s singing when the albums he has put out are so full of auto-tuned garbage. Perhaps he should try to improve that ear-piercing noise he calls his music before criticizing others.

Lambert was merely tweeting to his fans his opinion of the movie – which you, I, and he have every right to do. There’s no need to make anything more of it. Lambert’s a great, generous guy who’s always praising other performers and their music. To say the horrible things some posters here are doing indicates that thet don’t know this wonderful man at all.

That’s his opinion and it’s just as valid as anyone else’s. Of course, having seen the movie, I agree with him 100%, so I have no problem with hearing it! LOL I have to say, however, that more distracting than the poor singing was the camera angles — the camera was way too close to the singers’ faces, which made their straining to hit notes even more obvious.

This Adam Lambert is a jerk! I have a classical music background and was impressed with the “le miz” singers vocal range. I am sure he is like every pop singer today who screetches instead of singing today. I am so sick of contemporary singers who for the most part sound alike and have nothing special about their voice. I will go for the trained voice anyday. Maybe this Lambert has sour grapes for auditioning for the movie and told he can’t sing.

Leave it to Glambert.. The biggest “pretend singer” of them all. ON STAGE, the roles require a superb singer to convey the emotion of the scene because the audience rarely sees their faces. The film has the luxery of the “close up” so we can SEE the agony in the acor’s faces. What role did he try out for? Thank God he wasn’t cast in any part of the film.

He’s entitled to critique a movie he paid to go see just like anybody else. It’s not like he’s the only one slamming the movie. I saw it and thought Anne Hathaway was decent. Not great but decent. The girl who played Eponine was the best singer and actress and of course she was from the stage. Hugh Jackman has had some good turns on broadway and off broadway still isn’t the best of broadway and it showed in this movie. Voice was thin. Amanda Seyfried was horrific and somebody should have pulled her out the minute her vocal audition was over. Then Russell Crowe showed up to muddle his way through the worst rendition of Stars I’ve ever heard in my life. None of this was helped by the director’s caving to the studio to keep the movie under 2 and half hours (2:29) because it lacked the ability to tell the story properly and the scenes rushed from one song to another. The worst part was they sped up the songs for two reasons. One to keep the time under and also so the singers did not have to hold the notes out like proper singers. All in all, this was not worth the wait of so many years and I’m wondering what they spent all that time in production for just to come out with something that seemed cobbled together at the last minute. This movie was not worthy of Les Miserable and I’m sad Colm Wilkinson had to endure having his voice wasted in a subpar movie musical version of the best musical ever. Can we not have Baz Luhrman do it properly?

I think that the Jackman and Crowe should thank their stars for modern audio sampling and editing technology, which has advanced a long way since the days portrayed in “Singing in the Rain”. I plan to see it with a friend, but wonder how much of the film’s wow factor will be due to the epic staging and reputation of the musical on which it is based, rather than the musical performances.

Ridiculous!

Adam Lambert fronts Queen in Europe and receives rave reviews- no one in U.S. media takes notice
He performs on Voice of China (500 million viewers) and on MAMAs (over 2 billion viewers)- no one in U.S. media takes notice.

Adam Lambert praises lots of artists all the time -no one takes notice.

But when he gives one small critique over something he knows and cares deeply about, BOOOM , everybody writes about it and condems him. Then people are like: who is he to judge. And only because they haven’t heard about anything he has done during the year since media hasn’t told them about it. :(

“Hugh Jackman is a Tony Award winner who has appeared on stage in Broadway and London’s West End musicals.” I know. And if you see “Les Mis” it confirms that you can get away with a lot on stage you can’t on film. He’s pretty rubbish here.

What’s the point in having a singer who can’t act? People come to see the actors act, not to sing. It’s far easier to fake the singing then fake a singer who can’t act.

brother…typical attack comments – I totally agree with Adam.
He didn’t attack anyone – but some of you were eagerly ready to attack him. I love the comment by Erika. You nailed it.

I’m sorry…who is Adam Lambert again?

This musical has very little other scenes outside of singing. It flits from one song to another. The longest break in between songs is less than a couple of minutes. Otherwise it’s basically a concert on film. In other words, the acting is minimal and secondary and the singing is the main point of the film.

Posted by SARAH: “This Adam Lambert is a jerk! I have a classical music background and was impressed with the “le miz” singers vocal range. I am sure he is like every pop singer today who screetches instead of singing today. I am so sick of contemporary singers who for the most part sound alike and have nothing special about their voice. I will go for the trained voice anyday. Maybe this Lambert has sour grapes for auditioning for the movie and told he can’t sing”.
Okay, Sarah – who are YOU to criticize HIM if you have never heard him sing & don’t even know who he is? I certainly did not care for him during American Idol, but heard a couple songs on the radio that I liked – only to find out later they were by him. So you have a classical music background & you were impressed with the singers’ vocal ranges? Well, you are definitely in the minority on that one. And it’s “Les Mis”, not “Le Miz”.

Wow. I cant believe what im reading. I cant believe that human beings can be so nasty! Its so sad. Adam Lambert must be the only person on earth that is not allowed to have an opinion. Next time you horrible people watch a movie that you dont like, just remember all these things that you have said about someone else who had an honest opinion. I suppose everyone has to lie just please you hey. You guys need to think about what you say about other people, it doesnt make you look good.

I saw the film and can’t figure out what the big deal is. A singer and former theater geek gives an opinion in which he doesn’t slam anyone in particular and praises quite a bit. I thought some of the singing was not good, but it didn’t bother me because I was involved in the story. So this guy had it distract him from the story Again, hundreds of articles and comments about this? Why? WTH is going on here?

Anyone who knows anything about musical theater knows that it’s changing. It’s a business trying to find fresh ways to keep up with competition and keep the interest of its patrons. It’s all about survival in a world filled with new technology that makes stage productions look ordinary. Mr. Lambert is an entertainer, not a businessman.

Adam Lambert is so fame hungry. A wannabe that never was. After a flop album and three flop singles, he should really be worrying about his own career instead of trying to criticize others. What an idiot.

Just a few corrections: #1 album, successful and sold-out tour, chart positions all over the world, engagement requests from all over the world, European tour with Queen, millions of sales and millions of dollars further and there are still people thinking it is smart to make comments about Adam’s supposed failure on every online article they can find all over the net. All these writings do not stop him, Adam just moves past those haters and on with his career, uses their negativity and hate as a stepping stones on his personal path. Brave and with strength.

Those who think that Adam is wrong or was out of place to make this comment about the singing in this movie take note: Russell Crowe just tweeted and agreed with Adam. So are these posters who wrote that Adam is an idiot for having this opinion now all thinking that Russell is an idiot too, or are they quickly changing their opinion about what Adam wrote? Just wondering. lol

Just another reason to not care for Adam. Recently watched a show with my 14 year old Daughter. It was the annual Diva hour long special. Adam hosted and my impression of him only slipped further south. Hard to believe, but my daughter gave the same response, wondering why he was even on the show. I wonder why he is in anything anywhere. Sorry Adam, your two minutes of fame died a long time ago. Get over yourself.

Adam Lambert could sing the names in the phone book and make it sound good. ***waves away haters*** Pish pash.

Regardless of what Lambert thinks about the film, he does not need to publicly tweet his harsh criticisms. How would he respond if Crowe or others tweeted harsh criticisms of his work? Lambert claims to be all about love, acceptance, kindness, etc. but does not demonstrate that in the way that he carries himself. He should reconsider the idea of treating others as we would want to be treated.

It’s interesting to note that Adam’s detractors are: Those whose ugly and mean remarks make veiled and overt references to his orientation, and must fear what Adam is brave and proud to acknowledge; those who don’t know anything about Adam’s stunning voice, his chart topping and critically acclaimed #1 Album of 2012, Trespassing, his worldwide popularity and superstardom except that he is gay, and are prejudiced or jealous of him because of this fact; those who know of his talents and breathtaking stage presence and still diss him because they cannot accept brilliance and beauty in a proud gay man.