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Why do American Idol frauen line up for concerts 10 hours before doors open?

2010 June 6
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by TopIdol

Why do American Idol fantards line up for concerts 10 hours before doors open?

Before you answer this question, however, can someone tell me the meaning of this video made by a kid in GERMANY? This is just a coincidence, as you can discern when looking at the rest of the channel (Whataya Want From Me is a big hit in DE, too) but it’s rather…humorously ironic? Anyway, please don’t dwell on the meaning of it because there is none, but feel free to giggle and move on to the rest of the post.

General admission is general admission. Just because you do not have an assigned seat does not mean you cannot move around at will during a live show. Of course, after attending last year’s David Cook show in Northampton, I quickly learned no one moves an inch once they find their places.

I get it. You want to watch the show from a good spot. But why is it a competition to see who can get there the earliest? Because this is what it is going to become. I’m supposed to find it impressive that the line for Adam Lambert’s second tour stop almost wraps around the entire gravel parking lot of the  Starland Ballroom in Saylesville, NJ?

It’s not impressive. It’s ridiculous. And this sort of behavior isn’t going to help more casual fans who likely leave their houses more often to see live shows. NO ONE lines up at say, 9am, to get into a venue that’s doors do not open until 8pm.

You guys wasted an entire day by standing in line. Adam Lambert would want you to be doing something more constructive…so why aren’t you?

Here’s Adam Lambert doing his latest single, If I Had You. Some fantard is wearing fake Marc by Marc Jacobs gloves I’ve owned every color of since February 2008. They’re pretty thin, but they’re still not conducive to a humid-as-hell evening in a sweaty concert venue in early June. But hey, everything sounds better now that lead guitarist Monty is back on tour [in comparison to Kiss 108 show].

Still doesn’t justify standing in line for 10+ hours. Is there anything you would wait in line for hours & hours at a time to see or do?

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  • jukejoint

    Because I was just reading more about how all the Blambert concerts are all SOLD OUT!!!! blah blah blah crazycakes and I also read a hilarious story about all that Lil Kim and the Grand High Poohbert have in common — http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ott-0611-lambert-lilkim-20100611,0,981883.story?page=1 — I went to ticketbastard and asked for eight tickets to the show in Hammond IN. Eight available, no problem.

    Sold out, huh? A mere six days before the event and it will let me have eight tickets. Uh huh. That’s what I call SOLD OUT!!!!

    And eBay is up to 2,239 ticket listings, with some listings offering up to 8 tickets for sale. That’s how you get a sold-out concert — create such hysteria that every person who buys tickets frantically takes the maximum number for every single concert — even ones that are far away and there’s only a glimmer of a chance they’ll be able to go to — and then they have to give away/sell the extra six or seven or eight on eBay or stubhub or one of the other ticket-selling services. Scalpers, my butt. That’s the Glamherd now furiously trying to unload all the extra tickets they bought.

    • Mithra

      Hahaha. Looks like all those ticket broker (scalper) and held back tickets are now available, as many here said would happen. It’s normal for single and pairs to show up last minute, but 8 is going to mean a lot of empty rows.

      So typical of the way they handle Adam, all spin and hot air. So much hot air I bet they can fuel that INTERNATIONAL balloon fest he’ll be appearing at ;)

      • Pandora

        What bugs the crap out of me is that the narrative is already set for the whole summer… O.M.G. the entire tour is sold out!!!!

        And I’m sure his mgmt doesn’t give a crap because they get the $$$ whether the seats are empty or not.

        • Mithra

          I think they may lose money and have to eat it. Plus there is the stage set and extras like the dancers. It’s just another example of them investing in a career that hasn’t taken off as they expected. My guess is that they may offer tickets cheap or for free to nearby colleges to fill the seats and battle the image of Adam’s audience. Have there been any reports of this happening? I wouldn’t hold my breath expecting it to be reported at AO or Planet Fucktard, but in the mainstream media?

    • Mithra

      D. Recently told an interviewer: “I like pretty boys in their early to mid-20s. Make sure you print that.”

      Hahaha. Poor Adam has to beg now :P

      Sparkle Cows are starting to herd towards the comments section…

      • DeeDee

        I felt guilty but I couldn’t help laughing out loud reading that article! I knew things were going to get ugly in the comment section. It also looks like Krazy Kerry commented there.

        • ross

          People who hate on Adam Lambert are delusionals and homophobic hate filled parasites of this society. They are threatened that this georgous man is seen by many impotent people as the most valuable artist in decades. It is a sad state of affairs that this article exists and is allowed to exist in this day of age. Stup up for Adam and fight the cruelty and vicious beings of this world because they will not stop us or Adam Lambert, a true genious.

          It takes an impotent person to recognize a true genious.

          • muzikizmi

            When Sparkle Cows attempt eloquence, hilarity always ensues. ‘Impotence’ explains a lot. Maybe they are ‘impotent’ because they are only attracted to men who think they repulsive (smelly and sweaty).

          • et

            Stup up for Adam! He’s a genious! STUP UP, I tell you!

          • jukejoint

            He’s georgous, you know. I think that means he is a farmer.

      • Kate123

        Yeah, they better make sure to print that because it’s not like he’s said a variation of the exact same thing in every interview he’s done.

        • jukejoint

          Maybe he wanted them to print it in the HANDBOOK OF ALL THE THINGS ADAM BLAMBERT IS SUPPOSED TO TEACH THE IGNORANT MASSES ABOUT BECAUSE HE IS SUCH A MASTER.

          That one should go in Chapter Three, under “Public Relations Master Class,” after ‘How to tell your fans they are sweaty and stinky” but before “Frenching your bandmates for fun and profit.”

          As opposed to Chapter One, “Theater Staging Master Class,” where you’ll find information about setting your own hair on fire and how-to instructions for makeup and hair (with handy diagrams of Liza Minnelli and Wayne Newton) or Chapter Two, “Musical Arranging Master Class,” where you’ll find tips on searching for the best youtubes of “Rock Star: SuperNova” and movie soundtracks for arrangements to steal, er, be inspired by.

        • Mithra

          Someone should do a remake of this, the sparkle cow/idoltard version :

          • nerdgirl

            Yes! Old ladies writing ADAM LAMBERT SECOND TO NONE on the walls.

          • Mithra

            It’s eerily like the comments section at MJs, with the usual suspects as a mob attacking anyone who does not worship the Grand High Poobah :D

    • ross

      You’re all haters!!! In this day of age, all impotent people need to stup up and support this georgous man!!!

      • JaneRochester

        Should that be “schtupp?”

      • Mithra

        Perhaps she means Boy Georgous?

        So, I decided to check out the comments at MJs on the latest Adam post to see if there was talk of empty seats or the ticket situation since I suspect they shot themselves in the foot and younger people can’t afford scalper mark ups and may not want to travel last minute to out of the way places. Instead, I found these:

        Good afternoon David Bowie…I must say you and Iman looked stunning at the CFDA Fashion Awards. And congratulations on Iman winning the Fashion Icon Award.
        Adam Lambert is now a few shows into his world tour. He is amazing. Please try and catch a show of his perhaps in New York or when he goes to Europe. But in the mean time, he would love to hear from you. He loves you so much as you are a huge influence on his music, his style and his inner soul I believe. So if you are not busy, give him a ring! You will not regret it. Thank you so much

        Does she really think David Bowie is reading this? ADAM isn’t even reading it.

        I mentioned to my hubby recently (who, BTW is actually starting to get into him bit by bit, step by step. We were actually listening together to a couple of his songs in my car yesterday, and I was trying to skip to songs that I thought he would get into and I skipped over WWFM and he stopped me and said, “Wait, whataya doin, I like that song!!!!! YES! Finally!!!!!!)

        Yeah, he’s probably been forced to listen to the entire CD 100,000 times and prefers it as a lesser torture.

  • Kate123

    Okay, so I’m going to the MMVA’s, I can try and get videos of Adam for his fans here and I’ll be sure to get some videos of Bieber for TI :D

    • ross

      You sound like you’re gonna be busy, but if you get any Hedley or Faber Drive video I won’t complain. :)

      • Kate123

        Haha I love Hedley. I went to a Hedley concert a few years ago and it was sooo good. I will definitely get some videos ;)

        • Kate123

          I totally forgot by I saw Faber Drive play with Ill Scarlett a couple years ago too. Why aren’t the decent Canuck musicians more famous than the crappy ones????

          • ross

            I wish more people knew about Jacob Hoggard, he’s amazing.

  • Pandora

    Off topic, but I got my monster back and I think I’m underwhelmed. The blowhole is cool, but what’s with the dinosaur legs and tail?

    • cc

      LOL. Those legs are full of varicose veins, dontcha know? ;)

      But yay! at least now, I don’t feel all alone and an outcast for having these legs and tail. Heh.

      • carmine2008

        I have feeling the top part of your monster is just a costume. You’re the horned dinosaur in elephant clothing.

    • jukejoint

      Blow-holed, one-eyed creatures unite!

  • Rach

    Well I don’t know where to put this but Cook has crazy fans sooo…
    Eminem dissed Cook in his new song
    It’s called On Fire.

    This ain’t a song
    It’s a warning for Brooke Hogan and David Cook
    That the crook just took over, so book
    Run as fast as you can, stop writing and killing(?)
    I’m lightning in a skillet, you’re a f*cking flash in the pan

    Rumor has it that Eminem’s daughter likes Cook.

    • On The Edge

      Oh geez…that’s right, his kid is probably tween/teen age now, huh? Marshall Mathers, father to a teen girl…*shudder*

      • Rach

        He has a daughter that turns 15 this year. He has two other daughters and is the legal guardian of his younger half-brother. Creepy. Imagine having MM as your father.

    • Nich

      Wow that’s…random.

    • et

      LOL, random. I find that pretty amusing.

    • Lauren

      Clay and Adam were dissed in his last song. Idol obsessed?

      • Rach

        I’m laughing at the thought of Eminem being Idol obsessed. Why doesn’t he pick on the Pratts or something? There’s so many stupid people to make fun of, and MM picks some of the more normal ones. What up wit ‘dat?

        • jukejoint

          Jellus H8er.

        • Burgundy LaRue

          Eminem goes after nearly everyone in pop culture sooner or later. It doesn’t surprise me that he actually knows a bit about Idol. His diss of Cook was mild and practically a compliment for Marshall Mathers.

    • Mithra

      Is Cook dating Brooke Hogan? She is blonde, and can snap the front row crew in two, I suspect…

      • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

        It is so time they remade The Bodyguard…

      • jukejoint

        I think it would be amusing if Cook hooked up with the current Bachelorette. I keep seeing these commercials where she looks like a moron, but she’s very pretty and seems to be his type. Besides, don’t they usually pick somebody and then dump them three days later and then find somebody like David Cook?

        Not shipping! Not shipping! Just messing around being irreverent about reality shows!

    • CayKat

      I don’t get it. Is there history between these two?

      • jukejoint

        I think Eminem picks people he thinks will create controversy to get more buzz for his stuff. He seems to have been doing it for a while.

        Besides Eminem being a little shit in general.

        • carmine2008

          Or maybe he just needs a name that rhymes with “book”. LOL.

  • auntieaimee

    I finally watched some of Adam’s vids and I actually didn’t mind the theatricality so much. Some of it was entertaining. What I did mind was that they use waaaaayyyy too much reverb on his vocals and the choreography is extremely corny. IMO, he should lose the dancers, turn down the reverb, and get a couple of great backup singers. That way he could get rid of the backing track and they could help support the more vocally strenuous parts of the songs. Most of the songs are pretty bad, though. They don’t stand up to repeated listening. Sleepwalker could be a hit. I imagine that will be his next single.

    • et

      Is “Sleepwalker” the Tedder-written song? I like that one, it sticks in your head :)

      • auntieaimee

        Yep, that’s it!

  • Borat83

    I would mock these people for wasting their time, but I just spent the last hour and a half catching up on the weekly saga that is the MJ’s monday mediabase thread, so I probably shouldn’t cast too many stones. At least these people are sweating away some calories while wasting their time waiting in line.

    This is my favorite AI related blog, but I have to admit that the ridiculous inanity over there between the usual suspects is somehow highly captivating. The Glamberts managed to piss off Daughtry, Cook, Carrie, and country music fans today as well as stirring up the usual fanwar between babybelle (Kris Allen’s #1 fantard) and the Glamherd. Now they’re kissing up to the Gokey fans, it’s like an alternate universe over there.

    • Kate123

      It’s like a soap opera meets Jerry Springer. We have the over the top drama of the typical soaps and the HAHA JELLUS BITCHES, YOU NEED TO GET LAID part of Springer. I dig it.

    • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

      I think I have to go peruse this…

      • Miz

        I’m in moderation. Thank you jeebus!

    • Mithra

      Wait, Sparkle Cows are now courting Gokey fans? Is there a reason for this? Why? I mean, reason not as normal people would define it…

      • Borat83

        I’m perplexed about this development as well. I think they realize everyone else on that site, including MJ despises them, so they’re trying to woo the outcast Danny fans.

        • blacklisted

          Haven’t the Danny fans moved on to Lee yet?

          • Mithra

            Heliotrope seems to have him all to herself. Lucky LEE :D

    • blacklisted

      That Monday Morning Mediabase thread has been a nightmare for months. At this point it’s ridiculous. Who gives a shit if either single doesn’t become a blockbuster? I bet the labels have contingency plans to release something else, worse case scenario.

      I did notice Q and tigerlily (whatever the fuck that heifer’s name is) starting their usual shit. Pissing off five fanbases though takes talent and IS amusing.

      People need to use Ross’ method of answering back if they get that pissy or just do concern trolling, if feelings are so intense.

      • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

        Tiger92 is such a fake:

        I think the Danny fans who made it through the AI days are to be commended. He got it worse than anyone I’ve ever seen on the blog sites. (other than Kat) I know it was rough for the Danny fans. I never did understand all the hate! You guys must be “super fans”! LOL

        I’m so happy that Danny has found a music community that he belongs to and I have enjoyed keeping up with how well he is doing. Please keep posting information and updates!

        • Borat83

          Yeah that cracked me up almost as much as Q3 and Alaadam’s recent admission that they are Kris Allen supporters. Embrace your bitchy insanity ladies ala KrazyKerry and stop pretending like you’re reasonable human beings. Everyone knows that any Glambert worth their salt has eyes and ears only for His Glamjesty.

          • blacklisted

            lol, we really need to use the word ‘Glamjesty’.

            Truthiness and some other Adam fans I could totally believe like Kris or Allison, those two, have never once indicated any interest in Idols other than their glamaster.

        • old bat

          How odd. I have no idea who supports who where, but generally adam fans have been the biggest Gokey haters everywhere, all the way to at least the end of the tour, when I was watching.

          • CayKat

            I think it’s fair to say that most Kris fans despise Gokey :-)

          • MarkC

            Indeed, and that’s what makes me so sad about this new development. Danny Gokey was a very special contestant. He managed to unify everyone who was not a Danny Gokey fan in a hatred of Danny Gokey. I mean, that’s Danny Gokey’s unique and special contribution to the universe. So any development of another contestant’s fans suddenly widely appreciating Danny Gokey makes me feel like the universe no longer completely fine, and needs spiritual healing. Can someone film him trying to talk about gay people? That’ll make things better.

        • Pandora

          It makes perfect sense. Gokey has no mainstream presence at all so it’s safe to “like” him without threatening the Glittery One’s future domination of all music (except country of course).

          And that way they can show how open they are to other Idols, demonstrating that they are not in fact threatened by other musicians’ success.

        • ross

          I love that Gokey stuff from the Glamberts. So sweet and nice. Then they go right into “Kris Allen sucks and his songs suck and his fans suck.”

        • et

          Oh, cripes, that’s like the wolf in sheep’s clothing right there. I don’t know what her reason for suddenly loving Gokey is but… she’s a nasty thing, that one.

      • jukejoint

        This kinda makes me wish Gokey would annihilate Glamby on the charts. Just a little. :-)

    • et

      Whoa, I missed all the excitement when my internet went down? Is any of the excitement left in the mediabase thread (and it is *always* a trainwreck) or did it all get deleted?

    • jeydawg

      Glamberts have a pattern: they will like anything and everything that doesn’t Adam Lambert’s Supreme Reign Over The Universe. Before Kris emerged as a dark horse last year, they treated him and Allison the same – kind of like Adam’s cute pets. Allison never became a threat to Adam’s supposed to success, so that attitude stayed the same. You can see it even now on his tour – “Isn’t Allison so lucky that she gets to tour with Adam? She’s just so cute and so talented, it’s so nice that Adam’s giving her the chance to go on tour!”

      They hated Gokey because he was set up as Adam’s arch nemesis. Now, it’s become clear that Gokey will not be a threat to Adam’s career, so it’s fine to like him again despite that fact that he’s a homophobic douche. (Quite a few of them are somewhat homophobic themselves so it’s no surprise they brush that off until they can find something to throw a fit over). BUT they are desperately hoping that Gokey somehow eclipses Kris, because if there’s one thing they live for more than Adam’s success it’s Kris’s failure. So them making nice isn’t all that surprising – it’s always been Adam and Gokey fans vs Kris fans, because the Gokey fans are convinced Kris stole Gokey’s spot and then later on his victory.

      • jeydawg

        *doesn’t threaten, dang no edit option.

  • Kate123

    I can’t stand in line for anything. Even if it’s a line for something at a store I’m like, “meh, fuck it, I don’t need this shit anyway.”

    Every concert I’ve been to has been outside where I can just sit on the grass or pavement and make my way over to the stage when I feel like it…I think I might just be the other extreme.

  • gelid

    Hi. I’d like to make my first post here. I joined up because I saw that some of you posted that you wished more glamberts would post here.
    I am a glambert and if I am going to stand in a long-ass line there had better be a roller coaster at the end of it. A GOOD coaster.
    Even then my max line time is 75 minutes.

    • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

      Welcome Gelid! I love roller coasters, too.

      • gelid

        Thanks for the welcome. I like my monster. Are those wings?!

        • Kate123

          you’re like a robot spider/bat with bad hair. you’re beautiful.

        • Verbally Dyslexic

          I don’t believe you’re a glambert. By the shape of your monster, I’m inclined to think you’re a Danny Gokey creation, formed by his own douchey hands. And you enjoy roller coasters because it allows you to scream on like your bespectacled maker.

          LOL, I kid!

          • gelid

            It is a robot spider/bat. Perfect. How should I prove I am a glambert without alienating the rest of the posters that I know?

            I joined AO on may 21rst last year and have well over 2,000 posts there. A small number compared to some.

            I wish I was kidding. LOL

          • Kate123

            LOL I joined Kris Allen Official to post one time about how I didn’t like the new version of ‘The Truth’. Why do Kris fans suck so hard?

          • deez

            Yikes, Kate…I did the same thing, lol. I think Kris fans only get vocal when things are perceived as going badly. (I think we are a pessimistic lot)

        • CayKat

          Wings and fantastic legs! Welcome to TopIdol.

    • blacklisted

      Hey gelid! We need more glamberts. You know all the secret handshakes and signals the rest of us could only hope to find out about via second hand gossip.

      Or…you could be a normal Adam fan that just wanted to be part of the herd (pardon the pun) and found yourself unwittingly trapped by the glambert label. ‘Tis okay, we accept you either way.

      • nerdgirl

        Sorry, I will never shake Glambert hand. I feel like it’s gonna be sticky and glittery. Or gloved. And may be not washed after touching Glambulge. So is it OK if I just wave? Hi, there!

        • blacklisted

          We’ve already stated that the word “glamb***e” is on moratorium. I swear, as gawd is my witness, I will write a strongly worded comment the next time I see it mentioned!

          • nerdgirl

            Sorry, am never sure of correct abbreviation, so I will show myself to the “naughty corner”.

          • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

            I didn’t notice because you weren’t ERECTING a pedestal for it ;)

          • CayKat

            so… Blacklisted, what can we refer to it as? Glamlump? Glamcrotch? Glamsextoolthatdoesn’tlikevaginas? LMAO! I kid – good riddance to “Glam- thing that shall no longer be mentioned” – it was disgusting.

          • Pandora

            I’d prefer to ignore the fact that it exists.

          • jukejoint

            I vote with Pandora.

            “Certain portions of Adam’s anatomy which shall remain nameless” is probably best for me.

    • Miz

      Welcome, gelid! I am a social butterfly but the only line I will stand in is at an Apple Store opening if they’re giving away freebies worth over $2000 to the first 100 in line. If I’m not in the first 100 I will go home and buy online.

    • et

      Ooh, gelid, welcome! I dig your spider legs/bat wings/Joker mouth combo…

    • Lauren

      Hi Gelid! I once had an Adam Official account…can’t remember my username though. xD
      Yay for more Glamberts!

      • gelid

        Thanks for all the welcomes and *waves* I am not sure there is such a thing as a normal Adam fan. As for myself I swear I am not a cod-worshipper or a groper of any ‘protrubences.’
        Never even been to an Idol tour or Adam concert (yet)

  • blacklisted

    Slightly OT but what’s the kerfluffle regarding AO’s mod saying that according to stats, Adam attracts an old woman demographic? I’m assuming it has to do with the old farts driving him nuts about IIHY. I just read some of the cows on MJ disagreeing but, hello, they prove that the mod is right in terms of Adam Official fan stats.

    • Borat83

      From what I can gather, the RCA mod at Adam Official got pissed off from the constant cow concern about how If I Had You was being promoted to radio, and he told off the sparkle cows. He said Adam’s greatest detriment for getting radio play and establishing credibility was his crazy middle-aged Idol fans, and how few Idol contestants have shed the taint of crazy middle aged housewife fantards. He said Adam hadn’t made the transition from television star to music star, and the constant cow obsession with his clothes, relationships and personal life wasn’t helping. Apparently RCA is trying to market him to a younger fanbase similar to the one he has abroad.

      Of course, the Glamberts didn’t take kindly to his views and tried to convince themselves that Adam has millions of young, normal fans.

      • summersnow

        No matter how much glamberts try to convince themselves, they still would not be able to change the fact that the CORE fanbase of Adam is made up of mainly sparkle cows aka fat, retarded and ill-mannered middle-aged to old women. A fact is a fact.

      • Verbally Dyslexic

        Is it normal for music label mods for an artist’s website to be so vocal about things on the fansite? I mean, I can understand how frustrating it must be to deal with the OTT behaviour on a daily basis there. I’m curious as to the lengths the AO mod has gone to in comparison with mods for other artists who I’m sure have their own set of ‘special superfans’ too.

        • Mithra

          That’s an interesting question. I think, unless it’s a fan run site, their presence is mostly non existant, or rather in the background. When I was reading AO back in the Isabelgate days, he posted a lot because they even started threads for him, calling for his attention. They are extremely pushy – I know…SO shocking… :D They basically tard over him and try to suck up even though it’s clear they are driving him nuts. It may be part of the label’s decision to try and get some sort of control over their poisonous web presence. They can’t control comments sections all over the place, but they can use an employee to TRY to reason with the Glamtards? Good luck with THAT ;)

        • Mithra

          I should add that this is probably costing the label more money than normal. They have to pay someone to babysit and interact aside from just doing the regular duty of the job.

      • Blue Eyes

        Which thread is this on? I need a good laugh!

        • Borat83

          I’m pretty sure he deleted it, and MJ deleted the reference to it as well. It was hilarious, he went off on an angry rant. He said the fact that the fact that Daughtry’s web traffic tripled after the announcement that his wife was having twins was evidence that he still couldn’t get beyond his Idol housewife, People Magazine-reading fanbase. Adam was having similar problems. Then he went on to insult country music and its fans. Wish I would’ve saved it.

          • Blue Eyes

            I miss all the good stuff! I haven’t read AO in a long time. There’s just too much crazy going on there! Boggles the mind! HAHA!

          • summersnow

            LOL I really like the mod for daring to speak the truth about glambert. I’m surprised that he dares to rant off like he did considering that the cows would send death threats to anyone who speaks anything negative about glambert. Hope that he will keep more of such hilarious stuff coming (and someone pls continue to post the funny stuff since I would never visit AO).

          • MarkC

            Wow, really? I wanted to read that! Wish there was some way to recover it, because it’s an interesting little insight into the mindset of the people in the hierarchy.

      • blacklisted

        OMG! That whole thing is hilarious. The heifers have driven this poor guy nuts. That’s the only way I could see an RCA just go off completely on their asses.

        None of them want the truth. Since Adam isn’t taking my advice to be a frontman of a band. In addition, he wants to become a pop star instead of going a more rockish route, the comments about Adam’s AI fanbase is correct. He can’t jump to pop star until he gains more teen fans and minimizes the aged who go to his concerts.

        AO obviously needs a mod but maybe the mod needs a little xanax to help him through the day.

        • Blue Eyes

          More like hard drugs and booze!! HAHA!

        • nerdgirl

          I am sure for most of young fans Adam seems more like Grandpa, considering that he is twice their age.

      • gelid

        Brace yourselves. Someone known as ‘thelambertluvva’ is soliciting advice on how best to help an 82 year old fan of Adam with terminal cancer to go to a show or meet him. There’s a new thread on AO about it and they ask if it would be a good idea to enlist the advice of sweetsexysean in this endeavor.

        • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

          the lambertvulva?

          • jukejoint

            Oh my GAWD. The lambertluvvavulva is the worst name yet. How can that person name herself that without seeing the anagram????

            Anybody smelled sweetsexysean anywhere near the premises, or did “his” continued avoidance of Glamania* in his own area finally clue everybody in that “he” is a big fat fake?

            *Glamania is right next to Freedonia and Ruritania, and the Glamalbum is now sextuple platinum in Glamania and triple platinum in Ruritania. It hasn’t charted in Freedonia, though. They still have “Hooray for Captain Spaulding” in #1 and it’s been that way since 1933.

  • nerdgirl

    I stood in line to buy bread and milk (hard to imagine for you all here in America), but not for 10 hours. Obviously Glamberts are just people who have nothing better to do.

    • rockpaperscissors

      I think at this point a large portion of the Glamberts are now obsessed with being obsessed with Lambert. They have been following him online, posting in forums, blogs etc for a year now and they have made a lot of new friends in the process, it has become part of their everyday lives. They have their favorite posting places where they all try to out do each other with new and exciting info about Lambert and it has become a contest of sorts to see who can find the newest, bestest info. Same goes with the concerts etc – you have to write the best recaps, take the best vids and pictures, go to the most concerts to show who is the best Glambert ever.

      • Mithra

        I honestly think that most of these people wouldn’t even LIKE him if they were introduced to him as he is now. It’s just that they are still tied into the weird Idol induced fanwar pissing contest. There seems to be several factions of tards who thought he was the second coming of everything from Elvis to Clay Aiken, and it really doesn’t matter to them what he really is.

  • Nich

    I never do GA and stand in line early because I think any of the performers are going to see me and fall in love with me. I just like to be in the front, I like to have my spot and I don’t want to have to move and shift and all that. Whenever I’m in the middle of the crowd at GA somehow I always end up getting shifted backwards and I hate that.

    • Nich

      Damn I wish I could edit. Also I don’t get out there at 8. I try to get out there early though and I’m always prepared so no passing out for me!

    • girl from mars

      What I was trying to say is that in a General Admission show, you are not guaranteed a spot in the front no matter what time you get there. Everyone pays the same, everyone has the same right to be in the front. If you get up front for one song or even part of one song, be happy with that and then let someone else have their turn. It’s what’s done.

      • Nich

        I completely disagree with the idea that “everyone gets a turn at the front”.

        • Nich

          Shoot that should be longer. If I wanted to just kinda float around the show then I’m not going to try to get there early or even try to get in the front for one or two songs. I’m going to get there whenever, hang out at the back by the bar and just not wade into the pit. What’s the fun in floating around the pit during a show?

          But I want to be in the front. I’m not going to fight someone over it and I’m not going to force my way up the way I’ve seen people do. If being in the front isn’t a big deal for the person who just wants to float around during the show then they won’t care that I’m going to hang out in my spot at the front.

  • w.dark

    I once lined up for a few hours to see a Q&A session with Clive Barker. It was popular, with several hundred people hoping to score a seat in an auditorium that would only hold 1/3 of the line. So yeah, it was worth it. It was also indoors, in an air conditioned venue, and the line was seated.

    I showed up to my last GA concert about 20 minutes after doors opened, spent 25 minutes hovering around the bar and having drinks, then wandered into the pit at showtime. People who line up for hours are insane.

    I’ll be going to a concert (that shall remain nameless*cough*glamnation*cough) in a couple of weeks. Don’t plan to line up for that either, though I’d like to see who does. It’s a 6-hour show and there are no drinks allowed in the pit (of ANY kind, you have to leave to get one.) I fully expect to see people being hauled out on a stretcher.

  • jacknife juggernaut

    blacklisted, I keep denying my long-in-toothiness too! I hear ya tho. I saw MCR at the end of their last tour from my reserved seat in Madison Square Garden, first level, not on the floor, cuz tho I love MCR I don’t think I can take bodily bruising anymore :)

    • blacklisted

      lol, sometimes it takes one event to let you know that you aren’t a youngun anymore. Not being able to breathe and fearing a cracked rib is not as bad as getting kicked in the head.

      Seriously, the only good thing with age is the ability to pay top price for a really good seat.

  • blacklisted

    That’s just ridiculous.

    I’ve done GA a bunch of times, usually being tall and crafty work out. I like some venues more than others and some performers I like watching GA because of the crowd energy. A few times I’ve been battered (Green Day-my shoulder got fucked up; MCR-ribs got bruised). For most pop acts though I prefer just getting a good seat. Rap and punk I like being with the GA crowd…although I might be getting a wee bit long in the tooth to do it much longer.

    • blacklisted

      I should also say that waiting long hours is often times a waste and in fact just puts people at risk for dehydration. I’ve seen that happen at a couple of GA shows where people had to leave their ‘prime’ spot. If MCR does a set at a small club while they work out the kinks to their new album, I might be tempted to wait a few hours, not all day. That’s more about hearing new music after four years and less about being close to the group.

  • Blue Eyes

    I waited in line for U2 tickets, twice. I happened to be in NYC on the concert dates and didn’t have a ticket. So I got in line for the standby tickets, which is hit or miss, around 2:00 pm and waited in line the whole afternoon, until show time. It was actually fun, I met some nice people and we chatted the whole time, took bathroome breaks and snack breaks.

    The first time, I got a third row ticket from the catwalk and so did the people I was standing in line with! It was so awesome being that close to the stage! It was well worth the time I spent standing in line. On the second day, I decided to try it again, and got in line around 2:00 pm, but this time it didn’t work. The tickets were all sold out, but that’s the chance you take, but at least I got in one time and it was totally awesome!

    I don’t usually do general admission because I like to have a ticket and a seat and if it’s someone I really like, I spend the money to get a good seat.

  • jacknife juggernaut

    Thanks girl for mars–preach it!

    I too go to a lot of “GA” shows in New York, Mercury Lounge, Bowery Ballroom, etc., and I expect to just show up whenever…if I feel like hanging out before, getting drinks, or maybe checking out opening act, then I’ll be there shortly after the time stated for doors. I’m going to see Kurs Illini at the Borgata in August, and I got GA tix…hope that wasn’t a mistake. I have never been to an AI-related show and unfortunately I wasn’t schooled in previous Idol fanbases until now. Well, whatever. I’ll be there around 9:30 when he takes the stage for Can’t Stay Away.

  • Pandora

    More and more I am coming to believe that a lot of Adam’s frauen are actually wayward Josh Groban fantards (known as Grobanites). The Grobanites obsess over his body parts, they make homemade puffy-paint shirts with his picture on them, they get to concerts hours and hours ahead of time (and they’re not even GA shows!), and some of them fly across the country/across the world to see TV tapings/radio appearances/whatever. Several years ago he mentioned the crazies in an interview: http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20150373,00.html and that was after his second album; things got even worse after the third one.

    Josh’s tours are arenas, though, not clubs, and therefore have assigned seating. :)

    It’s been a long time between albums for Josh, he’s been working with a new producer (Rick Rubin) and really pushing himself to do different things, so I think some of his tards got bored and latched on to Adam in the meantime… Josh’s new album will be out later this year and it will be interesting to see if the number of Adam’s frauen decreases at that time.

    • Blue Eyes

      Back when Taylor Hicks was somewhat popular, after he won, I noticed a lot of his frauen were Josh Groban fantards as well. I’m pretty sure the majority of them moved on from being Taytards and are now Adam tards.

      When a take a peek at Adam’s tard boards, they talk exactly like the Soul Patrol used to talk – obsessive crazy talk about his body parts, flying across the country to see his shows, buying every magazine that has his photo. It’s like every minute of their day is consumed by Adam Lambert. It’s beyond scary.

      • Pandora

        That’s what the Groban boards are like! Or used to be… I haven’t looked at one in a long time. I just check the news page on his site, that’s enough for me.

      • muzikizmi

        Blue Eyes, you are so right. Many Glamberts are either former Claymates or Soul Patrollers, or both.

        I think that is why they want to ruin Kris and ‘send him back to Arkansas’. In their warped minds, they are getting revenge for what happened to Taylor and Clay. Although, for the life of me, I can’t figure out why Kris should have to pay for those sins. Maybe I am not that warped yet? :)

        • MissMyEm

          Many Glamberts are either former Claymates
          As a former Clay fan (will never use the term Claymate on myself), I am not a Glambert. I prefer my Krust Alien. Also…my friend knows someone from Claymania who was a big Glambert at first. Then Clay said things that were not nice about Adam and Adam retaliated by saying things about Clay that were not so flattering and these Claymates dropped Adam like a hot potato. They now loathe poor Adam because he dissed their original Idol love. I know a lot of former Clay fans. Most of them are now into other Idol singers. None of them however are fans of Adam. They range from Bo to Elliott, to Jason to Kris to Taylor…but none of them prefer Adam. And those who did right after Idol..kind of wiped their hands of him after the AMAs.

          • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

            A ton of former Claymates love Lambert. Just look at…I’m not saying her name, but you know who I’m talking about.

  • 107

    OMG – you are so right!!!

    You know why I don’t go to GA shows?? because you have to stand.

    When I buy a ticket to a show I get a SEAT – it says SEAT right on the ticket!!!

    What I am so sick of – like you — is people gets SEATS for a show and they STAND!!!

    I can’t STAND it – If you want to go STAND at a show — go to a GA show!!!

    Don’t ruin my experience when you STAND when you are supposed to have a SEAT!!

    GA is for good looking single people to STAND – fatties need to have a SEAT!!!

    You are so right – I can’t wait to see you sitting in your SEAT at the next concert I go to!!!

    It says SEAT right on the ticket!!!

    • songkat7

      Out of curiosity, do you stay sitting when the band calls for everyone to stand up? (Honest question, I’m not being snarky.)

      I was at an all-day rock festival this past Saturday and most bands did just that. There was a mosh pit for those who wanted that, and there were thousands of seats. Sidestage was GA, but the main acts were in the pavilion. I saw most people stand up when the bands wanted us to (and for the final 3 bands, mostly everyone stood up). When people wanted to sit down, they did, but I didn’t see anyone seem to have a problem with those who stood.

      I’ve heard many people say, “it’s a rock show, you STAND at a rock show”. I understood that wholeheartedly this past Saturday.

  • girl from mars

    There is largely unspoken concert etiquette that is being violated here. I’ve been going to general admission, all-ages type shows for about 16 years now, and I have never ever ever heard of this kind of behavior. General admission is just that, general. You have the right to go wherever the hell you want, and it does not matter who got there first. It is childish and rude to assume otherwise. General Admission does NOT mean first come, first served. There is a natural shuffle in the audience as a show goes on, people get drinks, tall people let shorter people stand in front of them (this means you, adults, let the kids in front!) and not yapping throughout the show.

    And I’ll let you in on a little secret: Most of the time, the performer on stage cannot see the audience very well due to the elevation and the lights. Adam Lambert will not see you and fall in love because you’re in the front row.

    If the lines in the front are a social thing, I’m sure the venues would appreciate it if people decided to meet up at a restaurant or a bar prior to the show. It makes it easier on staff and easier for cleanup afterward. The tickets cover the price of running the show and the show’s associated costs. These venues are not stadiums, and Adam Lambert does not have the budget of a major sports team behind him for crowd control and cleanup 17 hours prior to the event.

    Also, a word to those going to the NYC shows at Nokia: Waiting for hours in line in Times Square is never a good idea. It causes even more congestion than is already there, and is a pain for the shops/vendors around the venue. It also makes it difficult for the disabled to pass through.

    All in all, this waiting in line and entitlement when it comes to General Admission does NOT make promoters and the press think that Adam Lambert is a huge superstar. It makes them think that he has a gaggle of rude fans and that maybe they’ll think twice about asking him to return.

    • girl from mars

      Whoops, the “yapping throughout the show” was an accident. Still, don’t do it.

      • saskin

        Thanks for saying everything i meant to say.

  • cb

    I’m hoping it’s just the dreaded GA and having to be at the front that’s causing the ridiculous lines. Yeah, being up front is super cool but I’d have to have Adam personally handing me large sums of cash and the finest chocolate and giving me a foot rub to wait that long. We were fortunate to be up front at the Vancouver BC concert without waiting too long in line. But the shoving was relentless and obnoxious. And all to get 2 feet closer to the stage? And who brings their giant ass purse into a mosh pit? I don’t get why people can’t be more polite. Anyhow, the funny part is my sister thought the woman shoving her finally gave up and went back to her seat because she (the woman) was having hot flashes.

  • Paulie

    Eep! I’ve also done that waiting-in-line-for-hours more than once. I did that for a boyband’s free-for-all show. *blush* Heck, when Kris was in Manila last February I was forced to wait 4 hours because I won a meet-and-greet and the organizers instructed us to be at the venue way too early. *sigh* That’s 4 hours I could’ve spent stalking him at his hotel… ;)

    I don’t understand waiting in line for GA seats just to prove who’s the bestest!!11! fan though. Maybe because where I live GA seats are the farthest, but if you’re a tard, shouldn’t you be buying the most expensive VIP tickets?

    • http://8sourcandy.wordpress.com/ 8sourcandy

      Yes! I would’ve bought the most over-priced tard package they had, but they didn’t have any. I would have paid anything just to not have to sit on a hot, sweaty street in NYC for hours.

  • wino

    “Is there anything you would wait in line for hours & hours at a time to see or do?”

    Yes. If the earth was crumbling and tickets were available for a special shuttle. Otherwise, not really. I hate waiting and I hate people, so there isnt any reason to combine the two.

  • MissMyEm

    but it’s rather…humorously ironic?

    Why do I feel like breaking out in song?

    It’s the elephant in the room…………………

  • carmine2008

    At least they are not at home… spamming Chroix Ahlyen articles. Right?

    • carmine2008

      I just noticed my monster is a television set with tusks. And don’t get me started on having springs for legs… LOL.

      • old bat

        YOU! You’re the elephant in the room! Waitiing to spring out and ambush sad people trying to have themselves a proper breakup. >:(

      • et

        carmine2008, you might be dangerous, springing around with those tusks sticking out like that.

      • jukejoint

        Can you imagine a springy TV set with tusks at a General Admission show? Hokey smokey, that would be scary. And probably scarring, as well. Although you could move a herd of thundering Glambos pretty quickly with those things.

        Hmmm… Note to those attending GA Lambert shows: Wear tusks like carmine2008 or a unicorn horn like ross, or just bring a cattle prod for easier entrances and exits.

        • et

          It might be useful for dispersing the front row crew type people who glare and push and shove – you could let that little tusky springer go and it would scatter them… and then the normal people could get up front :)

  • On The Edge

    Okay, I admit, I waited in line for a David Cook show. Started at 4 for an 8 pm show…yes, I’m embarrassed. BUT I met a girl who is now one of my best friends (we have way more in common than DC, thank goodness…I introduced her to the wonders of “Yacht Rock”). What makes me MORE embarrassed is that her guy friend came straight from work 15 minutes before the show started and was able to get right where we were anyway. I knew there was no way in hell we were getting in front of the “Front Row Crew,” especially when I found out they had been there since before 9 am. I think my main fear was being stuck in the very VERY back behind a bunch of tall people.

    I know better now, but in my defense, in my radio days I ALWAYS went early because I was always part of the meet & greets, “escorting” contest winners. I knew Mindy McCready before she became a crack whore!

    • On The Edge

      As for any other events? I did Black Friday once and froze my ass off, then LOST the gift card I got at the door, defeating the whole purpose of going to the mall at 2 in the morning. AND I went to the Bama campus at 7 am for the 9 am “ESPN College Gameday” (hey, I got my sign on TV…and I might argue tarding for a sports team is TOTALLY different).

      • margie

        Sports team tarding is totally different and mandatory On The Edge esp in the SEC!

      • LittleMissCynic

        Tarding for a sports team IS totally different.

        Some friends and I lined up at 4:00 AM for a College Gameday taping at Ohio State. It was the longest I’ve ever waited for anything. But it was totally worth it. So much fun!

    • et

      LOL, On The Edge, the front row crew fricking camps out overnight, it is insanity. Because I’m sure Cook wanted to see the *same damn faces* in the front row every single night. I liked the venue in Richmond, you could eat dinner at the restaurant there and then they let you in early. I won’t stand in line for hours for anyone (well, yeah, the shuttle to get off the crumbling earth sounded ok) but I can go have some beer and eat dinner and wait that way – that’s civilized (and I was in the 3rd or 4th row and didn’t stand outside for 12 hours – yay – though damn those beyotches do push and shove. Good thing I’m 5’9″ and hostile, heh). I just remember VA Beach, you could pick up a line number early so I went down around 8 am because I was going jogging on the boardwalk anyway and I grabbed my line number and was like #200-ish and asked him if people were lined up early and the guy laughed and said “These people are nuts, they were camped out on the boardwalk.” WHY? I bet David fell in love with every one of them and now sends them roses and candy, right? I mean, you have to get *something* out of living in a tent city the night before a concert?

      Now sports team tarding is different ’cause you go several hours early and *tailgate* and get all drunk and silly (or sober and silly). It would make sense to *tailgate* before a concert, like before Jimmy Buffet (do they still do this? I went 15 years ago) where it’s one big communal party. That’s how we should roll to these shows… then we can point and laugh at the people who camped out? :)

      • cb

        et,
        Why does 5’9″ suddenly seem freakishly tall at a GA show? Guess it’s good the tards wear flats knowing they will be on their feet for so long. Let’s tailgate at a Cook or Lambert concert, make fun of the Usual Front Row, and then stand -next- to each other. I wouldn’t want to block your view. ;)

        • et

          LOL, I often feel freakishly tall – though at one show I did have some giant teenage boy standing in front of me, I had to sorta peer around his head. Because I couldn’t move, because the drunk 40-ish couple behind me kept bumping into me. And then the two teenage girl with Mr. Sasquatch would give you death glares if you so much as dared to move and I’m too old to bitchslap teenage girls, no matter how horrid they are ;)

        • jukejoint

          At the one GA show I attended (the one where I got trampled, pogo’d and got beer spilled on me more than once), some woman who was supposedly an expert concert attender was wearing these huge Kiss boots because she was short and she felt the need to be taller. And I was all, you can stand for five or six hours in THOSE? Anyway, during the show, she got knocked into a fence thing that was between the stage and the crowd, and she got pretty well crushed, as well as flipped over the top of the fence and into that no-man’s land at the bottom of the stage. So then security hustled in to get her out of there, determined she was injured, and took her backstage, where she got to meet the band that she was so enamoured of.

          All in all, I would say that her purchase of Frankenstein boots with five or six inch platform wedges on the bottom worked out well for her.

          Meanwhile, me in my comfy shoes got jostled and trampled and knocked around all night, including by the waitresses, who made numerous trips in and out of the big fat mess of humanity to deliver drinks, most of which seemed to end up down somebody’s pants who hadn’t ordered them, and by really annoying couples, with several tough guys trying to jam themselves and their girlfriends up to the front, or crazy drunk guys slamming themselves into anything female, or… Well, you get the idea. I thought WHAT THE HELL am I doing here? I’m old! I’m cranky! I have claustrophobia! NEVER AGAIN!

  • jukejoint

    I hate waiting in line for no purpose and I won’t do it. Sorry. I’ll just wait for another concert that has assigned seats. Back in the 80s, I almost got trampled trying to get my tickets at the pick-up window for Springsteen (where, by the way, we had assigned seats and most people stayed in their seats most of the time, so if dancing was done, which it was, it was done in front of your seat) and then I did get trampled at a stupid GA concert in Chicago with some craptastic no-name Chicago bands playing, so… No GA for me.

    I also remember middle-aged housefrau sleeping on the quad at my college to be first in line for Elvis tickets. The students just walked past them, mercilessly mocking all the way. The students didn’t give a shit about Elvis, plus we had class and exams and stuff to do — it was all people twice our age hogging up our quad.

    Anyway, I have gone to music fairs and block parties and that kind of thing, where you show up whenever you want and leave whenever you want and there aren’t necessarily seats, but… There’s also no trampling, no stampede, no thundering hooves. I am sort of planning to go to the block party in Chicago for Barenaked Ladies and Kinky Allergy. I certainly hope nobody plans to do the stand-around-for-hours-to-prove-true-fanhood thing. I can’t imagine they would.

    • songkat7

      I’m going to the block party in Chicago, and I am most definitely not standing in line all day. I find that ridiculous as well, would rather spend my time elsewhere and then get to the show at a normal time. (I’m not a fan of GA anyway.) My sister and I plan to just be part of the crowd and enjoy the show with that dreaded Cursed Alien. I don’t care where I stand, as long as I can hear the music.

    • songkat7

      Oh, and from what I understand from a friend who was at a recent Kris show, he most definitely does have some fans tarding his tour, following him around to every show. And hogging the front (actually standing with arms and legs splayed wide to prevent anyone else from “taking their spot”. *sigh*

      • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

        LEGS SPLAYED WIDE???

        Ugh.

  • sleuthey007

    So how many people were there all day? It could have been a handful. Or did all those teens and men stand in line for 12 hours because of sparkle cow mind control.

  • muzikizmi

    For over a year, people have been saying that the Glambert segment of Adam’s fans are people who have a lot of spare time and disposable income, but nothing going on in their personal lives. The fact that they stand in line all day long, just reinforces this view of them. Most of us have other things to do, and people to do them with.

  • Ittybittybear

    I went the Cook show a little over a year ago in VA Beach and then the next day over in North Carolina. The VA Beach show you had to go down on the SAturday of the show and get seat numbers. There were eight of us and the 3 most enthused went down at 3 in the morning (not me) and got us some seats on 8th row. Fine with me. The next morning my group took off at the crack of dawn to go three hours over to the show in NC where they had to wait in line until doors opened at 8 pm. I had met someone the night before that was going and decided to go with them at noon. After all, we had a beach front hotel room and I kind of wanted to enjoy that for 5 more hours. We got to NC and still had to wait 5 hours. When we got in (GA) every one took there spaces crowded up to the stage and had to wait an hour just for Ryan Star. I don’t like Ryan Star so it was another hour before Cook. I was so miserable at that point I didn’t care if I went to another Cook concert again. It was a 600 capacity venue and I think there were 700 there. An ambulance was in the parking lot when the concert was over since there was one fainter.

    It was HORRIBLE!!! I have been to a Cook concert since but never GA. Assigned seating thank you. And I swore I would never fly to another concert. Lied. I live in Texas and I’m going to Red Rocks in Colorado!! Assigned seating, though.

    • On The Edge

      See, I would love to go to Red Rocks, just to go to that venue. It’s kind of a legendary venue, like the Ryman in Nashville or something. Heck it could be fucking YANNI* for all I care, but if someone said to me, “hey, want to go to Red Rocks? I’m paying!” then HELL YES I would go.
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      *well, maybe not Yanni.

      • naiya

        John Tesh?

        • Ittybittybear

          I just can’t believe Kris is getting to play Red Rocks. Last year, the Cook fans, of which I admit being a part of, only dreamed and wished for Red Rocks. To me that is the ultimate venue. Of course, John Denver is my favorite of all time singer. True story. My son is named after his son. Zachary. I may be prejudiced.

          • margie

            I would kill to go to a concert a Red Rocks. I don’t care who is performing. I just want to go and experience the atmosphere. Sigh…maybe someday I will be able too.

          • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

            I walked around Red Rocks in winter and have photos…closest I’ve gotten ;)

            Gorgeous, gorgeous area. And some of the greatest natural acoustics. Gotta see a show there one of these days. Plus I always just think of Phish’s Junta CD (recorded there) and when Trey yells THIS IS RED ROCKS THIS IS THE EDGE. I cannot hear the words Red Rocks without going THIS IS RED ROCKS THIS IS THE EDGE.

          • naiya

            I would love to see a concert there, too. I have seen the venue but I was the only one there, so it wasn’t quite the same :)

          • Pandora

            My husband saw U2 at Red Rocks in the early 80s before they hit it big. The one that was released “Live at Red Rocks.” He still has the Tshirt in a drawer, it’s so old that it’s practically transparent at this point.

    • MissMyEm

      Well you do know, I’d go with you in a flash if I could. But I can’t, so I’m settling for Los Angeles with assigned seats.

      And speaking of standing in line for hours, I said I would never again go to a taping of American Idol because you have to stand in line for hours just to make sure you get in. But, when someone got me tickets this year…and since I knew some members of Season 8 and before would be there…I caved. Two of us got there (not me) at 9:30 AM, but with traffic I didn’t get there til a little after 10. We were about the 250th more or less on line. I think we got crappy seats anyway because non of us are tall, beautiful, trendy 21 year olds…even though we did get in the orchestra.

      But I digress. My point is that at least this year, they gave out seats at 11 AM and that meant we didn’t have to wait on line all day. We could have gone home or gone shopping or gone out to eat or what have you. So I didn’t mind it all that much. Actually it was a fun day, but normally…I don’t do GA tickets because I’m claustrophobic.

      And I hate sweaty bodies holding beer while dancing.

    • et

      LOL, ittybittybear, I went down at 8 am for a jog at the VA Beach show and I was 14th row. I got an extra 5 hours of sleep and it only cost me 6 rows ;)

      • Ittybittybear

        I’m all about a jog on VA Beach but actually I slept until 8 or 9. I let the obsessed do the work at 2 or 3 in the morning!! I actually think Kris is a better idol for me. Just too lazy to do the work on the others I honestly think Katy is his sekrit weapon. That’s the only difference really between Kris and David…well other than one is way cuter and their music is way different. I guarantee Kris would have hordes of frau after him if he were single!!!

        I’m just glad I went to the VA Beach concert because the beach was AWESOME!!!!

        BTW.. this has to be said. We ran into David and band eating dinner in a hotel. One of our group came all the way over from Moscow to catch those concerts and she waited until he got through with dinner before she approached him to let him know of her efforts to see him in these concerts (she’s not Russian. Husband is in some kind of civil service and she had miles so it’s not like she paid for the flight to get here). David was very standoffish. IDK. I would have thought he would have been blown away over someone coming from around the world to see him. Part of the reason I’m just not the much of a fan anymore.

        • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

          Wasn’t the VA Beach/NC shows where all hell broke loose? That Celine whacko got arrested or something?

          • Ittybittybear

            Oh yeah! That was part of the problem with my NC show. Celine was standing (and pushing) right beside me. She didn’t get arrested but security was called several times. She’s a wacko for David’s tattooed and very talented guitarist, Neal.

  • MaryS-NJ

    I’ve been to concerts at the Starland Ballroom. It’s not a terribly big venue but some concerts have a fast pass entry thingie that lets you jump ahead in line if you pay extra for special parking. I guess they didn’t have that for Adam because he’s such an “international star”… It’s Hazy, Hot and Humid in central NJ today – oh yeah, and there’s a tornado watch. Does one get special fan points for braving hazardous weather?

    • On The Edge

      Shhhh…you’ll bring out the David Cook fans that “braved” tornado warnings in Knoxville last year.

  • summersnow

    Yeah I was waiting to be entertained by news of sparkle cows’ OTT behavior and predictably I dun have to wait too long=)

  • http://8sourcandy.wordpress.com/ 8sourcandy

    General Admission sucks. I dedicated an entire post to why and how much. I would have rather spent $500 on a really good seat than stand in line for hours. I hate standing in line for anything. But I also hate attending a concert and having my view blocked by tard signs, ambitious hairstyles, abnormally tall people, piggy-back viewers and now, hat feathers. I want to see Adam Lambert not the silhouette of some sparkle cow rocking out to Adam Lambert. I suspect the NYC line will start Monday night for the Tuesday show. I plan on getting on line Tuesday morning. It doesn’t please me, but I will make the best of it.

    The GMA Central park show was also general admission. The line stared at 5pm the night before. I arrived at 3am and was way in the back. I could hardly see the stage with all the tard signs and everyone climbing up on each others back. I was aggravated the whole time.

    • Katie112

      I’d have someone pay me $500 to see Adam Lambert.

      • nerdgirl

        I would take the money and then I would’ve “fainted” as the concert began.

  • ross

    Lambert frauen are just the type to do stuff like this. Everything needs to be hyped up and exaggerated.

    • kimberly

      I agree. It’s annoying and reeks of desperation. Adam’s talent and success should be able to speak for itself.

    • ross

      But I think they enjoy anything that’s overdramatized.

      • ross

        See, nothing could make me go wait in line at 3am. Not even if they were handing out 100 dollar bills.

        • http://8sourcandy.wordpress.com/ 8sourcandy

          It may be the only area in our lives that we’re overachievers, can’t you let us have that? Yes, we’re drama queens, but drama queens are people too. :)

          • saskin

            Totally.

          • nerdgirl

            Just don’t come close to me, that’s all I ask for…

          • kimberly

            You just made me smile. I wish more Adam fans were like you. There are some that just can’t get over the outcome of season 8. Ravengirl crawled her way over to a not so positive review about Kris Allen and brought up how America got it wrong. The review was riddled with mistakes and totally biased. I also read the reviewer had deleted many of the posts pointing out his errors and those that stated Kris was not well that evening. When bitterness colors a review, I find it completely unprofessional. Idol seems to bring out the crazy in people.

          • http://8sourcandy.wordpress.com/ 8sourcandy

            Nerdgirl,

            I can’t think of any reason for me to ever go near you. So, I guess you’re safe.

        • ross

          Okay, I’ll allow you to have that. But don’t overdo it. :)

        • MissMyEm

          Clay’s fans did the same thing. But with Clays’ fans it was kill or be killed. I use to be in that fandom, but I’m not anymore. The fans just drove me to drink.

  • StopHurtsEars

    Don’t even get me started. There is no one I would waste my whole day standing in line for. I actually like being farther back in a venue because the sound is better imo. And sorry to say that it is a lot of older women with time and money on their hands wasting the day away to be in the front row for every concert in the hopes they can make a connection with these young men however fleeting. I love live music and if the vibe is chill there is nothing more that I enjoying than a GA concert with people who love live music. What I hate is this basterdized idol fan idea of concert going that has more to do with some fantasy of being besties with the artist just because you are front and center at every concert and mow anyone esle down who gets in your way. And it’s not about enjoying live music but it becomes a competition to see who can get said artists attention for themselves hence the waiting in line all day and allenating other would be fans with obnoxious selfish behavior. Gag it makes me mad if you can’t tell.

  • Nich

    I confess if it’s GA I always try to get out early to line up because I seriously hate being the back trying to see over people’s heads. GA gives me a chance to get “front row” something that never happens if it’s assigned seating b/c I can’t ever afford front row seats. Plus I like to lean on the barricade during the boring open acts.

    This isn’t just something I do with Idol shows since I’ve only seen Cook in concert once (well twice if you count the cd launch show). U2? I had GA tickets and I tried to get out there pretty early that day. And my seriously favorite group, Franz Ferdinand, is always GA and I always line-up early. But everyone in that line are pretty much young so we don’t look that weird.

    • Acrobat

      Yeah, for GA shows I like to line up early (a few hours, maybe) because I’m not particularly tall, and 95% of the time some bastard who’s, like, 6’9″ will end up standing right in front of me. But 12 hours in advance is ridiculous. I wouldn’t do that for a Led Zeppelin reunion with the reanimated corpse of Jon Bonham on drums.

      • http://8sourcandy.wordpress.com/ 8sourcandy

        “I wouldn’t do that for a Led Zeppelin reunion with the reanimated corpse of Jon Bonham on drums.” Are you kidding…I’d get in line now! :)

      • et

        I think going a few hours early is fine. I can do like 3 hours? But some of these people fricking *camp out*, it’s insane.

  • Mysterioso

    That scene doesn’t look like any concert I’ve ever been to, and I’ve been to hundreds. I love General Admission concerts, because I hate being stuck in one spot all night. No wonder some of them faint at these shows.

    • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

      There was an EMS guy wandering around. I’m sure some fainted by noon.

      • muzikizmi

        They MUST get up front. If they don’t, Adam won’t see them and fall instantly in love with them. Of course, after standing outside all day, they are going to smell. Isn’t that Adam’s most favorite thing? A ballroom full of sweaty, stinky women?

        • Katie112

          Not only that, but Madam will have sex with the one who waited the longest before his show, which is why each frau tries to beat the other reaching the stadium.

        • http://8sourcandy.wordpress.com/ 8sourcandy

          Isn’t that Adam’s most favorite thing? A ballroom full of sweaty, stinky women?

          lol!!!!

          • candy

            ugg – I’m already dreading Nokia and it’s two weeks away. I refuse to camp out all day and I like to pee and get drinks during the show (plus my shortie girlfriend gets claustrophobic at these things) so I’m resigned to being in the back. But I’ve seen him before with really good assigned seats so I can live with not being up front for this one. Thank god i have like zero sense of smell because I can only imagine what hot glamberts cooking in the NYC sun all day are going to be like.

          • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

            Candy, I got a great idea for us to make a little cash and help the masses during the Glam Nation Tour.

            It’s called the PEE FUNNEL. It’s pretty much exactly what it sounds like, although these are not very well known outside…BURNING MAN (The marketing of this is PERFECT!) I’m sure they’re called something else amongst hard-core campers and people who climb mountains, but I know it as a Pee Funnel and as mentioned above, this is the best way to sell it (As Seen At Burning Man!) to line-dwelling Glamberts.

            There is a Pee Funnel Camp which distributes pee funnels to anyone that’s interested. Pee Funnels take the difficulty of pissing in a bottle or jar experienced by women. Keep one of these in your tent (w/a bottle or jug, obviously) and if you wake up in the middle of the night, you don’t have to walk to the nearest port-a-potty.

            We could even decorate them with glitter!

          • CayKat

            OMG – this is awesome. I WANT someone to do this!

          • jukejoint

            I know them as The Motorman’s Helper. It’s from some old, crappy Burt Reynolds movie.

            Or there’s always astronaut diapers.

      • http://8sourcandy.wordpress.com/ 8sourcandy

        Lamberkitten and I will be attending the NYC show. We may take shifts waiting in line.

      • nerdgirl

        You mean Glambulance, right?

        • jukejoint

          They might need that glambulance if they get too glweaty and glass out, right there in gline. Globody glants to glose their glace glight up glont, glue know, if they glo to the glestgloom when they gleel glaint. Gluckers!

          I don’t really have the hang of this glam thing, do I?