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Get The Look: Adam Lambert’s Truly Outrageous ‘For Your Entertainment’ Album Cover
STOP what you’re doing because whatever you’re doing is NOWHERE NEAR as important as the precious time you’re about to spend or already have spent staring slack-jawed at the glorious artistic masterpiece that is Adam Lambert’s just-released For Your Entertainment album cover.
Reactions to Adam Lambert’s For Your Entertaiment cover art have ranged from Very Bowie to fan art gone wild to the resurrection of Jem And The Holograms to “gayer than anything man can conceive of.”
To be sure, Adam Lambert is fully in on the joke — he just Tweeted: “Thank you to those who appreciate and understand that the album cover is deliberately campy. It’s an omage to the past. It IS ridiculous.” (Except homage is spelled with an “h.” Oh well. He’s got singing going for him.)
Anyway, I LOVE ridiculous. And I love that the art direction for For Your Entertainment was basically like “Um, so, let’s take Prince’s Purple Rain album art, Rihanna’s Rated R cover art, and Steel Panther’s Death To All But Metal cover art, add Kate Gosselin’s wig but spray paint it blue, mkay? But let’s ALSO paint Adam’s nails black too, because that’s always symbolically dark.” The only thing that truly makes no sense is the budget-looking font used for Adam Lambert’s name. I think my accountant uses the same font. Boring! MOAR SPARKLES PLZE!
Therefore, embracing all that is fantastically fun about camp, and admitting that it’s great to worship at the altar of glam and Glambert, here’s how YOU can get Adam Lambert’s For Your Entertainment album art look! JUST in time for Halloween!
+ NEON YELLOW/ GREEN EYESHADOW: Try Bloody Mary’s Neon Yellow eyeshadow. Apply liberally to corner of eyes after making cat-eyes with hardcore amounts of black eyeliner. The more the better. Then make a sullen but beautiful pouty face. (Watch Tidal-era Fiona Apple videos for inspo.)
+ SHEER PINK LIPSTICK: I believe “baby pink” is the look Adam’s going for. NARS’ Roman Holiday completes the pretty picture, no? And so appropriately titled!
+ KATE GOSSELIN WIG: I mean, that’s exactly what’s going on here. Get a Kate Gosselin wig, some blue spray paint, and then spray the f+++ out of it.
+ SPARKLY STAR GLITTER: Because you’ve already come this far. Makeup For Ever’s star glitter was pretty much invented for Glambert.
+ RAZOR: All excess body hair was shed for this shoot. Do it like you mean it. Because it’s time for miracles, y’all.