"Miracles" Do Happen! Adam Lambert's '2012' Theme Finally Released
After last week's 29-second tease of Adam Lambert's 2012 theme in a new movie trailer (during which the actors' dialogue actually overlapped Adam's vocals! such disrespect! shaddup, actors!), the full and thankfully dialogue-free song was leaked this past weekend and released on Amazon for preorder. (Oddly, it was released in Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands first; the U.S. release date is officially October 20.) And naturally, anxious Adam fans are stampeding to hear it, triggering a possible international server meltdown/explosion not unlike something straight out of the Roland Emmerich disaster film itself.
The song certainly has rock cred, as it was recorded by Green Day/My Chemical Romance superproducer Rob Cavallo and co-written by Alain Johannes of Eleven/Spinnerette/Queens Of The Stone Age and his late partner Natasha Shneider. But this is certainly no little hipster/indie sleeper tune, nor is it the eccentric electropop promised to be featured on Adam's upcoming debut album.
No, "Time For Miracles" is exactly the type of song a multi-jillion-dollar action flick requires: It's four minutes and 44 seconds of unapologetically unsubtle, '80s-esque, over-the-top, ostentatious bombast and bluster and Bic-flicking power-balladry, a la Aerosmith's Armageddon anthem "I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing" or U2's Batman blitzkrieg "Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me," or even Berlin's Top Gun smash "Take My Breath Away."
This is a GOOD thing, by the way. Come on, 2012 isn't some quirky indie film. It ain't Juno or Once or Lost In Translation. It's a big-budget popcorn blockbuster packed with CGI'd explosions, so it needs an explosive blockbuster of a theme song. The "Kashmir"-ish kind of song that'll blast off the multiplex screen and out of the THX sound system, and thus forcibly pin ADD-addled moviegoers to their seats so that they actually sit still through the credits. The kind of song whose video can only be properly premiered in a cavernous movie theater before Michael Jackson's This Is It screenings. The kind of song that classic rocker Brian May of Queen (and, um, myself) would describe as "truly sensational" and "obviously a number one smash."
Don't worry, we'll likely get some indie-ish electropop from Adam later. And I am definitely looking forward to hearing that side of Adam's multiple musical personality as well. But right now, this is certainly the way for him to start his recording career with a big BANG:
him by posting a link to a song that is NOT AVAILABLE to most
people. Plz take it down.
The song just keeps building to a crescendo and then just when you think you can no longer breathe,you are gently held by Adam's soft musical vocals that allow you to catch some air.