A supernatural night

After watching Adam Lambert’s electrifying “Glam Nation in Mall of Asia” last Sunday, I can say that Adam is at the forefront of musical performance. He began his concert with the song Voodoo dressed in a mean mad hatter outfit ready to bring on a carnival. Despite tropical heat, Adam maintained his supernatural presence onstage like a vamp ready to seduce his prey and ready for the kill. His otherworldly appeal is indescribable because it goes beyond professional. He isn’t a performer. He is a entertainment creature that feeds off the music itself and the audience’s energy.

 Midway through the set, he tried to trick the crowd into believing that he’s truly human by singing vulnerable ballads like Whataya want from me and Sleepwalker. Yet, I can’t buy it because his haunting banshee wail reverberated throughout the grounds that night. It is a sound that is divinely hypnotic and demands your attention.

For the last set, Adam went David Bowie mode by strutting his way into his glam rock repertoire of Music Again and the aptly-titled Strut. Then, leaving the audience with his acoustic cover of Mad World.

Adam is indeed an out-of-this-world performing creature. Without fireworks but only a bucket of glitter and guy-liner, the Glam Nation concert had a supernatural charge that was worth its temptation because of how talented Adam, his dancers, and band were. I cannot wait to see how elaborate Lambert’s next concerts will be. I’ll certainly be listening to his music and lining up for his concerts again and again.

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Thank you to Vincent Ascalon and Eventscape Manila for producing the concert. Thank you to Greenwich marketing director and true American Idol fans Luis Velasco III and his wife for joining me in the Glamnation.