Adam Lambert - "Mad World" by Tears for Fears

Adam's father is on camera and he says that he was a screamer as a small child.  Figures.  His dad thinks that's where he got that big voice of his.  Oh, and I love this freaking song.  It seems like the same arrangement, and Adam walks down the stairs, flooded in green light and smoke, wearing a cape, looking like a flamboyant superhero or something.  Adam performs the hell out of the camera, wearing a face of vague melancholy, connecting like few other have ever in the competition.  Haters, you can't hate this song, right?  The last note was sketchy their for about a millisecond, and that's really the only critique I can give.

The crowd goes wild.  Randy loved it all, giving it an "A-plus. A for Adam."  Thanks, Batman from the 1960's.  Kara DioGuardi's Hyperbolic Dream Machine is already fired up and delivering.  Paula, looking like she had intimate relations with King Midas, compliments everything.  Simon calls it "overly theatrical." 

OK.  The Simon Cowell reverse psychology game begins already.  We'll see if it continues with full-bore support of Kris Allen.  I don't know how any reasonable person can sit there and critique a performance like this.  Even if it wasn't as good as the first time he did it, it was still other-worldly.


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