So I said Adam Lambert's song that serves as the theme to the end-of-the-world movie 2012, "Time for Miracles", triggers goosebumps.  Now I've heard the full version, I am not so sure.

The folks over at Vote for the Worst have posted the full version of the song, and listening to it, I wasn't so amazed.  Maybe because most of the song was more subdued that the first clip, which featured a lot of Adam's outrageous vocals.  Maybe because I've gotten used to all the screaming after listening to studio versions of his American Idol performances.  (I didn't download them.  My brother did.)

But I think I got it: it's because I'm only listening to the song, rather than watching the accompanying images.

I got goosebumps because of that one realization.  "Man," I thought, "if Adam Lambert was the soundtrack to the end of the world, it would've been so perfect and so scary."  But without the scenes from 2012 to accompany it, the song sounds a bit lame.  It's something I've heard so many times before, and it's something I'm sure I'll get bored with if I heard it many times in a day.  (Or I'll go postal when I hear it many times in succession, but of course, I exaggerate.)

But, to Adam's credit, I don't blame him for it.  I still think his album would be an excitingly scary weird mix of his vocals and slightly blatant indulgences, and I still think it'd all work out fine in the end.  I just hope his work won't go the direction of "Time for Miracles"--cheesy, boring, and more or less terrible.  Unfortunately, it was a damper to my expectations, sort of.

Anyway, here's the full track.  Go listen, go judge, and be nice if you have to.







- Henrik Batallones, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
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