Watch: Adam Lambert's video for 'Time for Miracles' from '2012'
World collapses around him; Lambert unfazed
Adam Lamberty
Credit: 19 Recordings
Adam Lambert’s video for “Time for Miracles,” from the forthcoming disaster flick “2012,” utilizes one of our favorite music clip tropes: the world is literally collapsing around Lambert, and yet he walks on, unobservant, obsessed only, in this case, on not “giving up on us.”
As it goes into the second verse, people are rushing past him, trying to escape Armageddon and our boy is totally unfazed he is so single-mindedly focused on finding his way back to his loved one. How do I get me a boy like that? As he warbles “Maybe it’s time for miracles,” one would think he might mean saving the planet from utter destruction, but that wouldn’t be the case. His rescue plan only seats two.
Or it could simply be that he never looks back to see at the catastrophic drama playing out behind him on the blue screen. There is no video plot other than the doom and gloom footage for “2012,” but really, how could there be as he’s the only person in the galaxy not running for his life. Seemingly any other plot would appear secondary, at best. Another question: where exactly are these folks running to since the whole world is imploding. That limits one’s escape routes.
Lambert, who retains his Elvis, jet-black coif from his “American Idol” days but lays off the eye-liner, lip syncs perfectly here, but we’re a little worried about his powers of observation.
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Melinda Newman is the former West Coast Bureau Chief for Billboard Magazine with more than 15 years of experience in the music industry. She covers music and entertainment for the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Associated Press, MSN, AOL and other outlets. Recent interviews include Taylor Swift, Pink, Brad Paisley, Foo Fighters, Jonas Bros. and Snow Patrol.
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October 21, 2009 at 1:46PM EST Reply to CommentI love the video and this song is off the chart. Go Adam, I still think you should have won American Idol.
Sylvia
October 21, 2009 at 1:49PM EST Reply to CommentLove this video.
gregel
October 21, 2009 at 8:37PM EST Reply to CommentRun Adam! Run!
mary Wallschlaeger
November 1, 2009 at 10:41AM EST Reply to CommentThis is everything I hoped it would be. Love the song, love the video, just love Adam!!!