Up close and personal.
Skeletons in the closet. Many of us have them, including American Idol contestants. Now, having them come to light? Not a good look when trying to get a slice of that American (Idol) Pie, right?
Right?
Words.
"...There's been some joking on various websites that this year's most flamboyant front-runner, Adam Lambert, will perform Jackson's early '90s hit "In the Closet" as a response to recently leaked photographs of him kissing a man and dressed in glamour-queen drag. Jackson released the song just when his astounding musical charisma began to strain under the weight of his eccentricities.
It is one of many attempts Jackson has made to give voice to the demons that eventually dragged him down.
A tight, New Jack Swing track co-produced by Teddy Riley, the song expresses bald lust in the face of a lover's wish to retreat. The music, full of bullet-like synthesizer pings and Jackson's trademark percussive panting, was complemented by a video that showed the lithe, light-skinned dancer and voluptuous, dark-skinned model Naomi Campbell facing off with dance moves in the desert: a signature Jackson expression of repressed yet uncontainable sexual hunger as a form of violence.
"In the Closet" could be the theme of this year's whole season, really. Lambert is not the only resident in this year's "Idol" house to have an uncommon identity or a bothersome back story. Reality -- and not the usual well-managed kind the show embraces -- is breaking through as "Idol's" producers strive to further the contest's popularity among a diverse array of viewers without giving up the fiction of a unified mainstream..."
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