Out singer Adam Lambert has credited
British singers Sam Smith and Years & Years frontman Olly
Alexander for helping change attitudes in the music industry.
Lambert, who is currently on his The
Original High world tour, told Digital
Spy that music industry executives remain uncomfortable with men
singing love songs about other men.
“People are becoming less ignorant
and the younger generation that's coming up right now are like, 'So
what?' That's melting into and affecting pop culture in general,”
Lambert said.
“There's not as much of a reason to
be scared of it, because people in general aren't scared of it.”
Lambert credited Smith and Alexander
for helping change attitudes, but added that he would like to see
more American artists do the same.
“It'd be nice if there was more. I
think it'll happen slowly but surely. There are success stories
happening and that's the biggest thing for the music industry.”
“There's only so much you can do as
an artist,” he said about gay male singers using male pronouns in
their music. “Luckily we're in a moment right now with streaming
where there's more power put back into the artist's and audience's
hands.”
“But the gatekeepers who make a lot
of the other big decisions in the music industry, those are the ones
hardest to convince on certain things. That's the reasoning for some
of the pronoun stuff.”