June 22, 2009

Adam Lambert To Work With Lady Gaga's Producer, RedOne

By Gil Kaufman (MTV.com)

Adam Lambert wants some of what Lady Gaga's got. No, not her outrageous getups (though he probably wouldn't mind some of those, either), but her musical secrets. He's hoping to get those from Gaga's ace-in-the-hole producer, RedOne.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Lambert has lined up sessions with the Moroccan producer (born Nadir Khayat), who, in addition to producing the Gaga smashes "Poker Face," "LoveGame" and "Just Dance," has a fresh hit with Sean Kingston's "Fire Burning" and has produced songs by Little Boots, New Kids on the Block, Enrique Iglesias and Akon.

Red told the Times that he's slated to work on six songs for Lambert's debut, due out in the late fall. "I want to go rock - David Bowie and Queen, but make it more easy for people to get," Red said of his vision for the glammy Idol singer. "It has to be rock, but with an interesting dance angle to it, you know? You'll like it." He plans to track a six pack with Lambert, but even if they don't all make the album, RedOne said he thinks he'd like to play with the Glambert faithful's expectations.

"You know what I like about him? He's fresh," he said. "You can go almost whatever direction with him. People know him from being on American Idol, singing other people's songs, but you can take him in a new direction, and this will be the first time you hear Adam Lambert with his signature. My goal is to get his signature out from him to the world."

Those goals seems to mesh with what Lambert told Rolling Stone he wants for his debut, describing a desire to make music that "has theatricality, a nod to the glam rockers that I love, but is also contemporary."