As quoted from TWOP:
2) Starting my MBA May 15th!!!!Adam Lambert was always going to be doing "Feeling Good." There's nothing as dramatic, or creepy, or bombastic, or brassy as that song. It's like five songs, like a whole story about feeling things. He won't even have to do anything to it. I mean, he of course will, but he doesn't necessarily need to. And therein lies the wonder of Adam.
Jamie Foxx treats Adam properly, to a fault, like he took a class in properly responding to Adam. Jamie does it awesomely, just struck wordless the whole time, and laughing hysterically at the end by how easily Adam made all those sounds in front of him. Him! Oscar winner!
But it's true, and Jamie Foxx is only responding out of what he knows, which is that people usually piss themselves around him because he's intensely famous, so how on earth can anybody be that vulnerable or balls-out in front of him. He thinks it's amazing because he's Jamie Foxx, but if you weren't famous you would still want to ask Adam who the hell he thinks he is, because the thing that's best and worst about Adam is how completely unselfconscious and how completely self-conscious he is at the same time, and it just adds up from both sides to this bizarre epic show right in front of you and you can't look at it because it's too much, but you can't look away because it's so amazing.
The song has all those Adam elements without him having to answer for having added them, to the point where he could just sing it straight -- which he does, plus that caterwauling thing he's so good at -- and still do an amazing job, because the Adam is built in. And that's what happens. He gets into the falsetto by the third line, and heads downstairs by turns sexy and then just straight up angry, all the way down. In some ways it's more cabaret and intense than before, but if you close your eyes it's just perfect. His voice is amazing. He's harder to look at than usual, between the skin and the puffiness and the scary emotions, but close your eyes and it's so pretty.
There's a breakdown that's just moaning, that way he does, and then a very long, very high screech that pretty much freaks out the whole world, and it ends on a weird echo, and then right when he's done singing, as usual, he goes from a snarling Kenneth Anger movie death goddess person to just like this nice boy. That little moment where his eyes clear and he smiles, that's become my favorite part of the show each week, because you remember you're allowed to breathe and that all of this is just pretend. It was painfully short. I just remembered why I like him so much.
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4) Falling in love with Billy again and again.
5) My shark's tooth necklace I am wearing today from my awesome cousin Dusty.
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