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" Adam Lambert has responded to Randy Jackson&amp;#039;s criticism of his debut album, maintaining that he knows &amp;quot;where the [American Idol] judge is coming from&amp;quot;. Jackson recently revealed that he rates albums by fellow Idol alumni Carrie Underwood and Chris Daughtry above Lambert&amp;#039;s For Your Entertainment LP, a record which features contributions from a variety of different pop personnel, including Lady GaGa, Pink, Justin Hawkins, Matt Bellamy and Max Martin. Justifying his preference, Jackson said: &amp;quot;You know who you are. You&amp;#039;ve accepted who you are and you move forward in your life. You&amp;#039;re not going, &amp;#039;Well, I could be a painter, but I want to drive race cars. But I can do R&amp;amp;amp;B, pop, jazz, soul... &amp;quot;Maybe I think I&amp;#039;m more like Bono, but I could be more like Sting. But I&amp;#039;m gonna be like Lady GaGa, but I&amp;#039;m kind of like Justin Hawkins from the Darkness&amp;#039;. You can&amp;#039;t be five people. You can only be one, and we have to make that choice.&amp;quot;  Although Lambert insisted that he accepts Jackson&amp;#039;s comments, he defended his decision to make an &amp;quot;eclectic&amp;quot; debut album. &amp;quot;For me, I was just so excited that I had the opportunity to make an album that I wanted to experiment and put a lot of different colours into it,&amp;quot; he told Digital Spy. &amp;quot;If you look at my Idol run, from week to week I changed it up a lot, in terms of going for a different sound or look. Having done that, if I&amp;#039;d come out with an album that was one colour, I&amp;#039;d have been throwing away all the diversity I showed I could have.&amp;quot; For Your Entertainment has sold more than 500,000 copies in the US since debuting at number three on the Billboard 200 in December. It will be released in the UK on May 3. &amp;amp;gt; Click here to read our full Adam Lambert interview "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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