I guess the thing about hustling is that if you start first by looking at the industry and how cutthroat it is because competition is fierce, and combine that with whether there's a strong or attenuated relationship between rewards and merits, then you'd expect that anybody who's looking to break into that industry will have over time likely adapted their behavior to try and 'play the game'.

Like being a 'shark' or a 'hustler' I think for most people who aren't in cutthroat industry probably holds a negative connotation because they've probably seen so many people get ahead based on rote aggression who didn't really deserve to get ahead based on the merits. But the thing is that probably those who do deserve to be in the position they're in are probably still capable of being sharks and hustlers as need be because that's the nature of the business, right? Like if you don't know how to guard yourself against the undeserving sharks and hustlers who would seek to take your place, wouldn't you be liable to get eaten alive?

I guess when I use the term hustler I tend to reserve it for people like Kara, who if you watch the interaction between her and Adam in the behind the scenes 20/20 interview seems to me to be cultivating him with dialogue such as:

- Oh, I like that!

- You're buying your own clothes? Okay, because literally, I'm sure there are people LINING up to dress you . . . (on and on and on . . .)

- (big hug)

- (In response to Adam expressing frustration over the whole gay issue) (shaking head), I mean I was like I just assumed it, and who cares? WHO. CARES.

- What they should be talking about was what a phenomenal job you did, what a complete rock star you are, how you can pick the most banging jackets, and you know what you're going to do with your album, I mean that's newsworthy . . .

Didn't Kara seem totally unsold on Adam during AI until she realized he was probably going to end up in a position where she was going to want him to want to use some of her songs?

And now she's co-writing with Adam, even after No Boundaries . . . THAT to me is a hustler, when everybody talks about how somebody on the merits doesn't seem to be very good, and yet they keep getting plum gigs . . . and then if you look at the interaction between the person in question and the decision-maker, there's inevitably signs that the decision-maker were being cultivated, which is a lot easier to see from the outside in when you're not the target . . .

I don't know . . .

PS Snotty, you know why I brought up the 'other part of town' thing is because that's what happened I was at the Safeway in another part of town and saw that happened, but it's not like the other part of town is any different from my part of town - I'm sure there are just as many opportunists living around me as there are over there . . . people are pretty much the same no matter where you go, doesn't it seem?

PPS omg are people going to call me a tard again for doing another 'mega post'? LOL I guess my tard is showing but I consider myself a worster too

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Please read and heed.

1) This is a satire board, and exists for entertainment and laughs. Your posts are way too serious. If I want to learn all that drivel, I'd find some kind of legal profession board.

2) Nobody here gives a shit about Adam Lambert. We just like to laugh at him and his tards.

3) Adam Lambert was a plant of epic proportions on American Idol.

4) Adam Lambert is not a rock star. He is as fake as it gets.

5) Repeat #2 100 times.

Now step up the funny or get out, because we simply don't care.

omg ha ha ha okay, the comments weren't so much me being a tard so much as they were me being a nerd

But point taken . . . I'll go back to lurking until I get some inspiration to be funny

Thanks for showing everyone what a bunch of idiots hang out here. You can't even get a simple quote correct.

The quote is :

"HAD THIS OPPORTUNITY presented itself maybe about 5 years ago I probably would have crumbled under the pressure".

[No mention of "I had"...nor "make it big"....only in your small circle jerk mind.]

And the MOTHER didn't say that either. She said:

"Success isn't really the key, it's being happy with what you're doing".

Asshole. Fools. You have the nerve to bash a kid who's been working 17 years and YOU can't even get a simple one line quote right. He memorizes choreography and lyrics for multiple songs every day....and you idiot can't get a quote correct with a freaking tivo right in front of you.

"Asshole. Fools. You have the nerve to bash a kid who's been working 17 years and YOU can't even get a simple one line quote right."

I'm playing the world's smallest violin. Boohoo.

Too tardy here. going home.

SC, you seem pretty cool (extends olive branch), and I agree that you are not a tard. You're just a wordy bastard like myself (see my subnic on the forums).

MB, I see that you're one of those morons who read a blog, get all hissy-fitty about it, joins the site, and enters a crybaby response without reading anything that anyone else had to say about the subject. You are a tard (smacks face with same olive branch), as you have exhibited the ultimate tard behavior. Had you read what I said to SC, you might have gotten a small smidgen of an idea what this site is all about. But just in case you're too fucking lazy to read the post, I'll repeat the key point here,

Nobody here gives a shit about Adam Lambert. We just like to laugh at him and his tards.

Now go away.

He has nothing to worry about-My fave musician's last album was on HiFi and they do absolutely no promotion lol