Susan Boyle and Adam Lambert: Battle of reality TV stars

Susan Boyle and Adam Lambert will both be releasing albums this coming Monday. Whose album will YOU be buying?

SUSAN BOYLE vs. Adam Lambert in a steel-cage match? Well, not quite, but the year’s two biggest reality TV superstars both drop hotly anticipated debut albums Monday, setting up an epic battle for sales supremacy and a stark contrast in musical style and personality.

In one corner, we’ve got Boyle, the shy Scottish homebody whose soul-stirring ballads made her a global sensation on “Britain’s Got Talent.” In the other, there’s Lambert, the brash, openly gay glam rocker who sent “American Idol” fans into mass hysteria.

By Chuck Barney
Contra Costa Times

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