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Because it’s the best stuff you’ve ever done. I’m just so proud of you and this record that you’ve made, as well.

I’m so glad we’re friends and I’m so glad we work together. SPARRO: You’ve really inspired me a lot over the years. I feel like Kanye West a little bit when people are like, “Well, what are you listening to?” And I’m like, “I’m listening to myself because my music is the shit.” The vocal production, making that really modern and polished, does bring it into the contemporary landscape. I’m super proud of the production that I’ve done on this album. SPARRO: I feel like this, more than any other project, is me not just as a songwriter and a singer, but really as a producer. My favorite kind of artistry is when you reference something and then put a twist on it. I hear your influences in it, I hear the time period that you’re honoring. What I love about it is that it’s so specific. I was just listening to the album before this phone call. It’s the only thing that we can really claim as ours. I think having that artistic integrity is super important. LAMBERT: You have to play the game, to a point. SPARRO: I mean, it’s nice when those two things line up. It can’t be something that’s plugged into some sort of commercial trend, that everyone says is the new thing, if it doesn’t work for you. LAMBERT: At the end of the day, if you’re going to put yourself out there and put your name on something, it has to be something that you love. We just have to make what we love so we can stand next to, and be proud of it. I just was like, “Fuck it, I’m going to make exactly what I want to make.” Which is a very nostalgic pop album celebrating my childhood. I stopped chasing whatever was on the radio, or what I thought people wanted me to make. I finally-and I know you can relate to this-I felt like I stopped chasing a hit. SPARRO: I’ve done some collabs and co-writes very selectively because I don’t like random people in my space. After all that time getting sober and getting everything back together, what finally motivated you to get back in the studio for this project? LAMBERT: That’s amazing, congratulations. Honestly, the time in between Return to Paradise, which is when I was trying to get myself together, and now-so much of that time was just about getting well. SPARRO: It feels really good to just be super honest and open about my life now.

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I was like, smoking crack and drinking alone when I lived there. SPARRO: I was going through a total fucking personal crisis. LAMBERT: Yeah, I think I came to a party there once. Do you remember when I was living in that loft? You wrote a song with me on my first album, For Your Entertainment. Well, girl, it’s so funny because we’ve been friends for, god, I want to say almost 12 years? What happened between then and now? What kept you from releasing a new project? For Interview, Sparro called up his friend and frequent co-writer Adam Lambert to discuss making queer music and reminisce about one particularly wild Halloween party with Snoop Dogg and Miley Cyrus.ĪDAM LAMBERT: Your last album was back in 2012, which I loved by the way. With the emergence of the new decade, Sparro has come out stronger with Boombox Eternal, an exuberant love letter to his dearest influences and his 8-year-old self.

It’s been eight years since Sparro’s last album, a break that was dedicated to recovery from his struggle with alcohol and drug addiction. With his sophomore album Return to Paradisein 2012, Sparro proved once and for all that he was ahead of the game, creating thematically cohesive queer pop music with unconventional production. The song fast-tracked his ascension to fame, quickly becoming a pop standard that was covered by the likes of Adele, Katy Perry, and Ellie Goulding.

Sparro first grabbed attention with his stylized and self-made 2008 single “Black and Gold”. Instead, the 37-year-old singer-songwriter went back to his roots and created a 12-song album directly inspired by the ’80s beats of musical icons like Janet Jackson, Madonna, and Prince. Reinvention is tough to pull off, which is why the Australian pop vehicle Sam Sparro didn’t aim to reinvent himself with his new album Boombox Eternal.

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