Lambert Adds Hitmaker Max Martin to List of Collaborators

Adam Lambert delivered some news about his November debut album via a giddy tweet this morning: "In NYC to record song with MAX MARTIN!!! Soo excited. This album is getting so great!!" Martin is the Swedish wunderkind responsible for Kelly Clarkson's mammoth "Since U Been Gone," Britney Spears' "... Baby One More Time," Pink's "So What" and "I Kissed a Girl" by Lambert's cape-wearing pal Katy Perry.

As Rolling Stone reported earlier this month, the American Idol runner-up has also locked down writing and/or recording sessions with OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder (Kelly Clarkson, Beyoncé), Lady Gaga producer RedOne, Linda Perry, Greg Wells and Sam Sparro.

Go behind the scenes of Lambert's RS cover shoot in exclusive photos.

Lambert told RS he completed a bunch of sessions before the American Idols Live tour launched in July, but the weeks following the tour's end — it wraps mid-September — will be packed with work on his as-yet-untitled debut. "I got a lot of co-writing done, some great initial vocal material recorded, and just general collaborations with different producers."

Check out photos of Lambert and the rest of Season Eight's Top 10 on tour.

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Song Stories

“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell | 1974

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.

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