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Adam Lambert attacks Susan Boyle’s success

Could Adam Lambert be jealous of Susan Boyle’s enormous success (her debut album was the best-selling album of 2009)? It’s hard to understand why he would have slammed her single, the cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Wild Horses,” saying it made him “cry with laughter.” Lambert has had a fair share of success himself, selling 200,000 copies of his own debut album during the first week of release, and like Boyle he came in second in a major talent competition, so what’s up with him bringing out the claws when talking to Britain’s Gay Times: “I’m happy for [Susan Boyle’s] success, but that album is terrible. “Wild Horses” is the one that made me laugh the hardest. I just died when I heard it, I was crying with laughter. It was the most horrendous, sacrilegious treatment of that song!” He goes on to pat himself on the back, saying, “Still, when my album charted, it was validating. I was feeling a bit attacked, like I had to vindicate something. I thought: ‘Wow, look what I did.'” ~Alexandra Heilbron