Adam Lambert has a new tattoo and many people have tried to decipher its meaning for a while. He teased fans last week when he tweeted “#OOFTA! ” but did not respond when people asked him what he meant. Since then, the tattoo has been spotted on his hand and his boyfriend Sauli Koskinen has a matching tattoo on his hand. The meaning behind the tattoo has finally been revealed! Adam is promoting his new single and upcoming album this week and today he explained the word “OOFTA” in an interview with Maxwell from Philly’s Q102:

It’s pretty simple, it’s an inside joke between me and Sauli. There’s no big hidden mystery. I guess the word comes originally from Norwegian. It was kinda turned into bastardized slang in Minnesota and Wisconsin here in the states. It basically means like “oy” or “oh my gosh” or “whoa.” I think the technical definition in Wikipedia was “I am overwhelmed.”

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Adam Lambert had some time to kill at the airport on Friday, so he took the opportunity to teach fans some facts about music. Although it is unclear what prompted him to bring up the topic, he started the education lesson off when he tweeted, “a lil music education moment: FALSETTO. It’s not full, belted out chest voice. It’s small, light pretty head voice. Widely misunderstood. ” He then followed with “…not to b rude – but it’s so often used to describe my voice but I hardly ever use my falsetto. Jus’ sayin’” This prompted fans to ask him questions about other music terms such as “Vibratto,” “bridge” and “hook.” In addition to explaining the various terms, Adam also gave examples of his falsetto: “on the last album i used falsetto in Broken Open, A Loaded Smile and the “eyes baby eyes” part of Music Again” and examples of falsetto used by other artists.
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Adam Lambert gave Glamberts a special video message backstage during this week’s Jay Leno telecast. Adam Lambert recorded the special video message with a news interviewer following his performance on the NBC program.

Adam explained to news his vision behind the single “Better Than I Know Myself”. “My first single off album number two…. I think that anybody that is in any kind of relationship can relate to that feeling of being able to tell your lover, ‘You know what, I might have messed up. I’m really sorry if I don’t make it clear how much I need you, how much I love you.’ “

Lambert said that his song embodies that. “And this song is like that, it’s very romantic yet very dramatic reassurance.”

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