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Reaction to Adam Lambert’s debut album cover has certainly been strong. Some fans have pledged their allegiance to the American Idol alum’s glamtastic artwork on For Your Entertainment, while others have slammed it as more than a tad over-the-top (the phrase “space alien from Planet Fierce” has come up — on both sides). Lambert himself weighed in on his Twitter today to explain the thinking behind the glowing, spacey cover: “Thank you to those who appreciate and understand that the album cover is deliberately campy. It’s an omage [sic] to the past. It IS ridiculous.

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Bret Michaels Won’t Sue Tony Awards For Onstage Collision

Photo: Kambouris/WireImageDespite fracturing his nose and busting his lip after colliding with a stage prop at the Tony Awards, Poison’s Bret Michaels told People that he will not take legal action against the show’s producers. “There’s no lawsuit. I’m not doing any of that. I’m taking the high road,” Michaels said.

AT&T, one of the biggest sponsors of American Idol, may have played a role in Kris Allen’s victory over Adam Lambert according to a new report in the New York Times. The paper says that the phone company distributed cell phones with free text messaging and taught Allen fans how to “cast blocks of votes” at two parties in the singer’s native Arkansas. AT&T is the only mobile provider that allows users to cast American Idol votes via text message.

In a lively conference call, American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert opened up about his Idol journey, what he hopes to accomplish with his debut album, why second best isn’t all that bad, and whether he’s the reincarnation of Elvis Presley.

Lambert says he is more than happy to take the silver this year, and that he has absolutely “no regrets.” He enjoyed the entire experience, and wouldn’t have changed a thing.

After Adam Lambert’s killer performance with Queen on Wednesday night’s season finale of American Idol, rumors flew that he had already been offered a job singing with the band. That’s slightly premature, according to the band’s guitarist, Brian May. “Amongst all that furor, there wasn’t really a quiet moment to talk,” May tells Rolling Stone in an e-mail interview. “But [drummer Roger Taylor] and I are definitely hoping to have a meaningful conversation with him at some point. It’s not like we, as Queen, would rush into coalescing with another singer just like that.

The Big News: As expected, U2’s five-star No Line on the Horizon soared to the top of the charts in its debut week, selling 484,000 copies to give the current Rolling Stone cover stars their second-best U.S. debut ever, more than doubling the sales of 2009’s previous highest-selling debut, Bruce Springsteen’s Working on a Dream. The album fell slightly under industry expectation of a half million copies, but Universal Music Group’s Australian division, who accidentally leaked the LP weeks before its release, might be to blame.

Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler has sued a pair of unknown bloggers for reportedly impersonating the frontman on the internet. In the lawsuit, Tyler complains that bloggers writing as Tyler provided intimate details concerning the singer’s actual life, including discussing the death of Tyler’s mother and impersonating Tyler’s girlfriend. Tyler was first hit by faux blogs in 2007, but Google intervened to take the sites down.

Serj Tankian has a plan to help improve the environment and cut down on emissions: holographic touring. “I think we could reduce our need to travel if we could project ourselves into meetings and concerts. We have the technology, and we’re not using it right now,” said the System of a Down frontman. “It would open up a whole new world for touring.