For Your Entertainment

For Your Entertainment is the debut album from American artist and American Idol season eight runner-up, Adam Lambert. It was released on November 23, 2009.

Immediately following his participation on American Idol, Lambert began writing and recording with predominant pop hit makers such as Lady GaGa, Greg Wells, Max Martin, Linda Perry, RedOne, Ryan Tedder, Evan “Kidd” Bogart, Sam Sparro, Kara DioGuardi and P!nk.

Lambert also announced through Twitter, that he had collaborated with American pop star, Lady Gaga. “Yes it’s true: I spent yesterday in the studio w/ the insanely talented and creative Lady Gaga recording a song that she wrote! I love her.”

On October 28, Lambert announced that the lead single would be “For Your Entertainment” produced by Dr. Luke. He tweeted. “Debut single is called ‘For Your Entertainment’ get ready to shake yo asses to this song. It’ll make ya dance for sure.” He also confirmed a song called “Soaked” written by Matthew Bellamy of Muse and a song called “Music Again” written by Justin Hawkins. Lambert also stated that he co-wrote four of the songs on the album, “Strut”, “Pick U Up”, “Aftermath” and “Broken Open”.

Initial critical response to For Your Entertainment was generally favorable. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 67, based on seven reviews.