Adam Lambert is the only person in the new video for his sweeping new single "Better Than I Know Myself," but the striking clip adds a level of context to the song, shifting its focus from an external relationship to an internal one. The new track is the first cut off American Idol runner-up's upcoming sophomore album, "Trespassing," which he said takes his fans on, "an exciting journey through the past two years" of his life.The moody midtempo and electro-pop piano ballad finds Lambert belting vocals about a lover who knows him better than he knows himself. Lyrically, the song revolves around romantic regret, and the 30-year-old explained the song's meaning is, "about the relationship you have with yourself, between your dark and light side. It's about duality; it's about that balance and finding it and struggling to maintain it and what it means. No matter what kind of relationship, everybody can relate to that moment."
Lambert is seen in two completely different sides to the performer's personality in the Ray Kay-directed new clip. one warm and homey, the other cold and sinister as he battles his inner-demons and wins. Evil Lambert, the glammed-up, liquor-chugging, dark version is on one side, while tea-drinking, meditating Adam is on the other. While Lambert's blue-eyed good side has 100 percent oxygen pumped into the room, the bad side douses the floor in alcohol and lights a match. And in the final shot, it appears that his dual personae have merged.
Lambert's soaring and impeccable vocals on this melodically challenging song, and his more stripped down and sophisticated look. MTV called the song "one of Adam's biggest, boldest and most beautiful tracks to date." The clip is highly stylized and gothy noir; The cinematography is lush and vibrant, nicely capturing the juxtaposition between the light and dark sides of his personality and that's exactly what Lambert's said "Trespassing" is all about, so the video serves as an ideal introduction for what fans should expect on the album.
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