This is the title track of singer-songwriter Adam Lambert's second album. The song finds Lambert portraying himself as a rebel outsider: "Well, I was walking for some time," he croons. "When I came across this sign. Saying who are you and where are you from. We don't like when visitors come."
Pharrell Williams' production transforms the song into a funky, foot-stomping anthem. Lambert told Billboard magazine that he hosted a Halloween party on a bus with about 25 friends, in which he trialled some of the songs he intended to include on his sophomore release. Their favorable reaction to this track ensured it would make the album. "I found I really wanted to get into that funk," he said of the sound on Trespassing. "It's disco, funk, dance for, like, now."
Lambert and Pharell Williams came up with this song after a conversation, "about the music industry and life and identity." Lambert told AOL Music: "One of the main things we talked about, which kind of kicked off the song 'Trespassing,' was different types of discrimination, and fitting into the world and finding your own path."
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