I hope you are right. If you look at all of Adam’s performances, he was quite versatile. He COULD dial himself back. He chose not to, on many occasions, and if he lost because of his theatrics and screaming, that would be fair. I was not crazy about his screaming either.
But his “Mad World” was amazing and gave me chills, just like when Cookie sang the Lionel Richie song. And he did well with the Freddie Mercury song tonight; he was quite careful NOT to copy Freddie (who the hell ever could do that justice anyway?) but he could manage the range and the power where Kris could not.
Then how could you like him so much? The screams were his signature on just about every song he sang. Or did you fail to notice that?