Adam Lambert - Time For Miracles

What this video is

Released October 21, 2009, 'Time For Miracles' arrived at a singular pop-cultural intersection: Adam Lambert had just concluded American Idol Season 8 as runner-up, generating unprecedented buzz, and the song was commissioned as the end-credits power ballad for Roland Emmerich's 2012, the largest-scale disaster film since The Day After Tomorrow. The video's production — a performer standing unshaken amid staged…

Why it matters

A canonical example of the late-2000s disaster-film power ballad — a lineage running from Aerosmith's 'I Don't Want to Miss a Thing' (Armageddon, 1998) through this track. The video codifies the sub-genre's visual grammar: lone vocalist in ruins, intercutting with film destruction sequences, warm…

The director

Wayne Isham (born December 2, 1958, Vinita, Oklahoma) is an American film and music video director who has helmed over 150–200 music videos since the 1980s. A UC Santa Barbara alumnus, he was inspired by David Bowie's 'Ashes to Ashes' to enter the form. His…