Watch: In New Single and Video, Adam Lambert Covers 'I Don't Care Much' from 'Cabaret'

In a cover of a classic show tune that's perhaps too apt for the times, Adam Lambert croons a new version of "I Don't Care Much" from the Kander & Ebb musical "Cabaret," People magazine reports.

The single and an accompanying video dropped today.

"The superstar singer is currently treading the boards as the mysterious Emcee in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, director Rebecca Frecknall's acclaimed revival of the landmark 1966 musical currently running at the August Wilson Theatre in New York City," the writeup details.

"This is probably my favorite song to sing in the show," the out singer, who has also served as a frontman for the band Queen, said in comments to People.

"There's a timelessness to this song," Lambert went on to say. "It's so beautiful and has this great melody. And out of all the songs I sing in the show, it's one where I really get to show off what I can do vocally and emotionally."

He does it a little differently than on stage, though; as he noted to People, "I recorded it without my German accent," which is part of the role of the Emcee, "for the purposes of a crossover appeal."

The iconic musical dates to 1966, but is based on a play from 1951 that, in turn, is based on the 1939 Christopher Isherwood novel "Goodbye to Berlin."

In the novel, Isherwood draws on his own experiences in Berlin at the very end of the Weimar Republic. Isherwood, a writer born in Britain, was part of the queer demimonde that flourished prior to the Nazis coming to power in Germany. As the nation slipped into Nazism, Isherwood fled the country, but many others were unable to escape persecution. The Nazis launched a reign of terror that engulfed much of Europe in a holocaust of war, violence, and mass murder. The Nazis' systematic eradication of Jews, gay men, gypsies, racial minorities, ideological "enemies," and other targets that claimed the lives of an estimated 17 million people, six million of them Jewish.

The Emcee sings the number late in the show, "as the Nazi occupation begins in the musical," People notes.

Explained Lambert, "The shadow of the Nazi party has started to affect everybody in Berlin at this point, and we're all having to do what we have to do to survive.

"For the Emcee in this production, that makes taking off all the makeup and his wild outfits to put on a drab suit, so he looks like everybody else in society," the 42-year-old singer added. "He's there to blend in; to not call attention to queerness and his strangeness and everything that makes him an individual."

Added Lambert: "He's saying, 'Well, I don't really care; it doesn't matter to me,' which is what the song is about. The audience see's through the performance. They know that underneath it, he is affected and very sad. But he's going to survive by shrugging his shoulders, which so many people do."

The single was recorded at Lambert's urging, the "American Idol" veteran told People.

"This show is so meta to what we're going through right now in our society," the singer and actor mused. "There's a heavy-duty right wing leadership coming into power and a lot of us are feeling pretty vulnerable and upset about it. But seeing this show, and even performing in it, it's sort of a way to tackle those anxieties.... We're really asking the audience, 'Hey, how are you dealing with it? Are you just pretending like it doesn't matter? Are you turning a blind eye? Are you ignoring it? Or are you facing it, and being honest with yourself?' "

Watch the new video below.