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My thoughts on Adam’s performance on the American Music Awards…
That was two standard deviations beyond the mean. Definitely leaves the tweens behind and stakes out some of Madonna’s, Kiss’s, etc.’s, territory.
Too much reptile, not enough mammal. Expected more otherworldly, less bound and underground earthly. Reading the newspaper and Internet daily is enough S&M for me. On the other hand, it’s significant symbolism that Adam is wearing a tailored gray flannel suit.
Not too representative of the record, which explores multiple areas and does explore some “soft and sweet.” But you have to give the guy some credit for working so hard, braving out his vision, and perhaps trying too hard.
Plutocrats and Wall Street have raked America through the coals, yanked everyone’s chain, and far too many in the media, government, corporate halls, etc., still kiss up to them.
i am so upset I can’t even bear to rewatch Adam’s AMA video. I feel embarrassed for him. It isn’t primarily the sexual parts that bother me — sex is everywhere around us and many of the women performers sexed up their performances BIG TIME. It was also that his voice and pitch were totally off and he looked clumsy sometimes. This was so uncharacteristic that it was shocking. Further, he has talked about his need to entertain people, make us feel good, sexy and like dancing so I wondered what he thought he was depicting on that stage. Did he even smile to indicate he was being “campy?” He was behaving like Marquis de Sade or some other tormented being. It reminded me of how some of my gay male friends describe some of the gay bath houses. Now, when I listen to some of the songs on his album that allude to casual and opportunistic sex, I will think of his creeping and slinking around that stage in a menacing way. What a difficult image he has created for first time listeners (and some of us who love him) to overcome. Is this just my problem? I hope I’m wrong.
No, not just your problem, I hit a lot of action in the AMA’s Adam, I know he need not be as sexy, sexual, cross or whatever. Adam has an incredible voice and that’s what grabs you and makes you love him, American Idol was pure passion, emotion, grit, strength, …. but on this CD is just entertainment and nothing else, I do not have anything that knowledge of it and yet I like …. Greetings
Working late, thinking some more, and putting all into perspective. Think that Adam is self-conscious about having such (at times) a beautiful and angelic voice, so he is throwing in some counter-balance by displaying some raw macho street cred. He definitely does not number among the castrati.
Also, that was Henry Haller’s lone wolf from the Steppes exploring the full range of the human carnival.
(I’m a nightowl, Ariel)
Who/what you speak of, Ariel, resides in us all to some degree. We wouldn’t see it if it weren’t in us to see. We can’t know Adam — only he can know his own mysteries and struggles. We are lucky if and when we come to know ourselves. All I REALLY know about Adam is that the gift that is his voice helps me come to know myself better…makes my own struggle easier. In fact, I have actually played his (studio) Feeling Good to my patients (I am an acupuncturist) during their treatments and they too feel the healing nature of his (“angelic,” you describe)voice. After his performance, I think I was upset (maybe also despondent) because I had been “deprived” the gift [of his voice]. But I recognize that as my own problem. He (whoever he is) has his own path to walk
This performance was shocking. There was nothing left of the charming boy from nextdoors. Maybe, Adam was thinking of “New Moon” and that it would be good to do something like this. At the very end of his show he looked as if he was getting sick. He would have been right to do so.
Why did his producers allow this???
Adam Lambert delivers raunchy AMA performance filled with hip thrusts, crotch grabs and a makeout
BY Cristina Everett
Adam Lambert’s first big post-”American Idol” performance at the American Music Awards put risk-taking, boundary-pushing Lady GaGa to shame.
The 25-year-old singer didn’t hold back from delivering a provocative show filled with leather-clad and fishnet-wearing backup dancers during his closing performance of his debut single, “For Your Entertainment.”
Dragging a female dancer across the stage, the singer began his eye-popping performance clad in his trademark eye makeup and sky-high pompadour.
A hip-thrusting Lambert continued to raise eyebrows by grasping the head of a male backup dancer and pulling him into his gyrating crotch, a move the ABC network choose to cut audio from for some unknown reason.
The shock-and-awe continued with the singer getting his privates grabbed by a tutu-wearing female dancer, as well as him snapping the bikini area of another female’s costume.
If viewer’s mouths weren’t open in shock yet, Lambert had more to come.
Following a quick recovery from a tumble across some scaffolding, Lambert took a break from singing to forcefully play tonsil hockey with a male keyboardist from his band.
With a look of defiance on his face, the singer proceeded to end his jaw-dropping set with the high-pitched wail he became most known for during his “Idol” days.
Marking his satisfaction from his performance, Lambert tweeted after the show, “All hail freedom of expression and artistic integrity.
fans: I adore u
First and foremost, I loved the performance. This fact colors the following remarks. If you hated everything about Adam last night, move along because this moment of clarity will be above your skill set.
If anyone bothered to listen to the lyrics of the song, they would have realized that Adam wasn’t going to sing some vapid ballad. He made a statement, and in doing so pointed out a glaring double standard between female and male performance. The lyrics:
Oooh, do you know what you got into?
Can you handle what I’m about to do?
‘Cause it’s about to get rough for you
I’m here for your entertainment
Oooh, I bet you thought that I was soft and sweet
‘Ya fallen angel swept ya off ya feet
Well I’m about to turn up the heat
I’m here for your entertainment
Why is it that no one listens to the words anymore. With the majority of people, it’s almost completely about what they see, which is so limiting. Humans do have five senses for a reason. If the argument is about vocal capability, read on MacDuff.
As for toning his act down, if you listen to the rest of For Your Entertainment, Adam’s new CD, it isn’t a treatise about homosexuality. Does he shy away from the issue? No, not really. But to anyone with eyes, even when he was the cleaned, sanitized version of himself on American Idol, Adam’s openly gay. The only time that child was ever “Not gay” were the first nine months he had with his mother, and frankly, I’ll bet he was a rough and tumble fetus at that.
All I’ve heard from gay people and straight people alike, is that he stepped over a line on national television with his “antics”. Or that they hated the song and his vocals were shit. With that in mind, first things first:
I’m so, so tired of hearing puritanical America on it’s moral soapbox about protecting people from themselves, about how innocent the children are, and how people shouldn’t be forced to witness a homosexual “lifestyle”.
(Aside: I’m equally tired of hearing about the gay “lifestyle”. It’s as if we’re all living in the Hampton’s and have decided to have a man and a mojito rather than a woman and a martini. Maybe a few of us got to make the choice, but it sure as hell wasn’t me. And I’m so far from living the Hampton’s –or P-town– existence, both financially and as a matter of choice– that the notion that we’re all cut from the same cloth is utterly absurd. Being gay isn’t like being a member of the country club. The dues we pay are often covered in blood, self respect, and the prejudice of intolerance, and we don’t pay them as a matter of choice.)
Back to the previous paragraph.
In Europe Adam’s performance would have never been noticed for the gay content alone. People might mention it, but it wouldn’t have been the focus of the show. In point of fact, groups like the Scissor Sisters have done far better across the pond than here in the United States. Hopefully Adam will realize that concerts in the UK are a profitable proposition. I wish that sometimes -just once in a while- this country would take a cue from an older, more civilized society. If no one’s noticed during the past decade, we’ve been steadily losing our “moral high ground” in the rest of the world’s eyes. We may as well change our message to world from ‘freedom and liberty for all’ to ‘do as we say and not as we do’.
Still this is America. If you didn’t like Adam’s performance you had choices. You didn’t even need to move your fat ass off the sofa to change the channel or at the very least, hit the mute button and waddle to the refridge to see what the food fairy left you. (I shouldn’t have said that: Some poor fool (i.e. Glenn Beck?) is liable to start blaming gay people for the fat epidemic.)
Why is it necessary for us to place people on a pedestal, then work tirelessly to tear them apart. Let people be who they are, even if you don’t like them. No one is forcing anyone to love everyone. If you can’t stand Adam, that darling of moral America, Taylor Swift (Who is really only on the radar because of Kanye’s rant… I wonder if she paid him?) is available and I’m sure Celine Dion is still beating her chest, wheezing out “Our love will go on” long after that ship sunk.
Frankly, I hope that Adam has a thick skin and a cast iron will. He’s going to need it to stay in the famous and popular category. That he has incredible talent is pretty much indisputable. Any who thinks otherwise isn’t savvy enough to judge music in the first place. And the “I know what I like” defense doesn’t hold much water for me. If you know what you like, stop listening to what you don’t like. Just because you know what you like, it doesn’t qualify you to pronounce unstudied judgment upon his talent. Some people have studied music. Some of us know the difference between qualified and delusions of grandeur. And still more of us know the difference between a voice so electronically altered that it wouldn’t be recognized without substantial electricity and fantastic studio sound technicians.
In closing, if you don’t have anything constructive or well thought out to say, please stop bitching. The Amazing Race was on the other channel last night. (Oops, there’s still a gay pair of brothers in that too.)
Note to all who have started the AMA’s thread and responded here, in this incorrect thread — I am closing the comment section on this thread until you all copy and paste your comments over into the correct AMA’s thread about last nite’s performance. I’d do it myself, but WordPress doesn’t offer the option of moving items. Then, continue the conversation over there. Thanks! http://adamlambertsite.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/omg-adam-lambert-does-soft-porn-the-amas-wow/
http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2009/12/allison_iraheta_defends_adam_lambert.php
http://news.therecord.com/arts/article/643041
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV6JwyOuSYw&feature=player_embedded
http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2009-11-23/things-to-do/adam-lambert-and-for-your-entertainment-opera-experts-review-debut-album (these fans agree Adam’s FYE is overproduced)
http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2009/12/10/lambert-on-the-view-tongue-in-cheek-pelvis-in-check/#ixzz0ZKwXr6o8
Thanks for this post Aeriel
Let it go and move on! Can’t wait for the Gridlock performances. Will it be televised?
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/dawn+sexual+liberation+upon/2334269/story.html
Canadian sociologist approves and says far too many high school youth are unnecessarily being harassed.
http://www.mediabase.com/mmrweb/insideradio/charts.asp?format=1&showyear=y&dpt=n
“Whataya Want from Me” just cracked the top 40!
http://www.adamofficial.com/sites/alambert6/files/imagecache/preview/GetAttachment_1.jpg
Xmas tree idea, or a way to decorate the base of your menorah!
Australian magazine story: http://twitpic.com/tq53o
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1946375_1946333_1946329,00.html
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1628362/20091216/jackson_michael.jhtml
Adam is among top three twitter topics in 2009 after Michael Jackson and Susan Boyle. I’m thinking that there’s still a few weeks left of 2009.
http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/12/16/adam-lambert-kissed-a-girl-and-he-liked-it/
Is this for real?
Remembering from early A.I. interviews – yes, it is true. He said his first girlfriend was 18, and black … thats what he said. I dunno what mom and dad were thinking but 18 for a 14 year old … ah ah. no good. He said he was young and confused … not necessarily confused about being gay, but probably more about what to do about it – as in, fitting in. He went to the prom with a girl, too. He didn’t free himself until after high school … and then all hell broke loose. lolol
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http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20312226_20331355,00.html
You can catch the full interview on Adam Lambert: On the Record with FUSE, premiering Monday, Jan. 11 at 8 p.m./7 p.m. Central on Fuse TV.
Saw this teaser on upcoming Fuse TV interview w/ AL on the web. LOVED the Fuse interview that ran recently w/ Gaga – she is, as was captured in that Fuse interview, brilliant… and hope Lambert’s Fuse interview will provide the same quality content!
i dont have Fuse