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When you see Adam’s performance, please report back.

Reporting back, as requested, Peggy, and am pinging Jonny and several other regulars to spread the word that Billboard absolutely SLAMMED Lambert. Whooohooo! Score an important one for the good side for a change. The entire music industry lives and dies by the Billboard charts and reviews, so this is bound to leave a mark on the AI producers.

Here is a link to the full Billboard recap of last night's performances. I'll just list their rankings below, and then put their complete statement about Lambert here for everyone on the thread to read.

1. Kris Allen - "To Make You Feel My Love"
2. Anoop Desai - "You Were Always On My Mind"
3. Matt Giraud - "So Small"
4. Allison Iraheta - "Blame It On Your Heart"
5. Danny Gokey - "Jesus, Take The Wheel"
6. Lil Rounds - "Independence Day"
7. Megan Joy - "Walking After Midnight"
8. Alexis Grace - "Jolene"
9. Scott Macintyre: "Wild Angels"
10. Michael Sarver - "Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)"
11. Adam Lambert - "Ring Of Fire"

Billboard's recap statement about Adam Lambert:

Here are some of the notes we jotted down during Adam Lambert's ridiculous Eastern-influenced/pseudo-glam take on "Ring of Fire..." Borderline pornographic. Phantom of the Opera on crack. Unflattering angles. Ear-piercing wailing. Man in Black turning red in his grave. But perhaps Simon Cowell said it best when he described Adam's performance as "indulgent rubbish." Rather than desecrating the great Johnny Cash's legacy, couldn't he have tried Glen Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" instead? What we're asking ourselves is, if Adam had auditioned with that or a similar left-of-center reinterpretation, would the judges have shooed him out of the room along with the other just-for-laughs hopefuls? We don't anticipate he'll be voted off this week, but imagine if they had to pull out the save card for his overambitious ass? And this early? Well, if nothing else, Adam sure knows how to bring on the drama.

Here in Los Angeles, both local morning news shows also panned his performance, although they were more politically correct about how they expressed it. For example, on Good Day L.A., on the FOX affiliate here, Steve Edwards said it was a weird "exotic" performance, when it was obvious he meant "erotic," and not in a good way.

In closing, Peggy, here's my opinion, as requested:

I think Adam Lambert has spent way too much of his life living in the seamy, dark under-belly of the gay world. Plenty of people are gay in their sexual lives, but are otherwise normal and decent in other aspects of their lives. Lambert obviously is not that type of person. He's the gay equivalent of female floozies who've seen better days, but who now work at grinding it away in the worst, cheapest strip clubs.

Underneath his makeup, Lambert's skin is all broken out. Still in his 20's, his looks are already going. His face looked bloated last night.

He looks hard, sly, even dangerous in some photos. Cheap sleaziness oozes from every one of his pores, and I don't know if he can ever get it off him now. He has no place in the mainstream world, because he rejected it years ago.

Bottom line, when I think of Adam Lambert, I think what a waste. Here's a tall, handsome guy with an amazing talent. The world has so much good to offer a young person like that, but he's throwing it all away to get way down in the sewer. Not only does he appear to like it there, but he clearly wants to drag the kids of mainstream America down there with him.

I thought there was a morals clause in the AI contract. They've released other contestants in the past for behavior that wasn't as egregious as Lambert's. This guy is NOT commercial on Mainstream Top 40, so he'll be another black eye to AI's credibility if he wins.