‘Idol’ Runner-Up (Adam Lakmbert) Sexes Up American Music Awards

Newsbusters.org ^ | 11-23-09 | Colleen Raezler

[Justaham]

"American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert's vocals weren't top-notch at last night's American Music Awards, but nobody really noticed. How could they, given his over-the-top and in-your-face sexual choreography. Lambert's act during the show, aired on ABC, featured male dancers on leashes, an open-mouth kiss between Lambert and his male keyboardist, and simulated oral sex, both male-on-male and female-on-male.

Naturally, boundary-pushing Hollywood hailed Lambert's performance.

"As a TV viewer, I thought Lambert's performance was a gas, a delight, a blast of brash vulgarity in the midst of ordinary vulgarity," wrote Entertainment Weekly's Ken Tucker.

[frankenMonkey]

American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert's vocals weren't top-notch

Evidently his orals were...

[Palladin]

Disgusting. Lambert is a pig.

I watched it to see Carrie Underwood. Even she was “touching herself”, clad in skimpy silk underpants.

I turned it off after that. I am so sorry to see her go the way of all the other pigs. I thought she had more integrity. She also looked coked up. Her eyes were glazed and fixed. Poor girl.

What a bunch of deranged debauched narcissitic punks!

[IMissPresidentReagan]

"As a TV viewer, I thought Lambert's performance was a gas, a delight, a blast of brash vulgarity in the midst of ordinary vulgarity," wrote Entertainment Weekly's Ken Tucker.

Why didn't Mr. Tucker just rent a skin flick, or download some porn?

[ArrogantBustard]

ABC is the Fag Channel. Disney is all about faggotry.

Pimping this disgusting pervert is just their latest effort at fagging up American popular culture.

[machogirl]

I watched the youtube clip. Vile and his voice wasn’t anything special.

[TurtleUp]

I stopped watching quite a few crude performances ago. Good call on my part!

[jessduntno]

"Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out," he told Rolling Stone."

Hmmmmm...something wrong with his logic...now let me think about it...

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHO ADAM LAMBERT IS?

Or really gives a sheeeet???

[fatnotlazy]

Adam who?

Just kidding. I stopped watching those award shows...don’t think I’m missing much. The really great artists, actors and entertainers are shunned in favor of gays and scantily clad women who are about as talented as I am (and I’m not). The truly great stars are passed over.

[Cedar]

Sodom and Gomorrah

[sbMKE]

This year’s installment was either about corpse worship (Michael Jackson awards) or gay parade showmanship more often than not.

Heck, Perez Hilton was on screen more often than not.

[SonnyBubba]

When you see the crap that passes for entertainment in this country it is easy to understand how our current president was elected.

[Steelfish]

After a few minutes of incoherent rap, I gave up. They need to make rap performances in public a criminal offense. Who in their sane minds would buy their records or even listen to their music. This Lambert guy is a freak. Wasn’t around by then time he came on. The gay and lesbian issue is now a Democratic Party platform thing. ABC Entertainment, Disney etc is all gay all the time. Boycott the channel.

[SGCOS]

>>AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHO ADAM LAMBERT IS?

nope. and I really dont care who Adam Lambert is.

[mockingbyrd]

Was I the only one totally distracted by the lack of pitch or any sort of tonality in the song at all. I missed all the rauchy stuff because I was focusing on trying to find the key.......

[skipper18]

“ABC is the Fag Channel. Disney is all about faggotry”

Truthfully, the big thing they pimp out is the Disney pop franchise they own; Miley Cyrus, The Jonas Brothers, Zach Efron and High School Musical, etc.

So they’re more about making people gay than showing them gays.

[supremedoctrine]

This guy is a GREAT singer. ANd I mean a world-class singer
if you’ve heard stuff he was doing in musicals even 5-7 years ago, and putting that together with EVERYTHING he did on Idol,I don’t know how anyone could not be in awe of his talents. It would truly be a shame to popular music if his talents weren’t given their due, but if the AMA show is any indication, it’s his dubious taste that might do him in.
I haven’t anticipated witnessing the post-Idol career of anyone Idol contestant more than Adam Lambert’s: it’s an amazing thing to see total unknowns like Kelly Clarkson, Tamyra Gray, Bo Bice,Carrie Underwood,the two Davids, Carly Smithson, and best of all last year, Alison Iraheta get up there week after week and blow you away. The best ones get some kind of recording careers, but TO A MAN, (or woman) they’ve all been put into totally commercial directions, and the “thrill is gone”, to a large extent. This would of course be the natural direction a performer would go after anyway, but not a single one of them can recapture the magic they left behind when they were under so much pressure on that show. Adam Lambert out of all these, is in a class by himself, and I dearly hope he sheds this over-the-top act he did on the awards show, (which I only watched the last 5 minutes of because I knew he’d be on it)
He doesn’t need it. and his vocals ,for the first time I’ve ever seen, were all over the place, because the song and the staging were also all over the place.

[Sans-Culotte]

It's times like these when I am glad to be a classical music lover who only listens to music by DWEM*s. I do not know who most of those people on the AMA are, and if I do know, I have never heard their music.

*-Dead White European Males

[TheConservativeParty]

Ick. And I didn’t even know the show was on. I can’t bear to watch the clip.

Haven’t watched any awards shows for so long, maybe 20 years? When the quality of entertainer went in the tank, I stopped caring who won anything.

I am sorry to read that Carrie Underwood was less than lady-like. That is disappointing.