Adam Lambert’s performance at the American Music Awards was small, pathetic, and desperate.
More than 14 million people watched the gay, glam rocker close the live AMA telecast on Sunday with a performance that included Lambert kissing a male keyboard player and pushing the head of another performer into his crotch.
It wasn’t entertainment. Adam didn’t give a rip about the larger audience or its enjoyment.
“I admit I did get carried away, but I don’t see anything wrong with it. I do see how people got offended, and that was not my intention,” he said.
B.S. Offense was exactly his intention and he knew what was wrong with it. Like the more radical elements of the homosexual community, Adam’s behavior was designed to shock. In the process, he subordinated his considerable talent to a narrow radical cause.
“If it had been a female pop performer doing the moves that were on the stage, I don’t think there’d be nearly as much of an outrage at all,” Lambert added. “I think it’s because I’m a gay male.”
B.S. again. The negative public response Adam is getting isn’t reserved for gay males alone. It’s the exact same reaction rational people give bratty four-year-olds whose desperate negative behavior screams: LOOK AT ME!! TELL ME I’M OKAY!! VALIDATE ME!! PLEASE!!!
The irony is that the more deviant the behavior, the more mainstream people recoil from it.
Jennifer Vanasco, editor in chief of website 365gay.com, said his performance hurt the cause of gay marriage in the eyes of mainstream Americans “who think gay life is exactly what (he) portrayed on the American Music Awards.”
Lambert has a choice to make. He can be a talented entertainer on a large world stage, or a radical homosexual activist on a small self-absorbed stage. But he won’t enjoy enduring success on both.
Tags: Adam Lambert, AMA, music
Female pop singers do behave badly on stage, but I don’t see how that excuses Lambert. It’s still not mainstream entertainment. Both are playing to a very small audience.
Britney Spears is just as offensive with her latest lyrics. Amanda Carpenter writes:
“Pop songstress Britney Spears has come out with another sexually charged single after her controversial hit “If You Seek Amy.” This time she’s singing about having romantic encounters with two or more partners at the same time in a song titled “3″ that’s getting heavy radio play.
“Living in sin is the new thing,” the chorus says, “Are you in?”
“Although there are no blatant descriptions of sexual acts in the song, much like “If You Seek Amy,” the message is unmistakable. ‘What we do is innocent,’ Miss Spears coos, ‘Just for fun and nothin’ meant/if you don’t like the company/let’s just do it you and me/you and me/or three/or four/on the floor.’”
Since Spears doesn’t have Lambert’s talent, this sort of song may be the only thing she can do to attract an audience. But Lambert does have talent, so it’s a shame to see him squander it.
He as a point though, female pop singers have used simulated sex acts and kissing on stage before. His could have been done better yes, but I’m not sure if kissing a guy on stage is really “radical homosexual activism”