Here is the Adam Lambert AMA video in which he puts on a freaky performance at the end of the show which some are labeling porn. See his American Music Awards video on YouTube below and tell us what you think of all the gay kissing and debauchery in the comments. Perhaps fittingly Adam Lambert falls.
Predictably the video has become a sensation on the internet in just a couple of hours since the show aired. And that is too bad because there were far better performance videos from the American Music Awards which deserve more attention. Freaky sells. And perhaps Adam Lambert falling down sells too.
There was a time in America when men were men and women were women, and people like Adam Lambert were relegated to the closets. That’s not the American culture I want to return to but neither do I want wimps on my TV screen. I say act like a man or shut up.
But it has long been this way in the music industry where people outside the norm have been celebrated for their oddity. Liberace gave me the creeps as a teenager but he was considered a mainstream performer even in the 1960s.
As the decades progressed performers like Prince assaulted our living rooms at awards shows, and now we have Adam Lambert who has to make a living out of shocking audiences rather than singing well.
So in 2009 we have Adam Lambert kissing men as part of the show on ABC network television. Add in whips, chains, b*ndage, dry humping and simulated fellatio sex and you have what passes for entertainment in some circles. A well-known celebrity gossip site has utterly panned the spectacle.
If it were not for his freaky persona Adam Lambert would barely rate as a musical performer. He is at best average unless men singing in high octaves puts a thrill up your leg.
And even heteros know that his outfit sucked. Nobody wears spiked clothing with pinstripes. What’s with the set that looked like a hamster habitat?
So did the AMA performance cross the line into porn? The Los Angeles Times weighs in on the question.
Love him or hate him, see the unedited Adam Lambert AMA video below via YouTube and tell us what you think about his performance in the comments. Lambert falls at the 1:55 mark in the video. The deep throat gay kiss occurs around the 3:35 mark shortly before the shocked ABC producer cut away.
Adam Lambert American Music Awards Performance Video
November 22nd, 2009 at 11:45 pm
I think there is nothing wrong with a guy-on-guy kiss. Get over it. However, the performance did offend me a bit. I know he was going for ratings and controversy (both of which he is getting now) but I think he went overboard. Sure, I’m fine with him acting gay and all that, but it was too explicit for me. His Memphis “Whole Lotta Love” performance ==> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps0gLiQoubA is about the limit for me. Love how he pushes the boundaries of gender and sexuality, but it was bordering on pornographic, and straight or gay, it made me uncomfortable.
November 22nd, 2009 at 11:50 pm
I was thrilled to see a man kissing a man and can that boy sing!
November 22nd, 2009 at 11:51 pm
i bet ur the first one to buy his cd ..
i love my freaky boy give me more of that
November 22nd, 2009 at 11:54 pm
I totally disagree with the writer of this article. Adam Lambert’s AMA performance was no more freaky than Rhinanna’s naked and strapped down body arching on a surgical table. Adam’s dancing was no less crotch grabbing than Janet Jackson grabbing herself or her male dancer during her routine. Or the rappers who couldn’t keep their hands off their privates while they sang. And Adam Lambert’s singing was remarkable. How is his fall any different than Jennifer Lopez falling during her AMA performance? Adam Lambert not being man enough for you? How much guts and glory do you need to get up on stage and even perform in front of millions of people? Or did you think Keith Urban and or Daughtry who both were pitchy and off key several times during their AMA performances were better men than Adam? After all Adam Lambert delivered one of the best, current and hottest choreographed songs of the night. And what is better is yes tomorrow everyone will be talking about Adam Lambert. Most of us all ready forgot about more than half of the bland performances from tonight’s AMAs. Adam Lambert will make us think, open our minds and keep us talking.
November 23rd, 2009 at 12:09 am
Adam is enormously talented. He didn’t have a great performance last night; nerves and bad microphones were to blame. I do think he should tone it down for the sake of his career. Many artists hurt their careers by being too risque including Madonna and Christina Aguilera.
November 23rd, 2009 at 12:19 am
LOL, you’re a regular Archie Bunker, aren’t you? “OMG, that video is sooo shocking!” NOT.
Get off your high horse. So, there was a brief kiss that lasted a few seconds in a 4-minute performance, which also included imitation of other sex acts. How scary.
And your comments about Lambert not being such a good singer, him only doing this for shock value (you know what? twenty years ago, Madonna was doing much more in her videos; and we managed to survive; not only that, but you seem to think we’ve gotten even more sexually promiscuous and permissive… so, shouldn’t this video then be considered “tame”?). Seems to me that because of your “not-wanting-to-see-same-sex-kissing-on-TV”, you are making judgments on Lambert’s talent.
November 23rd, 2009 at 12:21 am
Eye Popping experience…LOVED IT…. its about time it got turned upside down….. I am very turned on with guys kissing …. HOT…. I now know what the male obsession is about chicks kissing…. fantasy are alive and well *muah* kisses n hugs ADAM!!! U ROCK!!
November 23rd, 2009 at 12:26 am
Yeah the person that wrote this sounds homophobic or doesn’t “get it” yet. Let’s see, Adam Lambert is out and proud- which requires an intense amount of courage, he performed a super risky show at the AMAs in front of millions of people and obviously works his but off, considering his standing on the music charts. Hardly a “wimp” if you ask me.
November 23rd, 2009 at 1:05 am
freaking hot,bad ass-lamb!!!!Hope the kiss will not be censured..that wopuld be a hughe step in the right direction for America!!!
November 23rd, 2009 at 1:07 am
I have no problem with anyone chosing to be gay straight or whatever you please but this is just classless ( as are the other preformers that feel the need to act like pathetic sex fiends for shock). There is just a time and a place and national prime time TV just doesn’t feel like it should be either. They want to put a show on like that then save it for concerts. I not some one shocked by that crap it’s just pathetic. I have Liston to metal and punk my whole life and grew up watching ( and loving ) every sick and shocking thing it offered.
just come on get over yourselfs celb.s and cut the crap. No one need to watch you shove someones head in you crotch and good for you your gay doesn’t mean I have to watch you lick the back of some dudes throat. Just saying save this for a diff. Venue.
November 23rd, 2009 at 1:17 am
I believe Adam will illicit the response he expected… Loved it!… Soooo “over the top” and you sure entertained me… ROCK ON!
November 23rd, 2009 at 2:09 am
I think it’s awesome that we live in a country where a guy can kiss another guy in a huge broadcast show. It shows we’re actually progressing. It’s about time. (And btw, I’m straight, not that it matters.)
November 23rd, 2009 at 2:20 am
I found the clip to be tame and I personally found nothing wrong with it. I have seen music clips on MTV far worse than Adam Lamberts performance. I remember the so-called outrage with Prince, Don’t tell me America is going down the same path with Adam as they did with Prince.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:32 am
SICK, SICK, SICK, SICK!!! PLEASE BRING REAL MUSIC AND REAL ENTERTAINMENT BACK TO AMERICA. SICK, SICK, SICK, SICK!!!!
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:36 am
I don’t care either way about the gay part of it but the singing was awful awful awful.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:39 am
in fact I was embarrassed for him as far as how amateurish his singing came across last night. The only think that saved his performance was his “shock factor”. Vocally a mess
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:46 am
How did this guy get on this show anyway? He can’t sing, his music is bad (worse than 70’s disco) and his act is a farce. Too bad Vlad the Impaler isn’t around anymore to straighten him up. Cheers.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:38 am
From the comments it looks like the writer of this article is in the minority…vocal as the right wing minority always is but guess what….YOU are out of the mainstream buddy, not Adam. MUCH worse has been done by tons of female performers and I bet you ate it up. AMERICA LOVES ADAM.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:58 am
The writer is clearly out of touch with reality. Lambert is a rockstar and it was a kiss…so freaking what?
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:11 am
Wow. Reading the comments I am glad there’s the Atlantic separating us. The performance was not very risqué at all. There were allusions to sex and some fetishism but hardly anything to offend. Yis are all hilarious with your misplaced outrage! You should go read the gun crime rates and percentage of your population in prison and compare it to other countries rather than wasting your guffaws on a rather tame single performance.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:19 am
Last time I checked, it was a free country. Don’t like? Move to a theocracy like Iran.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:27 am
Well even if you have no moral compass, the singing, the performance itself was pretty sad. If you have a moral compass and don’t swallow hook line and sinker the agenda of the gay movement in westernized civilization you would not feel shock so much as sadness; that this is even considered entertainment for the masses and even more sadly that the masses don’t even speak up. The emperor has no clothes, perversion and immorality are rampant and no one wants to say “enough”.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:44 am
Totally disappointed with his performance. Yes I am a huge fan of his, but unfortunately that was not up to his usual innovative singing. Cut out the sex stuff. It’s his beautiful voice I want to hear. Sitting in his chair singing “Mad” was all I needed to hear. Madonna’s already done the sex thing and quite frankly it’s not new. Sorry. Let the voice do the talking.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:50 am
“Adam Lambert not being man enough for you? How much guts and glory do you need to get up on stage and even perform in front of millions of people?”
Since women of all ages including 5-year-old Shirley Temple have done it, I don’t see how much manliness is needed.
“Or did you think Keith Urban and or Daughtry who both were pitchy and off key several times during their AMA performances were better men than Adam?”
Of course they were better men then Adam. Adam is not a man. He is a male who prefers the role of the woman.
Keith Urban and Chris Daughtry are both married (to woman) and are fathers. That’s what men do.
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:07 am
I think adam’s performance was good, I just think people have a issue with him because he is gay. Their is nothing wrong with that. As far as the porn have you watched MTV in the last year their are more pornographic performances on their and the only reason people are appalled is because he’s different. Different is good and I can’t wait to see what’s next. Good job Adam!