Mr. L

TIME.com
Adam Lambert Too—Ahem—”Controversial” for GMA

American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert wanted attention with his performance at the American Music Awards, and he’s got it: Good Morning America confirmed that it’s canceling Lambert’s scheduled performance tomorrow. After the AMA performance (also on ABC), in which Lambert groped dancers, kissed a male musician and shoved a male dancer’s face into his crotch, ABC said it was concerned about airing “a similar performance” early in the morning. [Update: But CBS isn't! The Early Show will have Lambert on tomorrow morning.]
You might know the above-described acts by another name: “a Madonna concert in 1990.” But apparently it’s one thing to be lewd on stage if you’re a woman whom gay men iconize, and another if you’re a gay man yourself.

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The New York Times
ABC Drops Adam Lambert, and CBS Picks Him Up

Two days after giving a sexually charged performance at the American Music Awards, the singer Adam Lambert found himself abruptly dropped by one network morning show and just as abruptly booked on another..
On Tuesday morning ABC said it had canceled a free concert that Mr. Lambert, the “American Idol” runner-up, had been scheduled to perform on Wednesday on “Good Morning America,” the ABC morning show. Hours later, CBS said Mr. Lambert would instead appear on Wednesday morning on “The Early Show,” a “Good Morning America” competitor.
In canceling the “Good Morning America” concert, which was to be performed at the Hudson Theater in Midtown Manhattan, ABC specifically cited Mr. Lambert’s behavior on Sunday night at the American Music Awards, which were also broadcast on ABC.

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Lyndsey Parker, Reality Rocks
Adam Lambert’s AMA/GMA Controversy: Proof That Any Publicity Is Good Publicity?

Now, was it the best move for Adam to pull all this stuff on prime time TV his first time out? Well, maybe it was a slight lapse in judgment–not because it was racy (I for one was not at all offended, although apparently at least 1,500 irate viewers who flooded the ABC switchboard were), but only because Adam allegedly didn’t tip off producers about what he planned to do (he later said he did it “in the moment”), leaving blindsighted camera crew members scrambling to quick-cut to widescreen audience reaction shots and panicked staffers in the editing bay working overtime to cut out the “offensive” scenes for the show’s tape-delayed broadcasts. It was this perceived secrecy that might have been Adam’s undoing–let’s face it, you can get away with that stuff if you’re Madonna and have been in the game for a while, but as a new artist so hot out the box, it’s a real risk. So to this point, I do understand ABC’s skittishness a little. HOWEVER…I think this was a risk Adam was willing to take. He seemed like a man possessed that night, a man on a mission, almost downrightangry. (He didn’t flash his famous loaded smile once that night, not even after he was finished singing. In fact, he topped off his performance by defiantly flipping the bird.)

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