Mr. L

Please see also the first part of the link collection after Adam’s AMAs performance.

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Reuters.com: Adam Lambert’s sexually-charged act draws complaints

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – ABC television said on Monday it had received about 1,500 complaints about the sexually-charged performance by “American Idol” runner-up Adam Lambert at the American Music Awards on Sunday.
Millions of viewers saw Lambert simulate oral sex with a back-up dancer, plant a passionate kiss on the mouth of a male keyboard player and gesture to the audience with his middle finger during the closing act of the live music awards show.
Lambert, 27, said his goal was “not to piss people off, it was to promote freedom of expression and artistic freedom”.
ABC cut the most controversial part of his act — Lambert rubbing the face of a male dancer in his crotch — from the U.S. West Coast telecast that aired later on Sunday.
But by then, the singer’s racy rendition of his debut single “For Your Entertainment” was already on its way to becoming one of the most provocative TV moments in the music industry since Madonna and Britney Spears kissed on the MTV Video Music Awards show in 2003.
Adam Lambert was among the top 10 most popular topics on Twitter on Monday.
American Music Awards producers, Dick Clark Productions, said they were unaware from rehearsals what Lambert had planned. “We did not expect the impromptu moments,” a spokeswoman told Reuters.
(…) It was unclear whether ABC could be at risk of an FCC fine because Lambert’s performance was broadcast around 11 pm in most of the nation, outside the FCC’s 6am-10pm time frame prohibiting the broadcast of indecent material.

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yahoo.com: ABC: Lambert’s performance draws 1,500 complaints

ABC said more than 1,500 people complained, what it termed a “moderate” response, and the Parents Television Council also said it had heard from upset members.
“They’re outraged,” said Timothy Winters, president of the Parents Television Council. “They just can’t believe the nature of the content, the explicit nature, and how much graphic content there was.”
Winter said it seemed artists who appear on music awards shows are constantly competing to push the envelope.
“These programs are wholly unsuitable for children now and it’s pathetic, given the amount of economic support that children and teenagers bring to the industry today,” he said.
Lambert’s performance was a subject for the “hot topics” segment of ABC’s daytime talk show “The View” on Monday, but apparently too hot: Barbara Walters said it was too racy to be shown on daytime TV.
ABC spokeswoman Hope Hartman and Lynda Dorf, a representative of Dick Clark Productions, which put on the show, did not comment on how producers and network executives felt about the performance. Dorf noted that Lambert had not kissed any of his fellow performers during rehearsals of the song.

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yahoonews.com: Shock and Awe at the American Music Awards: Taylor Swift, Jennifer Lopez, Adam Lambert Shake Up the Place

The crowd was sighing for a different reason as Adam Lambert closed out the show and joined in on the bondage theme, with a touch of porno and homosexuality thrown in to drive the ABC censors crazy. His over-the-top finale was the talk of the VIP after party held at the Conga Room; that, and actress Kate Hudson’s fashion faux pas, as her plunging neckline silver lame mini dress revealed all on national television.

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Eonline.com by Joal Ryan: It’s a Sexy Job, But Adam Lambert’s Gotta Do It!

“Singularly distasteful.”
The Parents Television Council on Adam Lambert’s American Music Awards leash demonstration? Close. The Sept. 16, 1956, New York Times on Elvis Presley’s hip-censored Ed Sullivan performance.
If our outrage over rock stars is nothing new, then neither are our rock stars. From Elvis’ pelvis on down, they are nothing if not dedicated to sex, more sex, the next new single, which is probably about sex, and ticking off people who prefer their s-e-x to be not so explicit, thankyouverymuch.
Criticizing Lambert for what he did, smooched and pawed at the AMAs is like criticizing that Paula Deen lady on the Food Network because she made something with butter: It’s what they do.
And the other night, Lambert did his job very well.
Together, Lambert’s offenses are nothing less than the work of a rock star in his tight-pants prime. Can you imagine how hard it must have been to work the townfolk into a huff only weeks after the nation re-lost its innocence to the Gossip Girl threesome?
(…) Lambert wasn’t straying from who he was; he was being who he is. He wasn’t dishonoring the stage; he was honoring music’s shock-and-awe tradition. (According to Lambert, he was getting more blowback for it because he was a gyrating guy, and not a writhing Madonna, but he was probably more in the crosshairs because he was a gyrating guy on free TV, and not a writhing Madonna on cable.)
Ultimately, Lambert was doing what he was supposed to do, and, if it was displeasing that a child somewhere saw him do it in prime time, then somebody’s bedtime needs to be moved up. (The show-closing number didn’t air until almost 11 p.m. ET/PT.)

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Pop Eater girls about Adam’s AMA performance – among others. The Adam part starts around min 13.

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Boston Globe: Two standards or too racy?

Even so, the right to simulate sex on TV is hardly the most pressing cause for gay Americans. And the staging of yet another highly suggestive performance at yet another award show isn’t a political statement for equality; it’s a rehash of a now-familiar ploy.
Shock can be a great publicity tool, but as many seasoned artists learn, there is also beauty in restraint.

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