After a while off the blog, I make my comeback to Adam news. Found this interesting comment about Adam, AMAs, Lady Gaga and more that make a lot of sense to me. Please skip it if you’ve read it already. by rhombusmag.com

Adam Lambert performed at the American Music Awards (AMAs) and managed to accomplish everything that Lady Gaga wanted to but couldn’t. More specifically, while performing his song “For Your Entertainment” Lambert kissed another man and pushed a male dancer’s face into his crotch, simulating oral sex. The moment instantly became headline news and, not surprisingly, groups like the conservative Parents’ Television Council were outraged.
As is usually the case, this controversy has only benefited Lambert. Though ABC canceled his gig on Good Morning America in response, Lambert immediately booked a performance on CBS’s The Early Show instead. More importantly, newspapers and magazines across the country have made Lambert the centerpiece of their entertainment coverage. Whether you love or loathe Lambert, his profile is higher than ever and he’ll undoubtedly sell more records.
However, Lambert’s other, somewhat more abstract reward for his AMA controversy is his new status as a fledgling gender-bending icon. It’s the kind of thing Lady Gaga wanted to be, but which her VMA performance didn’t quite deliver. In the wake of the AMAs people aren’t just talking about Lambert, they’re talking about what he represents, which is something edgier and more appealingly dangerous than most female pop stars can manage. If he isn’t exactly starting a movement, then he is definitely beginning to be remembered.

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The abc’s cancellation of Adam Lambert performance has provoked the immediate reactions of the press. Once of the very first to react, as usual in case of Adam Lambert was Lyndsey Parker from RealityRocks blog by yahoo in her article: ‘An American Idol, Banned In The USA’, where she gives the examples of other American performers who have been banned and censored from US media, but it only helped them to achieve the immortality and status of stars:

This is indeed unsettling news in light of Adam’s GMA cancellation, feud with Out magazine editor Aaron Hicklin, and any number of controversies he’s had to contend with ever since racy pics of him same-sex smooching at Burning Man spread across the Interweb back when he was still in the American Idol top 50. But I’m here to tell you, there is a bright side to all this: Banned and censored artists are the artists we all remember. They’re the ones that make it into the history books, that have VH1 rockumentaries made about them, etc. Many artists have faced similar “scandals” in their careers, and they not only came out of it all just fine, but actually had their immortality cemented by such events.

Read the whole article under this link.

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According to Logo Online/NewNowNext’s gay blog, Adam made recently an interview for PopLab, which will be aired on the 7th of December at 7 pm. (As non-US person, I have no idea however on which US channel it will air…)
Excerpts from the interview:

Lambert explained how he’s feeling about the current fuss about his allegedly oversexed TV performance. You’ll have to watch PopLab on Monday, December 7th at 7pm for the full deal, but basically Adam said: “The AMA show was meant to be fun, and the song’s about sex, so why not go for it.” Ya dig?
“The show wasn’t meant to piss people off, it was just meant to be outrageous,” Lambert said. “Why do people take it seriously? Obviously, I didn’t.”
But more importantly, Lambert stressed that gay performers are held to a weird double-standard where they’re not allowed to get sensual or sexual on stage, in a way that even female performers like Madonna, or Christina or even Britney Spears can. “Because I’m a gay guy, I can’t do that? It’s discrimination.
Go Adam. Tell it!!!

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After Elton blog/Ed Kennedy of course also comments on the recent controversy, this time focus on the CBS blurring Adam’s guy-guy kiss on AMAs stage.

After his sexy American Music Awards performance, Adam Lambert had his scheduled appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America canceled. But he still got up early, to do the competing CBS Early Show. And the whole thing may have been the savviest move yet from the performer.
While he admitted the live performance got a bit more sexual than what he had rehearsed, he was quick to point out that it was nearly 11pm and “family hour” was over at 10pm, and kids should be in bed. He also takes a controversial (irony, people) stance that if parents were offended, maybe they should Tivo late night programs before allowing their children to watch them. Active parenting? Radical concept.
The thing that caught me was that in the intro to the interview, CBS ran a pretaped piece, with sound bites from a conservative who was outraged and an industry insider that said it was par for the course. And in that intro, they showed this picture from the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards (Madonna/Britney) But four minutes later in the interview, they showed Adam’s performance from the American Music Awards (blurred kiss).

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by Elena Gorgan, Softpedia blog

Amidst talk of the inappropriateness of his performance at the 2009 American Music Awards, Adam Lambert has quietly released the video for his first single off the debut album, the title song “For Your Entertainment.” With a very goth / punk / 80s vibe to it, the video is the product of a one-day shoot with Ray Kay at the helm, which shows Lambert as the ringmaster of an underground party.
Adam Lambert has repeatedly been described as this generation’s glam rock idol and, for many, his performance over the weekend only comes to reinforce that. With this in mind, the same does this recently released video, as it shows the singer as a true entertainer, of which we have only a handful these days on the music scene. As music critics also point out, the entire video – the party – takes place underground, quite a powerful symbol for the musical revolution the American Idol runner-up has in store for the world.

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Michelle, who as we all know by now – adores Adam Lambert – has invited him to a cosy and relaxed interview during Adam’s visit in New York.
They have been talking about AMA’s and all the details connected with Adam’s performance.

Thanks Michelle for making it so funny and warm!

For those who cannot see it in the above format, the youtube version is here:

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The Miami Herald’s gay blog featured Adam today in the article Adam Lambert ready to shake up pop world with CD written by Derrik J. Lang.
The author not only comments on the controversial AMA performance but also goes deeper into Adam’s personality and the consequences of his behaviour. Very interesting piece to read, fragments below:

‘Risky Business’?

Lambert raised eyebrows with a saucy Details magazine photo shoot featuring the singer intertwined with a nude woman. Hicklin attacked the spread as awkward, but Lambert contends he was exploring heteroerotism much like many female artists experiment with homoerotocism. Such exposure begs the question: Will all this risque business be risky business?

RCA about Adam

“You want edge,” says RCA Records general manager Tom Corson. “You want an artist who is going to challenge himself as well as his fans and people who may become his fans. You’ve got to hand it to him, so far it’s working for him, but it’s got to come down to the music. There’s plenty of people who have celebrity but don’t have a tenth of the talent of Adam.”

Album and the hits

Lambert’s album is an assemblage of songs Lambert quickly crafted this summer while on tour with his eighth-season “Idol” brothers and sisters. His collaborators include “Idol” judge Kara DioGuardi on the pumping rock tune “Strut,” Lady Gaga on the synth ditty “Fever” and Pink on the power ballad “Whataya Want From Me?” – the next single from his album.
There’s no question Lambert has star power, but so far, his celebrity hasn’t ensured a hit: the first single, “For Your Entertainment,” has debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart weakly at No. 84. Controversy – and becoming a Twitter trending topic after his American Music Awards performance – may help sales.
“People were really drawn to him from everything he was doing on the show,” says Sharon Dastur, program director at pop radio station Z100 in New York. “Now that it’s time for him to be on his own and put out his own music, it’s a question of whether he’s stepping up to the plate. I definitely think ‘Whataya Want From Me?’ is a great way to start.”

Personality full of contradictions

Lambert is full of over-the-top contradictions, and that may be part of his appeal. He’s a punk rocker who’s not angry at the world. He’s gay, but many of his straight female fans readily admit to lusting after him. He doesn’t want to be taken seriously, and he wants to be taken seriously. He is playing the part of a character all while being himself.

Adam Lambert about a challenge of creating his image

“If you’re a new artist breaking, you have more control over your first impression,” he says. “Because of everything I’ve been through, everything I did on ‘Idol’ and all of the press attention, it’s easy to catch people off-guard by whatever choices I make. They have a preconceived notion. It creates a challenge, but it’s one that I’m kind of enjoying.”

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Lyndsey Parker commented on the ‘Out’ controversy already on 16th of November 2009, just after the letter of Aaron Hicklin has been published.
She basically does no have any oppinion about the gay-issues mentioned in the letter but points that the constant buzz around Adam Lambert makes him a true superstar.

I honestly cannot take a side here. I do not know Hicklin personally, nor do I know what went down behind the scenes at the Out shoot. I was not there. However, considering that Adam’s people “allowed” him to make an album with collaborators like Lady Gaga and a fearlessly glamtastic cover in which he is wearing more mascara than the late Tammy Faye Messner–and that no one stopped him from performing on the American Idol finale in Bob Mackie angel wings and platform boots, OR from coming out on the cover of an even more widely read publication, Rolling Stone–it seems like he has at least a few people in his camp who happily celebrate his individuality.

I just find it interesting, and actually a little amusing, that even when Adam Lambert poses for a seemingly innocuous group photo, he somehow creates controversy and conversation. And when people of all sorts–from regular folks gathered around the watercooler to editors of major magazines–can’t stop debating about someone, that’s the sign of a true superstar.

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Adam name sales the headlines.
So popeater.com also featured Adam’s twat as one of the faves of the day 11/18/09 about his having a good time with his band:

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Yahoo.com’s Shawn Amos made an approach to name some of the gay icons in the pop music.
Adam is listed together with Freddie Mercury, Madonna, Rufus Wainwright, Barbara Streisand and Elton John….
Personally, I am still not sure what was the idea the author would like to communicate and the whole article makes me slightly uncomfortable.
But at least, the author comes also closer to Adam’s debut album:

The album is an exercise in production overload and musical ADD. Lambert (and his handlers) want to make sure no part of the Lambert army is left unsatisfied. “For Your Entertainment” bounces between Euro-disco, rock bombast, power ballads, and ’80s synth attacks. It’s an album seemingly made by a focus group instead of musicians.

And back to the point:

Despite the musical hopscotch, one thing is consistent: Lambert’s gayness. For Your Entertainment” is unmistakably an album meant for gay greatness. The Glambert has joined the ranks of the great gay icons. In fact, with this album (and what is certain to be an insanely overblown tour), Lambert is staking his claim as THE gay musical icon. The cover alone should secure his spot. It’s a pretty gay cover.
It’s also a bold move. Clearly, Lambert senses a changing of the guard is imminent, as the top tier of iconic gay performers — Liza Minnelli, Bette Midler, Cher anyone? — has gone unchallenged for years. He even brought in fellow contemporary gay icon Lady Gaga (on her song “Fever”) to help him claim his throne.

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