Adam Lambert on the AMAs — Page 2

First, I love Adam!

With that said,the vocals were not good. It was all sorts of shreiking and caterwauling. The whole sexual aggressiveness was just embarassing. And last but not least, his foundation was way too heavy.

sorry *ducks*

The only thing that freaked me out was that his make out with the keyboardist looked like he was trying to devour him like a snake. If nothing else, could they not have practiced that to look a little better?

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Everything about it was horrible.
He does have talent- you couldn't tell from that.

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Best man-to-man kiss on stage - John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask. (Hedwig)

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Although the vocals were horrible, I enjoyed his performance. I thought it was unique and entertaining to watch.

Yeah, shocking does not necessarily equal good in my book. Absolutely nothing was good or in good taste; nothing was focused or well executed; everything felt forced and too in-your-face and over-the-top to be considered any good. I thought it was a complete train wreck, and to top it all off, he sounded dreadful. Completely off-key and his riffs were just annoying, unnecessary, and all over the place. Not a fan at all. I find his voice very grating and hard to listen to. Chalk me up as one who was dissuaded from buying his album due to his performance. I don't care if "it made the right wing upset," it made me upset as a theatre person and as a gay man to be equated to anything that took place on that stage. Really, we get one out person in pop music and this is the face that gets to represent an entire population? If his performance were shocking and GOOD, then I'd be whistling a different tune. But wow, that was cringe-worthy and completely unwatchable.

On the other hand, Lady Gaga was brilliant. Now that is how you make shocking become art. That people are saying Adam Lambert is anywhere near that genius is completely ridiculous

~Steven

"Artists are so tame and neutered these days. Pop music is downright boring, we need more Lamberts and Gagas to shake things up."

Boring yes... but only because today's performers are all cookie cutter strip/sex acts with backup dancers.

IMO today's popular music is swallowed up by "shocking" and media-attention-grabbing antics. We can thank Madonna for setting that precedence. But heck, even Madonna has aged past many of her sexual antics of 20 years ago.

I don't consider today's artists tame and nuetered... I consider them ridiculously overt. I am so tired of seeing/hearing the obnoxious Britneys, J-Los, Pussycat Dolls, Christinas, Mileys and other no-talents masking their lack of vocal talent/ability with live sex performances. Most of the time, they lip sync so they can fully concentrate on the onstage physical performance. That kind of "talent" is mis-guided IMO. You mentioned Gaga... sorry, she's vocally lackluster live as well. She typically drops songs a key so she can concentrate on her "art."

I held Lambert (while on Idol) in high regard because he was "different" and had and odd twist to his perfs. Most importantly, I felt he was the first artist in a long time that would awe with his vocal prowess first and foremost. However, the other night he fell prey to the boring mainstream ideal that one has to "shock" in order to market themselves.

Lambert has the talent... so I was frustrated to see him stoop to immaturity. Heck I am a gay male and personally feel Adam took us back about 2 steps the other night. He played into a stereotype IMO, and I was terribly dissapointed by it.

I bought Lambert's album, but definitely not because of his perf the other night. I wanted to hear him SING. As expected, it is VERY good. At this point, I'll stick to listening to him and don't care to watch him.

I hope the next time he performs at the AMAs that he remembers that it's a MUSIC awards show... and the focus should be on the music, and not groping around on the stage.

Rise above it Adam.

Updated On: 11/24/09 at 10:30 AM

You honestly think Christina and Gaga are "lackluster" live?

goodoneinlou2~
You really need to check out GAGA's unplugged youtube stuff. She also some unplugged stuff you can buy on itunes. She has an amazing voice. There are hints of early Cyndi Lauper raw-nes in her voice. She is brilliant IMHO. I thought the whole thing rocked. (except the whole breaking glass on the piano... i did not get that...)

I think Adams biggest problem is that this was his first LIVE TV appearence like this and he tried too hard.

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Oh H*ll NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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I missed the performance and have been searching for a video of it online, but they've all been taken down!

Anyone have a link or know where I can watch his performance online?

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GaGa always sings live. Always

If you have actually watched any of her performances you'd see that she normally sings an octave higher and in harmony with any backing vocals, so you're wrong there as well

As for Lambert, CBS Early show censored with a blur his kiss when showing a clip of the performance, but seconds later showed the infamous Madonna-Britney VMA 2003 kiss.

It's an outrageous double-standard. See the link I've posted.

link

Updated On: 11/25/09 at 02:22 PM