American Music Awards 2009 – Live Blog!

Love Janet…yay! Sweatin’ to the oldies

Ugh. Hate to start out on a negative note, but Janet’s lip-synching again. It bugs me, sorry. Hope this isn’t a sign of things to come tonight.

ETA: Now she’s singing live. Yay!

If Adam lip syncs, I am throwing out my Adam Official Fan Club…everything. God, she doesn’t even lip sync well. JEEZ.

Is there a live stream anywhere? Kinda stuck behind a computer tonight…

Carrie looks adorable!

Janet jackson lip- synching was horrible. Bad way to start out.

Yikes. Janet’s outfit was terrible and her lip-synching was obvious. The dancing was okay, but nothing we haven’t seen before.

It’s up on MJ’s thread…this is going very slowly…sigh, MJ, too many peeps?

Bummer, wanted Kings of Leon to win.

Paula is beautiful and seems sober.

ETA: congs to BEP. I like several of their songs.

Daughtry sounds very good.

Daughtry moving closer to country rock lately huh? He is really good, though

YEAH showing ADam enjoying Shakira perforamnce

Are we back? I was unable to access the site for a while.

So far, the performances have sucked imo

So far, the performances have sucked imo

If you want to see it online, there is a live stream at this link:

http://www.justin.tv/eventz

I think we are back finally..yay!

I just dont get Sha-KILL-her!
I know her hips dont lie but whutever

the only redeeming thing so far for me was the cutaway to Adam LOL!

What’s up with the AMA’s, so far the performances have been lacking. Janet was boring, Daughtry was okay and Shakira, I can’t even explain that performance. I hope the show improves, because it’s been a dud so far.

Daughtry moving closer to country rock lately huh? He is really good, though

MTE. First performing in CMA and now performing right after a country reward in AMA?

Well, Janet was a bust. So was Shakira. I’m not a fan of Daughtry, but yeah, he can sing. Thank you Daughtry.

So glad BEP won over Nickelback. Sorry Kings.

I can’t understand the appeal of Rascal Flatts, and I do like country. Talk about nasally is form of singing.

Showing Adam during Shakira. His parents are here! Yay!

The audience looks bored!

No Rhythm Nation from Janet

Janet lip sinking, not good.

I love Daughtry so much, but I pulled his earpiece out. There must be a sound issue going on.

at least I know lady gaga will bring it

I thought that Paula looked good tonight. I wanted Kings of Leon and Sugarland to win in the first two awards.

Adam was enjoying Shakiras performance, who was the blond next to him? And hes got the aisle seat, Cool!!!

daughtry sounded country to me. is he crossing over soon?.
paula looked hot. saw Adam enjoying shakira lol. his mum is sitting next to his PA.

I wanted Kings of Leon as well, but no way could they win a popular vote over BEP

Yay, Keith is a hunk and a half. :-)

I saw Adam, his blond handler and his mon. :D

AW, Kris duet song.

Keith and Kelly will get the show on track!!

Awww… last time I heard Kiss a Girl was the finale… I miss Kris’s happy shoulder.

Is this the song Keith sang with Kris in the finale?

ETA: Question answered, thanks.

says something about the show so far, when Keith Urban is the best

He is quite adorable, though

AW, Kris duet song …. it sounded so good with Kris :)

yes, will

jms
11/22/2009 at 8:28 pm

at least I know lady gaga will bring it

So will Kelly Adam and Carrie. Keith Urban is doing quite well and so far the best of the night

yes, it is, will…

go keith. i luv that you can sing and have fun on stage which makes me have fun. ty not to mention how enjoyable you are to look at.

Keith Urban has a nice bootie!!

Mercy me, Keith Urban, he was better on the Idol finale.

Would have been a perfect time for Keith to debut a new song. Heard this one several times.

Paula is beautiful. Music too loud over Daughtry’s voice and it appeared he was screaming. Keith is great.

Keith has over sang this song…sing somethin else please.

Not to be TOO shallow, but NICE pants, Keith!!

Keith hair are NOT good

Man, Adam looked nervous! Calm down baby, you’re gonna be great!

“I kissed a girl”… Where is Kristopher?

Wow! The Keith Urban performance is lacking some Kris Allen.

Yeah!!! Kelly!

Kelly!

AW Kelly looks good

Ahhh.. Kelly. You look and sound beautiful. Nice arrangement.

is this ‘already gone’ that Kelly is singing?

Yeah!!! Kelly! Her voice sounds better live than on her single, which is so overproduced, takes the pretty grit from her voice…

It’s so effortless for her

Kelly!! TY for bringing it. You’re gorgeous, baby. She’s so goood.

WOW…Kelly. THe best voice in the business! No one compares to Kelly.

First and BEST Idol ever…

Is it wrong for me to want Kelly to sing something else? She’s been pimping this song for so long. She sounds great though, of course.

Kelly.

Is this live version a bit different from the studio one?

So far Kelly and Keith are the only ones who didn’t lip sync.

I’m liking Kelly. Sounds better than the radio version.

Gotta love Kelly.

Kelly sounds so good. This song is amazing.

Mercy me, Keith Urban, he was better on the Idol finale.

That’s because KRIS was singing with him!! :LOL:

So far Kelly and Keith are the only ones who didn’t lip sync.

And Daughtry?

Kelly sounds so good!!!

love Kelly…..love her little shrug

Daughtry didn’t lip synch

I am going to try one more time to say how much I love Kelly and now I am going to have to Tweet. I will see y’all tomorrow (except I will try for, you know, ADAM).

Kelly is totally schooling the others on how to do it right.

Where do I start with Kelly. Bad hair and bad outfit, plus a bland performance.

Kelly reinforces the point that if nothing else, Idol champs and runner ups are good live singers.

Oh yeah, I forgot about Daughtry. (not a fan, LOL)

Is this live version a bit different from the studio one?

Oh yes! Don’t you remember “Halo”-gate?

yeah cutting to Adam giving her standing O

Noticed that too, Jersey.

Adam has silver nailpolish on!!!

Yay…standing O for Kelly….well deserved

Would love to see Adam’s rings up close. He gave Kelly a standing ovation.

Oh, good, it worked. OH, ADAM SIGHTING!!! lol Kelly sounded amazing and DID NOT LIP SYNC. Neither did Daughtry. Carrie won’t either. THE IDOLS DO NOT LIP SYNC.

In Los Angeles, so stuck watching eyewitness news until the show starts. But…….nice interview with Adam on the news here on their red carpet special!!!! He talks about performing for his idols and gives shout outs to his fellow idols. He says he’s excited about all of them, especially Kelly, because “she can sing her face off.”

Aww, they showed Adam again, clapping for Kelly. Sweet…

They got the show rolling, now it’s only going to get better. Also looked like she got a standing O!

cut-away to Adam. He looks fantastic. Seemed as though a couple of fingers had white nail polish. Maybe it was the lighting. Nice rings too.

Janet did the thing. I guess it’s a matter who u like cause Daughtry & Keith and Kelly put me to sleep. Shakira and Janet kept the energy up definitely. I don’t really care about lip syncing cause really does it matter.

Way to go Kelly!!!! Awesome.

Ever since the Yankees won the world series, they’ve been playing the Jay-Z, Alicia Keys song on the radio all.the.time. here in the NY metro area. They played it live at the end of the Yankee ceremony at city hall (without Alicia though, just Jay-Z) I have heard it constantly this past month.

Wonder how many times they are going to cut away to Adam tonite?! Twice so far…not that I am complaining AT ALL

I thought Kelly looked elegant and classy and that she sang really well (and I loved seeing Adam applauding her).

I don’t know if this was already mentioned but it looks like Adam’s dad is there too. So far I’ve only like Kelly’s performance.

So far Kelly and Keith are the only ones who didn’t lip sync.

Shakira was singing live, but with backup singers.

way to go Kelly!

Is it my imagination, or are they showing Adam a lot in the audience.

Kelly was amazing and cool that Adam and Carrie gave her a Standing Ovation. Homage to the original American Idol and still one of the BEST.

http://www.twilightcartel.com/click-to-watch-mtv-music-awards-live/

Yep, lip syncing is the new definition of superstar. Kelly sounded great and Keith is awesome. I missed Daughtry, but I bet he sang in real time.

cruising twitter during the commercial break, and I found this tweet from a pop culture reporter (greg hernandez) from the red carpet:

Nicest star on entire red carpet was Odol champ Kris Allen. Got nice interview and pics

and

Kris Allen is so tiny I could stuff him in my pocket

Kelly sounded beautiful! I was hoping she would throw in a few lines of “Halo” but I suppose that would have sparked more (unnecessary) controversy. Still, a gorgeous performance from her!

Taylor Swift won over Gaga and Beyonce???

wow, taylor swift beat GaGa – that was a surprise!

I hope GaGa wins over Taylor Swift. Oh, come on. And she isn’t even there? Geez…….At least Kanye is not the hell there.

So sick of T-swift

To introduce Jay-Z. Yay AROD!!!

Kelly’s performance was breath taking. I will bet that Kelly’s, lady gaga’s, Rihanna and and Alicia keys performances will be the only one’s that will be remembered after tonight. (not saying the other’s will not be good but not as memorable)

Omg why does Taylor win EVERYTHING? She is a sweet girl but Gaga deserved that.

skat-girl@allycatlover
11/22/2009 at 8:45 pm

Kelly’s performance was breath taking. I will bet that Kelly’s, lady gaga’s, Rihanna and and Alicia keys performances will be the only one’s that will be remembered after tonight. (not saying the other’s will not be good but not as memorable)

I agree except I would add Adam to that list. IMHO We will see!

Adam is now a top 10 search for yahoo.

love the New York song!!! i don’t buy singles but i got that one :)

BeckyMD
11/22/2009 at 8:43 pm
Taylor Swift won over Gaga and Beyonce???

Talk about a fan base, that girl has a huge one.

I’m digging Alicia and Jay-Z.

Alicia can sing her ass off!

Wow Jay-Z and Alicia sound great, best performance by far tonight.

Alica and Jayz are good but I don’t think outstanding. Kelly is a hard act to follow!

Omg why does Taylor win EVERYTHING? She is a sweet girl but Gaga deserved that.

it’s by popular vote… so she deserves it i guess

Jay-Z and Alicia are great. Alicia’s voice is amazing.

undercooked
11/22/2009 at 8:47 pm

Adam is now a top 10 search for yahoo.

He has been all day! Glad to know he is still there!

I can’t believe Alicia is singing live. She’s just sounds so amazing, stand aside Jay-z :)

Alicia is really good. I’m digging this song b/c of her.

I don’t know dhunken. This is pretty fantastic to me. :-)

So far Kelly and Keith are the only ones who didn’t lip sync.

AS MJ noted, Daughtry did NOT lip sync either.

Wow Jay-Z and Alicia sound great, best performance by far tonight.

Yep. Kelly was good but Jay-Z and Alicia have a great energy.

Alicia keys one of the best voices in R&b music

can they stop showing Perez!!

Love Alicia keys!!!

Alicia was great but not the guy. Ugh.

That was fun. Too bad they’re not in New York. :-)

I will bet that Kelly’s, lady gaga’s, Rihanna and and Alicia keys performances will be the only one’s that will be remembered after tonight.

Hi skat-girl@allycatlover! I see you omitted a name off that list, an oversight I’m sure….

Like Alicia Keys but Jayzee, eh?

i love alicia keys. Now THAT was a great performance!!

OMG Christian, dress up a little.

Glad Christian Slater dressed up for the occasion.

Loving the show so far. Hate how the biggest stars have had to lip-synch. cough** Janet, Shakira… Well Shakira was singing about 30% but I was not impressed. (And Nicole, comb your man’s hair!)
Kelly killed it, it was subdued but fantastic vocals!!
Adam is sitting along with both mom, dad, and publicist(?). She’s the blonde that’s always with him at functions. Got a glimpse of the whole gang when they stood for Kelly.

Did Taylor Swift know in advance that she was going to win? Because that segue to the UK was a little too seamless.

will
11/22/2009 at 8:50 pm
I will bet that Kelly’s, lady gaga’s, Rihanna and and Alicia keys performances will be the only one’s that will be remembered after tonight.

Hi skat-girl@allycatlover! I see you omitted a name off that list, an oversight I’m sure’ ¦.:)

your wrong no oversight :)

wow, Alicia and Jay-z was amazing!! Yay, for green-day, even if this is my least favorite record of theirs.

Billy Joe Armstrong was coherent.

pj
11/22/2009 at 8:49 pm

I don’t know dhunken. This is pretty fantastic to me.

Don’t disagree I just thought Kelly had a more organic performance. It maybe just as simple as I like the song Already Gone better then the Alicia and Jay Z song. But no denying she is an amazing singer and performer because she makes that song!

“A performance by Adam Lambert you have to see to believe.” Saving the best for last as usual.

LOL….you have to see to believe…my husband said oh no.

Yeah, Adam’s performance is considered the one to watch tonite– he is gonna be the news tomorrow,I can just feeeeeeel it!

Man they just pimped Adam, a performance you have to see to believe!!!!!!

” And a performance by Adam Lambert you have to see to believe”!!!!!Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Green Day is pretty much royalty for the AMAs. Cool that they won!!
I kinda bummed that I KNOW I will see at least three more lip-synced perf.
Sybil, I’m sure they told Taylor, “hey -you’ve got 4, soooo tape those and we’ll be all set. Act surprised, k thanx!”

A PERFORMANCE BY ADAM LAMBERT U GOTTA SEE 2 BELIEVE ..

*flailing*

BTW, Alicia Keys, yes, A-Rod, EPIC FAIL WRONG, Jay-Z, meh

#

LOL’ ¦.you have to see to believe’ ¦my husband said oh no.
#

LOL is right. It sounds like it’ll definitely make an impact. Can’t stop giggling here.

Kelly was impeccable. LOVE LOVE LOVE HER, and I love that song stripped down like that. Just. Gorgeous. Alicia and Jay-Z were AWESOME. Love that song too. Those are definitely my two favorite performances so far tonight.

And can I just say that this week’s Modern Family looks like it’s gonna be HILARIOUS? I love that show. One of my favorite new shows this season.

Wow Jay-Z and Alicia sound great, best performance by far tonight.

Yep. Kelly was good but Jay-Z and Alicia have a great energy.

I agree, they had great energy and the crowd was really into their performance.

I am so giddy right now…I feel like I am watching AI again…so nervous and excited.

I started to wonder if that Jayz Alicia thing was ever going to end! Yikes, but I did not like any part of it and it was endless.

Yay for Green Day!

Love the “Have to see it to believe it” LOL

FERGIE is FIERCE!

MJ winning!! it’s cool!!!

wow, Cutting to Adam twice during just the BEP song–

Fergie looked fierce but I didn’t think she sounded too hot.

I just don’t get the BEP.

Black Eyed Peas fantastic. See that one “Pea” (forget his name) shaking Adam’s hand as he sings in the aisle.

The site is reaaalllly slow tonight, when it’s not crashing altogether.

kris

Rhianna singing right now. Her set looks cheap.

OMG Rhianna sucks.

omg how much do I hate this Rhianna crap.

A lot. Get off my tv.

rihanna sounds really bad. omg bad

rhianana WTF!!! yuk

What a disapointment Rhianna

She actually sounded off key, didn’t she?

Rihanna SUCKED!

omg note to self never pay to see rhianna.

ha, the Idols are doing the best live!

that was unbelievably bad. Aside from her costume, Rhianna was pretty awful. Is she always that bad live, or was it just that song?

On a better note – Kris ===== cuteness!!

Fergie is pretty but her other guys are some sort of UGLY!

CHRIS_Daughtry In the audience at the AMA’s. Our category was preshow and we lost. Oh well. Congrats Taylor Swift!
10 minutes ago from Echofon

Just think she is one of the big competitions for Adam beginning TOmorrow

What was Rihanna trying to sing, it was awful and she ldidn’t look good.

Rhianna…I just feel bad for her….She should have lip synced.

Love Rihanna..this performance not so much

That performance was horrible! I had to mute it within the first few seconds. Ugh!

AW Daughtry lost to that stinkin Taylor Swift too! Gwad. I can not stand her, well her singing anyhow

Did they bleep Rihanna and a couple of times of BEP? Or is it my TV?

She should of sang Russian Rouhlette

Carrie — sounding awesome. And looking great too.

So it’s now a pissing contest over who can be more OTT?

Carrie sounded okay, but that outfit was horrible.

Is there any livestreaming???

Rhianana was bleeped

Carrie sounded and loked great.

What is the fugly outfit Lady Gaga has on…wow, fire piano! she can really sing, too bad her records are so overprocessed…

I’m just not getting this Lady GaGa performance. I think it’s just weird, not entertaining. Oh well.

Adam shown 5 times now. He’s going to have to leave pretty soon to get ready for his performance. So they’ll have to start showing someone else soon.

I wish I got Lady Gaga… but I don’t. It’s just too out there for me.

I like Bad Romance but Gaga performances are less and less interesting for me

Is there any livestreaming???

HERE

So it’s now a pissing contest over who can be more OTT?

Looks like. Whatever.

Gaga can really sing – what she need all that weird stuff for. I like my music without the weird.

She’s crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LADY GAGA IS AMAZING!

BEST PERFORMANCE EVER!

EPIC FIERCE AMAZING MIND BLOWING LIFE CHANGING!

*cough* *cough* uh yeah I might be a little over the top :)

Lady GaGa is so annoying, I’m glad she lost.

Do the AMA’s end at 10 or 11? My roommmate is studying, but I think we’d both like to tune in for Adam’s performance, and it’s toward the end, yeah?

I would have liked Kelly to have won Favorite Pop Rock Female Artist not Taylor Swift.

Nice job by Carrie Underwood! Lady Gaga is pretty good.

Perez Hilton… what a tool.

And did you see how they immediately cut away to Adam after Carrie’s performance?

Ugh, Perez, saying he got makeup tips from ADam!

why ABC/AMA is pimping Adam so hard?

I love gaga, but don’t think that performance was all that. I wish she would have just done the full “Bad Romance”.

Carrie doesn’t seem to be country anymore, and that Gaga crap is way OTT.

AMAs end around 11 pm, and Adam is closing the show

I like GaGa, but she doesn’t need the dramatics. She’s almost become a parody of herself.

Oh so Perez is doing backstage color commentary, that must be where the Red Carpet rumor came from.

See skat-girl@allycatlover the announcer said Adam’s performance would be “the one everybody will be talking about tomorrow.” So you must be mistaken!

Sorry but Lady G did nothing for me. She’s just too weird. Give me Kelly Clarkson standing still and singing her heart out any day.

MJ. Rhianna didn’t perform Russian Rouhlette, she performed “The Wait is Ova”

Rihanna— big meh… not into that
Kris — looks and sounds great but that script…meh
Carrie — looks and sounded great .. she got to omve a bit better in my opinion
Lady Gaga — hate the OTT. Don’t like the songs much but she can sings. I don’t like the weirdo

All the talk pre-commericals is making me nervous…now we have the performance “everyone is going to be talking about tomorrow” lol

will and that is not the first time they said that about Adam’s performance tonite!

Dear Lord, Adam really have to knock it out the box

Adam is comming! Do you handle this??

Okay, gaga performance didn’t work for me. Ugly outfit. But the choreography was energetically uninteresting and strange without being entertaining. Kind of like watching a train wreck.

It’s no secret that I’m far more of a Kris fan than an Adam fan… but I really appreciate Adam’s singing talent. I’m just worried that he’ll end up like Gaga for me… too out there for me to get. I know it’s totally a matter of personal taste, but that whole over the top visual thing has never done anything for me…

why ABC/AMA is pimping Adam so hard?

I don’t know but I like it.

why ABC/AMA is pimping Adam so hard?

I don’t know but I like it.

will,
and that is not the first time they said that about Adam’s performance tonite!

Anouncer said something about Adam’s performance will be talked about tomorrow! Bring it on, BB!

I think they’re pimping Adam so hard because he’s the closing act and they want you to keep watching. Ratings!

Adam is comming! Do you handle this??

The best live stream:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wcvb5

So far the Idols have done the best

I really like Gaga as well. The theatrics are getting predictable. I do think she should strip it down and just play the piano, which she does brilliantly. That piano only version of Paparazzi on UTube is really, really enjoyable.

She’s almost become a parody of herself.

Agreed.

This show is a disappointment so far. Should take some pressure off of Adam for the grand finale.

why ABC/AMA is pimping Adam so hard?

Considering some of the acts that they have on this show who are either lacking talent or personality, they are hoping that Adam finishes the show on a high note.

Rihanna performed Hard not Russian Roulette.

Gaga is not for me either. She is just too much.

I hate the banter

See skat-girl@allycatlover the announcer said Adam’s performance would be ‘the one everybody will be talking about tomorrow.’  So you must be mistaken!

eh I think he’s gonna good. I thonk he’s gonna have a hard time taking ‘the one everybody will be talking about tomorrow.’  from gaga. It could be either a epic performance of epic failure. But I thinks its definitely a gonna be entertaining. :)

I’ve always liked Mary J. Will never forget her “One” performance with Elliott Yamin on AI.

GaGa is a performer. SHe could care less if any of you “get” her. That’s what is so great about her. hate all you want. She has had 5 #1 singles in a row.
She is laughing all the way to the bank

I am so tired to auto-tuned voices. Sounds like they are singing on a video game or something. Kelly and Carrie were great.

Yikes, even Mary J. is hitting some klunkers tonight.

OMA HI GUYS!!!!

I had to stay much longer than I expected so I just got here in time for carrie.I think my master plan is working though.I’m watching it upstairs but my dad’s watching it downstairs.yikes.hopefully he doesn’t watch Adam.Adams so pimped.I’m gonna try to stay and post something tonight when fye is released.sad I missed Kris:(

Standouts so far for me Kelly, Alicia (but not Jay-Z so much) and currently, Mary J. Oh, the BEP were fun enough too.

Adam always ends with high notes, lol

Of course ABC is pimping Adam, he’s suspect zero!

Tweet from Daniel Allen:

pretty sure Mom just recieved a text from Reba McIntire (from Kris’ Phone).. Life is Complete.hopefully she’ll forget bout my stupid tweet 1 minute ago from web

This wait for Adam is killing me. sooo excited and nervous at the same time. I’m watching this live in Hong Kong and haven’t been this much excited for an artist in years.

what is this last award?

wow, GaGa didn’t get the breakthrough artist, just wow..maybe she is becoming a caricature of herself

WOW, thought Gaga had that for sure

WHo is GLoriana?

Mtlfan,

breakthrough artist award–

Lady Gaga sells well, maybe people like listening to her, but not watching her. I have personally never heard of Gloriana but obviously they are pretty popular!!

I have never heard of this group… but they sure look happy. That is so nice to see. Such a breath of fresh air

GaGa is a performer. SHe could care less if any of you ‘get’  her. That’s what is so great about her. hate all you want. She has had 5 #1 singles in a row.

I completely agree. Not only is GaGa a great singer, she’s a great performer. For me, she blew Kelly and Carrie away. They are good singers, but not at all interesting to me. Carrie especially looked like she was trying way too hard tonight.

That’s why, they had Taylors fans on there side

Taylor Swift has coat tails. Wow!

Alison, the show ends at 11 or thereabouts. Adam will be somewhere around 10:50.

Wow GaGa didn’t win again…. goes to show.. substance over flash.

Rihanna def. sang “Wait Your Turn” -video seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWwSCojeBDI

“Hard” is this.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ9GrFahKt0
Russian Roulette is a slower tempo.
I LOVE that Gloriana won, I love them.

oh my! everyone thought Gaga was going to win this one! i guess she’s a bit too OTT to win this

LOL, Carrie looked like she was trying too hard and Lady GaGa didn’t? Wow, I completely disagree.

Alison, the show ends at 11 or thereabouts. Adam will be somewhere around 10:50.

lawdy, that is forever away.

wow, GaGa didn’t get the breakthrough artist, just wow..maybe she is becoming a caricature of herself

Yeah, that was ridiculous.

How can you guys hate on GaGa? Shes just as OTT as Adam…. we dont like ppl telling us that Adam should tone it down so why should we judge her? I believe with all my heart that GaGa laid a path that has allowed Adam to become less shocking and more mainstream to america. Plus-he loves her! A friend of adam is a friend of mine anyday lol

AMA audience, can we get a collective BOOOOO. JLo your time is UP!

from where I am, we never get to see this on TV so I am totally enjoying the AMA livestream so far, no complaints!! =) great to see all the artists enjoying themselves with the performances, i cannot wait to see the “performance everyone will be talking about tomorrow”…!!

J Lo. You can’t sing. This song is also really boring.

Wow nice beefcake with J-Lo!! I approve of that. DO NOT approve of her lip-synching. And she had the GALL to mentor on AI???

And you know that if adam was doing the same act we would all love it. We should be NON-JUDGEMENTAL here peeps. Adam wouldnt want it any other way!

J-Lo is so 10 years ago

lady gaga fans are obviously not the voting kind. she’s not going to win on popularity . who in the heck in gloriana, their fans made it a priority to get them noticed. lol.

Jlo not good. Love her dancers, though.

I’m loving all of the quick shots to Adam’s reactions. And I agree with what everyone else is saying about some of the strongest vocals coming from Kelly and Carrie. I was disappointed with Janet and Rihanna.

Needless to say, I can’t wait to see Adam’s performance. We know 2 things for sure: 1) the vocals will be amazing, and 2) the performance is going to be wild (and I’m betting awesome!).

Quick question, what does ‘BB’ stand for?

how much time til Adam? :)

Jlo is enjoyable.

Ohhhh… Whitney’s coming up. This could be interesting.

How can you guys hate on GaGa?

I’m not hating on Gaga. Normally I like her. But that was one performance that detracted majorly from the music for me. I actually think if she did an acoustic next time it’d be more shocking than another interpretive performance.

JLo sucks too

most entertaining so far was Lady Gaga and Alicia and JayZ

JLo, so disappointing. *sigh*

Gotta wonder if Whitney will lip synch. They are pimping the “live” performance.

I’m entertained by this show, if nothing else.

I’m rooting for Whitney to have a good performance.

J-Lo fell on her ass…too funny

Jlo not good. Love her dancers, though.

Dancers were great. Jlo won’t even be remembered tomorrow with that performance.

BB = baby

Was Jlo lip synching too? That wasn’t much of an on stage costume change either.

BB = baby

Lady Gaga killed it imo. She was awesome!

BB is either baby or beautiful boy YMMV

BeckyMD
11/22/2009 at 9:37 pm

why ABC/AMA is pimping Adam so hard?

Have you watched most of the performances tonight? Except for Lady Gaga, Kelly, Keith Urban, BEP, Daughtry, and Carrie performance are not good at all. (At least a really good showing for the AI alum)

I dont know how Adam is going to top all this, but they sure are talking him up, Go Adam!!!!!!!!!!

J-Lo is so 10 years ago

I agree. Shes not sexy anymore. I think she would be sexier if she would dress in a sleek gown and own her age and motherhood. She needs to re-invent her image. Classy=sexy

J Lo will be remembered around the water cooler tomorrow. For falling on her ass.

JLo sucks too

most entertaining so far was Lady Gaga and Alicia and JayZ

YOUR SO RIGHT! Everybody else has either been offkey or very bland.

my top 3 so far : Alicia Keys, Kelly, Carrie

Gaga can’t win new artisit at the Grammy’s

Man tonight has not been great in terms of perfomances. J Lo looked po’d after she left the stage.

And in keeping with the theme of tweeting idol brothers… this from Neil Lambert:

Perez Hilton accidently shows us that the AMAs are run by senile, aimlessly wandering gnomes. 15 minutes ago from twidroid

Kid cudi is awesome. 9 minutes ago from twidroid

Boring. Go away. 4 minutes ago from twidroid

I wish he told me he was going last. 3 minutes ago from twidroid

GaGa lost cause Tayor tweeted her minions how to vote. The winner was HER band, probably signed and did front for her. Taylor will win any fan based award, as will her designees more than likely.

I’m nervous for Whitney. Voice just ain’t the same and they’re playing all these old clips. Just gonna make her sound weaker in comparison.

I missed J-Lo falling on her ass. I was too busy being appalled by the lip sync’ing.

Also, since when does Christian Louboutin make boxing shoes?

MJ- Louboutins are fancy shoes. I guess she’s walking out on her lover in fancy shoes. Yes, a great heart felt lyric indeed.

Seriously is all the pimping of Whitney necessary? We know she was a great singer and had all those #1′s. But she will always be remembered for the line…”Crack is Whack”…

Go Whitney! Tears in my eyes, no! I’m moved!

Tweet from Aaron Spears – Idol tour drummer – made me LOL:

A lot of people questioning if JLo fell or not…She bounced up so fast…I know she is as thankful for that poundcake as I am…LOL… half a minute ago from Tweetie

So far, my favorite performance was Alicia and Jay-Z. They sounded great and that’s just a great song. I loved the energy they brought to the stage. Almost every performance is lacking energy, I can’t really explain it.

I dont know how Adam is going to top all this, but they sure are talking him up, Go Adam!!!!!!!!!!

His voice alone is going to kill it. He’s got the best voice out there.

Man tonight has not been great in terms of perfomances. J Lo looked po’d after she left the stage.

Maybe she fell on some of Gaga’s broken glass.

wow, her voice is just not the same, too much drug abuse…

Christian Louboutins are the new Manolo Blahniks. If Sex & the City were still on, Carrie would be wearing them. $500 and up, trademark red soles. Jenny From The Block wouldn’t be wearing them.

Whitney is sounding better then she has in any other performance since her comeback. Not really a great song

I cannot believe all of these female artists are trying to out do each other!

Where is Adam?

Whitney sounds just aw’ight to me. You know how Randy is always telling AI contestants they shouldn’t try to do Whitney? Well, he needs to tell that to Whitney.

Whitney really is still a trainwreck. This “song” is like she’s making a list.

don’t understand the name of the song. Don’t get it!

Christian Louboutin is the current hot stilletto shoe designer

Whitney looks beautiful. I am rooting for her to do well. Not bad so far…. But not like the Whitney of old.

The crack pipe has ruined Whitney’s voice. She doesn’t sound as nearly good as she used to.

Whitney is doing good. I really hate that song though.

Carrie looked befuddled. LOL.

I am watching Whitney sing, and I am cringing. Her glory days are gone, because the great voice has completely disappeared. I am sitting here thinking, that Adam Lambert would kill this song.

JLo did lip-sync, i wouldn’t expect anything less, 4reals.
Whitney is live, but is sorta talkish at the beginning.

ABC is pimping Adam hard because he will be on Dick Clark’s NYEve thing and Dick Clark is the giant behind the AMA’s, its his baby.
Come on Whit!!!

I missed J-Lo falling on her ass. I was too busy being appalled by the lip sync’ing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bFga8JWvdI

GaGa lost cause Tayor tweeted her minions how to vote. The winner was HER band, probably signed and did front for her. Taylor will win any fan based award, as will her designees more than likely.

Exactly.

Whitney doesn’t seem as out of it as she did when she was on X Factor a few weeks ago. No one ask her any questions!!!

You know how Randy is always telling AI contestants they shouldn’t try to do Whitney? Well, he needs to tell that to Whitney.

Cruel but funny!

Whitney was shouting a bit. She’s still amazing though.

Ya Whitney should quit trying to do Whitney!!!

So sad, so many years wasted of her incredible talent

It is almost all women tonite– Adam were counting you to KILL it! Win one for the guys….

I had to turn my volume really, really low for the Whitney performance… sometimes, these performers should not try to make a comeback in my opinion.

Whiiney looks great. I wish so much that her voice had more of her past glory

Whitney makes me sad :(

no boundaries lmao

It must be really hot on that stage. Whitney is melting.

& his management prob said, “this is his first performance of the single b4 his album drops…you better give him some hype or he ain’t showing. We could go to Oprah…”

Whitney deserves this award. Even if she’s not what she used to be, she had so many really good years and gave alot to the music industry.

Jlo missed her dismount. 1.5!

Wow that J.Lo clip got posted to youtube pretty quickly!

OH MY GOSH she is sweating so bad,

I have to say I will LOL if Taylor Swift beats Michael Jackson.

No one sweats like Whitney!

why the hell did gaga lose breakthrough artist?! WTF?!

lmao there’s almost 900 ppl on here

Whitney had a few pitch problems when she actually had to carry a tune.

It is almost all women tonite’“ Adam were counting you to KILL it! Win one for the guys’ ¦.

At first I thought you were including Adam in the list of women! :lol:

Green Day will kill it for the guys anyways….

sr4mjc,
ROFLMAO!! Spit my chips on my keyboard!

time until the best album EBBBBER;need I say more?

0  days, 1  hour, 52  minutes and 43  seconds

ok,I’ll be back for Adam.I don’t want the battery to die:)

JLo looked pissed because she fell on her ass, poor thing. It was her come back too. I feel bad for her but the lip-syncing sucked!!! Whitney sound so different but it was really heartfelt. I loved Kelly, Alicia Keys Jay-Z, Carrie, Keith Urban and yes Lady Gaga. I love her weird ass….:) I totally get Gaga. They are pimping the shit out of Adam, he better bring it! No pressure! OH and Paula look gorgeous, I am going to miss her so much on idol. I just realize that when she was standing up there all sane and everything. lolz…

J Lo missed her dismount. 1.5. LOL! Best post tonight!

I had to turn my volume really, really low for the Whitney performance’ ¦ sometimes, these performers should not try to make a comeback in my opinion.

That’s what I did, I am so embarrassed for her. She wasn’t good on the Oprah show or the GMA concert, and now this. Clive Davis didn’t do her any favors bringing her out of retirement. I hope to God she doesn’t try to tour, because not a lot of people are going to show up to see her stumble through performances.

CHRIS_Daughtry
I met Lady Ga-Ga!!! What a sweetheart! She told me she loved my cover of PF!!! I’m a happy man:)
less than 20 seconds ago from Echofon

CHRIS_Daughtry I met Lady Ga-Ga!!! What a sweetheart! She told me she loved my cover of PF!!! I’m a happy man:)
1 minute ago from Echofon

Taylor will beat Carrie.

God, I’m so sick of her. She can’t sing!!

Taylor beats Carrie too. huh…

whitney was amazing. I was moved.

Eminem and TI are Pop/Rock artists??? Don’t get it.

#23 AMA award for MJ …

Is he really wearing a white glittery glove?

Shut up Jermaine.

jambajim Ok…starting the AMAs now. Is it a rule that fat Janet Jackson has to open every single awards show in 2009?

Oh my Jim called Janet fat!

Loubitons are the name of high heels that all the celeb women wear now. It sure is a lot of biased when it comes to the non idols. Whitney did great IMO and Jlo was ok. I’m proud of Whitney for overcoming a lot of issues that she went through. So far best performances go to Whitney, Alicia & Jay-Z and Gaga

WOW… love Alicia’s styling

Jermaine sounded like he was accepting the award for himself.

Who is that? I missed the announcement when I muted Jermaine.

Whitney is a beautiful lady and has a beautiful voice, but I didn’t hear her sing tonight. I was watching a replay of Kris BB in his grey suit. =)

Only the idols are singing well live, let’s go 4 for 4 Adam!

luv ALicia’s shoes– would kill to have those1

Whitney tore that up!! She had my crying over here!

luv ALicia’s shoes– would kill to have those! Her guy dancer rocks…

Alicia Keys has an amazing jacket !!! cool performance

Alicia should not dance..just sing girl

Whitney is sounding *exactly* like her aunt.

Her first song is better

Wow.

It really shows that AI watchers are getting older by the minute. Only the AI singers are good???!!!

Lady GaGa was awesome. THAT was an incredible performance. A story.

So were the BEP.

Well Adam has to be getting ready, lets give him some good thoughts.

Jermaine sounds like a d***

No they said Adam has an eye popping performance. Heh

Oh it was Alicia, I didn’t recognize her for some reason,

“Eye-popping performance from Adam Lambert!”

Wonder if Adam is backstage getting ready for his ‘eye popping’ performance?

Alicia did another great performance. I love her new son Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart

Wow, forgot how boring these shows were. Adam better bring it, cause so far the others haven’t (Only been watching since Whitney, tho).

So sick of Taylor Swift. We have to see her in commercials too? Ugh. I won’t buy the product.

This show is so boring. The audience is not into it either. We need someone to SHAKE IT UP!!!!!

Alicia sounds damn good. I love her.

So back to the comparisons of gaga and adam…e.g. both OTT and you can’t like one and not the other. I don’t agree. Example – he shows up to the big show in a gorgeous black tux and she is wearing some sort of freakish costume-like outfit. I love her music and videos, but she just seems to try to be too extreme. So much that many people are turned off. I don’t ever see Adam going that far over the edge.

why ABC/AMA is pimping Adam so hard?

Maybe Adam is going to be doing some work with Dick Clatk like the New Years Eve Party program?

I think Adam will be changing his hair for his number.

I don’t think Lady Gaga is very happy right now. Maybe she’ll win the last award; then again, Taylor has been taking everything.

see to believe
everybody will talk about tomorrow
eye popping

no pressure Adam

OMG, i’m streaming AMA from Indonesia, Kelly performance so Fantastic!!, Gaga (no comment, she’s really AMAZING!!!), and cant wait for Adam? where’s he?

I remember earlier all this week, people talking about how hard it was going to be for Adam to stand out against all these Superstars. Wow, I have been underwhelmed so far.

I love Eminem. :-)

I am soooo not a fan of rap…

And this is Pop Rock???

Grammie Kari,

Billboard broke the news the other day that Adam will be doing Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve

Example ‘“ he shows up to the big show in a gorgeous black tux and she is wearing some sort of freakish costume-like outfit.

Valid point, schufly. Adam seems to ‘turn it on’ for his performances, rather than making being ‘out there’ a lifestyle.

Unfortunately, doesn’t change the fact that Gaga’s performances are out too out there for me to enjoy – and I worry that maybe Adam will go down the same route. Of course, I’m one person – and probably nowhere near either of their key demographic. So it doesn’t much matter.

50 cent and Emminem…ughhhh. Terrible.

LOL at this song. They have such long cuts in the sound for tv.

eww – now get these bleeped noise makers off my tv. ewww.

Did I say we needed someone to “shake it up”? I meant to say we need someone to ENTERTAIN US! (giggle).

why not just sensor out the whole song?

My God they are bleeping the whole damn performance, Lol over here, I dont know why I dont understand one word they are saying.

Mute.

He’s brillz with what he does with his rhymes. Just sayin.

wow….whoever is on sound edit has their work cut out for them!!!!

And again I ask… Eminem was nominated for Pop/Rock because???

love Eminem

I love Eminem. :-)

Me too! I like some rap though.

/ sarcasm /Are there any awards on this show? /end sarcasm /

This is fun.

Wow I thought it was my TV signal cutting in and out during Eminem’s performance, it sounded like an audio malfunction!

I tend to agree with you kt_cle

@pj – people were saying LLWD was fast? Holy {beep}. He was rapping so fast!

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pj
11/22/2009 at 10:29 pm

He’s brillz with what he does with his rhymes. Just sayin.

He is but….I am confident now no matter what Adam does it will not cross the line the way Eminem just did.

sealily1c
11/22/2009 at 10:29 pm
wow’ ¦.whoever is on sound edit has their work cut out for them!!!!

LOL…my thoughts exactly!

Chris Sligh is tweeting what just about everyone except for Adam fans is thinking:

Today, November 22, 2009, 32 minutes ago
ChrisSligh: Wow’ ¦ABC is really playing up this Adam Lambert thing.

Today, November 22, 2009, 31 minutes ago
ChrisSligh: Has ANY Idol (or new artist for that matter) ever gotten this much pub for having done absolutely nothing? Hope he lives up to the hype.

Today, November 22, 2009, 26 minutes ago
ChrisSligh: LOL’ ¦crazy fan’ ¦he has not sold one record. He hasn’t had one hit song yet. I’m just saying I hope he lives up to the hype

[ well, that last part's not quite true. he has sold some singles and probably copies of that unsanctioned CD ]

Today, November 22, 2009, 25 minutes ago
ChrisSligh: And yes he is a better singer than I. For sure.

Timbaland needs to learn to distance the mic from his mouth better.

This sucks

Ok, they are talking to Kris right now on the ABC red carpet. They spelled his name wrong on the little banner below him. They spelled it Chris. He did get a thumbs up on his gray suit with the black trim by the interviewer. :)

Jersey… I like this awards show. It’s clipping along without a host making stupid jokes. And we all know the awards are a joke, so…

No wonder I never watched this show!

I’m actually looking forward to seeing Green Day.

oohh now the performance is “spectacular”

I can’t wait to see Nine.

can wait now for the ‘spectacular debut’ of Adam Lambert :)
by chance the show is finishing soon, the tv presentator would run short of words.. he he

Eminem is not a pop artist. Neither is Taylor. Sheesh.

I actually liked Timbaland. Not a big fan, but great performance…

Can’t wait for Green Day – love 21 guns…

Then ADAM!!

It is amazing how much abc is pimping him. Maybe they always do that for the closer just to keep people watching. HOnestly, if I wasn’t waiting for that performance I woulda turned the tv off already. Most of these performances have been mediocre to bad

Did that Timbaland performance just rip off parts of Thriller?

Eminem is not a pop artist. Neither is Taylor. Sheesh.

I think they must have been using the super broad definition of “pop” meaning “popular”.

I’m glad I’m not an invested Adam fan or I would be so nervousing right now with all the build up. It’s a good thing Adam can’t hear it.

beyonce & paul look like they’ll be much, much better than tonight

I hope Adam picks up lots of new fans.

He deserves it, and he needs them. The ultra-conservative AI fanbase is not for the long run.

Go, baby ADAM!!!!!!

Chris Sligh jealous, much!

Geez, Adam gets the pimp spot again, better get ready to dial, oh wait, this isn’t AI?…oops sorry folks

I’m actually looking forward to seeing Green Day.

Really the only reason I’m watching….

Nine seems cool.

(I’m really nervous now)

I agree PJ. I was just noticing that there hasn’t been an award given out in a long time. Less boring thank you’s.

Taylor Swift is as pop as you get. She’s not country. ;-)

Green Day!!!

Im really nervous too!!!!

He looks like he ran into Adam.

Love this Green Day song…awesome

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1626836/20091122/lambert_adam_american_idol_.jhtml

I saw Green Day in concert many years ago. They were awesome.

Chris Sligh jealous, much!

why are you saying that?

I think tiny Green Day dude may be smaller than Kris.

Miss Chaos
11/22/2009 at 10:37 pm
Chris Sligh jealous, much!

Please tell me that’s sarcastic.

always love me some green day.

Green Day managed to survive the end of that genre… good on them. Love them.

Chris Sligh jealous, much!

What I thought!! Better singer? How bout a FAR better singer, dude!

I thought this was going to be a hot lineup, but so far I’m disapointed

I thought this was going to be a hot lineup, but so far I’m disapointed

I think tiny Green Day dude may be smaller than Kris.

tho both like tight pants.

Obviously, ABC has seen the Adam performance before this show, soooo

BTW never liked, never will like GaGa, she just isn’t my type- bit of a caricature, it is all facade, who knows her real personality, hard to see it under all the facade…

Carrie sounded good but too many dancers, overshadowed her. Kelly was great as usual. I thought Kris looked hot. Love Keith Urban. Not digging Whitney’s song but glad she made it through the mess her life was in. Looks like another TS night. Her fans must vote their fingers off.

I really like this song and Bj is singing really well.

Chris Sligh is just tweeting what most people are probably thinking (who aren’t already Lambert fans) Why is this unproven artist getting all this promo. It is a little weird.

I LOVE Green Day.

Green Day is nice. I am loving this song.

Finally, an entertaining performance . . . well, one note off, but still.

Green Day is cool…

Eminem-swearing and pushing the edge shocking.(sarcasm).I really don’t see Adam doing rap or gangster rap.Next up American Idol.BTW I liked 8th miles..
Jersey-I do like Greenday and are one of the bands I would pay to see.

Agree, pj, Taylor Swift isn’t country. And if she was, then why is she winning awards in pop. That just isn’t right. She’s OK, but what’s the deal. Shows how valuable the teen vote is.

Love Green Day….. why does the audience look totally bored in all of these performances.?

Whats them things around their necks? Oh yeah…guitars. Love Green Day!

Loving Sligh’s tweets… don’t agree with a lot of them, but hey… he has opinions.

Was anyone besides me a little embarrassed to see a nearly 40 year old man trying to keep his image of teen thug rapper alive?

Adam better be pretty amazing after all the hype. All of the bands have had fantastic dancers, lighting and pyro. It’s going to be hard to beat.

Adam is NEXT yay!

I just LOVE Green Day… sigh….

This site is going to crash so bad during and after Adam’s performance, I’m not even going to attempt to post.

chris daughtry just patted jay z on the back.

I wish the Killers would have performed.. they’re so much better than most of these people.. I mean, I think they’re in Africa right now but still.

and I can’t really conceive of a way Adam will be spectacular. I mean, yes, his voice is great but it’ll pretty much just be him doing his thingthing with back-up dancers, yeah? That’s sort of.. par for the course.

I f-ing lurve Green Day! Let me see, winner of artist of the year will be………………………………. Michael Jackson, duhhhhhhhh….It would be crazy if Taylor Swift won. Adam better bring it!

I like all three pals in Brothers.

OMG late but I loveee Lady Gaga so so much… she is just so weird and different and amazing

Damn. I’m actually nervous for adam

Adam fans.? Here…we….go! My hands are sweating. Embarassing

will, i’ll be too busy watching to post

Ya this might be the last post I can get in for awhile, so good luck Adam, your gonna do great,!!

god my stomach is turning…lol…

OMG a LOST commercial!!!

Chris Sligh is just tweeting what most people are probably thinking (who aren’t already Lambert fans) Why is this unproven artist getting all this promo. It is a little weird.

Unproven in terms of CD sales perhaps but, um, I think a ton of people were watching AI last season and saw Adam’s live performances. Based solely on that, there definitely is quite a lot to anticipate. Plus, ABC aren’t fools – they want all eyeballs glued to the telecast to the very end, hence the constant reminders.

he literally closes the show AND the show is on time

luvalambert, think “Taylor Swift”. Only his death can possibly take MJ above Taylor Swift

Not a fan, but I hope Adam makes AI proud! *skeered*

WTF….Taylor Swift wins….LOL… she beats MJ….hahahahha

Taylor winning Artist if the Year just made a third of the audience turn the show off.

Wow, does not sounf good

WOW

his singing is TERRIBLE. haha about the blow job move. Nice Adam. Real classy. Gotta get attention some how.

Huh. I must have accidentally changed the channel. I was watching the AMAs, and now I seem to be watching S&M: The Musical.

Taylor, Taylor, Taylor! Wow, she has been sweeping the awards up like cotton candy at a circus.

this is………….. terrible

Sound seems off. Like have the mics are off or something. Not liking it.

Hideous song though.
ott anyone?

Well, Im not sure Adam picked up any fans with that and maybe lost some. All that wasn’t necessary.

This was awfull, his singing was off, how can it be?

Not impressed.

what was that??????? LOL

he stumbled…and kissed a guy…

I sweated

Adam, you stunk it up.

Wow. So soo bad. Omg.

All he’s got going for him is his singing and that was subpar! then that last note… well, my roommate is still laughing. Unnecessary much? And the kiss and the bj move?

Adam. You have officially become a joke. Congrats!

Haaaa!!! There you go. He’ll be talked about but not for good music. I wouldn’t doubt it if ABC got a ton of complaints from the Moral Majority! :lol:

WOW. He just bombed. Wow. That was horrible. I just read like 100 tweets, so many thought it was horrible. There were barely applause at the end.

well, that was definitely eye popping. The announcers got that part right.

I’m an Adam fan, but I have to say that was not good at all. The vocal was weirdly nasal and affected, and he was, um, distracted by the “choreography” if you can call it that. OH WELL, my iTunes album will be downloading in an hour. Something to look forward to!

Adam was horrendous. Disgusting.

gah! WTF was with the sound. bad, bad. and the chair thing was totally wrong, having to cross the stage like that didn’t work. groaning here at that awful sound. snif.

Singing was good, but I was too nervous to watch. From the comments I’m a bit depressed.

So what was that about RCA not wanting Adam to be “too gay?”

What was it that was bleeped out? It was when he was rubbing that guy’s face in his crotch.

Sorry Adam that was disgusting. Why the hell did his people let him do that?

not the best performance tonight. Not my best Adam performance.

Still love you Adam.

Little pitchy dawg..

WTF???

I think I need to take a break for a while!

Bye Bye!

I’m a huge adam fan but that was a mess – the sound was a disaster and undermined the whole thing. Oh well. People will sure be talking

Anticlimactic after all the hype.

Okay I think Adam may have turned off a few people with the fill makeout session with the guy. I’m in no way homophobic but that was a little too much for me. They were basically sucking face

OK, maybe I’m too old for this stuff. But I found that just vulgar. I mean, if the object was to get people talking… well, mission accomplished. But the kid can sing his face off… WHY would the focus instead be on all that extraneous crap? He lost me at the face rub in the crotch. There’s sexy, then there’s vulgar. For me, that stuff was vulgar.

sigh……..if he hadn’t been sooooo out of tune, I would have liked it……….WTF happened?

ALL the HYPE……sigh……hope he gets a chance to redeem himself.

I still love him though.

im so disappointed. i am the biggest adam fan and that was too much for me…he was going for the shock value and it just didnt work, just made everyone uncomfortable.

What THE HELL was the illusion of the blow job he was getting?

I don’t care AT ALL that it was from another man, I don’t care if it was a woman, I just couldn’t believe I saw it.

I’m all for pushing the sexual envelope, but really, there’s being sexy and then there is flat out being indiscreet.

I’m totally seeing someone throwing a tizzy over this.

And Adam, you were out of tune but you recovered nicely.

Anticlimactic after all the hype? Anticlimactic just implies he did just okay.. he did terrible. Seriously. He didn’t even look good.

I’ll give him some point by continuing performing after that stumble tho. Adam gets himself up and moves on.

That was Britney vma’s “gimme more” bad, Worst of the night, the singing was absolutly horrible. I thought he was a good singer? what happened? epic fail :(

to bad it could of been great but he’s gonna have to count on his loyal fans now to get good sales.

Bad. Really, REALLY bad. One of the worst live performances I have EVER seen. Screechy, off-key, trying way too hard. Mountains of hype for that epic disaster of a performance? LMAO.

WTF was that??
And did anybody else’s screen black out and take away sound for a few seconds during what should have been a vocal run towards the end, or is that just my awful cable?

Gene Simmons is laughing his ass off right now.Twitter is not good for adam.Lots of hate.

What was that Adam just did? God, it is always dangerous to tred where you don’t belong! That’s all I will say.
That was awful! People are licking Kris’ feet on twitter now.

This sums it up for me:

Adam Lambert was the pinnacle of the evening… if you’re bulimic and needed a trigger!

That was horrible. Adam’s voice sounded strange to me. Very nasally or something. And all that hoopla for nothin. So he made out with a guy on stage and stage screwed a gaggle of folks – all while he was making noise that was supposed to be pleasant to the ears? Not to mine. And even the spectacle was too all over the place to really pack a punch. Didn’t work for me.

grrrr…Adam- what the hell did u do???? so much hubris! that was an awful performance! you don’t need to disgust in order to get people interested in your music. i went to the burn, i love costumes but that was just in bad taste. and, he didn’t even sing to the mic, the dancing was offensive, the make up was drooling over his face….oh my, i do love him why on earth did he have to put this horrendous performance? i have shivers because i am so sad for the missed opportunity…

gah! WTF was with the sound. bad, bad. and the chair thing was totally wrong, having to cross the stage like that didn’t work. groaning here at that awful sound. snif.

Yaeah, it was a bad sound mix. It seemed to keep changing through out the performance, like the sound guys couldn’t figure out the right balance. Sucks that it had happen on his debut.

I’ll give him some point by continuing performing after that stumble tho. Adam gets himself up and moves on.

Was that a stumble? I thought it was part of the routine.

Good news. Adam is #1 trending topic on Twitter. Bad news, mostly all those tweets hated his performance and think it was a train-wreck.

The sound was not good at all. and so much was unnecessary . I doubt he got any new fans. did he go off script cos i am surprised the producers allowed all that but then again they kept saying eye popping, u have to see to believe etc so i guess they all approved.
they were going for shocking just wish the sound was better.

Well, Adam. I’m entertained! Lol!!! By you and by all the responses everywhere!! *lmao*

Madona masturbation on stage? Fine! Kissing 2 other women? Genius! All the artists dry humping on stage and music videos for decades? Rock on! Adam doing the same with men? OMFGVFUBVIYB!!! DISTURBING!!! GROSS!!!! WTFWTHBBQ!1!11!

Tee-hee.

ETA: Janet’s boob must be laughing it’s ass out backstage!! LOL!!

That just stunned the hell out of me. What was he thinking? I absolutely love Adam, but there was nothing good about that performance. :( Sound was horrible, everything looked so stiff, the roll across the stage (what the hell was that?), the crotch grabbing and face planting, and the kiss?!? Even his singing wasn’t great. Who was that on stage and what did they do with my Adam??

Tomorrow will be a terrible day for him. I’m still in shock and my heart hurts for him. :((

They were basically sucking face

I cheered, but then again, I’ve had gay “husbands” and “boyfriends” since the seventies. I forget that most 50 year olds (and younger) aren’t used to seeing two men sucking face.

To me, seeing pre-teens and and young teens sucking face is much more disturbing.

Adam, either your sexuality is a non-issue or it’s the centerpiece of your career. Stop trying to have it both ways.

At least Kelly didn’t let me down tonight. Adam was memorable for all the wrong reasons. I’m sure he’ll throw out all the usual “it’s not that deep” and “some get it some don’t” crap to explain it away. Maybe that would suffice if he had managed to not sound like hot buttered ass.

I loved it! Too much hate out there…

So what was that about RCA not wanting Adam to be ‘too gay?’ 

I think so and talk about nailing in your point with a hammer..The video can’t decide memories of Rocky Horror Show or a scene from CSI investigating a ring..

Ok… so I think my post was eaten… he fell, right? It wasn’t part of the choreography? Because I was startled as if he fell.

Also, Ryan Seacrest just tweeted:

Ama’s…Lambert designed all the costumes for his performance..I love the jay z song. had to blaze home to get up early. Home in 6 mins 3 minutes ago from UberTwitter

Adam…you are no Jedward.

Yeah it sucked……….. but it got every single one of you talking…….

LOL

I haven’t seen it yet, but it will be talked about. I hope the sound is better on my tv. Too bad if there were sound issues. It sounds like Whitney had sound issues as well and others had performance problems, i.e. JLO. C’est le vie.

lmfao at him falling though!

he was just terrible in every way.

Was that a stumble? I thought it was part of the routine.

Yeah it was a stumble. But pretty good disguise to roll out of it. Adam’s singing was way off. Im disappointed. Hopefully, the fans he does have do not abandon him after this performance.

Oy. I’m thinking that a polite smattering of applause was not the reaction they were looking for there. I really think he would have been better off performing towards the beginning of the show because after all that spectacle it really just fell flat. But there’s no such thing as bad publicity, so at the very least his name will be front-of-mind as his album hits the streets.

Not a good start to his solo life IMO

Oh, poor Adam… that wasn’t good, at all. I really wanted that to be good, but even the vocal just seemed really badly off. The arrangement didn’t work. The staging was clunky. Audience response lackluster at best. He didn’t gain any fans with that one, for sure.

In better news, I thought Kelly had the performance of the night. That version of “Already Gone” was the best I’d heard her sing that song. Just phenomenal.

lol okay this will be my last post here tonight cause i can’t take the slowness. again the worst thing in his performance for me was the sound. i can’t help wondering what happened. he sounded so good on the rehearsal vids. I LOVE that he kiss Tommy. Fabulous!! The chair thing was awkward because crossing the stage felt pointless. Very difficult choreography and not enough time to perfect. But if the sound had been good, it would have been a smash.

LOL love this tweet “Adam Lambert is the new singing Eddie Munster. I'm scared for the future of the music industry. “

Oh great, this is not what I wanted to read, I haven’t seen it yet since I live in California but if what the posters here are saying is true, then I’m just really sad. Why would RCA let him do this? His mama needs to slap him up the side of the head…

Not a good way to start your non-AI career. Heck, AI might not even want him to guest.

Good news. Adam is #1 trending topic on Twitter. Bad news, mostly all those tweets hated his performance and think it was a train-wreck.

The ones I just looked at were almost all positive and congratulatory. Some negative ones, but I didn’t see a lot of them.

Good way to lose a lot of fans. Nothing about that was good, imo. He looked like something from a vampire movie, didnt sound as good as usual, so so song, and the rest of it belonged behind closed doors. I think he is believing too much of his own pr. He is not a superstar, needs his fan base plus new ones, and needs to tone it down some. I felt like I was watching porn.

That didn’t work at all. I’m sorry for Adam at the moment. The singing was off, the decidedly cabaret arrangement didn’t work (that last note at the end didn’t help things; so unnecessary), the staging clunky… oh, and I wanted it to be good!

On the other hand… Kelly had the best performance of the night, for sure. Loved her. Best version of “Already Gone” I’ve heard her sing.

From Jim C:

Epic blog coming tomorrow about Adam Lambert’s performance. Stay tuned, friends. 2 minutes ago from UberTwitter

Considering that he’s also interviewing Adam this week, it will be interesting to see what he has to say.

It was ambitious for a debut. No, strike that, it was ambitious for any live performance.

Wow, I love Adam, but he got a bit lost in that one. Too much going on. Trying to do too much with it.

That said, he was looking to introduce himself, and I guess he did. Let the chips fall where they may. At least we know that Out editor is happy about Adam’s choice to be fully open and unambiguous about his sexuality. Heh.

I will say that what I totally loved about the performance was it was a total f*ck you to Taylor friggin’ Swift. I mean, seriously, it’s a travesty that she took pop and country female, and especially artist of the year this of all years. And that breakout category?! WhoTF is Georgiana??? To win breakout, don’t you have to, like, break out?!

Damn, this turned out to be disappointing, yet telling. At least my boys Green Day won, but even the sound for them was off and even Billie Joe did not sound in great voice (and off key at times) tonight.

After the Georgiana and Swift take all, I’m going to give the season’s sales awards to Gokey, no doubt about it. Total BS…

He kissed a boy and I liked it. :-) Also stage experience wins out when you can fall off the stage and make it almost look like you meant to do it AND keep singing at the same time. Boy has mad performance skills.

If anything let it down for me was that the band was a bit flat and seemed slowed down. LOL on people who thought it was over the top – ahem have you met Adam? I guess no one thinks he’s soft and sweet anymore.

Edit – I guess pop has a new overlord… and once again this the performance that everyone will be talking about.

The worst part is the AMA’s made him the centerpiece of the whole show and he bombed. The audience of his peers certainly didn’t give him the predicted standing O. Dammit Adam, you self indulgent fuck up

Yeah it sucked’ ¦’ ¦’ ¦.. but it got every single one of you talking’ ¦’ ¦.

it’ll get everyone talking alright but I bet it won’t make anyone wanna buy his album that didn’t already plan too. I bet some people are trying to cancel there orders right now.

ladymadonna
11/22/2009 at 11:20 pm

Oy. I’m thinking that a polite smattering of applause was not the reaction they were looking for there. I really think he would have been better off performing towards the beginning of the show because after all that spectacle it really just fell flat. But there’s no such thing as bad publicity, so at the very least his name will be front-of-mind as his album hits the streets

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I guess we heard two different reactions because the one thing I did hear was a very loud applause for him….and believe me I was not expecting it because it was definitely not Adam at his best. With that said…I almost think he would have been better off singing WYWFM as just let his voice speak for itself. Well best to suck it up and perform better at the next venue.

Adam’s performance was really embarrassing. At least he’s trending #1 on Twittter although not in a good way. I’m really shocked that RCA allowed this. What were they thinking?

He got a very tepid reaction, as he should have. It was terrible.

I don’t think it was that bad. At least it wasn’t bland. His vocals could have been better though. I didn’t think it was that ofensive. Americans are too conservative. I just couldn’t believe when he fell. I guess it was bad carma for us laughing at j-lo.

I just found it on-line, and I thought it was pretty good. Probably because of all the terrible comments here, I was expecting something really bad. I thought he sounded pretty good. I didn’t see anything that shocking here, not in comparision to alot of stuff that was performed. He may not have a large following, but his following will know who he is and what he is about.

The ones I just looked at were almost all positive and congratulatory. Some negative ones, but I didn’t see a lot of them.

Are you kidding me?!?! The few positive oh I still love you Adam tweets were from his uberfans, everything else was VERY negative. I saw a lot of tweets saying he was the worst of the night.

Love you Kelly

I’d waited for 3 hours to watch adam, and I’m a little disappoint with this FYE live performance. CD’s version is far better.
OK, as a fan, let it go. Adam, don’t feel sad, we still love you.

singing was really great– it is on you tube- take a listen again– it was risque and the drop and roll worked—the risque is going to turn off and turn on fans at the same time— the singing was great, since he used his rock wail, most non fans will say it is awful and he screamed….

I just don’t know what to say! I love Adam, and it hurts so much to say this but it was awful! What was he thinking the night before his album is released???? He could have saved the performance with his voice, but even that wasn’t good. Maybe he was nervous??? He’s so talented and could have gained so many new fans w/the opportunity to close the show, now he may have lost some fans. I’m so sad right now!

That was pretty bad. He went for cheap shock and didn’t impress with what he should have, his voice. That song is also pretty bad.

Yeah it sucked’ ¦’ ¦’ ¦.. but it got every single one of you talking’ ¦’ ¦.

ALL BAD.

the sound mix was terrible. the background singers were louder than him in many parts which made him sound off. and the stumble didn’t help. he recovered but only after he had to take a deep breath/pause to try to gain back his timing.

his singing was off too. i think it was a bad case of nerves. he sounded really nervous.

not a good performance at all. too bad.

I had to weigh in here!..and, will probably ask for help to get me to sleep tonight, which I never do! I felt so bad for J-Lo when she fell on her butt, as that was not part of her act…and, Adam sat there all night long and watched all those big names…the minute the spotlight hit his face, I gripped my stomach and could tell he was NERVOUS!!!and, I have never seen him look nervous all through Idola and his tour.
He was not sure what he was doing was going to make it with this crowd of entertainers and his fans..it was on his face, but, I don’t know what made him break every boundary in one performance…sure, there was a lot of bleeped out words in several of the acts, and suggestive stuff in all of them…maybe some of them are gay, I don’t care about that…doesn’t matter to me….what matters to me is the very difficult climb he has had to make to get this far and what a really good person he is and he came from good people too…he’s got to back down from this type of performance right now..and on GMA and Letterman swing into some of that “beautiful” voice we all know he has..He did not lose me as a fan and never will/but, I am from Arkansas and in my office the whole bunch save for 3 of us were for the other guy…I may get some looks in the am, but, bet no one will have the nerve to say one thing to me!!!! You know he has friends, family and a lot of us and I hope all of you who loved him before will still love him..He has learned a valuable lesson tonight….I will be enjoying his album tomorrow and for a long time….and right now, I am tuning in the 27″ IMAC to TFM video and looking at the Adam I love!

RS on the AMA FYE

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/11/22/adam-lambert-shocks-american-music-awards-with-racy-for-your-entertainment/

After all the hype, what a wasted opportunity. Horrible (and it wasn’t just the sound mix), pitchy and vulgar.

twitter is mostly very positive- risque gets people talking and so does the rock wails– some will hate and some will love it– news was that producers did not know he was going to make out with keyboardist

i really didn’t like this performance. I was expecting something very fun (for my entertainment) and the singing was not what Adam delivers usually and the visuals.. omg.. very disappointed of the lack of subtlety.
It seems to me that Adam was firckin nervous tonight

I dont think it was a drop and roll. I think it was a fall and cover up! :-)
I love Adam but that was hilarious.

Love the shock factor to America.

I think he recovered well from that tumble – not to mention the one door swinging wild, his mike not working properly and that dancer nailing him in the balls with her spike heel. But that’s what happens when you sing it all live – no tape to fall back on. I give Adam props for holding it all together as well as he did. His dancers didn’t in some cases. I can’t help but wonder if that set wasn’t properly dogged down. It moved much more than in the rehearsal tape. I had hydraulics go wonky during a performance once. The set piece I was standing on was supposed to turn slowly. Instead it spun like a frickin’ top. I was holding on by my fingernails. That’s the bitch with complicated machinery: more things to go wrong.

Oy. I’m thinking that a polite smattering of applause was not the reaction they were looking for there.

It reminds me of the applaus after Madonna performed “Like a Virgin” on I believe the MTV awards in the 1980s. She did pretty well.

It was a bit of a shocking performance in it’s content, but I think the stumble was not a stumble but a dance move. I also think he sang pretty well. Not as well as he can, but he’s moving up and down stairs etc.

I don’t think this performance will hurt him. The people who are going to follow him, are going to follow him. He will lose fans but he will also get new ones.

If this was entertainment, I’d hate to see what punishment would be.

I’m really disappointed, his voice was just off and he was very stiff. He should’ve owned that stage and he didn’t.

Well any publicity is good publicity for Adam.

Adam Adam Adam. … First of all, I am a big Adam fan. He was my favorite during the season. However, I’m not a fan of the single. Even before tonight, I wished his single would of been more classic rock. People are going to call him A Lady Gaga wanabee. and that makes me very sad.

If he did one shocking thing, thats fine… but dont do a billion at once. If you look at every Britney Spears or Madonna performance, they did one shocking thing not a billion all at once.

I’m scared for him.

Well, on a positive note, apparently it sounded good live, just not recorded. To bad I wasn’t there to enjoy it. lol
And he is gaining about 10 new followers on Twitter a minute, so at least that’s good. I guess.

Yeah it sucked’ ¦’ ¦’ ¦.. but it got every single one of you talking’ ¦’ ¦.

LOL

Oh, yeah, like I said – I hated it, thought it was vulgar, thought that with a voice like that who needs all the b.s…. but I know damn well people will be talking about it. There’s pushing buttons and then there is bludgeoning the buttons to pieces with a hammer. A little dialed back would’ve worked just fine, the voice could’ve been better… Yeesh. So it’ll definitely drum up some talk. But… it skeered me, lol.

Also, i forgot to turn off the tv in the other room so my mom saw his performance. I came downstairs and saw a look of discust on her face, and she didn’t say anything LOL.

I’m probably the oldest, age wise, poster here and I wasn’t at all shocked and bent out of shape by Adam. I was disappointed by the sound. I just listened to it on U-Tube and the sound is much better. I felt Lady GaGA’s performance and costumes were much more risque than anything Adam did. I’ve seen gals kiss on screen before and it didn’t freak me out. I wish his performance was getting better feed, as I love Adam and can’t wait to download his CD and also go buy one as I have to have the real item in my hands.

YOu know who was really good from thoe former idols?? Kelly Clarkson. Wow. What a voice.

Anyone who thought Adam would play it safe was crazy. He isn’t safe. He’s said many times he likes to make people uncomfortable.

The Adam Storm went….poof.

Adam…please, you don’t have to cheapen yourself … we all know you’re gay, you don’t have to rub it in everyone’s face…Adam you’re better than that performace tonight…please

Lmao sugar coat it all you OTT adam fans want but RCA may drop him by the first of the year.Broadway may not take him back after that.

I’m a huge Adam fan, but no, no, no…this was so wrong on so many levels. At one point I thought the stumbling was part of the act, I really couldn’t tell. And, that’s not a compliment by any means. I expected OTT, but not out and out vulgarity. Sorry. All I keep thinking is I saw and know that Adam has a rare, great voice and performance ability. What about the people watching who knew nothing about him? Now what are these potential fans thinking? The song didn’t sound like the song I’ve heard and like. I never really loved the song but I saw its potential to make it on radio. I realize Adam loves risk taking, and wants to be true to himself. He has said words to the effect, that I do what I do, hope people like it, but it they don’t, that’s okay. Well, he’s not totally right with his thinking. Now’s his time to make it or break it. He has to at least try to appeal to people. Use that voice, those performance skills. Don’t rely on vulgarity. It totally takes away from his gifts. I never understood why so many people commented that they didn’t love/like TFM. No joke, if he just got up at the AMAs tonight and sang TFM, with no dancers…nothing but his voice, he would have a ton of new fans tomorrow. I love TFM b/c that song showcases his voice. I don’t understand who is advising him and if they have anything/power to suggest and point him in the right direction. I just heard Adam in an interview speak about being a control freak and basically having a lot to say in what he does. Maybe not a good idea. Adam worships Gaga, and she’s out there, but she wasn’t vulgar and she sang well. Artists who are selling, like Carrie, Chris, and Kelly just sang, and showcased their amazing voices. Oh boy is all I can say. Now I hope nobody stayed up to watch till the end.

I thought Adam’s performance stunk, and not because of all the shocking aspects to it. Leaving those aside, his voice was off. You can blame it on the sound people, but you’d be kidding yourselves. He was putting on his theatrical voice and it seemed he was so tense that it was a mess. Same goes for his moves which were really stiff and awkward, and then there was the trip and roll – not intentional. It’s funny because with all that theatre background I expected him to nail the choreography but he just looked in over his head.

Maybe he got stressed about portraying gay and bi S&M acts on primetime national TV. It did cause an explosion but I don’t think its the kind to sell music. But we’ll see. I know it didn’t make me want to buy anything by Adam. All this hype and this was the payoff? The suits must be hurting right about now.

Adam you are not ready yet for the big shows.

Love the shock factor to America.

Actually, I thinks the shock factor was not needed one bit. That man has such raw and amazing talent.

Further, I think the shock factor is really disrespectful to all the families that supported him and went to see him on tour. Now he turns his back to these fans and does this “sensual perfomance”. Not cool.

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steve
11/22/2009 at 11:38 pm

Lmao sugar coat it all you OTT adam fans want but RCA may drop him by the first of the year.Broadway may not take him back after that.

LMAO….You OTT Adam haters can say some of the darnest things that make me just appreciate you so much.

I have no problem with the concept or shock value of the performance, it was just poorly executed. Adam seemed really nervous, and I’ve never seen him looke nervous performing before. The sound mix was a disaster (which wasn’t adams fault) and fye is a hard song to sing live. So the whole thing was a mess. Have no idea what effect this will have on album sales – its so good I hope it does well in the long run

The ones I just looked at were almost all positive and congratulatory. Some negative ones, but I didn’t see a lot of them.

Are you kidding me?!?! The few positive oh I still love you Adam tweets were from his uberfans, everything else was VERY negative. I saw a lot of tweets saying he was the worst of the night.

gangreen29 you have to realize that those tweets are coming in at about 100 a minute. At the point I checked, they WERE almost all positive, but I didn’t read hundreds of them. I wouldn’t have said that if it weren’t true at the time I checked, so NO, I was not kidding.

HA Ha!!!

I knew it!!! Sharks in full force…

Hold on, Adam, Hold on!!!

They might drop him. We will see. People will be talking about him tomorrow I imagine. I actually think the fall was the worse thing about the performance. Seriously, Britney kissed Madonna.

if the performance (racy/disgusting – call it what you want) was backed up by a strong vocal it would have been a good intro to adam.

but, the vocal was not strong (nerves + background singers too loud and oversinging him) and so i am afraid he is sunk before he even begins.

he’s not going to pick up any new fans with that performance.

I will state that I am neutral on Adam. I didn’t like how Idol pushed him as the chosen one, but that wasn’t Adam’s fault. I am not a fan, but I hate to see anyone have such a public trainwreck. I felt so bad at the end when I saw the look on his face, because he knew it wasn’t good. He covered the trip and roll pretty well, but he just couldn’t regain his composure and his voice and face showed it. I won’t even comment on the obvious that was just not cool in primetime. And honestly, that performance was not even remotely rock, or even electro dance pop, it was cabaret. That would have gone down better on the Tony Awards, if it had been done well. The good news is that there were many bad performances tonight, so he is not alone.

Given what we knew about the FYE video and the previews about this performance, I wasn’t surprised one bit about all he had going on… ok, maybe shoving the guys face in his crotch caught me off guard :D

But since the OTT never did it for me, it was always Adam’s voice that I liked… The fact that the YouTube apparently sounds better leads me to believe that the sound issues were more technical than Adam… I’m sorry for him about that. And while he made a great recovery from the trip… he still tripped. Reminds me of my freshman year in high school when I tripped in front of a bus load of students. Although, Adam made a much more graceful recovery than I did.

I had to close my normal ‘Kris Allen’ twitter feed because there were so many negative/hateful comments about Kris – that’s the part of the Adam-phenomenon that bugs me… but I wanted him to have a performance that he was happy with. I just don’t know if this was it.

mmb
11/22/2009 at 11:42 pm

I have no problem with the concept or shock value of the performance, it was just poorly executed. Adam seemed really nervous, and I’ve never seen him looked nervous performing before. The sound mix was a disaster (which wasn’t adams fault) and fye is a hard song to sing live. So the whole thing was a mess. Have no idea what effect this will have on album sales ‘“ its so good I hope it does well in the long run

I agree with the critique of your post 100%

woah.that was severly innapropriate.between yelling at verizon,my dad saw it.the gist of his lecture was “don’t obsess/worship this guy because he’s crude”.I bsed that I didn’t have my glasses so I didn’t see anything bad.I think that turned some ppl off.I think the kiss was unnecessary.after tge shock,I thought it was sick.I liked vocals.my dad also said if he’s does crude,I’m banned from having anything to do with Him.which is why I have YouTube.whatevs.it took me until now to get onto this site.10 minutes until fye,unless it’s west coast time then it’s like 3 hrs.

I am an Adam fan for one, but EVERYTHING about that performance was off. His voice didn’t go good with the back-ups, there was to much going on, the music was to overpowering… they want for to much shock and didn’t concentrate on what made us all love Adam: his voice

Adam fall on his bum.

he’s not going to pick up any new fans with that performance.

at least, people outside AI know him and will remember him now.
not too bad.

From Lindsey Parker:

For reasons I don’t know, Lambert isnt coming bkstg after all. So I’m going home to write now. Kris Allen red carpet intw up tmrw though! less than a minute ago from Echofon

Thank Goodness Daughtry, Kelly and Carrie were there to represent AI.

wonder if Adam is upset?

@lyndseyparker:
For reasons I don’t know, Lambert isnt coming bkstg after all. So I’m going home to write now. Kris Allen red carpet intw up tmrw though! 2 minutes ago from Echofon

Some think Adam was “trying too hard.” I sorta see their point but at least he WENT for it. Review later – waiting for Adam backstage now. 19 minutes ago from Echofon

Seems like a lot of people didn’t like the Lambert performance. Surprise surprise, I dug it. 31 minutes ago from Echofon

Well Aaron Hicklin can shut up now 32 minutes ago from Echofon

you know, there are some people with little awareness of Adam, or worse, this notion that he is super ultra amazing, but haven’t ever heard him sing… and they saw THAT tonight. He was flat the entire time, out of breath, his dancing was terrible, he FELL, it was unnecessarily vulgar, and he didn’t even look handsome…

way to suck, Adam. The day before your CD is released. Nice going. I bet he feels like balls. though, probably not… he’s probably placing the blame on the viewers as always. Oh, we just didn’t “get it.” We’re not “ready” for it. Whatever Adam. He should own up to that performance. At least admit it was off-key.

I watch FYE on youtube. The sound is actually better there. I have no problem with the performance now. But I guess I’m in the minority. Fingers crossed for a good open day tomorrow. please.

The shock for me wasn’t so much the performance. I expected something too risque for TV. What made my eyes bulge out of their sockets was how horrible he was vocally.

That was even worse than when he had to tackle No Boundries.

Wow, that’s all I can say. Probably good he didn’t win AI, lol. Yikes.

I did enjoy Daughtry, Keith Urban, and Kelly. Love that song and her voice was bang on.

He should’ve owned that stage and he didn’t.

This is really the point. I was just surprised by the mediocrity of it. The singing, the performance, whatever.

But it’s probably a good thing somehow. He’s been so overhyped it’s ridiculous. Maybe now he can start at the bottom, or the middle, or wherever idol contestants normally start out in the music industry — rather than at the top. In terms of expectations.

I think he has enough of a sense of humor to know that was a trainwreck and to make the best of it.

That was pretty damn brave.

I’m solidly in the camp with people who thought this was a wreck, but not for reasons related to the “risque” aspects of the performance. Look, I think it’s pretty cool that the guy goes and tries to be unique and push buttons. It’s not a necessary thing for me to like someone, but it’s good on its own terms. So as to the “sensual” maneuvers, I honestly don’t think that was the problem for me.

The problem really was in that the execution was just wildly off. I don’t know why. Was he that nervous? (It would seem strange, given that he was on Idol) Was the sound mix that off? (From what I’ve heard, I don’t think that’s a satisfactory answer) Maybe both. But does that matter? In any event, it sounded like his lower register was weak as heck, and even that he was really off-key, and no one is going to give him the benefit of the doubt as to the sound mix when other artists gave fantastic vocal performances. In terms of vocals from Idol alumni, he was the weakest, and for someone being pushed as Idol’s first superstar, that’s not territory you want to sit in. And the dancing was pretty awkward on its own terms, independent on feelings regarding the sensuality.

Further, musically, I think the concept just didn’t work. I appreciated the effort to try and throw cabaret elements into FYE, but it simply didn’t work. And while I understand this just isn’t his thing, I would have asked to have some of the vocal histrionics toned down so as to be effective. In particular, I’m thinking of the last note, which just seemed so out of place and self-serving in a way that it would make Christina Aguilera pause.

This isn’t a career killer or anything. But it probably is an opportunity blown. And that’s a shame.

I had to close my normal ‘Kris Allen’ twitter feed because there were so many negative/hateful comments about Kris ‘“ that’s the part of the Adam-phenomenon that bugs me

That is called projection. Adam flopped so the idiots on twitter have to take it out on someone.

I don’t think it was too risque but the whole performance failed and was off IMO.

I know people will be talking about it but they were talking after “Dream On” too

That was a true trainwreck. I can’t believe RCA allowed that performance to go on without making some major edits to it. Have they
lost their minds completely?

Even without all the vulgarity it was just a terrible performance. And the audience response was really tepid. Ryan even had to make a joke about it to make it less obvious.

LOL – and don’t people see that this is exactly the point of the performance, love it, hate it, somewhere in between EVERYONE is talking about it. I don’t think Adam seemed nervous, I think the sound mix was a hot mess but awards shows held in barns never have good sound (unless you just stand there and sing with minimal other stuff going on).

This was meant to push buttons and be almost a parody of the blandness that much of music has become. LOL a bit of sex on a stick never bothered me a bit.

alison8701,

If you go to youtube to re- listen, he wasn’t off key in the least, bit of back up singer problem, but was not offkey at all- his vocals were fine

jambajim WHITNEY HOUSTON THANKED GOD WHILE GIVING HER AMA AN H.J.!!!! Way more offensive than man on man tonsil hockey, IMO.

Yeah, the sound was pretty dreadful – I mean, the vocals weren’t great, he sounded really nervous, but at least at the beginning I could barely hear it. I didn’t know he fell, thought he tried some funky move with the roll and didn’t do it right, lol. I just… his *voice* is what I find special, and I think it got lost in all the extra stuff. But people will certainly talk, no doubt. I doubt it’s going to get him dropped anytime soon, just a missed opportunity I think to blow people away.

He should’ve owned that stage and he didn’t.

He should have owned the stage…but the stage PWNED him.

Poor kid. Too much too soon. His nerves got the best of him. This is when his fans should support the guy. His cd won’t suffer because of this!

I’m reading on twitter that adams performance was MUCH better live than it came across on tv (I suspect the sound issues were not as pronounced and you could view the performance as a whole rather than in close ups). And ann powers thought it was hot….

I had to close my normal ‘Kris Allen’ twitter feed because there were so many negative/hateful comments about Kris ‘“ that’s the part of the Adam-phenomenon that bugs me

Aww… he doesn’t deserve to be dragged into this. Period.

bridgeymah,

Totally agree- don’t think he looked nervous in the least– everyone was sweating, wondering how how was it in there– they all looked like they were melting…

I know some of Adam’s fans think all publicity is a good thing but when most of the buzz is about how terrible you are, I really don’t see that as good.

I was actually embarassed for him. And was the roll on purpose? Just a real mess. I think RCA and 19 need to do some major damage control.

This was meant to push buttons and be almost a parody of the blandness that much of music has become. LOL a bit of sex on a stick never bothered me a bit.

You know what? I agree.

Oh, Adam. I have never seen him look that nervous. The voice was off, but I think it was the fact it was so drowned out. Way too much going on. Oh, not the way to start off the big promotional push week. Poor guy–his face at the end–he knew it.

I thought he was great. He wanted to shock people, and he suceeded. I was entertained! Why do people have no trouble handling sex in women’s acts, but find the same thing in a man’s act to be lewd and disgusting? I don’t get that. Adam looked and sounded great!

Well except for the stumble and the sound being off I thought it was Awsome.. Sorry with disagreeing with everyone.. I love it… Great first go out of the box Adam.. ROTFL.. YEAH… CD tomorrow for me!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, the singing didn’t sound great and he fell which was an accident and I personally didn’t like the OTT stuff. I wonder what Lady Gaga thought of it? Of course she could have gotten away with most of it, but let’s face it a man cannot. And nobody should have to watch a simulated blow job on TV, it was bad enough hearing Flo Rida singing about one last year on AI. Adam, Adam, Adam, I’m afraid it’s back to the underground clubs for you if you don’t tone it down. The whole world is not West Hollywood. I am sad for him, but maybe he can redeem himself. Our politicians have done worse, some of them came back and some didn’t. We shall see.

adam must be kicking himself now. i bet you, by his own standards, that was a bad performance.

terrible sound mix, clumsy staging, the fall. bad, bad, bad. he must be sreaming mad right now. i think he knows he just blew it.

I love Adam, but WTF was that? LOL…I feel so bad for him and his stumble. He look so mean tonight and nervous as hell. I think RCA picked the wrong first single. It was too much for the audience there and too much for us at home. There are many gay artist in the music industry that I love. They don’t have to sucked face or grab crotches to make a living. Just sing Adam, just sing…..you have an amazing voice, use it! I think that performance just turned off a lot of people. I still love ya Adam but lets perform the other single at the other shows, lol.

OK maybe this was all intentional and Adam wanted to shock us, of course he did but I still think that his voice and a decent song would of been better. The sound was awful, oh well….it’s over now. He will just have to make up for it. I think Adam had WAY too much pressure on him and he really needs to just sell his song and forget about being the spokesman for gay artist. WE get it Adam, you are gay, we love ya, don’t worry about it, move on and make good music.

Wall Street Journal liked Adam’s peformance. Said he and Lady Ga Ga dazzled. Color me surprised and happy!

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/11/22/american-music-awards-2009-adam-lambert-lady-gaga-dazzle-jennifer-lopez-performs-new-song-louboutins/

I had to close my normal ‘Kris Allen’ twitter feed because there were so many negative/hateful comments about Kris ‘“ that’s the part of the Adam-phenomenon that bugs me

Aww’ ¦ he doesn’t deserve to be dragged into this. Period.

Kris Allen wasn’t even on the stage during the performance – in the audience, yes – but not on stage so blaming him is just ridiculous and insane.

Wow, Kelly was amazing. I watched Adam’s vid immediately after hers and he was, er, not. He sounded like he had inhaled helium until he started with the tuneless “rock wail” which really has no place in this type of song, imo. I think the studio version of FYE is OK, but he pretty much blew it tonight, vocally.

I don’t even have anything to say about the sex stuff – I kind of expected that based on the AMA rehearsal footage and behind the scenes photos from the FYE video. The whole thing seemed really desperate and sad. I hope he doesn’t make it worse by posting on twitter that the majority of people just didn’t “get” it.

I had to close my normal ‘Kris Allen’ twitter feed because there were so many negative/hateful comments about Kris ‘“ that’s the part of the Adam-phenomenon that bugs me

Aww’ ¦ he doesn’t deserve to be dragged into this. Period.

WTF Kris has to do with this!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a disaster. Wishing I didn’t have to add him to my depressingly long list of performers for whom it’s not about the music.

What the hell was wrong with the sound??? I couldn’t hear any music, I couldn’t hear backup singers, it just sounded awkward!

*Sigh*

I love Adam, but that was def. not his best performance, bummer.

Not giving up though! I suppose this will make enough headlines to make people interested and at least he’ll be given the chance to redeem himself (the sound person, though, needs to be fired, pronto!)

I think he wanted the conservatives talking- well, they talking now- the pitbull of the conservative movement has weighed in, Michelle Malkin:

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/11/22/adam-lambert-at-the-amas-bottom-of-the-barrel/

Aww’ ¦ he doesn’t deserve to be dragged into this. Period.

They were mostly along the lines of mocking his AMA role, who’s the real winner, yadda yadda yadda. But some were just rude, immature name-calling.

I think RCA and 19 need to do some major damage control.

I hope Roger doesn’t plan on sleeping the next few days.

That was horrible. A complete and utter mess.

I just. LOL.

alison8701,

If you go to youtube to re- listen, he wasn’t off key in the least, bit of back up singer problem, but was not offkey at all- his vocals were fine

I did. Several times. Adam is here for our amusement! and it was terrible. Anyway you slice it.

I loved his little brat face at the end. So cute! He came off like such an amateur… but with his little snotty attitude.

Okay, so I was SO excited for Adam’s performance and had a good time watching the others before him. I loved Lady Gaga’s performance!

I still love Adam, buying his album, and going to try to support him. I’m not turning my back on him, but I just didn’t like the performance. I haven’t been an over the top crazy fan saying everything he does is golden so I don’t feel like I’m turning a 360 here.

I’m all for shock value but some of it was too much for me. I had to look away, and I think I had a heart attack! Hah! The screen blacked out briefly for the move with the male dancer at the beginning.

Here is the thing. I could have overcome the places I thought he went a bit far if he had been his normal self vocally and otherwise. There was glimpses of it in there, and he sounded great in the opening notes. But then he seemed so nervous (and fell? Was that on purpose or not? I couldn’t tell), he seemed to get a bit flat and out of breath too, and his beautiful high notes started sounding, for the first time ever to me, like screams.

Sigh. Maybe I’m just a prude.

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For reason I don’t know I found this YouTube link of Adam’s performance tonight and it sounds better then it did on tv. (Still not spectacular) but not as bad as what I heard originally. He definitely fell and was visibly upset at the end of the performance. (eyes teared up).

http://neonlimelight.com/2009/11/23/adam-lambert-gives-racy-2009-american-music-awards-performance/

i remember him saying after his performances on ai that he practiced a good deal to make sure things came off just right. he’s a perfectionist and because of that, he is going to be kicking himself for that performance.

Er…. What the hell was that?

It wasn’t the worst thing I’ve ever seen, but it was a chaotic mess. It may have been a bit too out-there sexual (I don’t have much issue with it though, to be honest), and there was just too much going on. And throughout at least the chorus, he seemed incredibly under pitch almost the entire time. He even looked dissatisfied at the end of it.

The one thing I did like was the suit. I kinda liked how he was the only one who was dressed up. I also liked the beginning. But he may have lost some casual fans. I don’t think it was terrible enough to dent his career, though.

That performance needed a more rock-like sound. People are talking about it, but here I’m not entirely sure if “All publicity is good publicity” is really true….

From Marc Malkin, an eOnline reporter, I think:

Very good source tells me that ABC and producers did NOT know adam lambert was going to makout w/keyboardist… 35 minutes ago from txt

What a disaster. Wishing I didn’t have to add him to my depressingly long list of performers for whom it’s not about the music.

Based off of one performance on the notoriously tacky AMAs? ahaha ok

Kris Allen wasn’t even on the stage during the performance ‘“ in the audience, yes ‘“ but not on stage so blaming him is just ridiculous and insane.

lol…the is typical of some crazy Glamberts…lol They can’t blame Adam for his MASSIVE FAIL and FALL on stage, so they have to blame someone. I am surprised they aren’t cursing out Kelly
.

Well damn.

All that “well the AMAs performance will help him” and now.

Oy vey.

This is UGLY.

Not even a mediocre performance, but a baaad one vocally, the bad staging, the fall, the OTT sexualty and “shock value.” All of it, is just not good.

Not only is this not going to help, but hurt him.

I just feel so sorry for him right now.

That was one of the most amazing, racy and totally in your face performances I have ever seen. I loved it, because I have the same feeling I had when he did Ring of Fire. It’s amazing reading the comments coming from both fans and not so fans of Adam. A lot of you are disappointed, shocked and some disgusted, by the fact he kissed a another guy on t.v and simulated sex acts. Me, I am amazed he had the balls to do it, knowing what a firestorm it would unleash. As for RCA dropping Adam, it’s not going to be anytime soon. He’s supertalented and has the ability to either be a showstopper or a trainwreck, depending on your view of him and his music. Except for Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, I was pretty much bored by the show, but Adam came out and unleashed the hounds of hell on that stage. I would pay anything to see Adam Lambert in concert, because you won’t know what he’s going to do next.

MTV weighing in.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1626841/20091122/lambert_adam_american_idol_.jhtml

Adam’s getting headlines. I think that was the goal. I remember after Lady Ga Ga dumped hung from rope and dumped fake blood on herself, there was lots of talk.

Still amazed that the Wall Street Journal liked Adam’s performance. :)

Here is the youtube of the perfromance– his voice sounds great, just some background singers poor soundmixing- the youtube video is imbedded in an article saying his performance was gay, though:

ttp://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977913174&grpId=3659174697244816

UGH. I hated the whole AMA show. I was NOT entertained.

His cd won’t suffer because of this!

keep telling yourself that.

I wouldn’t mind if he just made out with a guy, but shoving a guys face into his crotch and mimicking a blowjob was TOO FAR I would say the same if it was a womens face. Thats not “america being too conservative” that’s disgusting. I was entertained all right but defentily not the intended way.

and please don’t say they were going for people laughing at it cause they thought it was so bad. It was trying to be sexy and pushing buttons, not shrieky and sleazy.

I just feel so sorry for him right now.

I just don’t want him to feel bad about it. Move out and on. It’s publicity, bad publicity but he can turn it around and into an advantage IF other performances this week are amazingly good.

I am telling you, his performance was crazy good- here is 1st good review:

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/11/22/american-music-awards-2009-adam-lambert-lady-gaga-dazzle-jennifer-lopez-performs-new-song-louboutins/

I loved it, because I have the same feeling I had when he did Ring of Fire.

Ring of fire was vocally excellent, this performance doesn’t meassure up to ROF in the least. He was vocally off.

A lot of you are disappointed, shocked and some disgusted, by the fact he kissed a another guy on t.v and simulated sex acts.

I think the keyboard player he kissed was Lisa? She has short blonde hair, yes?

From Marc Malkin, an eOnline reporter, I think:

Very good source tells me that ABC and producers did NOT know adam lambert was going to makout w/keyboardist’ ¦ 35 minutes ago from txt

It’s on Rolling Stone as well. WTF Adam. Welcome back to earth Adam. It’s not all glittery for the glittery alien after tonight.

Oh, so making out was not good but the BJ was ok?

Well once again the cream raises to the top.

Kelly was sheer elegance and class.

Carrie is always a wonderful performer.

So at least they represented American Idol the RIGHT WAY.

I appreciate their class on stage.

From a Danny Gokey fan:

Dear Adam:

Your performance theme was definitely not my cuppa, I am more about the music than outrageous behavior just for publicity.

BUT … I think you are trying to stay true to yourself, which artistically is pretty important. You can sing all the covers of old rock people want but if its not what you enjoy, what’s the point.

As far as having a bad night vocally; laugh about it and carry on (Danny survived Scream On remember). Please don’t bash me Adam fans that Scream On was much worse, etc etc, I’m trying to be nice here!

. A lot of you are disappointed, shocked and some disgusted, by the fact he kissed a another guy on t.v and simulated sex acts. Me

I would say the majority here are not disappointed because of the kiss or simulated sex acts, but because he came across amateurish. His vocals were off, the choreography was sloppy, and after being hyped all show was a big let down.

RCA and the AMAa wanted this to be the launch of a major performer. But the fact is that Adam is very green. He’s experienced enough to cover tripping on the stairs (I thought that was choreographed!), but this is the first time he’s done this kind of show and it’s the first time the band is doing the material. He needs a couple of years on the road – then bring him in to the big leagues. The problem with AI debuts is that for some reason people expect them to be “stars” already without paying the dues of touring and finding their own voice and style.

I don’t think this is the end of Adam’s career – it’s the opposite. Though it may not seem like that since the media (helped by RCA) have pumped up expectations to insane levels.

Ok – I agree Adam seemed nervous, which was surprising since he NEVER seemed nervous before, and how many gazillion shows has he done, for much larger audiences than this (that is, AI has 30 million watching a week, not the 12 million the AMAs gets).

I was sad for the fall, but had no problem with anything else, and he recovered from the fall so amazingly well. I think he purposely cut out some words because he wasn’t allowed to say them (one word was cut right after the stumble bit). Everything else was OTT and so Adam, so I was fine with that. The voice, again, a little bit of nerves, but when he let loose, it sounded fine.

IDK – I thought it was great. Like the curfuffle over the album cover, I think it gets people talking, love it or hate it. Just as he always has. Adam, never change!

I rather see Adam do a sweet passionate kiss with another guy, lol, ok I better go to bed. Do better next time Adam, keep your chin up. I cringed when Archie bombed on his second single “Touch My Hand” on AI, but boy did he redeem himself with “Contigo En La Estancia” (sp). I hope Adam will do the same. I hope his fans will continue to support him and buy his album, don’t give up on Adam yet. He was a nervous wreck. I bet Sligh is laughing his ass off after that performance.

THis is hilarious, just what adam was going for-getting ‘em talking:

@marcmaklin
J. Lo must be happy about lambert makeout. Takes attention away from Falling On My Loubitons. 37 minutes ago from txt

Did abc, producers etc. know adam was going to make out w/guy? about 1 hour ago from txt

Oh, the conservatives r gonna go into high alert…good for lambert, but uh-oh for ABC/ Disney about 1 hour ago from txt

I hate Michelle Malkin and am not reading her comments. She is an evil witch and even if she’s right for once in her life I’m not about to give her blog a hit.

I love, love, love Adam. There is such a barrage of pfffts coming, that I tried to break it down for myself so I can figure out if I’m coming or going.

When I watched the ustream, I didn’t notice the fall. I thought there were places that the sound was weird. I thought the dancers were great. The kiss with the blond headed moppet, I didn’t know if that was a boy or a girl. But the blow job thing, that was quite clear, and I thought Hmmm, now I know why they put Adam last! Overall very risque, and of course it’s a calculated risk.

I watched the video without sound, and since people had pointed out the fall I saw it, and was impressed by the recovery. What a shitty thing to happen, but good for him for the recovery. The rest of the routine seemed to go fine. Risque, but I don’t care about that. If parents are letting kids watch this at 11 pm on a school night, then in my opinion they’re the ones who need a kick in the butt.

I then listened without watching. Started off pretty well, and then it sounded like they were trying to do some effect to his voice that wasn’t working right. It wasn’t so much that it didn’t sound like a “flat” Adam, it just didn’t sound like Adam in places. Weird. I did hear some flatness in a couple of places (worst at about 3 minute mark). But he finished fine.

I think most people’s takeaway from this will be either excitement about how far he’s pushing it or “OMG I can’t stand that screaming”. In other words, par for the course for Adam. I wish it had been perfect for Adam, but I don’t think it’s the end of the world that it wasn’t perfect, by any means.

What a terrible waste of talent.

Okay, here goes, and I already got slammed on Twitter, so I don’t care.

I did NOT like most of the performance, and no, the kiss didn’t bother me in the slightest. In fact, I liked it.

The problem is that he was off-key for half of it (and the stumble was unfortunate, but actually I didn’t even realize that until I watched it a couple of times). NOW maybe the singing sound off key, as mentioned, ust at home, and we learned that was the case with Crying (remember, Top 3?). But ppl that watched it might have thought that. I did. I mean, I really did. And what I love is Adam’s singing. I loved RoF b/c his voice was so spot on. And with all of the dancing, it had to be hard (I mean, Britney lip syncs, tho I guess Madonna does not).

Now, I have been very clear about the songs I love from Adam. Because I think he has one of the purest voices in the world, I want him to use it, and I do not think he does that to its greatest use in this performance. I am getting slammed b/c I mentioned that this seemed like S&M and ppl said you have no idea what S&M is, and to that I respond, that’s fine, I don’t need to, thanks. I get it, this is very Zodiac, but I was not a huge Zodiac fan. Call me a prude, that’s fine. I might not like the direction that Adam’s Tour is going to go in (however, I loved him on the Idol Tour). That’s cool, I can buy his albums and watch him on TV. Also, this was his first performance, so maybe he was a bit nervous or it wasn’t as ready as it could have been.

What I cannot stand in all of this is being judged. It’s not fair. Oh, and if Kris is being slammed by anyone, that is unfair as well.

Finally, if anyone cares, Lyndsey Parker tried to interview Adam, but he wasn’t available, so she talked to Kris and then went home to write up a review, I guess.

“I would say the majority here are not disappointed because of the kiss or simulated sex acts, but because he came across amateurish. His vocals were off, the choreography was sloppy, and after being hyped all show was a big let down.”

And yes, that is what I guess I think as well. Tho simulated sex acts don’t really rock my boat, either. I am looking forward to him ROCKING OUT WITH HIS BAND. That’s what I like, so maybe I won’t ever see him on Tour (tho, to be fair, I love U2′s 360 Tour; very cool).

I think I’m gonna go listen to A Loaded Smile now. :(

Hmmm… i might have confused people with my comments about the ugly tweets about Kris… I saw these before Adam’s performance and ended up closing my TweetDeck feed. Now that I look again, there are still some.. but it’s actually uglier because just about every tweet I see with ‘Kris Allen’ in it is either anti-Adam or anti-Kris… there are a few “good job/you looked great”, but mostly it’s that disgusting vs. boring debate. Closing the twitter feed again.

Wow. REALLY, Adam? I just…I get his whole schtick is pushing the envelope or whatever, but he basically got up there to whore himself out for a buck. Pretend BJ, genital grabbing of other people, really OTT make-out with a guy, flipping off the camera…pick one and your “shock” value will register. The AMAs may be tacky, but not enough to balance that performance out. He covered the trip really well, good work, but his singing was just completely bad…even when everything else about performance didn’t make sense, at least he always had the vocal. Not tonight.

There is nothing better than nailing a vocal, being fierce but keeping it classy. It’s just the AMAs but pretty much everyone in his demographic watched that tonight and the response is obviously less than stellar. People are going to see that album cover, think, “oh yeah, THAT guy” and keep walking.

And Twitter people are blaming Kris?! Hello, delusional.

He could get a hundred great reviews. I’m still going to think the performance was garbage.

His cd won’t suffer because of this!

keep telling yourself that.

Indeed, it’s gone from weeks of ‘the AMAs will help his sales!’ to ‘he doesn’t need the AMAs!’

C’mon. He DID need the AMAs to kick-start his sales and he, sorry to say, blew it. With too much raunchiness, with not good vocals, not good staging, and messing up.

THIS?! is what he was saving up for instead of doing weeks of radio interviews and the on the ground work that could have helped him and cushioned him against ohhh a terrible AMA performance?

I never thought I’d say this, but I actually feel bad for the guy. That was just ridiculous. I watched the show with my gay boyfriend and my gay boyfriends boyfriend and we all three had the Simon/Fantasia WTF face the whole time. They were not impressed.

I could give a shit about the guy on guy stuff but the whole thing was just awkward and painful to watch. FolkFan summed it up the best for me….it was like some off-off broadway version of S&M: The Musical.

I was silently making my album prediction last night and figured he’d pick up 25-30K from the AMA performance..he might lose that much now. What a freaking waste.

Well, I guess anyone who thinks that performance was acceptable for a music awards show doesn’t have anyone in their family under 15 who should be able to watch this type of show without being subjected to (as Bridgette12 states above): “the simulated sex acts” (otherwise known by having his head in someone’s crotch). I really liked Adam on Idol and don’t see why he can’t save the raunch/over the top for his concert tour and show a little more class at an awards event. It’s called respecting others.

The sound mix is always off at awards shows. Like seriously. Green Day sounded awful too, for instance. That’s why people lipsync on these shows, because when you have a live performance on an awards show there’s really no guarantee of anything. Anyone who follows bands knows this.

No one besides us is honing in on his vocals being “bad” in the actual press. It’s a relative thing, really.

Other than that: my critiques are that the choreography made it hard for him to sing live at certain parts; you need to have separated sections of more dance oriented and singing oriented performance. His fall clearly shook him up, and he was nervous the whole time. Those are things he needs to improve on.

Ya’ll must be really sheltered to think this was OTT. Do people not remember Britney and Madonna, or Bruno flying into Eminem’s face?

Well, I’m consistent, I didn’t care for any of that either, lol. I want to see Bruno’s naked ass on my TV even less than I want to see a face in Adam’s crotch.

I just think it was too much. I know he’s out there, I know he’s a sexual guy who likes all the costumes and stuff but the vulgar stuff just was a distraction – did he really need a face grinding in his crotch? (And I don’t care if it was a girl or boy face in said crotch). And yes, he lost me there, lol. It just was too much. I don’t want to see anyone’s face in anyone’s crotch on my TV. Maybe it makes me “too conservative” but I’m not apologizing for it (and, BTW, I’m 36, I’m not *that* old, and I managed a hip hop artist so I’m not *that* prude). I want to actually hear the guy sing. There was too much other crap going on, and it detracted from his vocals. I do feel bad for the guy, I know he had to be unhappy with how it played out. I did NOT want him to do badly.

I am telling you, his performance was crazy good- here is 1st good review:

Tap tap, is this thing on. :) I posted that two pages back. Also posted the MTV review on it. It seems he is getting some good reviews for it. I think people who are watching with no pre-conceived notions are looking at it in a different light.

Finally, if anyone cares, Lyndsey Parker tried to interview Adam, but he wasn’t available, so she talked to Kris and then went home to write up a review, I guess.

He is probably locked up in his dressing room….reading mjs.

Me: What a disaster. Wishing I didn’t have to add him to my depressingly long list of performers for whom it’s not about the music.

Sherena: Based off of one performance on the notoriously tacky AMAs? ahaha ok

No. This just confirms the vibe I’ve been getting from the publicity he’s been engaging in.

I had high hopes for Adam (even though I’m a Kris fan), but I gotta say I wasn’t shocked–I was disgusted. I hope he learns from this and moves on. Lady Gaga is all he shock we need. Adam just needs to do what he does best…sing!

I am sorry after the kiss I had to turn the channel. I just thought it was so unnecessary. I stayed for the head in crotch twice, i stayed through the gyration, I stayed through the ass grab, the fall and the poor vocal but I just couldn’t take anymore. He just ran off alot of fans away who were in the grey area.

I don’t know how (if at all) this impacts the impressions of Adam’s performance… but I’ve seen this pic linked in a bunch of different places:
http://i49.tinypic.com/2cyhxs.jpg

Ya’ll must be really sheltered to think this was OTT. Do people not remember Britney and Madonna, or Bruno flying into Eminem’s face?

hmmm…so people are describing Adam’s performance to Britney’s melt down and someone getting their face full of butt?

I think when we open the paper (or login) tomorrow morning we are gonna see a lot of commentators/reviewers who loved it and a lot who hated it. As with everything adam it will be polarizing. He may have lost some ai fans but he probably gained some non ai fans.

I will be SO HAPPY if the talk about this ends up focusing on the “scandalousness” of it all.

Adam SUCCEEDS if the talk is about
1) how he shouldn’t have kissed Tommy
2) how the dancing was vulgar and crude
3) how he flipped the audience off

He LOSES if the talk is about
4) how his vocals were off
5) how it seems like he’s “trying too hard” to be edgy

Keep on going, 1′s, 2′s and 3′s! Seriously, the tide is turning towards those discussion points, and that is PERFECT.

It is hysterical

Go the the AMA site and go to the discuss area- there is thread after after thread talking about Adam’s performance– gay porn, controversial, yadda, yadda– people talking about him and GaGa

This is what Adam wanted, peeps talking, some controversy

anyone wonder if ABC know and that is WHY his performance was last, after kids were expected to be asleep…

kt_cle
11/23/2009 at 12:12 am
I don’t know how (if at all) this impacts the impressions of Adam’s performance’ ¦ but I’ve seen this pic linked in a bunch of different places:
http://i49.tinypic.com/2cyhxs.jpg

Thank you, kt_cle. I needed that. :)

Ya’ll must be really sheltered to think this was OTT. Do people not remember Britney and Madonna, or Bruno flying into Eminem’s face?

hmmm’ ¦so people are describing Adam’s performance to Britney’s melt down and someone getting their face full of butt?

Lol. Read more carefully. They’re not talking about her meltdown performance, but about her face smooching with Madonna in the Madonna/Britney/Christina VMA performance. That–that was promotional perfection right there. Adam hasn’t reached such heights.

If the plans is for him to do that same performance on GMA, I would not be surprised if they cancelled him, Ditto for other daytime shows. He has to come up with a different way to present himself as an artist. ABC isn’t going to allow a repeat of tonight’s performance on daytime TV. (Although the GMA thing is probably a rumor.) I’d expect some PR statement from RCA and 19 also.

Okay, I have MY favorite tweet of the note–it has an interesting photo attached that ya gotta see:

NYDNgossip hey @adamlambert, is that a banana in your pocket or are you just reeeaally happy to perform at the AMAs? http://bit.ly/4Cg4Dh 1 minute ago from TweetDeck

I can’t believe they wasted such an opportunity of making a good impression the day before his album is released.

It was way too much pressure for him and the performance asked him to do too much. It was all way too ambitious.

What a disaster. Wishing I didn’t have to add him to my depressingly long list of performers for whom it’s not about the music.

Ditto. I thought he was more about the music then putting on a good show.

I adore Adam but I was so mortified during this performance I actually turned off the tv in the middle of his performance. Adam seemed totally uncomfortable, the vocals were off, and his stage movements were a mess. I had so much secondhand embarassment for him. His worst performance ever, and I’ve seen all of them.

It’s like all the pressure and high expectations got the best of him, and he cracked. I’ve never seen him crack, but he did tonite. I feel bad for him. I’m hoping to wake up in the morning and find that I suddenly get it cause I’m not getting it yet, And I thought gaga killed it. She was great!

I was silently making my album prediction last night and figured he’d pick up 25-30K from the AMA performance..he might lose that much now. What a freaking waste.

What a waste is basically my phrase and theme of the night. I’m sick for him.

Here’s my take. I’ve not seen the entire thing because *gasp* I chose to watch the MLS Cup instead. There was a pause between the end time and extra time where I switched over to ABC and listened to some horrendously out of tune song. Sorry, but it didn’t sound good at all.

Obviously, I’m not a fan or would have been glued to this channel for hours, but in the end I feel he’s done a huge disservice to gay people who just want to be able to legally love whoever the fuck they want to love. They don’t want to shove their sexual acts, identities, whatever in your face. They just want to be free to be themselves. This makes me sad.

From Michael Slezak:

I’ve got a Kris Allen lyric stuck in my head: Honesty is honestly the hardest thing for me right now… :( less than a minute ago from web

They can’t cancel him from GMA b/c everyone will scream homophobia if they do. :P Also of course he has a dif. routine for GMA. That’s standard.

Where is the gif of Adam falling on stage?

I don’t know how (if at all) this impacts the impressions of Adam’s performance’ ¦ but I’ve seen this pic linked in a bunch of different places:
http://i49.tinypic.com/2cyhxs.jpg

What a classy gent. Everything about him!

It had to happen.

The more flexible fans will remain, the others will star to back off, suddenly or slowly. Specially the ones competing for numbers.

The performance was daring and defiant, maybe not so great vocally, but that’s what is expected with dancing and choreography like this.

Americans, read more, travel more, get to know other countries, open your minds, be more tolerant!! It will be good for you!!!

i am not going to say i am disappointed in adam’s performance because it was too sexual- female artists have been doing the same things forever but society isn’t used to a male doing it. i am disappointed in his vocals- i saw him live this summer but these were mostly awful, out-of-tune, the last note was held way too long. and i used to like how he held out notes on idol. furthermore, i don’t even care about the kiss, but the blowjob thing is what is too much- no one should get away with that, it is nothing more than vulgar and shocking for the sake of shock, not art. and i just feel bad for him about the trip. i’m sure he was really nervous, but this was his big chance to get new fans. i think he just lost a lot.

I wasn’t offended by the “simulations,” and was surprised that ABC bleeped out a lyric (“totally blown”) that is IN the song they knew he was going to perform.

I was really excited for, and then disappointed in, the performance. His vocals were off — not as powerful — and the back-up singers were off-key, so that at some points he sounded off key, which is so totally NOT Adam. But if you’d never heard Adam before, you might not know that his vocals were off — you’d just think he wasn’t the amazing singer you’d been hearing about.

I think he was trying to do too much. He’s been in musical theatre, he probably thought he could handle the dancing and moving around the stage and singing all at once — but he’s never had this amount of pressure on him.

I think he knows he didn’t hit it out of the park. The last shot on him as he finished singing, he looked unhappy to me. Made me sad.

Okay I know I shouldn’t be dragging kris allen into this but I’m really annoyed with 19E’s handling of all this publicity. Kris WON american idol but why is adam getting more publicity than him??

any press is good press and I think Adam is going to have amazing record sales after this!

I was reading some of the Adam thread over at TWOP, and one comment stood out for me from user musicnmath

He wasn’t having any fun. Unless he’s singing a ballad, Adam seems to bring a sense of fun and play to any uptempo piece. That was sorely missing here…which made it all just seem cold and empty.

I don’t know how (if at all) this impacts the impressions of Adam’s performance’ ¦ but I’ve seen this pic linked in a bunch of different places:
http://i49.tinypic.com/2cyhxs.jpg

what the heck? Did he do that at the end of his performance? Is he flipping off someone in particular, the world, people who don’t get it?

I don’t understand.

If he’s flipping off the audience of just giving a big “F you” to whoever, at the end of your performance it is entirely idiot and in bad taste.

No one knows who you are, and you’re flipping someone/something off?

Adam if your album bombs, you did it to yourself.

I watch FYE on youtube. The sound is actually better there. I have no problem with the performance now. But I guess I’m in the minority.

I’ve no problem, but I’ve no standards. ;-)

Seriously, after watching the YT, I agree that he sounded fine. Not great, as he’s capable of, but good. When he improvised, as he tends to do, he did miss a couple of times. But he recovered, so there’s that.

Where he veered off course for me was not in the sexual visuals, but in trying to do too much with the performance itself. The scene was too busy. Too much going on. I suppose that’s why watching again helps a bit. It is art, after all. Adding so much visual action to an already difficult song to sing, though, makes a single misstep by any one of the many peeps involved that much more likely, and that much more damaging to the overall aesthetic.

I hope Adam is not too hard on himself, but I suspect he will be. That’s too bad. He’s superbly talented and he’ll be fine.

Sherena: He LOSES if the talk is about
4) how his vocals were off
5) how it seems like he’s ‘trying too hard’  to be edgy

His vocals were off and annoying, and he was trying too hard to be edgy. So I guess he loses.

I think when we open the paper (or login) tomorrow morning we are gonna see a lot of commentators/reviewers who loved it and a lot who hated it. As with everything adam it will be polarizing. He may have lost some ai fans but he probably gained some non ai fans.

Totally agree, it’s the same with everyone of his performances, people either love him or hate him, so what’[s different now. He lose some fans and he gain some. I must say, unlike the other idol performances, I wasn’t bored.

It’s definitely not the end of the world, and he will recover fine. But, It is sad because of what it could have been. It is weird, but I didn’t think Adam looked comfortable up there at all (and I don’t think I have ever seen that before). I think it was way too much to sing and do what was obviously a very choreographed routine complete with stairs and leaping to different levels of scaffolding. Way to much to handle, even for Adam. The sexual stuff didn’t bother me, but I felt for him with the difficult execution.

And I have trouble believing the Producers didn’t know exactly what was going to happen with the kissing—I think they are changing their tune now that the execution of everything was poor and they are, maybe, getting some backlash.

This is what Adam wanted, peeps talking, some controversy

So I guess my question is: how long do we keep blaming his gaffes (at least those that are perceived by Joe Public as such) on “controversy” and “people not getting it”?

At a certain point people are going to side firmly with the “stop trying to make this happen, it’s never going to happen” adage.

Twitter rumor 50cent punched Adam backstage. Did anyone else hear anything?

I don’t know how (if at all) this impacts the impressions of Adam’s performance’ ¦ but I’ve seen this pic linked in a bunch of different places:

YES!!! :) That makes me so happy. Guess he was getting sick of the constant you shouldn’t do this, you’re being too this and not enough that. BB tossed it all on the floor tonight!

Could Allison now be the top seller of Season 8? Or could someone break from the pack?

any press is good press and I think Adam is going to have amazing record sales after this!

I don’t think there was anything about that performance to make people go and buy his album that weren’t already planning on doing so. However, the name recognition might get people to sample the previews out of curiosity – and then it will be up to the music.

Finally, if anyone cares, Lyndsey Parker tried to interview Adam, but he wasn’t available, so she talked to Kris and then went home to write up a review, I guess.

SOunds like damage control is underway.

he certainly did toss it all on the floor

I wasn’t offended by the ‘simulations,’  and was surprised that ABC bleeped out a lyric (‘ totally blown’ ) that is IN the song they knew he was going to perform.

They bleep out the words, but yet not the action? I mean was that a last minute thing no one knew he was going to do?

I don’t find much offensive, and maybe I’m getting, old but the simulation of that on an Awards show offended me.

I’m starting to wonder if someone will complain to the FCC. AFter all this was on a normal channel, not a premium channel, so more people saw it.

Americans, read more, travel more, get to know other countries, open your minds, be more tolerant!! It will be good for you!!!

Wow. That is very disrespectful. I’m getting sick of this ‘intolerant’  bullshit. The performance was SHIT. Not because Americans are prudes or close-minded.. because Adam performed extremely poorly. Who are you stereotype an entire country? Adam’s performance was crude, poorly executed, and disrespectful.

You should not even be allowed back here to post after that offensive piece of crap post. read more? wow..

Wow. Well, I liked the beginning . . alot . I really liked the concept of starting out like the stage showman with piano .but as much as it pains me to say, but I must be honest, the rest of his performance, definitely not his best. It seemed like he started singing a few bars too early . and he was thrown off from there. Couldn’t give A CRAP about the sexual stuff. But I knew people would, and yea, I probably would have advised against it. But there is definitely a huge double standard. Nobody cared when Madonna and Britney made out but we haven’t come that far yet.

But yeah, I honest to God think his nerves just got to him. I don’t think they should have had him close. And the performance was intricate and I don’t think they had enough time to rehearse. I think he did so well on Idol because he never felt so much was at stake and he felt free. And truthfully, I actually started getting a bad feeling with all those little ABC promos. It was all just too much. I was reminded of what Madonna said about Michael Jackson at the VMAs – she kept referring to him as in the end a human being, who is fallible. Adam is a human being and it was a tall tall order.

And I don’t think he will be twittering because I do not think he was happy with his performance based on his face.

The album is great. It really really is, and the critics so far agree. His tours were unanimously praised in the press. He will be on Letterman and GMA this week and I do believe he will do great there. I will remain forever a fan based on his huge talent and heart. I believe his talent and heart will prevail. No, I am not skerd.

lol

Hmmm’ ¦ i might have confused people with my comments about the ugly tweets about Kris’ ¦ I saw these before Adam’s performance and ended up closing my TweetDeck feed. Now that I look again, there are still some.. but it’s actually uglier because just about every tweet I see with ‘Kris Allen’ in it is either anti-Adam or anti-Kris’ ¦ there are a few ‘good job/you looked great’ , but mostly it’s that disgusting vs. boring debate. Closing the twitter feed again.

I just searched Kris on twitter and I don’t really see too much negative stuff about him. I also searched him right after he presented and there were pages of mostly positive comments.

Well, most importantly – KELLY CLARKSON WAS AWESOME! lol

Okay I know I shouldn’t be dragging kris allen into this but I’m really annoyed with 19E’s handling of all this publicity. Kris WON american idol but why is adam getting more publicity than him??

LOL…Adam was supposed to win from the get. So that doesn’t stop AI and 19E from their plans to hype who they wanted to win from the beginning. Kris is just in the way of all the Adam-hype.

this is what i was afraid of. the music should always come first. the artists i respect and admire make it about the music.

PRMari
11/23/2009 at 12:05 am
I loved it, because I have the same feeling I had when he did Ring of Fire.

Ring of fire was vocally excellent, this performance doesn’t meassure up to ROF in the least. He was vocally off.

Comkpletely agree with you PRMari. I didn’t find Ring of Fire shocking – just beautifully sung – and different for AI – in a good way.
I found this performance was just awful in every way. The face in the crotch (male or female) is just disgusting. Hey, if this is the type of performer Adam wants to be -it’s a free country – he can do what he want. It’s just not what I’m into. As I’ve said before – I’m here for the music. And I didn’t get that tonight. :(

He is probably locked up in his dressing room’ ¦.reading mjs.

This is why I come here: FOR MY ENTERTAINMENT (and enlightenment).

I also tweeted that maybe there would be a problem with GMA, and again was slammed, saying he changes his performance up every time. YEP, get that, except this was just SHOWN and I know it was a 11PM and not 8PM but GMA is on ABC, remember. I think, I think, that this performance is going to hurt the sales of his record, which I LOVE, and if it does, I think that is terribly unfortunate. Sometimes buzz is just…buzz.

And no one can tell me that his vocals sounded good on TV, b/c they didn’t and this is a show about MUSIC and his SINGING didn’t sound good. And that makes me sad.

ETA: Yep, OhMyRawrrr. One hundred percent. Please don’t affect his record sales. Please please please don’t let this hurt his record sales or airplay.

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)

I think Michael Slezak echos many of the sentiments I’ve read here: http://music-mix.ew.com/2009/11/23/adam-lambert-amas-simulated-fellatio/

Well, most importantly ‘“ KELLY CLARKSON WAS AWESOME! lol

Agreed. She is the one, TRUE ~international superstar~ Idol, imo. Yay for Kelly.

Sherena: He LOSES if the talk is about
4) how his vocals were off
5) how it seems like he’s ‘trying too hard’  to be edgy

His vocals were off and annoying, and he was trying too hard to be edgy. So I guess he loses.

You completely misinterpret my comment. I’m talking about the majority of the TALK, not about his actual performance. Through monitoring the twitter talk and the talk across a whole bunch of boards? The MAJORITY of ppl are focusing on the first three points, about the kiss/crotchgrab/blow jobs, not his actual vocals. If this keeps up, Adam wins.

I’m so sad for Adam. That was not good. The raunchy stuff did not bother me but as soon as fell (he did recover nicely) I knew it was going to go downhill. His singing seemed really, really off to me. I never thought he sounded like sh!t on Idol and he was phenomenal on the Idol Tour when I saw him so I was beyond surprised with his vocals. When I saw those rehearsal videos he sounded really good. I had such high hopes for this performance. He also seemed nervous and uncomfortable. Did anyone notice his face at the end? It looked like he was going to start crying.

The real shame about this is that his album is seriously good. With this performance and the cover, I think many people who might have been curious about him might have just been turned off.

I mean, there are a lot of extremes on twitter, blogs, etc, a lot of non-adam fans seem to be enjoying this moment, obviously, the conservatives will be conservative. What really worries me are the comments from people that were like “Wow, I thought he sounded great on idol, what happened tonight”? You know, casual viewers, I just think it’s time for once to lower my expectations and face the fact that I cannot expect high sales numbers or charting.

I really wish I were wrong.

I’m still going to support him of course, but he does need more than a hardcore fanbase to have a decent career.

I love Kelly. She really DESERVE being there. So does Daughtry and Carrie.

CLASS does not need HYPE.

thesheriff
11/23/2009 at 12:22 am

Well, most importantly ‘“ KELLY CLARKSON WAS AWESOME! lol

Gotta agree. Best performance of the night, I thought.

I just heard Adam in an interview speak about being a control freak and basically having a lot to say in what he does. Maybe not a good idea. Adam worships Gaga, and she’s out there, but she wasn’t vulgar and she sang well. Artists who are selling, like Carrie, Chris, and Kelly just sang, and showcased their amazing voices. Oh boy is all I can say. Now I hope nobody stayed up to watch till the end.

I’m a big Adam fan too, and I have to say that I agree with everything you had to say.

I think the water cooler will get a big workout at work tomorrow, and there will be lots of publicity. And it may be that any publicity, good, bad, or in between, is desirable at this stage of a career. Getting your name out there and recognized is very important.

But tonight I think we saw a different Adam, the human being, instead of the incredible infallible performance machine. I was thinking that the choreography part was too ambitious, too complicated, too subject to error, and maybe just a little too avant garde for most tastes. Or maybe my tastes are just too hopelessly mainstream or not sophisticated enough to appreciate it; that could be part of the problem too.

If this keeps up, Adam wins.

He wont win with radio adds.He should of listened to gene simmons and just sang.

No one besides us is honing in on his vocals being ‘bad’  in the actual press. It’s a relative thing, really.

You may have a point, last year I thought that people in the press would point out the fact that Katy Perry can’t sing, and that we would finally be rid of her, but nobody cared. But, I think one difference is that Katy had at least one hit single at the time, so she was give a pass. Since Adam is a new artist, who, despite what his fans have said, really hasn’t established himself yet, or accomplished anything besides coming in second on American Idol, I don’t think the press will look past his vocal performance. In fact, just last week, I said that Adam should focus as much attention on his vocals as he was on the visual aspects of his performance, since he’s a new artists, who’s still trying to sell himself to the public.

I love Kelly. She really DESERVE being there. So does Daughtry and Carrie.

CLASS does not need HYPE.

Lol yes it does. If it wants to sell, it does. And they had their share of hype when they were new artists as well, or they wouldn’t be here.

Also I love your comments. Keep talking. This is the perfect response, imo, and I hope more people respond like you.

Too tired to quote whoever commented about L. Parker. Kris was interviewed by her before the show, I believe. Kris has nothing to do with Adam’s damage control. Why Adam didn’t go backstage is anyone’s guess, but I have an idea.

Yes, Kelly AND Carrie AND Daughtry were awesome. So…that’s something. And Kris looked very dapper. And I am just very sad. This is not how I wanted Adam to start his post-Idol career. :(

wow what a great way to end your 15 minutes of fame adam!

and as always, keeping it classy kelly. amazing performance, as was carrie and daughtry!

Carrie was so beautiful. I loved her routine. It is just right, NOT OVER THE TOP.

Rihanna KILLED it.
Lambert SUCKED it. heh

rihanna will crush adam in album sales btw=]

Wish there had not been the constant hype. Wish Adam had been plugged in after a high energy performance where his could have been ‘pulled in/contrasted.’  I would have liked Adam to have debuted ‘Broken Open’  with fluid SYTYCD dancers doing an interpretation of the song’ ¦video of water scene with bubbles of water’ ¦ a shell or something breaking open in the water? I don’t know’ ¦ Something where the audience was left memorized by his voice rather than his sexual antics. But this is Adam, and it hasn’t hurt his twitter following (gained over a thousand just today). My CD arrived yesterday, and I have been playing it all weekend. Loving his music if not this particular performance!

OMFG!!!!! OMFG!!!!! OMFGGG!!!!!!!!!!

http://tinyurl.com/ybwrwt8

Is anybody else having trouble downloading FYE on iTunes? I try to download and it says this item is being modified.

Americans, read more, travel more, get to know other countries, open your minds, be more tolerant!! It will be good for you!!!

Um, no. I thought the performance was not good. I thought it was vulgar, and I wouldn’t have cared if he was gay or not, kissing boys or girls. It was too much for me, and the vocals were not very good either. It has NOTHING to do, for me, with him being gay. Nothing. I simply do not want to see faces in crotches on my regular TV channels, from anyone. And I love Adam’s voice and that was the one thing that was missing from most of the performance for me!

I don’t think there was anything about that performance to make people go and buy his album that weren’t already planning on doing so.

Actually, I’ve seen two posts from people tonight who had ordered the album, and then canceled the order after seeing the show.

Another thing we are going to see is a load of complaints to he FCC. Although I don’t think that there is anything to prosecute since there was no nudity or swearing. And it was llpm, well after bed time for little kids. The bottom line is that Adam didn’t venture into any territory Madonna hasn’t already covered on TV. People are just more threatened because he’s gay, so it suddenly seems like a big deal.

Rihanna KILLED it.
Lambert SUCKED it. heh

rihanna will crush adam in album sales btw=]

She sucked vocally. If she beats him which she probably will, it will be because she’s an established artist, not because she actually SANG well. But I love Rihanna and I hope she sells tons, though, so we have that in common. Russian Roulette is a piece of haunting beauty, no?

the vocal dissapointed me and it was too focus on the show but not the actual music and I want Adam to be appreciated for his vocals and his quality as a performer. As a fan my duty is to keep him grounded and to support him on his music.I don’t know why people are saying he kissed a guy because who plays keyboards on his band is a woman Lisa

I love Kelly. She really DESERVE being there. So does Daughtry and Carrie.

CLASS does not need HYPE.

Lol yes it does. If it wants to sell, it does. And they had their share of hype

hmmm I never seen Carrie, Daughtry or Kelly acting up and being classless on stage. Never have they done cheap gimmicks and over the top sexual ‘gimmicks’ to get their cds sold on any TV show.

Is anybody else having trouble downloading FYE on iTunes? I try to download and it says this item is being modified.

Maybe RCA all ready dropped him.

I think Michael Slezak echos many of the sentiments I’ve read here: http://music-mix.ew.com/2009/11/23/adam-lambert-amas-simulated-fellatio/

Wow. You know, though Michael is a bit of an uber fan, I do think he actually does stick to his genuine opinion. And it’s hard to disagree with him here.

And here’s the other thing, unpopular as it’s going to sound. I do think he is going to get good reviews, like with RS and WSJ. And that’s entirely because of the positive benefits of his critical hype. Because, even if I know we can talk about the sound mix until the cows come home, but it sounded really off, to such a degree that I don’t think any objective viewer could not at least mention that it was all they had seen. Instead, he gets praised for being “shocking” and “risque”, when for a lot of people that really wasn’t the problem at all. I guess that’s good for Adam, though, and I suppose I don’t have an investment being the other way. But those reviews really can’t be confused with what viewers saw, especially the uninitiated ones, and what they saw was just not good.

Then again, someone did point out Katy Perry. I guess that’s true. But is the press that oblivious to miss what sounded like a really poor vocal, especially from someone who is famed for giving really good vocals? I dunno.

rihanna will crush adam in album sales btw=]

As will Lady Gaga, and heck after that, probably even Susan Boyle.

OMFG!!!!! OMFG!!!!! OMFGGG!!!!!!!!!!

http://tinyurl.com/ybwrwt8

Whoah. A Rickey’s poll going against Adam. I never thought I’d see that.

Maybe it’s time for Adam to just BE. Stop honing a persona. Stop going out of his way to push buttons or make people uncomfortable. He clearly isn’t ready to OWN IT the way Madonna always has. That’s the main difference between his disaster tonight and the famous Madonna/Britney/Christina routine: Madonna executed FLAWLESSLY and owned it. Adam walked out tonight looking like he was having sudden buyers remorse about his routine and it showed-from the vocals to the trip to well, everything. Less would have been more tonight. I’m sure he’ll have a million excuses or he’ll claim we just don’t “get it.”

Ok, Aimee Mayo’s tweets are pretty funny. Apparently her 58 yr. old mother loved Adam’s performance, lol.

It will be an interesting week of interviews for Adam.

I love Kelly. She really DESERVE being there. So does Daughtry and Carrie.

CLASS does not need HYPE.

Lol yes it does. If it wants to sell, it does. And they had their share of hype

hmmm I never seen Carrie, Daughtry or Kelly acting up and being classless on stage. Never have they done cheap gimmicks and over the top sexual ‘gimmicks’ to get their cds sold on any TV show.

I never said they did. I just said they had their share of hype, because you said they got to be so successful without needing hype. Stop twisting my words. Kthx.

Nobody cared when Madonna and Britney made out but we haven’t come that far yet.

I cared. I thought it was totally stupid. I would think the same thing if a hetero couple made out during a song. It’s just stupid and unnecessary, like they’re trying to teach something to the ignorant masses.

well…I never thought I would say this but I did not like the performance.
I agree that the sound mixing was terrible, which made the song sound bad even though its really not, but his singing wasnt good either, he was off-key a lot of the time.
I will say he handled the fall well, like the professional that he is but overall the performance was hot mess.
It was just way too raunchy and yes, a bit vulgar especially because this was a debut performance and there were very high expectations…and what he delivered was kind of low brow…
I really think the pressure got to him. He wasnt performing like his usual self. Hopefully there will be better performances to come.
I wasnt really shocked by the kiss, honestly I couldnt tell if it was a guy or a girl LOL but I could understand why it would be offensive, especially because ppl were not expecting it and there were probably a lot of viewers who had never heard of him and are fans of other artists who also performed…and I have to say the rest of the performances were quite good…frankly he just tried to hard to shock ppl to the point that it seemed distasteful and his voice was overshadowed by everything that was going on..and its really shame especially since he has said himself he wants to be remembered as a great singer…the final notes were good and he showed his range but it wasnt enough.
the choreography looked harsh and sloppy also but I think the camera angles also contributed to that.
I really just hope this doesnt affect his album sales because the quality of the album is good.

It was just a misguided performance imho.

Adam’s performance was better than most of the performances on the show. Not his best, but certainly not worst of the evening. Certainly ambitious.

The whole show suffered from messy overproduction. It is not surprising that no one told him to tone it down. Nobody told anyone to tone it down.

Kelly Clarkson and Alicia Keyes were the only singers whose vocals sounded really good. Carrie Underwood belted out her cowboy song, but she looked uncomfortable in those shorts. Happy to hide behind her gratutitous female dancers

Whitney’s performance was sentimental soap opera which the audience ate up because of who she once was, not because she what she did was well-done in itself.

If it is true that the make out and other things were added and the AMA producers had no idea, that was a STUPID move Adam. You do not piss off the producers of one of the major music awards shows, and probably piss off people at ABC too. I don’t really believe the rumor he is now kicked off GMA, but if the network executives are angry enough who knows?

Um, no. I thought the performance was not good. I thought it was vulgar, and I wouldn’t have cared if he was gay or not, kissing boys or girls. It was too much for me, and the vocals were not very good either. It has NOTHING to do, for me, with him being gay. Nothing. I simply do not want to see faces in crotches on my regular TV channels, from anyone. And I love Adam’s voice and that was the one thing that was missing from most of the performance for me!

Exactly!

The performace was crude and over the top. It lost people who were inclined to Adam! much less the casual types.

And worse than all of that, he was vocally OFF tonight. And that is one thing that Adam usually has at least, is impeccable vocals and on the night he needed them the most, on the national stage, before his album drops, he lost it.

It was a major choking vocally and TERRIBLE visuals. It just turned off a slew of potential buyers. I’ve been on the boards, this is a DISASTER for Adam in terms of marketing.

I feel sick.

rihanna will crush adam in album sales btw=]

I actually believe Susan Boyle and Gaga together will crush them all.

Leave the over dramatic stuff for Gaga and Britney…at least Gaga can play the piano.

Could this benefit someone else, like Matt Giraud, in picking up the fans lost?

Rihanna KILLED it.

She sucked vocally.

Yes, she did. Gaga killed it. (Still love Rihanna, though.)

rihanna will crush adam in album sales btw

Yes, she probably will. I just bought Lambert album off of AO. :)

Because, even if I know we can talk about the sound mix until the cows come home, but it sounded really off, to such a degree that I don’t think any objective viewer could not at least mention that it was all they had seen.

Almost everyone sounded off though. In the pop culture world and among pop music fans, that’s not really the important part. This usually makes me angry…but tonight I’m a bit thankful. :P

The bottom line is that Adam didn’t venture into any territory Madonna hasn’t already covered on TV. People are just more threatened because he’s gay, so it suddenly seems like a big deal.

ITA- FloRide sang about oral sex. I’ve seen JT’s performance on HBO wear he is simulating sex with a dancer. There is some OT that the mainstream will tolerate and some they won’t.

Lady GaGa hanging from a rope and covered in fake blood also freaked people out. We will see how this goes in the next few days, but if Adam’s goal is to appeal to Lady GaGa’s audience, I think he’s done it. If his goal is to appeal to David Cook and Kris Allen fans, he failed. I think he wants to be the kind of artist he wants to be and he will let the chips fall where they may. At least he can look himself in the mirror and feel like he did it his way.

undercooked,

sorry didn’t see you posted it– he is getting good reviews- all professionals recognized there were sound mix issues all night.

The controversy is 1, 2, & 3 about the sexual content– that is all goo -get them talking… Didn’t hurt Madonna’s career..

frankly he just tried to hard to shock ppl to the point that it seemed distasteful and his voice was overshadowed by everything that was going on

I think you summed it up right there for me. He pushed it so far that it was vulgar when it still would’ve been edgy without all the extras. And then the voice was overshadowed, which sure is a shame because he really can fricking sing.

I am sorry after the kiss I had to turn the channel. I just thought it was so unnecessary. I stayed for the head in crotch twice, i stayed through the gyration, I stayed through the ass grab, the fall and the poor vocal but I just couldn’t take anymore. He just ran off alot of fans away who were in the grey area.

Ugh, I just watched the video. I wish I’d been downstairs to turn the channel. I won’t be leaving an unsupervised preteen to watch Adam Lambert again.

I came to expect real class out of him on Idol, but for me this was vulgar and crass.

Sherena: But I love Rihanna and I hope she sells tons, though, so we have that in common. Russian Roulette was a piece of haunting beauty, no?

No. It was boring and horrendously performed.

I feel sick.

Oh bb. I did for a while too. Take a deep breath, it’ll be okay and isn’t a disaster of the proportion it seems. Will it make things harder for him? Will he have a lot more to prove? Yes and yes. But he’ll now have more people tuning in to see him prove himself, so IF he does, it’ll blow over.

Good God. Did Adam kill the interwebs? I couldn’t get into any sites for the longest time!

Well, well, well. So. Anything exciting happen on the AMA’s tonight? I kid. Adam took a calculated risk. Was I happy he did that? As a fan? No. I wanted him to give a nice, safe performance and let the dancers be OTT so he could sell his damn single. At the same time, who am I to say? It’s his career. Adam’s Adam.

Meanwhile, the most humorous thing to me was how the ABC censors bleeped out the sound when Adam has his crotch against the leashed male dancers mouth. I pictured the guys in the 2-second control booth. “OMG! Look what he’s doing! Bleep it!! Bleeeeep ittttt!!!”

I really have no problem with the content. Had I been directing that segment – I’d have probably pushed the envelope even further, to be honest. Better to get hanged for a sheep than a lamb. Edgy suits the lyrics’ ¦..and as I pointed out many long threads ago – Adam once wrote a song called ‘Rough Trade’. That pretty much clues you in on what to expect, I would think. So no – I don’t have a bitch about content….it’s execution that was the problem – and I lay most of that blame on technical issues (and some staging choices). Adam’s voice played second fiddle to tons of background noise and the set wasn’t properly connected either to itself or the stage, causing some of the dancers (and Adam) to lose balance. That’s why Adam fell, imo – he tripped over a bad connection. Still – I think he managed well, considering. Do I wish everything had been perfect? You betcha – but I’m not judging anything by this one performance. And I still can’t wait to see the video.

I get people saying his performance was not up to par but to talk about him being the immoral performance when you had Eminem Cursing talking about condoms and sex acts, Rhianna in some futuristic bondage play. I don’t get it. Did he cross a line? I can see where people would think that but condemn him condemn all the other performers who where just as explicit and vulgar.

Perez Hilton is totally stealing Jedward’s look.

It looks good on them, BUT NOT ON YOU PEREZ.

OMFG!!!!! OMFG!!!!! SERIOUSLY???!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://tinyurl.com/ybwrwt8

The bottom line is that Adam didn’t venture into any territory Madonna hasn’t already covered on TV. People are just more threatened because he’s gay, so it suddenly seems like a big deal.

Just quoting this one cuz I keep seeing the same sentiment.

Madonna and Britney have nothing on the way Adam and that guy (?) went at it. There’s was basically a smooch; Adam’s tongue was in that guy’s stomach. So no, it really doesn’t have anything to do with the fact that he’s gay…most of the world has seen him kissing guys in pictures already anyway.

The bottom line is that Adam didn’t venture into any territory Madonna hasn’t already covered on TV. People are just more threatened because he’s gay, so it suddenly seems like a big deal.

For some but not all. His performance was terrible. He was nervous and sounded bad and he didn’t own it. Madonna, GaGa, JT, Britney (except for that VMA thing) were confident and owned the stage. Plus he made the entire routine one big “Look how BAD I am! Are you shocked!” That’s called trying-to-hard-itis. It showed big time.

She sucked vocally. If she beats him which she probably will, it will be because she’s an established artist, not because she actually SANG well. But I love Rihanna and I hope she sells tons, though, so we have that in common. Russian Roulette is a piece of haunting beauty, no?

Rihanna is never a vocal genius, Adam is supposed to be, conceptually her performance is better.
And RR is great, the new album is beyond incredible. I encourage you all to buy it now!!

Ugh, I just watched the video. I wish I’d been downstairs to turn the channel. I won’t be leaving an unsupervised preteen to watch Adam Lambert again.

I don’t think Adam’s target audience are pre-teen kids. I think that is why the AMA put him last. It’s a school night, kids not in high school are usually in bed.

I get people saying his performance was not up to par but to talk about him being the immoral performance when you had Eminem Cursing talking about condoms and sex acts, Rhianna in some futuristic bondage play. I don’t get it. Did he cross a line? I can see where people would think that but condemn him condemn all the other performers who where just as explicit and vulgar.

The big difference is his performance was hyped ALL SHOW and it was sloppy. If you are going to be shocking and OTT you’d better execute flawlessly. He didn’t.

Almost everyone sounded off though. In the pop culture world and among pop music fans, that’s not really the important part. This usually makes me angry’ ¦but tonight I’m a bit thankful.

Maybe. But this is Adam, for whom strong vocals are part of the package. Not Rihanna, where that’s never something she tried to sell. And there were plenty of people who were on, though many weren’t, so he does still come off as bad by comparison. This wasn’t the night for that.

alxsavage
11/23/2009 at 12:31 am

Whoah. A Rickey’s poll going against Adam. I never thought I’d see that.

Dammit it all to hell. I am gong to bed. Just one more thing:

As a ginormous Adam fan, I want people to hear his music. Even the tracks on the album I did not love (Music Again in particular) are still very good, they are just not my favorites. There is not ONE crappy song in the whole bunch. Adam has an insanely beautiful voice. But if you did not know him, had never heard of him, and saw this performance, would you go out and buy his album? Because I sure as hell wouldn’t. In fact, I would have said, WTF was that, and turned off my TV. And b/c there is a small Idol bubble and a huge rest of the world bubble, I am afraid he might get stuck in this one and not get out of it. Maybe, b/c he is doing the press junket so soon, he will be just fine. He will sing the way he always sings on GMA and Letterman and Oprah (eventually) and Ellen and anywhere else and all will be fine in the Lambert world. I hope. And RCA/19, you best watch your prized artist, cause this sure can’t be what you had hoped for.

I do not think he was in his dressing room reading mj’s blog, alas.

Oh, well. Laterz.

Meanwhile, the most humorous thing to me was how the ABC censors bleeped out the sound when Adam has his crotch against the leashed male dancers mouth. I pictured the guys in the 2-second control booth. ‘OMG! Look what he’s doing! Bleep it!! Bleeeeep ittttt!!!’ 

ROTFLMAO….Thanks for posting this….Thanks for taking the lemons and making lemonade. :lol:

As usual Slezak sums it up so well,

And yet, what’s sad is that unlike, say, a J.Lo or even a Rihanna, Adam could’ve had tongues wagging just from his vocals alone. Instead, that golden voice took a backseat tonight at the AMAs, and I’m not sure exactly who was occupying the driver’s seat

Just sing Adam. We love that voice of yours.

I don’t see him losing too many sells, honestly, but I don’t see him gaining hugely from this. That said, his followers is still climbing fast, though that doesn’t necessarily translate into more buyers.

I get people saying his performance was not up to par but to talk about him being the immoral performance when you had Eminem Cursing talking about condoms and sex acts, Rhianna in some futuristic bondage play. I don’t get it. Did he cross a line? I can see where people would think that but condemn him condemn all the other performers who where just as explicit and vulgar.

…but Adam closed the show. It’s what people will remember because it didn’t get lost in the shuffle.

Agreed Mark.

Sherena: But I love Rihanna and I hope she sells tons, though, so we have that in common. Russian Roulette was a piece of haunting beauty, no?

No. It was boring and horrendously performed.

Dude. Misunderstanding me again. I’m not talking about the performance, I’m talking about the song itself, as shown by the fact that I preceded that comment by saying that she sucked vocally tonight.

I feel for Adam because I am sure he realized his vocals were off. But truthfully most here aren’t commenting on the vocals because I am sure that every one knows that folk can have an off night. If half the people on that stage never had a bad night, then I wonder why many of them lip synced? Even Adam who is a newbie and this must have unnerved him. I sympathize.

But all this talk about class reminds me that this is the AMA’s not the opera, so maybe we were watching the wrong show. If anyone says the producers were surprised at what happened tonight, I call BS, all night they were foreshadowing the OTT nature of this performance. Furthermore if the FCC, or whoever gets called in because of some simulated fellatio, or a boy on boy kiss, then it might as well be 1979 instead of 2009. Men kiss each other people, they really do. If singing about it is good for American Idol, then the AMA’s certainly is not a bad place to take it a couple of step further.

I knew this when it happened,that is why I thought it was hilarious,caus eI knew he was straight!

Rollingstone
Adam Lambert tells RS the keyboard player he kissed on the American Music Awards is a straight guy. #amas #adamlambert 4 minutes ago from web

Wow, rough crowd here! lol I just watched Adam’s performance since I taped it – I had been reading the comments here and expected something really horrible – He sounded good, he looked good, he didn’t do anything that shocking, no more shocking than other acts have done. I wouldn’t have even known he fell if I hadn’t read it here. Was it his best vocal performance? No, but it still sounded really good on my TV.

CSFan
11/23/2009 at 12:31 am
Maybe it’s time for Adam to just BE. Stop honing a persona. Stop going out of his way to push buttons or make people uncomfortable. He clearly isn’t ready to OWN IT the way Madonna always has. That’s the main difference between his disaster tonight and the famous Madonna/Britney/Christina routine: Madonna executed FLAWLESSLY and owned it. Adam walked out tonight looking like he was having sudden buyers remorse about his routine and it showed-from the vocals to the trip to well, everything. Less would have been more tonight. I’m sure he’ll have a million excuses or he’ll claim we just don’t ‘get it.

THIS. I believe you “get it” and explained it the better then anyone else.

BTW I’m sure he’ll also tweet a link to a fanboard defending him saying ” thank you _____ YOU GET IT” :rollseyes:

When Adam fall….he rolled…lol

The bottom line is that Adam didn’t venture into any territory Madonna hasn’t already covered on TV. People are just more threatened because he’s gay, so it suddenly seems like a big deal.

Partly valid and partly not – Madonna kissed Britney and Borat’s butt landed on Eminem’s face on cable which does not have the same restrictions as non-cable channels such as ABC. (Personally I hated both of these MTV events as I think it’s whoring oneself out for publicity.)

I can’t believe I’m reading folks saying the sound on youtube is better than the sound they heard from the TV. I didn’t watch it on TV, only watched a youtube version and my first thought was that he sounded like a chipmunk, so if I thought it was bad on youtube, I can’t imagine how bad it must have sounded on the TV?

Also, i’m sorry but, that wasn’t sexy, that was just raunchy. Sexy is illusion, not simulation.

Wowser,
I’m with you. Kelly and Alicia sounded great. Carrie is so uncomfortable moving on the stage. I think her management tries to find one or two moves she can do and they put other dancers in front of her for any difficult moves. She is a beautiful girl but a very wooden performer IMO.

Fell asleep and missed Adam. Watched the you tube video, it wasn’t as bad as everyone says IMO. The kiss and the blow job grinding were a little much but probably no more than anything that’s on tv every night. I noticed the fall, thought he recovered nicely. Singing, not as good as some performances he has done but better than most I heard tonight.

And RR is great, the new album is beyond incredible. I encourage you all to buy it now!!

I’m not entirely sold. Some of the vocals (for some of the songs) leave me feeling flat. Again, I do love the girl. I’ll probably download individual songs, instead.

Wow, I can’t believe I might actually be breaking up with Adam Lambert, after loving him from the very beginning.

When Adam fall’ ¦.he rolled’ ¦lol

That was hilarious. Great save… plus rolling is totally the safest way to minimize impact stress when you fall…

The vocals are not off in his album I’ve heard. I am off to order it on iTunes, and I don’t think I’m the only one. G’night.

He wasn’t having any fun. Unless he’s singing a ballad, Adam seems to bring a sense of fun and play to any uptempo piece. That was sorely missing here’ ¦which made it all just seem cold and empty.

Hmm – very interesting point. Yes, I agree that during his performance, this was an “angry/sexual” side of Adam that (other than kick-gate, which was spontaneous and not planned) we never really saw before. He is usually much more playful, but this was more aggressive, and not as fun as we’re used to seeing from him (sorta like how Rihanna’s material is also much darker now, and not the fun old “umbrella” stuff.)

I almost wonder if the AMAs didn’t want a Kanye Moment, and set Adam up to be that moment – like, “ok we’ll give you a spot, and we’re more than ok with some envelope pushing, because it’ll give us ratings and buzz”. IDK.

Ok, he gave a bad vocal performance. But it’s was just one. We’ve all heard the guy do incredible things with his voice. I’m sure nerves combined with a bad sound mix didn’t help Adam much. Look can we please put up a post about his album now which is currently on sale so we can refocus on that and get away from this tricky subject- this performance. It was not good but it wasn’t the worst thing ever either. And the sexualness of it was not the end of the world. A lot of this is trial and error, I’m sure next time, he’ll hold back a little bit and it will all work out.

RocktheFort,

i agree with you, the fall looked corregraphed and I have watched the performance several times, it was really good, will get him lots of publicity

He needed to break out of the Idol bubble in order to get more non-idol fans, and this performance helped that

It was meant to be shocking, it was advertised by ABC as shocking and it lived up to that hype

If peeps expected him to do his Idol concert peroformance or just stand there and sing, they were going to be disappointed.
Adam has been honest about what he was going to bring to performances and videos and concerts

If this surprised anyone, they were not listening to Adam

And RR is great, the new album is beyond incredible. I encourage you all to buy it now!!

I’m considering it. I need to listen to all the songs online first, and then decide whether I want to buy the whole album ;) But I’ll definitely buy a few songs, and probably buy the album.

dhunken, I agree with you, the problem is that he might have pushed too many buttons at once for people who were used to Adam’s best self that was showcased on idol. Combine that with tons of people who already disliked Adam taking this opportunity to make a hate party, plus all of the conservatives who can watch through a soft kiss between two woman but cannot stand the sight of 2 guys kissing each other, and we have the mess of tonight.

I keep seeing comparisons to eminem. Well that’s damning with faint praise. Eminem is already the bottom of the barrell, if Adam wants to join him, then go for it. Ironically, Adam’s performance wasn’t even sexy, that’s the sad part. Just vulgar and the vocals were bad too.

People were talking about him? Yeah most of it negative. I don’t think it was a good night for him. He lost more than he gained. He can’t blame this on the directors either, since it looked in the pre-show video like he was the one calling the shots.

Cheap shock and bad vocals, doesn’t get you far. Bottom line, a wasted opportunity. Only those who wanted to like it did, and many of them did not.

ETA: I don’t think anyone’s saying now that the song wasn’t about sex, LOL. Pretty clear what the thrust of the song was, no pun intended.

What was Rihanna even “singing”?

GMA won’t cancel Adam. Give up all that publicity and ratings? No way.

Meanwhile, the most humorous thing to me was how the ABC censors bleeped out the sound when Adam has his crotch against the leashed male dancers mouth. I pictured the guys in the 2-second control booth. ‘OMG! Look what he’s doing! Bleep it!! Bleeeeep ittttt!!!’ 

lol …. yes mad panic to push any button that says “censor” on it but they pushed the sound one instead of the visual.

The more I watch it the more I see that his vocal was pretty good in parts .. I’m a huge Adam fan but I think they were over ambitious and his vocal was bound to be lost when he was walking around feeling up every dancer on stage. …. great stunt roll though .. kudos to him for that.

I can understand how some will be offended … personally not me as it takes a lot to shock me … I just hope it doesn’t have a knock on effect for him as he’s such an amazing talent.

oh and Tommy Joe was one lucky guy tonight.

He’s so not getting dropped for that, nor is his career over. He’ll be the talk of town tomorrow. We’ll see if that translates into some album sales or not. I just think it was a missed opportunity. He could’ve been edgy without being vulgar and showcased his vocals more and he would’ve blown everyone away.

We will see how this goes in the next few days, but if Adam’s goal is to appeal to Lady GaGa’s audience, I think he’s done it. If his goal is to appeal to David Cook and Kris Allen fans, he failed.

As a general pop music buyer of all stripes (you will find all four artists here on my iPod), I don’t know. Lady Gaga is consistently catchy and entertaining. When she shocks, she does it intelligently and in a way that causes a rather specific provocation, in a way that draws one in. This wasn’t an Adam performance that drew in people in general, and not the general pop audience he was looking for. I’m sure there aren’t many people who, not having already been invested, would have turned around and said “yeah, I want to buy that”.

Look can we please put up a post about his album now which is currently on sale so we can refocus on that and get away from this tricky subject- this performance.

No because tricky= more interesting and interesting subjects are good! There’s not much to say about the album until sales numbers start coming in.

You completely misinterpret my comment. I’m talking about the majority of the TALK, not about his actual performance. Through monitoring the twitter talk and the talk across a whole bunch of boards? The MAJORITY of ppl are focusing on the first three points, about the kiss/crotchgrab/blow jobs, not his actual vocals. If this keeps up, Adam wins.

That is exactly right, Adam will win. Who was people talking about before the AMA’s, it was Adam. Who are they talking about afterward, Adam Lambert. The next time Adam is on t.v, watch the ratings. People will watch because they will want to see what he will do. His fans will hope he will give a better performance, and his foes will hope for a trainwreck of an performance. As for the other idols, was anyone actually talking about them or their upcoming performances. No and none of the three had great performances. Yes they were okay, but easily forgotten. As for Adam, I am so looking forward to Good Morning America. It will be interesting.

Nothing he did is really all that shocking for the AMAs, and those in charge certainly knew the lyrics of the song. It just looked like Adam (and everyone else) needed about two more weeks of rehearsal.

The vocal got lost in all the extras. But it isn’t the best song to showcase vocals anyway.

You could almost see the potential for problems when watching the rehearsal footage—I honestly was hoping he wouldn’t fall with all the jumping around and stairs.

But, he will be fine.

I wonder is the Barbara Walters piece in the can already. If we must talk about this ad infinitum, I would love to hear Adams take on tonight.

well, as a fanatic cook fan, i can say that i very much enjoyed adam lambert’s performance tonight. i was scared shitless to watch after reading all the hate on this board, but i’m buying his album for sure. he’s got balls and his message to 19 and ai tonight was loud and clear. nobody puts adam lambert in the corner. and for all those who think he’s not calling the shots for his career – stick your head in THIS crotch.

We’ve all heard the guy do incredible things with his voice.

But the problem is that while we in the idolsphere have heard him do these thiungs most of the general public has not. This was the first time they ever even heard of him.

He’s so not getting dropped for that, nor is his career over. He’ll be the talk of town tomorrow. We’ll see if that translates into some album sales or not. I just think it was a missed opportunity. He could’ve been edgy without being vulgar and showcased his vocals more and he would’ve blown everyone away.

Yup. Most balanced comment yet.

I’m not gonna lie and say I wasn’t disappointed tonight, but it’s not the end of the world either… however much you may fear/wish it

Wow, rough crowd here! lol I just watched Adam’s performance since I taped it ‘“ I had been reading the comments here and expected something really horrible ‘“ He sounded good, he looked good, he didn’t do anything that shocking, no more shocking than other acts have done. I wouldn’t have even known he fell if I hadn’t read it here. Was it his best vocal performance? No, but it still sounded really good on my TV.

ita-I watched it on youtube after reading all of this and I was pleastantly surprised. I thought it was pretty good. Was he nervous yes, but I think overall it was solid.

Keep in mind, people had seen the rehearsals, so the producers and his managment knew what was going to happen, and they approved it. It will get people who never heard of him, check him out and perhaps give the album a listen. That is a good thing.

Hey guys, his album’s available on iTunes! Am currently downloading.

What was Rihanna even ‘singing’ ?

I call that caterwauling :)

But that said, Rihanna is genius at singing the right songs for her album-wise (or someone else is genius for her. The girl isn’t the best singer, but she sings some catchy stuff. And the edgier stuff she’s doing lately suits her.

Instead of sitting and grooving to the first two hours of the show, Adam should have been backstage with his band rehearsing. The music just sounded woefully underrehearsed and ragged.

I don’t think it was the vocals or the simulated sex or the stumble. It was that he didn’t put it over. He didn’t seem like a star. For whatever reason. Maybe he was hyped too much. Maybe he’s a star on AI, but among big stars, he isn’t. Maybe he had an off night.

Now that I think about it, I think the kiss with the keyboardist was something he came up with, perhaps during the performance because after the fall he probably knew it wasnt going well and wanted to do something to try to “salvage” the performance…
idk but I would have preferred that he concentrated harder on the vocals…he only did it at the very end
I watched it with my little sister and she felt bad that he tripped…LOL and so did I but he handled it really well.
and she thought he had made out with a girl..so I dont think it was as shocking as he thought it would be, but it was disappointing because the actual song did not sound good…
I think his upcoming GMA performance will be much better

OMG, these comments are hilarious! I was thoroughly entertained by Adam’s performance. Even those of you who are calling his performance vulgar, you mean to tell me you were not entertained by him? You are lying if you deny it.

The shock value is part of his persona, just like Lady Gaga. So you were shocked by this? Really?

Barbara Walters: “Wha was it wike to fwall on wa stage”?

Hey guys, his album’s available on iTunes! Am currently downloading.

Me too!

seriously are people really upset? I loved it. He will have people talking. Adam has said from day one he doesn’t want to just a remain with just an idol fanbase. Sorry to say it, but he’s looking to branch out of the bubble. He wants to be a hollywood pop star fame-whore. He wants the fame, the celeb, the paparazzi, all of that. He wants you to discuss the performance, both good and bad. I had friends tonight who had never heard of him before tell me that he just wowed them and that he has balls. Haters can laugh all they want, its was a hot mess in most parts yes, but people will be talking. And yes, its only the beginning. He wants to be a lewd crude tabloid celeb. Welcome to the Real Adam Lambert. The Idol Bridge has been burned.

Well, the fact that there were sound mix issues — really, ABC, on a freakin’ MUSIC show? — isn’t going to help undo the impression that a lot of viewers had that Adam Lambert’s voice isn’t really that good. Which is a damn shame, because it is.

I’m sad because the album has been getting some good reviews, and I was hoping that Adam would really nail this performance. If he’d killed vocally, as he is certainly capable of doing, I think reaction to the raunchier stuff wouldn’t have been that negative. What he did wasn’t really shocking to anyone who’s listened closely to the lyrics. Didn’t shock me, and I’m an middle-aged Catholic.

I wonder what percentage of the negative reviews on the internet come from viewers who have not watched the AMA’s before or are not used to that type of content. I’m not trying to fanwar, and I am really curious as to find out if people who were not prepared for typical AMA antics were more jarred by the performance. It’s not the Grammys. If Adam did this on the Grammy’s I would have anticipated this reaction. But, from what I saw…it was edgy, but not completely shocking. And I thought his vocals were great. The fall was my only WOAAAAHHH! moment. Maybe I’m just a total freak! hmmm…possible!

Barbara Walters: ‘Wha was it wike to fwall on wa stage’ ?

Mwhahaha!

I am not an Adam fan, but I do like the him as a man and I think that he is extraordinarily talented. Right now my heart is breaking for him, and I feel sick to my stomach. I hope that it is just terrible rumor, but I heard on twitter that he got punched in the face by 50 Cent. Please somebody tell me this is just a sick rumor.

OMFG!!!!! OMFG!!!!! REALLY???!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://tinyurl.com/ybwrwt8

Strong vocals + strong dancing + shocking visuals = positive buzz and controversy.

Weak vocals + tripping+ shocking visuals = TBD

Thank you for this:

(DHunken I think posted originally?)

Meanwhile, the most humorous thing to me was how the ABC censors bleeped out the sound when Adam has his crotch against the leashed male dancers mouth. I pictured the guys in the 2-second control booth. ‘OMG! Look what he’s doing! Bleep it!! Bleeeeep ittttt!!!’ 

God that was funny.

and thank you for this karenw

oh and Tommy Joe was one lucky guy tonight.

I need to end this on a laughing note so I can sleep as it is too late to take Ambien to calm down! :)

Adam will have his chances to redeem himself. Its not the end of his career.

“Keep in mind, people had seen the rehearsals, so the producers and his managment knew what was going to happen, and they approved it. It will get people who never heard of him, check him out and perhaps give the album a listen. That is a good thing.”

-I did not like it at first but after seeing the youtube and the internet reactions, I think this was really the planned. Coz those outside the AI bubble won’t really bother to check him out. I’m just hoping for the best. It’s really a roller coaster ride.

CSFan
11/23/2009 at 12:31 am
Maybe it’s time for Adam to just BE. Stop honing a persona. Stop going out of his way to push buttons or make people uncomfortable. He clearly isn’t ready to OWN IT the way Madonna always has. That’s the main difference between his disaster tonight and the famous Madonna/Britney/Christina routine: Madonna executed FLAWLESSLY and owned it. Adam walked out tonight looking like he was having sudden buyers remorse about his routine and it showed-from the vocals to the trip to well, everything.

Exactly! Anybody can be shocking, the vast majority can’t sing like Adam. Stop trying to shock people and just sing. After all, isn’t Adam the one who always CLAIMS he wants it to be all about the music??

I feel bad for the straight guy who had to kiss Adam. Oh, well he gets paid well.

Barbara Walters: ‘Wha was it wike to fwall on wa stage’ ?

What did your pawents think watching you stimuwate fewwatio?

I’m watching it televised on the west coast, they did a slo mo of JLo starting her jump, but cut out the fall.

but I heard on twitter that he got punched in the face by 50 Cent. Please somebody tell me this is just a sick rumor.

One guy randomly just twittered it and people took off and ran with it. It is not true.

I hope that it is just terrible rumor, but I heard on twitter that he got punched in the face by 50 Cent. Please somebody tell me this is just a sick rumor.

I’m going to go on record and say based on nothing, I would say that is false. Fiddy recently got into some trouble over some “gay” comments regarding Kanye I think, so it’s probably based off that. I’ve seen Fiddy in interviews… he’s really charming and nice, I think :)

Could Adam’s performance be any worse? I guess maybe if there was an encore….

I just think it was a missed opportunity. He could’ve been edgy without being vulgar and showcased his vocals more and he would’ve blown everyone away.

I think he could have very easily done a really good vocal performance. He DOES have the pipe, and he should have concentrated more on that, and less on the stagecraft, which obviously was too ambitious, too complicated and yes, over edgy into icky for a LOT of people.

I was on another board and this was introducing Adam to them, because it isn’t an AI board, and everyone hated Adam’s peformance, was calling it vulgar and hating the vocals. And if he had just toned down the first and concentrated on the second, he could have made potential sales/fans.

That’s what made me sick. Instead they put up Kelly Clarkson’s YouTube because so many people loved it.

Woot! Down the Rabbit Hole!

Even those of you who are calling his performance vulgar, you mean to tell me you were not entertained by him? You are lying if you deny it.

I was not entertained by him :) . And I am not lying, lol.

Barbara Walters: ‘Wha was it wike to fwall on wa stage’ ?

What did your pawents think watching you stimuwate fewwatio?

LOL…oh you had to go THERE…lol

Even those of you who are calling his performance vulgar, you mean to tell me you were not entertained by him? You are lying if you deny it.

Try secondhand embarrassment like WHOA.

I’m watching it televised on the west coast, they did a slo mo of JLo starting her jump, but cut out the fall.

Oh that’s funny. Poor west coast – I bet they’ll censor Adam’s performance into oblivion. Us east coasters get EVERYTHING :-)

I feel bad for the straight guy who had to kiss Adam. Oh, well he gets paid well.

Tommy? Straight? Haha you’re on fire tonight

I meant, simuwate.

Fweudian swip.

Tommy is straight??? No way. My gaydar is broken.

I hope that it is just terrible rumor, but I heard on twitter that he got punched in the face by 50 Cent. Please somebody tell me this is just a sick rumor.

Now that would be a mash up I could do without, hope it’s not true.

seriously are people really upset? I loved it. He will have people talking. Adam has said from day one he doesn’t want to just a remain with just an idol fanbase. Sorry to say it, but he’s looking to branch out of the bubble.

I’d honestly be shocked if he gained 1 fan from tonights performance.

What did your pawents think watching you stimuwate fewwatio?

LOL. Now I’m wiping off my keyboard – good thing I was only drinking water. Thanks for the laugh!

Tommy? Straight? Haha you’re on fire tonight

Oh honey…I hope you read them allllll…lol

;)

Oh, Adam, Adam, Adam. As I’ve said before and will probably say many times again – never a dull moment being your fan. But, I am a fan. Besides his immense talent, he’s fun. And ballsy. Not all his gambles will pay off, but at least he takes chances.

You know, I’d love to talk about the rest of the show. But, I’ve honestly forgotten what happened before Adam’s performance. Oh, yeah. Whitney. Wasn’t she great? And…um…. yeah. Rhianna. So brave. And who in the holy hell is Glorianna?????

Watching the show on the west coast right now and they edited out JLo’s fall. Hope that doesn’t mean they’ll be censoring Adam’s naughtiness because we’re pretty progressive out here. May have to watch it on Youtube after all. I don’t expect to be shocked because it sounds like people are horrified that his naughtiness was with men. Doesn’t bother me one bit. Most concerned about the sound.

Tommy is straight??? No way. My gaydar is broken.

He’s not it’s a joke

I was not entertained by Adam, and I am not lying. I’m not even a fan, but I hoped he would pull this off for AI and for his fans. I knew at the outset that it was going to be risque, but in the end I thought it was tacky and definitely OTT. One of the most disappointing things to me? No smile at the end. He didn’t look like the guy I remembered seeing on Idol because on Idol he always had a huge smile on his face.

Even those of you who are calling his performance vulgar, you mean to tell me you were not entertained by him? You are lying if you deny it.

I wasn’t entertained. That song kind of sucks. It doesn’t have a good hook and I honestly was a little embarassed for him so no, I wasn’t entertained.

Did west coast see it yet? I wonder if ABC will censor it out,

Tommy? Straight? Haha you’re on fire tonight

Check out the RS article. It seemed to imply that he was.

I guess if you compare Adam’s performance, vocally, to most of the others, it was above average. Couple that with all the hype from the “scandalous” content, we can only hope that people reading about it tomorrow will be curious enough to go buy his record.

Honestly, I hated it because i wanted him to kill it vocally, and there were some really bad spots – mostly the wails at the end that could have been amazing. I think by that part of the performance he was probably so damn rattled that his voice was just gone. I am so sad.

We’ll see how the next few days go. I normally don’t watch these award shows, but I do read reviews and base music purchases on them. Like I said, i hope the reviews (good and bad) will at least get folks to go to itunes and listen to the clips and start buying them!!

Anyone not able to get their itunes download yet?

I am not an Adam fan, but I do like the him as a man and I think that he is extraordinarily talented. Right now my heart is breaking for him, and I feel sick to my stomach.

Pretty much what I’m thinking. I may not be a huge fan of his music, but I like him as a person. So regardless of what I was going to think of his performance, I wanted him to be satisfied. Maybe I shouldn’t, but I’m assuming he’s wasn’t satisfied – and that makes me sad for him.

Strong vocals + strong dancing + shocking visuals = positive buzz and controversy.

Weak vocals + tripping+ shocking visuals = TBD

Hopefully Adam just fesses up that it was a mess and he was overreaching in his first major performance, and then start focusing on mesmerizing people with his vocals and stage presence rather than making obvious efforts to stir controversy. He’ll be fine as long as he doesn’t try to pretend that he MEANT for it to go this way.

Kelly sounded great, and I liked her look. Also loved Keith Urban’s performance and his sparkly plaid shirt.

Adam- Well, that was about what I expected, except that I thought he’d nail the vocals. I said when the photos from his video shoot came out that he was going to alienate a lot of the AI viewers. Seems like a silly plan to me. People watch AI in part because it’s something the whole family can enjoy together. If Adam can’t handle that, then maybe AI was the wrong launchpad for him. He may well be huge outside of the AI crowd eventually, but he’s not yet. Right now, he’s a guy with 2 poorly selling singles, virtually no radio play, and a botched, over-hyped, high profile performance.

MJ, have you found words to describe Adam’s performance and your reaction to it yet?

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Wilde, again.

Now that would be a mash up I could do without, hope it’s not true.

This is how rumors get started. The one guy who tweeted Jay Z smashed Adam backstage also tweeted that Jay Z smashed Taylor Swift backstage, and Timbaland smashed the buffet stage.

Just the fact that you are talking about him, means that you are intrigued by that performance. Stop lying!

To those people that are saying that they were a fan of Adam’s before the performance, but are no longer… I hope you will give the album a chance, listen to it and buy the album or download the songs you like.

For Your Entertainment really is a great album, with a variety of songs and sounds – there are bound to be at least several that you enjoy. Usually I only like a couple of songs on an album but I love this album because of the variety (and Adam’s vocals of course).

I agree that Adam’s vocals weren’t the strongest at the AMA’s (maybe it was the nerves/pressure, the sound system, backup singers or any other number of reasons), BUT we all know that he can really perform and his vocals are usually AMAZING.

Adam has proven time and time again on American Idol, the Idol Tour and all of the YouTube pre-Idol videos that he an incredibly talented singer and performer… and we need to support him through this.

Please buy his album and support Adam… he will weather this and give us a lot of fantastic performances in the future (watch him on GMA and David Letterman this Wednesday and I guarantee he will be amazing).

“IdolThoughts
11/23/2009 at 12:50 am
I wonder what percentage of the negative reviews on the internet come from viewers who have not watched the AMA’s before or are not used to that type of content. I’m not trying to fanwar, and I am really curious as to find out if people who were not prepared for typical AMA antics were more jarred by the performance. It’s not the Grammys. If Adam did this on the Grammy’s I would have anticipated this reaction. But, from what I saw’ ¦it was edgy, but not completely shocking. And I thought his vocals were great. The fall was my only WOAAAAHHH! moment. Maybe I’m just a total freak! hmmm’ ¦possible!”

I watch the AMAs every year. The OTT sexuality did not turn me off at all. I thought GaGa was brilliant. Point blank, the vocals were offkey, shrill and tuneless, he looked terrible, his movement was stilted and awkward, he appeared nervous. If you had asked me a couple of hours ago, I would have said that none of those descriptions would ever apply to Adam Lambert. I am stunned. Where’s the time machine?

ross: I meant, simuwate.

Yeah, but it was funnier with the typo. ;-)

Check out the RS article. It seemed to imply that he was.

Link or key quote please

MJ, have you found words to describe Adam’s performance and your reaction to it yet?

lol

He’s got your attention, whether you liked it or not. That performance was a TOTAL SUCCESS!!

HermeticallySealed
11/23/2009 at 12:53 am
Woot! Down the Rabbit Hole!

Sounds awesome!

Tommy, in his band, is straight–it was announced in several reports a few days ago

ADAM LAMBERT, YOU OVERLY-AMBITIOUS SON OF A BISCUIT!

Why, Adam? Why? If he’s lucky no one will give a hoot and it will all just be something we can laugh about.

But SOMEONE is gonna wanna be startin’ somethin’ about it which will just lead to bad things being said about him. I don’t think it was a good idea to shock people like that the day before the album drops.

I could be wrong, of course. It certainly was a spectacle of a way to promote the album. Maybe it will help. Maybe it won’t. Sighhh. =/

Tommy? Straight? Haha you’re on fire tonight

Check out the RS article. It seemed to imply that he was.

Tommy says he is straight and I could care less one way or the other but there are a lot of guys who are “really cute” that aren’t gay.

I think there was no smile on his face because he was clearly (at least it seemed to me) upset. He seemed nervous and uncomfortable the whole time. That fall had to be a nightmare, and he just seemed “off” the whole time.

here’s a new fan

i_hEaRtSkiTtLEz @adamlambert way to put on a show my friend. You were amazing, and im buying your album tomorrow less than a minute ago from txt

For his first televised performance since the Season Eight finale of American Idol, Adam Lambert aimed for the kind of controversy Britney Spears and Madonna are known for generating, completely stunning the audience at Los Angeles’ Nokia Theatre and the millions watching the American Music Awards live on ABC with a risqu rendition of ‘For Your Entertainment.’  Rolling Stone didn’t label Lambert the Wild Idol for nothing, and Glambert definitely delivered on his promise of a ‘sexy’  performance as he closed the live show with simulated oral sex from a male backup dancer, a brief makeout session with his male keyboardist and a giant mirrored prop so the audience could see the looks on their own shocked faces. Rolling Stone has learned that producers weren’t told about the guy-on-guy kiss in advance, and after the show, Lambert told RS the musician he kissed is a straight man.

Right here.

So given J-Lo’s fall was apparently edited out of the West Coast broadcast, does anybody want to make predictions on other special west coast editing?

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Oh, I can forgive a lot. I draw the line at off-key screaming, though.

short but sweet review:

http://www.celebrity-i.com/titles/Adam-Lambert-Live-at-the-American-Music-Awards-2009

Slezak article

http://music-mix.ew.com/2009/11/23/adam-lambert-amas-simulated-fellatio/

Tommy says he is straight and I could care less one way or the other but there are a lot of guys who are ‘really cute’  that aren’t gay.

Link or key quote please! If he’s actually said he’s straight, then I’ll freely admit I was wrong, and start retuning my gaydar ASAP. :)

If Adam had just sung a song and done a little jig, it would have been boring and forgetable!

BRAVO ADAM!!

I expect Adam will be honest when asked about what he thought of it. I’m sure he meant all the sex stuff, that is what the song is about after all. I didn’t care for his vocals …wasn’t as crisp as what I’m used to from him…and the fall didn’t help, although gotta give him props for covering it up as best he could.

There is NEVER a dull moment as an Adam fan, that’s for sure!

Oh, Adam, Adam, Adam. As I’ve said before and will probably say many times again ‘“ never a dull moment being your fan. But, I am a fan. Besides his immense talent, he’s fun. And ballsy. Not all his gambles will pay off, but at least he takes chances.

You know, I’d love to talk about the rest of the show. But, I’ve honestly forgotten what happened before Adam’s performance. Oh, yeah. Whitney. Wasn’t she great? And’ ¦um’ ¦. yeah. Rhianna. So brave. And who in the holy hell is Glorianna?????

Lol – so true. No offense to others, but I used to be a huge Daughtry and Cook fan (still like them a lot). But watching Daughtry perform, I was like “what a snooze and a half”. It was good, but so boring. Never a boring moment with Adam. I know he’s not everyone’s cuppa, and I can understand people will be offended, embarassed, shocked, mortified, disgusted, disappointed. Whatever. I have YET to be bored for a moment with Adam, and tonight I should be in bed, but can’t stop thinking and writing about him.

No, as an uber fan, I didn’t think the performance was earth shatteringly brilliant. I’ll admit the vocals weren’t 100% (and they weren’t on tour or idol either). And he did try to be a little too OTT, which was unnecessary (but entertaining to me). And he didn’t seem to be having fun, which is unusual for him. But he always puts on a great persona, a great act. And tomorrow will be different, and people will love it or hate it, and the next day will be different, etc.

And so it goes on the Adam rollercoaster :-) I’m enjoying this ride!

So given J-Lo’s fall was apparently edited out of the West Coast broadcast, does anybody want to make predictions on other special west coast editing?

It would be to Adam’s benefit if they edited out his whole performance. Sorry, I know that sounds harsh but seriously…

They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.

Shakespeare

I’m a fountain of philosophical quotes tonight. :)

Mixed. The production was too busy and not at all tight, but the content fit the song, and wasn’t at all ott, IMO. The fall was the biggest bummer.

And I’m glad he wailed – it was a real, live performance.

I feel a bit bad for him, but he’s got tremendous charm and a great ability to laugh at himself, and that’s where he needs to go, once he’s had a chance to regroup. RS was kind, and a sit down with someone like Michael Slezak would do wonders. Or come to think of it, Letterman will do the “what were you thinking” , shoe a clip, and they’ll both laugh it off.

If the album is good (I’ll hear it tomorrow), this won’t really matter- reviews will be reviews.

skat-girl@allycatlover
11/23/2009 at 12:55 am

seriously are people really upset? I loved it. He will have people talking. Adam has said from day one he doesn’t want to just a remain with just an idol fanbase. Sorry to say it, but he’s looking to branch out of the bubble.

I’d honestly be shocked if he gained 1 fan from tonights performance.

Well be shocked because I have 3 friends who called me after to say the liked the performance and now they are going to buy his album. Believe me I am shocked because I do not think this performance was fan inducing. But there you go. They were actually surprised I was unhappy with the performance. They usually don’t like Adam…. Maybe as someone on here said he pulled himself away from the Idol connection in some way. Because that is what was the main reason my friends where not so keen on him originally. Anyway Color me confused?

regarding album sales, maybe my itunes is effed up, but when i first logged on tonight adam’s album was around 50. i just checked and it’s sitting at number 16.

And who in the holy hell is Glorianna?????

They’re a country band, in the vein of Little Big Town (if you know who they are). They have excellent harmonies and their CD is quite good.

Actually, one of the girls is Cheyenne Kimball, she was a pop star for a little while, had her own MTV show that Jason Castro was on a couple times (same band manager at the time or some such).

If Tommy, the keyboard player, really is straight.. then.. holy crap. Hopefully not. Because Adam would have severely crossed the line. If he was straight, it probably wasn’t choreographed (he could have found someone else to kiss), and.. it was like.. he forced him to kiss him. If Tommy is straight, then Adam, in a desperate attempt to redeem himself after poor vocals and falling… like.. molested him.

Let’s hope Tommy is gay.

What a total disaster for Adam’s primetime and pre-album show. I think media and 19/RCA kidded themselves and have always treated him like a big time star that tonight just proved he is not ready yet. I liked many his performance but after tonight, I will definitely remove him from my list. That trip, bad dance, gross kiss, pitch vocal and the scream not worth my money and time.

You guys aren’t gonna believe it: Perez Hilton came through!

I can’t stand the guy, but Today, I’m almost liking the little SOB.

here’s a new fan

Lol – well, at least there’s one.

I wonder what percentage of the negative reviews on the internet come from viewers who have not watched the AMA’s before or are not used to that type of content. I’m not trying to fanwar, and I am really curious as to find out if people who were not prepared for typical AMA antics were more jarred by the performance. It’s not the Grammys. If Adam did this on the Grammy’s I would have anticipated this reaction. But, from what I saw’ ¦it was edgy, but not completely shocking. And I thought his vocals were great. The fall was my only WOAAAAHHH! moment. Maybe I’m just a total freak! hmmm’ ¦possible!

You and I are in agreement on this. It was edgy and amazing. People are wringing their hands over something, that will be forgotten when something more interesting come alone. As a fellow “freak”, Adam Lambert has balls. I love him for that.

I loved it! At first I thought the song was too slow, but then when I listened back on YT the sound was ok. I was worried because of the fall, but he went on singing.

They all said people would talk, and they are talking. Mostly good things.

And the CD is ready for download!!!!!

If he was straight, it probably wasn’t choreographed (he could have found someone else to kiss), and.. it was like.. he forced him to kiss him.

If Tommy’s straight, then that was choreographed. No way Adam, or any gay man, would kiss a straight man on live TV without asking him first. Sorry that’s just the bottom line. I’m not even going to argue this because it is so ridiculous and if you honestly believe it, I don’t even want to go there.

Also Mark thanks for the link. :) Straight alright. Whoops

Seriously, there are people on twitter that are writing loved his ballsy performance on AMAs, gonna buy his album now

Seriously, we have been in the Idol bubble too long…

I really never want to hear Adam again fuss about the focus on his sexuality and claim it’s all about the music. Ever. He’s talking out of both sides of his mouth.

iTunes is not letting me download; something about “product being modified?” Is anyone else getting this message?

If Tommy, the keyboard player, really is straight.. then.. holy crap. Hopefully not. Because Adam would have severely crossed the line. If he was straight, it probably wasn’t choreographed (he could have found someone else to kiss), and.. it was like.. he forced him to kiss him. If Tommy is straight, then Adam, in a desperate attempt to redeem himself after poor vocals and falling’ ¦ like.. molested him.

Let’s hope Tommy is gay.

Seriously, Adam wouldn’t do anything people weren’t on board with. I’m sure he and Tommy worked it out. What makes you think otherwise?

I thought the performance was good. Not up to the potential it could have been (probably needed another week of rehearsal). I also think Adam was very nervous.

cookmerized
11/23/2009 at 1:04 am

regarding album sales, maybe my itunes is effed up, but when i first logged on tonight adam’s album was around 50. i just checked and it’s sitting at number 16.

I believe it was available for download a couple hours ago… could this just be the initial bump from availability? Guess we’ll know more tomorrow.

If Tommy, the keyboard player, really is straight.. then.. holy crap. Hopefully not. Because Adam would have severely crossed the line. If he was straight, it probably wasn’t choreographed (he could have found someone else to kiss), and.. it was like.. he forced him to kiss him. If Tommy is straight, then Adam, in a desperate attempt to redeem himself after poor vocals and falling’ ¦ like.. molested him.

What? Why does it matter if he’s straight or gay? I seriously doubt that was unscripted, regardless, and that he didn’t consent to Adam doing it in the first place. I’m sure Adam seriously mollested him (eyes rolling).

Kathryn91 – your post is very encouraging and I share your love for Adam’s talent, but I’m calling BS on the people who said they were fans before this performance and are no longer. You were going to head to the local record store tomorrow and now are too outraged and doing an about face? Sorry, not buying it, and for the record I don’t care that they don’t like Adam, just can’t stand BSers.

You and I are in agreement on this. It was edgy and amazing. People are wringing their hands over something, that will be forgotten when something more interesting come alone. As a fellow ‘freak’ , Adam Lambert has balls. I love him for that.

Glad a fellow freak is in the house!!! And look…his album sales are climbing! Imagine that!

I really never want to hear Adam again fuss about the focus on his sexuality and claim it’s all about the music. Ever. He’s talking out of both sides of his mouth.

THIS x1000000.

Watched a clip of the performance just now, and honestly think it was a major fail and an f-u, angry display. I missed it as he performed, but he did literally give the finger (screencap from another site). Guess I’m just a provincial Southerner who is left cold by the Gagas of the world, and Adam seems to be part of that crowd. Personally think the simulated fellatio and crotch grabs were extremely offensive on network television, and have sent an email expressing my displeasure to ABC. Assuming this was a rehearsed performance, I blame the producers for airing it. Just one woman’s humble opinion.

Funny thing, at most of non-Idol related pop music sites I post at, they have pretty much forgotten Adam’s performance and are still going ballistic about Taylor winning Artist of the Year. They also are up in arms about Lady GaGa getting shut out, especially breakthrough artist.

Lol ‘“ so true. No offense to others, but I used to be a huge Daughtry and Cook fan (still like them a lot). But watching Daughtry perform, I was like ‘what a snooze and a half’ . It was good, but so boring. Never a boring moment with Adam.

I’m not a huge Daughtry fan, but I do have an attention span so I’m able to watch someone singing a song and if they have talent, I’m really not bored. That’s all Kelly did and she was wonderful. I think you can spin it a lot of ways but I’m sure Adam would not be satisfied with just being provocative.

As far as kissing Tommy goes, his twit after the performance was positive, talking about rock being tarted up, so I doubt he was upset by it.

I really never want to hear Adam again fuss about the focus on his sexuality and claim it’s all about the music. Ever. He’s talking out of both sides of his mouth.

THIS x1000000.

Well put!!!

He didn’t look like he was having any fun. Whoever said that back a page oe two really hit the nail on the head. I think that statement encompasses all that happened. And that is so strange to see, because Adam loves to perform.

If Tommy’s straight, then that was choreographed. No way Adam, or any gay man, would kiss a straight man on live TV without asking him first. Sorry that’s just the bottom line.

But there were other males available for kissing. Lots of them. And something tells me at least one of them was gay. Progressive or not, if you’re straight, why kiss a dude if you don’t have to? I think it could possibly be unchoreographed because Adam had just fallen and was desperate to do something to display that he was bad-ass! YEAH!

Well some people liked it. His twitter follower numbers keep climbing tonight. :-)