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Adam Lambert's AMA performance highlights double standard
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Miley dancing around a pole. Madonna rolling around on the floor in a wedding dress. Lady Gaga covered in fake blood. Britney making out with Madonna. And dancing around a pole. And dancing with a snake.
Those are just a few of the outrageous live musical performances put on by some of the top women in the music industry the past few decades. And while those sexy performances garnered some outspoken critics, it wasn't nearly the level of outrage that happened when a man tried to do the same thing.
Yes, everyone is all aTwitter and Facebookin' about American Idol alum Adam Lambert's performance during last night's AMA show. According to this Washington Post article, "the pompadoured singer's performance immediately sent ripples across the Twitterverse, with many viewers criticizing Lambert for what they found to be excessive."
If you didn't happen to catch the performance, it consisted of some S&M clad dancers, simulated sex acts and an open mouth guy-to-guy kiss. You can check it out below:
ABC received about 1500 calls of complaints over the performance but Lambert was quick to defend the number:
"It's a shame because I think that there's a double standard going on in the entertainment community right now," Lambert told Rolling Stone after the show. "Female performers have been doing this for years -- pushing the envelope about sexuality -- and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out. We're in 2009; it's time to take risks, be a little more brave, time to open people's eyes, and if it offends them, then maybe I'm not for them."
So is there a double standard? It's a good question. Any thoughts out there in the blog-o-sphere?
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There is no double standard. He was trying to be controversial and nothing more. If people do not talk about it, he will go away. He has his follower and they will buy his records regardless of what he does.
November 25, 2009 at 10:49 p.m.I'd never heard of the dude until now. I guess kissing another dude is the new wearing a bra with traffic cones.
The amusing thing was listening to a guy who wears more mascara than my daughter complain about double standards by reminding listeners how it was okay for Michael Jackson to grab his crotch on a music video which was aired nationwide. If memory serves, a lot of people didn't care much for that, either. In fact, if nothing else, ol' Michael inadvertantly got all of America wondering if he had finally lost his mind. Maybe it was that fire on his head. I don't know what Adam Lambert's excuse is.
November 25, 2009 at 1:14 a.m.I wasn't upset with any of the 'moves' Lambert did--Prince has been doing stuff like that since before Lambert was born. The only thing I was offended by was the singing and music. It was awful. It's ok to be over-the-top, but if the music sucks it's just called over-compensating.
November 24, 2009 at 4:47 p.m.Sure it is a double standard. It's both homosexual, guy on guy, girl on girl. We don't watch it, if we think it's going to happen we change the channel.
Call me an old foegy but I don't see the excitement for guys with two fully clothed girls kissing. If there is skin and such involved I understand it somewhat. But other than that there is nothing to get excited about.
Ask the female in your life if she gets all rushed up about two guys kissing. All I have asked said,
yuck, it's gay.
Years ago we were much more comfortable in our manlyness I think. We could ride two guys on a motorcycle because one needed a ride with no thought and such. Guys freak out if they see it today.
My view,...society continues to change, I'm not forced to watch it. So far.
November 24, 2009 at 9:53 a.m.As of yesterday youtube had the video still up, and it was still there when I looked a second ago too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w7oHk...
November 24, 2009 at 9:33 a.m.ABran,
November 23, 2009 at 9:20 p.m.I didn’t see the AMA’s, and the YouTube video has been pulled by Dick Clark Productions. I read about it, and yes there is a double standard. Lambert can suck face with any boy he likes as far as I’m concerned. I would change the channel to a rerun episode of Golden Girls the moment I saw it, but still his choice. Now if it were Stacy Ferguson, openly bi-sexual, were kissing another female…..Well, I might watch a little longer:)
Everything Adam Lambert did has already been done on TV. I have seen it and the gender makes no difference.
November 23, 2009 at 8:28 p.m.The American Music Awards has certainly highlighted it.
The "double standard" is the fact that is it ABC who airs it, along with exaggerated femininity of gay characters. ABC, the "One Nation, Under God" people!
Did Lambert push the "envelope"? Sure he did. I believe that is what his attitude was all about. I do have to agree with the fact there is a "double standard". To the point of being taboo with the male on male entertainment. As a straight married female I can see what he is after but I feel it was a "In your face" move and he went about it entirely wrong and it came across as an overkill which takes it to a immature level instead of equality in the entertainment industry.
November 23, 2009 at 5:44 p.m.