'GMA' cancels Adam Lambert after racy performance on AMAs
The fallout from Adam Lambert's risqué American Music Awards performance keeps coming with "Good Morning America" canceling the singer's live performance scheduled for Wednesday morning.
ABC was flooded with more than 1,500 complaints, and the network sent an e-mail to potential concert goers letting them know that Lambert would not be performing on Wednesday.
"Given Adam Lambert's controversial live performance on the AMAs, we were concerned about airing a similar concert so early in the morning," a spokesperson for the network said.
"The Early Show" on rival network CBS was quick to announce that they have booked Lambert to perform and discuss the controversy on Wednesday morning.
Lambert shocked viewers with his sexually suggestive dance sequence that included simulated oral sex as well as Lambert kissing his male keyboardist.
The Parents Television Council, a Media watchdog group, also attacked the show as vulgar and urged its members on Monday to contact ABC, Dick Clark Productions and the show's advertisers with complaints about the content.
"Last night's 'American Music Awards' broadcast was nothing short of tasteless and vulgar. Adam Lambert, the second-place finisher in last season's 'American Idol' competition, chose to treat American families to simulated oral sex and other demeaning behavior," the PTC posted on its Web site.
Melissa Henson, director of communications and public education for the PTC, said the council wasn't concerned about Lambert's gay kiss. Its issue and focus are on the simulated oral sex, she said.
"The gender has nothing to do with it," Henson said. "It would be true if it had been a woman's face that was thrust into his crotch."
Henson also noted that this is not an anti-Adam Lambert campaign and said the council would have had no problem with Lambert performing live on "Good Morning America."
"As long as he keeps it clean," Henson said.
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I did hear him make a good point on some talk show he was on. He said it was a double standard. There are female artists that put on shows like his where it is Girl on Boy but as soon as it is Boy on Boy people have an issue with it.
I watched the video of his performance and had I watched the show with my kids I would have changed the channel but I would have changed the show if it was a female artist putting on the same type of racy show. I choose to not watch or subject my children to that type of performance.
Quoting steph2884:
My opinion is that the people who do stuff like this have no talent and they need to do something to get attention... and it always works! If I want to watch something raunchy I would watch cinemax after dark, not watch the awards show on national tv.
I agree. Also, it depends on if you view the AMA's as a family show. I would not have appreciated my 7 yo watching it.
Quoting Peanutx3:I did hear him make a good point on some talk show he was on. He said it was a double standard. There are female artists that put on shows like his where it is Girl on Boy but as soon as it is Boy on Boy people have an issue with it.
I watched the video of his performance and had I watched the show with my kids I would have changed the channel but I would have changed the show if it was a female artist putting on the same type of racy show. I choose to not watch or subject my children to that type of performance.
There are double standards all over the place and all over the world. No one said life was fair. I believe that the Madonna/Britney thing was not broadcast on network television on prime time when families are watching.
I was watching and I thought that the kissing and fondling of another man was disgusting.
Wow. that was really just vulgar. i mean, bondage costumes, and sex simulations and yeah. totally inappropriate. i was an adam fan, now not so much.
Quoting Peanutx3:
I did hear him make a good point on some talk show he was on. He said it was a double standard. There are female artists that put on shows like his where it is Girl on Boy but as soon as it is Boy on Boy people have an issue with it.
I watched the video of his performance and had I watched the show with my kids I would have changed the channel but I would have changed the show if it was a female artist putting on the same type of racy show. I choose to not watch or subject my children to that type of performance.
I agree there may be some degree of a double standard, but that is a stretch in my opinion. He is comparing his performance as a gay man simulating how he has sex to a non gay performer using sex for shock value. So, his art is imitating his life. No thanks, I'm not interested. Madonna did this as a heterosexual. Her performance had the same shock value, no doubt (so to supress Adam's shock value is a double standard), but she isn't a performer who is gay. She wasn't offering us a view into her life. Therefore, I think the two scenarios are different enough to take issue with.
I wasn't especially shocked, but then again, I was not at all entertained.
The Madonna/Britney kiss was on the MTV music awards, a CABLE channel award show. It was STILL in bad form, but I don't as a routine, think of MTV as being a channel that is family friendly. However, ABC, especially before 9PM I do consider it family 'friendly' and am saddened that this 'artist' can't see the difference.
He should be fined by the FCC, he knew what he was doing, and why he was doing it. Instead of getting accolades for ACTUALLY winning something, he is now getting to do all the press, and all the interviews because of the 'censorship' that he was 'victim' to.
The only thing I thought was "too racy" was when he grabbed the dancers heads into his crotch. It caught me off guard because it looked violent, like an oral rape. That's just not cool with me. Sexy is fine, kissing is fine (wish we had more kisses in the world than bombs!), costumes were fine, violent grabbing of the head and shoving into gyrating crotch not fine.
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