In the hours after the closing performance of the AMA’s, much controversy is brewing with the steamy, provocative and “pitchy” performance of Adam Lambert and the poor West Coast wasn’t even privy to the entire show. They got a cleaned up version but thanks to the internet the uncensored performance spread like wild fire.
TPTB decided that Adam’s performance was to raunchy for network TV and the poor West Coast never got to see the performance. It was edited.
After his performance, Adam Lambert told the Los Angeles Times, that if his performance was edited for the West Coast, it would be discrimination.
Yeah yeah we all know it was edited, Adam was pissed and blah blah. The network received 1500 complaints and the internet is going nuts.
What an amazing publicity stunt in my opinion. Having the already controversial performance edited, created even that much more buzz around Adam. Thousands flocked to the internet to see what they were missing, creating an Adam panic. With a album release set for today, it made for the perfect time to be the talk around the water cooler, the hop topic on Twitter and the name everyone is talking about.
What do you think? Some questions to answer. Leave a comment.
1) Fair to edit performance for later broadcasts?
2) Performance to much for network TV?
3) Does Adam have the right to be pissed?
4) Was this a publicity stunt?
5) Will this incident help or hurt first day and over all Adam sales?
@ randomx6:
Several thoughts (which I will enumerate so that I don’t forget anything):
1. Britney and Madonna are seasoned/accepted singers (if they were even doing it for political value)
2. I think Britney and Madonna did it for shock value, not political value.
3. I may be wrong (as happens occasionally), but I don’t think Britney and Madonna got all ticked off about the people who didn’t like what they did.
4. I think Adam set out to make a political statement. Intent is important. I admit that I could be wrong but that’s my feeling from the whole situation.
5. I already admitted that there is a double standard. That’s not right.
6. I was not offended by it nor shocked really. The world is less and less shocking.
7. It doesn’t happen often but I have stopped supporting a few actors/actresses/singers for their politics/off the stage/screen antics. I can think of 2 off the top of my head. Adam would not count because I never liked him to begin with though. I don’t think that colors my point of view here, but it might.
I hope I’m making sense. It’s early.
@ randomx6:
The funny thing is… the first time I saw it I was more surprised that Adam was kissing a girl! But then I later realized it was a guy instead and it was like, oh well. All those dancers looked so androgynous that it was hard to tell at first glance which was which. At least for me, like I said, I can be pretty oblivious to that sort of thing at first glance. I found the Madonna/Brit thing more of a shock at the time, probably because they were supposedly straight.
@ TheTide:
that’s a question isn’t it? Was Madonna kissing Britney and Christina political? If you don’t think so then…why is this? If you did think so did it turn you off altogether?
@ ABB:
and he did…and Mom was a brilliant touch. Curious to see where he goes on Letterman tonight.