Jaclyn Hahn's Blog

American Idol Adam Lambert did his first award show number at the AMA’s this week, and left a lot of people wondering, did he seriously just do that???  Incase you missed it, Lambert made sexual gestures onstage to one of his dancers, and then made out with his keyboard player, who was a male.  Lambert said that at the time it just felt right and he makes zero apologies for his acts and says that he may have gotten “carried away” during his performance.  Lambert also says that if he was not openly gay there would be none of the backlash he has faced and no controversy… you go ahead and keep thinking that Lambert and we’ll sit here and be disturbed by your performance.

For me it seems as if Lambert forgot that he was on a little TV show called American Idol and we literally saw him perform every week for MONTHS and know what a usual performance for him, yes he has become famous but that in no way gives him the right to do what he did on stage, he threw a curve ball at us and you can’t expect us to just accept that performance as one we are willing to deal with after mild ones for months before that.

AND his claims that there wouldn’t be controversy if he were an openly straight man and did what he did are completely untrue for me.  If he were a straight guy and made the sexual gestures that he did he would have women’s activists ALL OVER the news and, if a straight guy made out with a male band member, you can guarantee there would be much more of a backlash because two straight males making out onstage is even less social accepted than two gay men making out, or one gay man and one straight man… anyway, when you sell millions of records world wide and have more than one hit album, I might be more willing to accept a more obscene performance, until then, suck it up and leave those ideas in your head.