3.25.11 Adam News & Info

hah! I didn't bat an eye at the kiss/tummy-head mush - cuz that's all it was/trolley thing....it was the finger at the end and freaked me out. Yes...yes it did.

(I know it wasn't shown live....thank god)

oh dear we're rehashing the show that can't be named....I better go do some cleaning! lol!

I think you're absolutely right, holst, to point out the inaccuracy. And of course when you do so you're not criticizing Adam's actions in the least--only the reporting. But Murly, ITA with you're analysis, especially the bit I bolded, which has always driven me batty (simulated oral sex--you're doing it wrong) LOL.

I don't really know which specific moves ABC had pre-approved and which they hadn't, but while Adam was always sure to take that on his shoulders (what a guy!) it always struck me as a strange kind of nit-picking. What ABC clearly approved was a racy, s&m-themed, crazy-costumed, sexually-assertive performance by a powerful gay man. And I've always believed that that was precisely what offended a small number of sheltered, conservative viewers, and kinda freaked out a rather larger number of viewers, who then pinned it on specific moves like--gasp!--The Kiss!--and--gasp!--The Simulated Oral Sex!!!--which during the actual performance went by in a split second on a wide view and were barely noticeable in all the costuming crazy.

However, I think it is significant and in some ways accurate that The Kiss has become a kind of shorthand for what got Adam in trouble that night. For one thing, it is not irrelevant that that is what our hyped up, sexually paranoid media latched on to that night. For another, I firmly believe that if Adam had been a straight man, far fewer people would have freaked, none of this would have been so controversial, and he would not have been banned from GMA the morning after. In that sense, The Kiss, because it is the symbol for the "orientation" of the performance and the performer, is in fact a very accurate moment to use to represent why Adam was punished for his behavior.

One thing I kind of wish is that more reporters would make the point that when Adam was axed from GMA for "loving not wisely but too well," it was recently convicted woman-beater CB who was originally chosen in the last minute to fill his slot. Although in the end CB came on a couple of weeks later instead, that little fact says a lot about the network/show's values, and also makes the Adam link in this new series of stories a little more relevant. In the end, though, this story is not really about either of them--they're just useful figure heads for two aspects of our pop-culture, sex and violence, that ABC and much of the country seems to relatively value in completely fucked up and up-side-down ways. Of course Adam, sexayyy as he is, is about much more than sex, as I assume CB is about much more than violence, but I don't resent, for the moment, the role that's been assigned to him. I hope, as Adam said post AMAs, that this begins a much needed conversation...

OH, and Hoopla--you're a ray of sunshine this morning, girl! Glad you liked the "favorite color" vid I posted on p. 1. Check it out, folks, it really is a classy song/peformance/remix.

This, too. I'm still shaking my head over the fact that when the picture of the kiss was shown on news reports later, it was more often than not blurred out. As if the sight of lips meeting was pornographic. So it's not overstating the case to say that people were majorly freaked out about the kiss, and therefore it's valid to use it to sum up the furor over Adam's performance.

For those who asked me about this yesterday. My perf night idol recap. I would post this in the idol thread but I know more ppl are in here, esp the ones who asked me to post the link when I put it up.

Plus it relates to Adam bc I am SHAMLESSLY using him to get hits. lmaooo

www.thehomeplanet.org/?p=65365


ps there may be a few gifs that arent showing up....well they arent for me and I'm investigating why lol