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Post by Q3 on Jun 29, 2021 0:53:36 GMT -5
 Enter to win a 10-minute virtual M&G with Adam. Every $1 donated is an entry. The contest is open to fans worldwide and ends 6/30 at 8pm PT, 11pm ET. Good luck everyone!! More info: Win a M&G with Adam Neil Fairclough's IG post "Happy Pride Month!!!...Smiling face with smiling eyes Xx #pridemonth" instagram.com/p/CQrRNVEsf2Q/12 years later....
Lyndsey Parker·Editor in Chief, Yahoo Music Sun, June 27, 2021, 10:00 PM When Madonna shared a same-sex smooch with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, it was a sensation, but when openly gay pop singer Adam Lambert enjoyed a similar moment with a male band member at the 2009 American Music Awards, it caused a backlash that nearly derailed his career. Years later, Lambert discussed these “double standards” with Yahoo Entertainment and said he believed that pop had since become “an entirely different landscape. … Now we have out artists that are finding total commercial success. Like me kissing a guy on the f***ing AMAs was like, such a scandal, and I really don’t think it would be now.” That societal progress was evident Sunday — during the final weekend of Pride Month — at the BET Awards, when Lil Nas X ended his fiery performance of the homoerotic hit “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” by passionately kissing one of his male backup dancers. In 2021, this move was met not with scorn but with delight, as Nas's fearlessness was widely celebrated on social media. Hip-hop mogul Sean Combs was one of the many Lil Nas X fans who tweeted his support, leaving Nas himself in awe. Link to original article: Link to article |
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Post by pi on Jun 29, 2021 3:12:21 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jun 29, 2021 7:11:12 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jun 29, 2021 10:30:34 GMT -5
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Post by svca on Jun 29, 2021 10:50:31 GMT -5
Man, I would love to hear all the songs that didn't make his albums from the last 12 years...anybody else? I'm betting there would be a lot of them that we would absolutely love. For me, personally, it isn't usually the ones that are picked as singles that I like the most...ie Ghost Town which I find boring as hell.
Also, re the end of yesterday's thread...I found BJC's insta interesting, as well as Adam's response. Did he feel spoken to? I totally thought of Adam when I read the quote.
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Post by pi on Jun 29, 2021 11:18:20 GMT -5
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Post by girldrummer on Jun 29, 2021 11:21:11 GMT -5
Ha! After reading DJ White Shadow's message, I thought about the countless times other artists have worked with Adam and have that the experience was FANTASTIC. Adam just delivers every time, above and beyond all expectations. It's always great to hear it!
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Post by pi on Jun 29, 2021 14:27:33 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jun 29, 2021 15:18:11 GMT -5
New interview! Adam Lambert Addresses Lil Nas X's Same-Sex Kiss at the 2021 BET Awards At Sunday night's BET Awards (June 27), Lil Nas X once again made headlines for living his truth. Dressed as an Egyptian pharaoh and paying tribute to Michael Jackson's "Remember the Time" music video, the rapper powered through his single "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)" before turning to a backup dancer on his left and making out with him in from of a televised audience.
When Adam Lambert saw the performance, the pop singer tells Billboard that he was struck with a sense of awe over the rapper's confidence. "I thought it was hot," he says with a laugh. "I mean, he's really giving it to us. I think he is definitely like the gay pop star that is 2021 — he's bold, he's controversial, he's pushing boundaries. That's what we want our pop stars to do. It's just taken this long to have it be a gay one."
The 39-year-old singer knows what it means to be a young star making waves through talked-about performances. Back in 2009, just after ending his run on American Idol, Lambert gave a performance of his song "For Your Entertainment" at the American Music Awards that shocked some viewers. Much like Lil Nas X at the BET Awards, Lambert's performance culminated in a same-sex kiss (in Lambert's case, with his keyboard player) while the cameras were rolling.
The reactions to the two performances differ significantly. For Lil Nas X, while his stoked some controversy (though not nearly as much as his music video for the song did back in April), the vast majority of the public response has been positive — stars like Sean "Diddy" Combs, Kevin Abstract, Tegan and Sara and more have all shouted out the singer and called out critics for their "homophobic" and "hypocritical" responses.
For Lambert, the reaction was much different, and much more immediate. "I was pulled off of ABC for a little while," he says. "They were freaked out, they had Christian parent groups writing in, the censors were freaked out. The thing I found so funny was like, 'Censors? It's a kiss! When was that indecent?'"
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The singer recalls flying to New York the day after his performance back in 2009 to perform on Good Morning America only to have his appearance canceled thanks to the controversial nature of his AMAs showcase. When he managed to get booked on another morning show, Lambert says he was surprised by some of double standards implied by the questions he faced.
"They showed a clip, trying to draw a comparison to Madonna kissing Britney and Christina at the VMAs a couple years before that. So they showed a clip of that moment, and then right afterward, they cut to clip of my performance the night before of me kissing a guy onstage, and they had censored our mouths," he says. "I just remember thinking that was the biggest slap in the face — it's like, that proved my point! It's so crazy to me that this double standard was so blatant and obvious, where two women kissing was not indecent, but two men kissing was."
Looking back on his experience after the AMAs, Lambert says he was in a position where he had to capitulate — while he never apologized for the performance, he says he had to "toe the line a bit, because of the times we were in and the situation I was in with my career."
More... www.billboard.com/articles/news/9594433/adam-lambert-lil-nas-x-bet-awards-kiss/
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Post by pi on Jun 29, 2021 15:26:30 GMT -5
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