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Jun 29, 2021 22:37:02 GMT -5
Post by tinafea on Jun 29, 2021 22:37:02 GMT -5
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?'"
www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=cr0HNpy1D1A&feature=emb_logo
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...&https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9594433/adam-lambert-lil-nas-x-bet-awards-kiss/
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?'"
www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=cr0HNpy1D1A&feature=emb_logo
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...&https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9594433/adam-lambert-lil-nas-x-bet-awards-kiss/
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