Did anyone else have a blackout moment during Lambert's number. Here there was a full black screen for about 30 seconds or so. Maybe right after he grabbed a dancer's crotch? Hahaaha

Whitney CAN still sing...and the crowd goes wild
THE moment of the night

and the "MainMan" esthetic lives on in 2010;
Thank you Jesus for ADAM LAMBERT

Whitney croaked.

LOL @ J-Lo falling on her big ass. Epic Fail!!!

Cute song though. Would have been better for Brandy who it was written for.

Lady Gaga blows me away. Yeah she is crazy (like a fox) but hell, the video for "Bad Romance" had my eyes glued the first time I saw it. Tonight's performance, breaking the glass box, stepping inside and playing the piano in flame was certainly more performance art than award show crap.

The fall was edited out of the West Coast feed. No fair!

For your viewing pleasure.

Who really sang (if anyone) and who's vocals were canned?

It was a mixed bag. Gaga was live to track. Rihanna was a hot tracked mess as usual with bits of live interaction. Whitney was live I'd say. Alicia Keys was track on her performance but live to track with Jay.....off the top of my head.

Who wins?

Hope Kanye West took note that the best way to win awards is to overdose. What did Michael Jackson do to get all those trophies other than die?

Where oh f*cking where did we go so wrong? That show looked like an ill-conceived broadway show about what music was-supposed-to look like. Just bloody awful. Adam screaming? Gaga doing horribly overwrought performance art. Green Day boring as hell. Can't someone tell Billie Joe THAT SONG SUCKS. STOP FRICKING PLAYING IT AND LOSING SALES. (Pat M; WTF?). Keith Urban...singing a song fit for David Cassidy? Janet (and nearly everyone else lip-syncing). Eminem couldn't even get it up for the event. Whitney looking even worse off crack. J-Lo laughable for trying to stay in the game. Shakira was "just ok", Jay-Z and Alicia probably the best of the night. And what's up with these acts doing the same skits they just did on the last awards show (paging Carrie U). Daughtry, go back to frickin Oklahoma, please. You are NOT rock.

Pathetic, pathetic, pathetic.

RIP, Michael. You had it all over every one of these loser acts.

...He'll be fetal positioned eating Haagan Das with Perez in no time.

Anne, thank you. When Adam was on Idol, he did some STUNNING renditions of tunes...reworking them very dramatically, etc. No question, the guy can really sing. So why do such a cartoon as your first single. I think last night's performance LOST him fans. You're totally right, now a complete joke act.

GMA just canceled his concert appearance. He comes the beginning of the end.

Nah, it'll just make him more famous and up the ratings of the shows he does do. Are they upset because he's racy—or because he's gay?

Nah, it'll just make him more famous and up the ratings of the shows he does do. Are they upset because he's racy—or because he's gay?

Other than Ellen and the night time talkers, I don't see much for him to do. They didn't specify but I'm sure its a little of both.

Ok, I just watched Glambert's appearance, http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977915955&grpId=3659174697259616 I found it utterly disgusting. I was one of those that was bowled over by his performances on AI, but now I see him resorting to cheap tricks to stay afloat. His voice was like screaming cats mating. The three blatant sexual acts were way over the top, and in terrible bad taste for prime-time viewing.

His 15 are up now. I see him slowly making the downward spiral, to local theater. One day we will pick up a People magazine, with a Where Are They Now pictoral on AI alumni. Adam will be in it.

GMA just canceled his concert appearance. He comes the beginning of the end.

Two days after giving a sexually charged performance at the American Music Awards, the singer Adam Lambert found himself abruptly dropped by one network morning show and just as abruptly booked on another.
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"We were having a good time," he told MTV News on Tuesday (November 24) about the performance, adding that as soon as he gave the finger he knew he had taken things to another level.

"Literally, as I did it, I went, 'Oh god, what am I doing?' " he explained. "I was out of body. You know, the finger was to the people that have been criticizing me. The finger was to the people who doubt me. The finger was to the people that were about to censor me. The finger was not to fans or people who support me at all, by any means.

"The finger was to 'Out' magazine's editor who wailed into me, people like that," he continued. "It wasn't premeditated; it just kind of happened. In the end ... it was to prove freedom of expression and to prove I am in control of my situation. I am an artist and I'm here to express myself. My intention wasn't to upset people."

Wow. I have no words. Well actually I do.

So Adam Lambert refused to talk about gay politics and decides to show the finger on live television to the editor of OUT Magazine… and when he gets criticized for his lewd performance on the AMAs and gets removed from a high profile performance on Good Morning America, he cries discrimination. Perez Hilton comes to his rescue. The uber-fans become gay activists overnight on Twitter.

Your album is selling for 99 cents on Amazon.com Adam. Good luck.

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WHAT sexually-charged performance? There was nothing sexual about Adam's performance.

Other than Ellen and the night time talkers, I don't see much for him to do. They didn't specify but I'm sure its a little of both.

Jimi, I get what you are trying to do with the Main Man/Bowie comparisons, but come on. I loved Adam as much as anyone and voted for him every week, but I am disappointed with this single. It's not very memorable, and you just cannot compare it to anything Bowie created (come on, Bowie's songs are genius-there are hooks and melodies and damn if "Gene Genie" doesn't rock my world-just play that acoustically one day-it's a perfect rock song). I don't think Adam's in that Bowie category, except maybe for the image..

I luv you, dearest, but I'm not trying to do anything;
Lambert is this generation's Bowie, unlike Bowie, he's the real thing...
and as to the homage to Cyrinda Foxe(Iggy Pop?), "Jean Genie" is built around a hook lifted directly from a Yardbirds song,if you must know,genius hooks that came from somewhere else...
but then,The Beatles were declared genius while they were cranking out white boy covers of songs by The Miracles and The Marvelettes, so it's one big circle jerk at the end of the day, n'est pas?

Lambert is this generation's Bowie, unlike Bowie, he's the real thing...
and as to the homage to Cyrinda Foxe(Iggy Pop?), "Jean Genie" is built around a hook lifted directly from a Yardbirds song,if you must know,genius hooks that came from somewhere else...
but then,The Beatles were declared genius while they were cranking out white boy covers of songs by The Miracles and The Marvelettes, so it's one big circle jerk at the end of the day, n'est pas?

Maybe not to you but it was suggestive.

Bowie has NEVER been real, from his earliest Anthony Newley leanings in 1966,and in terms of fame in the UK,he was nothing until the MainMan engineered "I'm Gay" issue of Melody Maker; there's no arguement there, I lived through it..

gymnastics by a skinny kid with no muscles? He didn't even rotate his pelvis or flutter his eyelashes. Do you remember Madonna--she's a sexual performer. He needs to find out what he does well, and capitalize on it. Sexy doesn't need someone trying to be like Prince and kissing a musician. I saw Ellis Paul--a folky-- in concert and he exudes sex in a sleazy, slinky way just by how he stands. Just posted a Peggy March video that she made in her 50s, how she commands the stage and moves her core--sexy.

Adam Lambert stole the show. His performance and JLo falling on her butt will be the only things people will remember from this show.

Adam Lambert ought to find a guitarist as good as Mick Ronson, John 5, or Earl Slick to accompany him on stage.

He should get Buckethead

It was a mixed bag. Gaga was live to track. Rihanna was a hot tracked mess as usual with bits of live interaction. Whitney was live I'd say. Alicia Keys was track on her performance but live to track with Jay.....off the top of my head.

have another drink, buttercup...
Adam shall reign 4evahmore... yada yada...

by the way, how could anyone miss Clarkson?
Planes passing overhead couldn't miss HER lately...