Adam Lambert: Degenerate Punk

posted at 2:15 pm on November 27, 2009 by The Other McCain
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The ”American Idol” runner-up’s decision to engage in a puerile épater les bourgeois gay-kiss stunt on the American Music Awards broadcast is excoriated by abstinence educator Laura Gallier:

The response to Adam’s display was mixed. Many people were appalled and disgusted while others celebrated his originality and willingness to take risks. My reaction was something else entirely. . . .
For starters Adam, when asked if you feel regret about having exposed our nation’s children and youth to such blatant sexual themes, your response was, “I’m not a babysitter; I’m a performer.” Did it ever dawn on you that it was those same “babies” who voted for you on American Idol and made stardom possible for you in the first place? Have you no concern for them now? . . .
In your performance, you dressed like a man, wore more make up than a pageant girl, grabbed a female between the legs, then exchanged a sloppy wet kiss with a man. What exactly are you trying to communicate to your audience about manhood and sex? . . .

Please read the whole thing. Lambert’s defenders would claim there was something “daring” or “innovative” in his performance, and that anyone who objects to seeing such a display on prime-time TV is an uptight, homophobic, anti-sex puritan. I am reminded of something Wendy Shalit said more than 10 years ago:

“When you’re insecure, you feel like you have to sleep with . . . every guy who asks, because otherwise you have ‘hang-ups.’ You don’t have enough self-confidence to say, ‘I don’t have a hang-up. You’re just a jerk.’”

Which is an apt description of Adam Lambert — perhaps in more ways than one.

UPDATE: Countdown to the end of Adam Lambert’s fame: 14:59 . . .

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