But at least she had drugs as an excuse!!

It’s obvious that Adam’s ego has gotten the better of him!!

totally hilariously bad!!

I only watched Kelly and Adam. Didn’t watch the AMAs on TV.

Kelly was simply phenomenal! End of story! Wow! I don’t own any of her music either. Just amazing!

Adam. After reading some of the feedback from last night, I have admit it wasn’t *quite* the trainwreck I was expecting. And here’s why, when he performs live he demands the stage and is pretty amazing to watch. I only watched on this small vid posted here, but I’m not completely convinced that the stumble/roll was not pre-planned.

Having said that here’s what my thoughts (analysis?) are(is) of the overall performance. First, I’m glad I didn’t have to watch this on my big screen because I could focus more on Adam than on everything surrounding him. At the beginning my first thought was that he sounded theatrical. It sounded like a solo in a bigger production. Next, his vocals didn’t come across as they could have. (And I’m not so sure many are saying they did.) But when he did that run at the end I saw Adam. (A good thing, imho.) I, personally, think he was nervous and so that had something to do with him reverting back (yes, that’s what I said) to what he knew pre-idol. His ‘in the heat of the moment’ *to me unnecessary*, kiss etc. were things that were encouraged by the audience in his Zodiac performances, yes? no? I believe human nature causes one to do what’s known when one is nervous. If I’m wrong on this I’m okay with that, but of course no one sells Adam better than Adam so I don’t believe he would admit this post performance.

Also, he has a point about the whole discrimination thing, imo. But I didn’t find enjoyment from the Brittany/Madonna kiss myself. Why? I don’t mind watching PDA when it represents *love*, but don’t like when it represents *lust*. Shoot me, I’m an old-fashioned romantic in that way.

I’m interested to see where things fall from here. I hope well. Imho, you can’t help but like the guy. I’m looking forward to watching Letterman Wednesday.

Also, watched Kris’s presentation and thought he did great with what he had to work with. But then, I’m a fan!

ETA: Sorry for the long post.

jersey
11/23/2009 at 9:15 am
Too late to edit my last post. I just had to add that Green Day also fell into the ‘did not suck’  category.

LOL did we watch the same show last night? Billie Joe Armstrong (attempted to) hit that high note and I swear to god, everyone on my couch winced. 21 Guns is a boring song. Catchy, but without the falsetto it’s just meh.

ck2
11/23/2009 at 10:33 am
why are so many people up in arms? are you really all that surprised by this performance? this is exactly what I expected’ ¦ raunch with cabaret vocals that screech way off key. why be asked to do the finale of a huge music show and then choose to end on a more contemplative note with stellar vocal skills that he has shown the crowd in the past? he wants to be talked about just as we are all doing now.

You mean you were expecting a bad performance? Sorry if everyone else was expecting something classy out of Adam. Also, if the point was to be talked about, I’m getting sick of this excuse. He used this same excuse for his album cover, saying that he appreciated being talked about anyway by those who didn’t like it. If that’s the way he wants to take his career, then by all means. Clearly he’s not in it for the music if all he cares about is being talked about.

I was totally offended by Adam’s performance and if he’s trying to establish himself outside the AI box, he surely missed the boat. Terrible performance and horrible displays of whatever-the-hell-that-was.

daughtry – good but o so boring. time for a potty break…

carrie – watch her brain: “now put your hand up & flick your wrist… now put your other hand on your hip & wiggle a little… and now make a sexy face…”.

kelly – keeping it real, nice balance of polish & passion. weight gain suits you, but pls just keep it healthy – we want you around a while.

kris – looking at demi instead of the audience/camera looks amateurish. wish he were singing (brand new album, hello?) instead of announcing.

jordin – miss thang was the only chart-topping idol missing from the stage. with rihanna & alicia & mjb already performing, was it too much female pop r&b already? or did she cancel due to appendectomy?

and ADAM – imagine JEDWARD 10 years later – it was that bad. trying way too f**ing hard… and singing was abs atrocious.

no problem w/ the sexuality – i even told my friends b4hand “he’s not the male gaga because he’s totally predictable, he’ll just have a bunch of s&m stuff and push the envelope a bit to shock you.”

i was surprised at how bad the singing was. cuz it was always always excellent on AI. and cuz he’s been doing live theater and low cabaret for so long, so he shud be able to handle live singing + choreo w/ease.

Adam isn’t someone who just came up from nothing. He’s been working at this for YEARS, decades even, so it’s not like they plucked him off the street and wanted him to be brilliant on day one.

That said, I thought he was definitely nervous last night, completely understandable. The vocals were not perfect, but then he messed up on tour and idol too, as has everyone at some point or another, and the nerves definitely contributed to that.

I was definitely not offended by anything, but that’s ok if you were, or if you didn’t like it, or whatever. He was trying to put more in then he needed to, and I think the thinking from his camp was that they wanted him to really really stand out, to be outrageous and really crazy, hence putting in SO many OTT sexual moments. I was ok with it.

i wasn’t offended by the performance from a moral standpoint – on the real, i was taken aback by the amateurish nature of the performance by someone who has had years of theater and stage experience, more than the average idol contestant, so him being able to play the big stage was something i figured he would have under control. and he didn’t. and i was surprised at what i perceived to be his lack of forward thinking in just how what he was planning to do was going to play across america. fans can cry ”you don’t get it” all they want, adam can cry ”i must not be for you then” all he wants… if this is the case, why would he choose american idol, the bastion of ”middle america” music sensibilities, as the conduit to launch himself into the mainstream… if he wanted to be a niche act, and has no use for certain ”middle america” sensibilities and dollars, then it makes no sense to try and alienate, so early in your career, the very audience that helped propel you along in the first place. not the smartest thing to do in my book, but ymmv.

I have never liked Carrie. She needs to go back and watch who should have won Season 4 to learn how to handle a microphone stand. She has a good voice but her performances are always so stiff.

Kelly rocked! She had such an awesome performance. Truly THE American Idol.

All night I was annoyed with the overblown sexual overtones, which began with Janet Jackson’s performance and ended with Adam Lambert.

The classiest performance of the night belonged to KELLY CLARKSON! She proved why she should have won “Best Pop Rock Female Vocalist.”

I’m veering from feeling bad for Adam to being annoyed with him a little. I never expected him to choke vocally but his nerves had him from the beginning – that humanized him a lot and so I don’t take all the bravado as ego. IMO the bravado is more compensation. I don’t agree with the performance decisionmaking because it was too “LOOK AT ME!!!! Being PROVOCATIVE!!!! Are you offended yet? How about now? Now are you offended? How about now?” It’s an act that got old fast and there were times he didn’t look comfortable with his choreography too. His AI performances blow his AMA performance out of the water in every way that counts IMO.

I’m glad it looks like Adam will be singing WWFM this week. It’s what I expected anyway because WWFM is better for a small studio set and now it makes even more sense.

After reading the comments I’m tempted to go back and rethink my initial reaction to Adam’s performance. Which was’ ¦gasp’ ¦.incredible! I loved it! Not his usual stellar vocals, but I reacted instinctively to the entire performance and didn’t analyze the parts. If I were to analyze I’d say Kelly had the best vocal of the night and Adam had the best performance. I was totally entertained.

ITA. I didn’t think it was an incredible performance, but I also didn’t think it was bad either.

I think overall, the disappointment is that people wanted Adam to blow everyone away with his vocals, and with the dancing and the sound issues, that didn’t happen. But on to Letterman!

I’ll add my two cents’ worth, then leave it to you guys. First, I think Danny Gokey must be feeling a lot better about his performance of Dream On this morning. Second, it appears that Adam has decided, contrary to what he sings in his single, that the audience is there for his entertainment. If that’s the case, the market tends to self-correct such notions.

It did not connect at all and seemed totally amateurish. It was SO MUCH BETTER in rehearsal. He looked completely frozen and his outfit wasn’t helping.

And I didn’t even see anything sexually explicit (and seems crazy to have gone overboard with that too). But he was trying way too hard without success. Complaining about “discrimination” isn’t gonna help his case.

Bottom line, he was too nervous to connect with the song and deliver a smooth performance.

Adam Lambert. You wouldn’t have seen this on “American Idol,” a show that has broadcast its share of monstrosities. Borrowing some of Rihanna’s shoulder spikes and torture devices, Lambert dragged women around onstage and got frisky with dudes, all in what seemed like an overly calculated way to show himself off as some sort of glam-gone-dangerous artist — and to instantly distance Lambert from the family-friendly “Idol” fare. It all would have been forgivable if the song actually had a hook. Lambert has the voice, and a charisma that stands out in today’s pop music landscape, but this was provocation by the numbers. D

EW.com

ADAM LAMBERT’ ¨
In his much-anticipated first televised post-Idol performance, Glambert fully nails the rock wail, but holy crotch-thrust, what is up with all that face-to-groin contact? While Adam struggles mightily to overcome a tetchy sound system, too much of his ”For Your Entertainment” rendition plays like high-camp dinner theater ‘” and Paula Abdul’s ”Cold Hearted Snake” video wants its concept back, Mr. Shinypants. Grade: C-

The sound issues were apparent throughout the night. I started getting worried when Green Day was performing. I could barely hear them.

Other Idols? Daughtry – good performance but not my cuppa at all.
Carrie – good vocals but very awkward performance. Kris – he had one line. How hard is that? Nice suit though.

So I’ll keep crying in the wilderness here.

Adams most feverent fan base is middle aged women.

Yes, but if he wants longevity, he needs to have fans in his age group. I am in my early 40s, so I would fall into that middle age woman category but I also recognize that it is more important for him to target the club crowd than the AI crowd. He needs his generation, a group that will follow him along, through the good times and bad times. Example, Robert Downey Jr and I are about the same age. I was really pulling for him when he went to jail because I felt empathy for him. Part of the reason is because we non-baby boomers/not really gen X…but rather generation Jones share a cultural history. I was in grade school in the 1970s and first memories were Nixon resigning, the anti-war protest, and of course we were the latch-key generation. All and all, my generation’s first impression of the outside world was that it kind of sucked. And like they say, you only get one chance to make a first impression.

Adam’s generation, IMHO, is pushing back from hears of conservativism (moral majority). I truly believe Adam’s generation is much more progressive than my generation. I would love to take a poll on the age of people commenting here to see where this falls demographically. I think Adam will do ok with his target audience.

Total performance from what I watched was just Adam OTT…way too much production, and someone should have warned him that in this business “debutting” at a normal scale is better than OTT… I am a fan, and if I weren’t, this performance sure wouldn’t have made me one!!!

Hopefully he will redeem his self on David Letterman for those people that found him offensive, (which I said would happen in my post last week)!!!

Got what? A crappy performance.

By the way I about as midwest as you can get (KC area) and this ‘performance’  was not edited. Saw everything. Too bad.

I got the edited Adam train wreck version…and it was still CRAPPY.