Adam Lambert, bravely promoting "artistic expression"

Just almost lost my breakfast after watching about a minute of Adam Lambert from last night's American Music Awards. Didn't watch the rest, but here's a description:

Rolling Stone didn’t label Lambert the Wild Idol for nothing, and Glambert definitely delivered on his promise of a “sexy” performance as he closed the live show with simulated oral sex from a male backup dancer, a brief make-out session with his male keyboardist and a giant mirrored prop so the audience could see the looks on their own shocked faces. Rolling Stone has learned that producers weren’t informed about the guy-on-guy kiss in advance, and after the show, Lambert told RS the musician he kissed is a straight man.

Lambert also told RS that if ABC decides to cut any parts of his performance for the West Coast rebroadcast, it would amount to “discrimination.”

Yep, this was broadcast on ABC. How nice for the kiddies, who didn't even have to stay up past their bedtimes to watch this primetime culture-fest/civics lesson which aired at 8 pm ET.

Please don't hate Lambert because he's an exhibitionist; he sees himself as a courageous fighter for freedom:

We’re in 2009; it’s time to take risks, be a little more brave, time to open people’s eyes and if it offends them, then maybe I’m not for them. My goal was not to piss people off, it was to promote freedom of expression and artistic freedom.”

I'm wondering whether the FCC will agree. Or will they find it obscene?

Obscene material is not protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution and cannot be broadcast at any time. The Supreme Court has established that, to be obscene, material must meet a three-pronged test:

• An average person, applying contemporary community standards, must find that the material, as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest;

• The material must depict or describe, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by applicable law; and

• The material, taken as a whole, must lack serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

Or perhaps it was merely indecent or profane. See the FCC site for definitions and how to file a complaint.

Those philistines at ABC did in fact choose to cut some of this from the West Coast broadcast:

UPDATE: Reports about the West Coast broadcast of the American Music Awards indicate that ABC kept the kiss with Lambert’s keyboardist, but cut away from the simulated oral sex with his male backup dancer.

Hat tip to Michelle Malkin who didn't care for the performance, either:

It sounded like kittens being boiled in hot oil while a kindergarten class pounded on ’80s synthesizers and a Rock Band drum set.

Egad, this is desperation draped in glitter drenched in liquid eyeliner smothered in hairspray and cinched with a spiked collar . . .

C'mon, Michelle, don't be shy; tell us what you really think.

Cross-posted in the Green Room.

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