ABC Gets Complaints for Adam Lambert Performance
More than 1,500 people called ABC on Sunday night to complain about Adam Lambert’s American Music Awards performance.
The American Idol runner-up sang his new release “For Your Entertainment” while kissing his male keyboardist, simulating oral sex with another male performer and making a rude gesture to the audience.
Tim Winter, president of the Parents Television Council (PTC) called the performance “tasteless and vulgar.”
“It is outrageous that children today cannot watch a televised awards program for an industry that is built squarely on their backs,” he said. “Teens comprise a huge portion of music sales, yet this is how they are treated? It is beyond contemptible.”
The PTC is asking people to call ABC, Dick Clark Productions, and advertisers in protest.
“ABC and Dick Clark Productions had every reason to know what to expect,” Winter said. “Lambert himself proclaimed that his performance would be ‘very sexy’ and would include leather and chains. But the producers and the network chose to bury their heads in the sand.”
ABC’s Good Morning America dropped Lambert from a scheduled concert appearance. In a statement, the network said it feared he would be too controversial “so early in the morning.”
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