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 |  Subject: Adam Lambert: There are lots of backwards attitudes in the US  23.04.10 18:18 | |
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- Former American Idol contestant Adam Lambert has said the outraged response to a controversial awards show performance came from conservative attitudes.
More than 1,500 people complained after the For Your Entertainment singer kissed a male band member during an appearance at the American Music Awards ceremony in November, with subsequent talkshow appearances cancelled by the networks concerned.
Speaking ahead of the UK release of his debut album, the 27-year-old said the reaction to his performance confirmed that there remain "a lot of backwards attitudes in the US".
"I'm fortunate to have grown up in southern California where it's a little more liberal," Lambert told inthenews.co.uk.
"But I have a lot of friends that are from areas in the US - middle America, the south, some areas in the north - that are really conservative and really just not ready for that kind of stuff."
Lambert added there would be a "slow and steady battle to progress" for more liberal attitudes in the US.
Asked if he found the response unfair, Lambert joked: "There was just as much groping of women!
"I just felt frustrated because I've seen women and straight guys do raunchy stuff on stage for year and then I was scapegoated because I was the gay guy doing it," he explained to inthenews.co.uk.
"Just to make it even more potent [for viewers], I'm the guy from American Idol that you guys all thought one thing of, so there was an element of surprise as well."
He added: "I didn't expect it to be as big of a deal as it was but in hindsight I'm glad it went down the way it did because it facilitated a conversation about the double standards." http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/entertainment/tv/adam-lambert-there-are-lots-of-backwards-attitudes-in-the-us-$1373687.htm | |
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