Adam Lambert

The national moral microscope shifted in the United States last Sunday from an intern-loving late night host to an androgynous American Idol runner-up named Adam Lambert.

Quite a stir.

For those living under a rock – or floating outside the blogosphere and twitterverse for a day or two – here’s what went down.

The American Music Awards ceremony was moving along Sunday night as blandly as expected. Shakira shook her booty for a bit, MJ continued to rewrite the last ten years of his life with some more posthumous honours and Taylor Swift collected a slew of awards, sans interruptions. So far, so meh. Then came the finale.

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  • James says:

    10:04am | 27/11/09

    Robbo, I would rather cut my ears off than listen to either this guy or Taylor Swift.  It is pop rubbish, give me Bob Dylan or The Pogues any day. Read more »

  • Robbo says:

    11:02pm | 26/11/09

    Here you have some gay guy who kisses a few blokes on stage and thrusts his hips for a few minutes. What song did he sing- who knows? This fool just takes away the spotlight from the real stars like Taylor Swift for instance. She’s the sweetest thing to come… Read more »

 

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