Even if I covered music, I probably would have a hard time taking the American Music Awards very seriously as an awards show. That doesn’t make the performers last night any less famous/spectacular/insane, though. And as a further TV angle the show included, among other things, the primetime-TV bow of American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert behind his new album, performing “For Your Entertainment.”
Question 1: did you like it? Question 2: if you didn’t (and I wasn’t crazy about it), was the problem (a) the song itself (it’s often disillusioning when Idols stop covering classics and must move into the flawed world of mediocre original songs), (b) Lambert’s over-the-top singing/performance style, (c) the sound system, which did not seem to be doing him any favors or (d) the simple fact that he doesn’t translate as well outside the context of American Idol?
Or was the spectacle of the performance itself enough? Say this for Lambert: if nothing else, he’s not watering his style down post-Idol.