I feel like I need to rant. I’m probably going to upset some people, but if I do, I will take the kicking. If I can dish it out, I can take it in return.
What is it about entertainers who feel the need to “push the envelope”? Especially when historically, pushing the envelope seems to be all about sex?
Is this about Adam Lambert? Only in part. Is it about Adam Lambert being gay? Not at all. What is it about? I guess, in a nut shell, it’s about sexually charged “entertainment” on television.
Adam wasn’t the first entertainer to cause controversy. Remember Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction? How about Madonna sharing an open mouthed kiss with Christian Aguilera and Britney Spears? Then there was Sinead O’Connor and her attack against the Catholic Church (ok, this one was sexual, but political). How many people remember the controversy that Jim Morrison of the Doors caused when he not so mistakenly sang the original lyrics to “Light My Fire” after agreeing not to? (which ok, wasn’t sex related but drug related, but maybe still sex related because the line in the song referred to a girl).
Maybe you will see me as an old fogey or something, or simply to conservative, but over the top sex, drugs and political messages do not belong on National Television where the younger citizens can see it, and perhaps be influenced by it.
I have to agree with TV Critic Jack Gould, back in 1965 when he commented about Elvis Presley’s gyrating. “It isn’t about censorship, which solves nothing. It’s about common sense.”
Really, I couldn’t agree more.
I didn’t watch the AMA award show. Why? Frankly because, although I love music, I have become increasingly tired of watching senseless over-indulgence in the name of entertainment.
I’m not a big fan of Adam Lambert, I don’t like his style of music. But if I were, and I went to one of his concerts, I might have been shocked by a similar act, but ok, I paid for a ticked so I get what I pay for. But to know that so many younger children saw that performance on television frankly makes me ill.
The other people I mentioned? I feel the same way, except for maybe the one about The Doors, but maybe back then I would have felt the same.
The problem is this. I have enough trouble trying to teach my child that sexually based entertainment isn’t an accurate portrayal of sex as it is. I don’t need some entertainer, citing free speech, showing their breast, gyrating like a loon, endorsing drugs, or depicting sexual material, especially when it’s so “alternative lifestyle” like bondage fueled performances. Frankly, I would hate the dreaded question from my pre-teen (which I no longer have by the way, she is grown) of, daddy why is that woman kissing that woman, or that man kissing that man, or even why is that guy leading that guy around on a leash like a dog?
These types of things are inappropriate to the general public. You want to do it in one of your concerts, fine. Go right ahead. At least then I have a choice of paying to see it. When I’m watching a live performance on television, I don’t have a choice of seeing it and if you’re an entertainer, pay attention. I don’t want to see crap like that. Many people don’t. Many people do, but it shouldn’t be forced on me, or my chosen lifestyle. If I can’t force you to stop participating in drug fueled sexual parties, then I shouldn’t be forced to participate in them. Get it?
Come on people. Try waking up a little. How far are we going to go with this? Are we going to keep pushing the envelope so much that sex becomes nothing but a thoughtless act? Or drugs to become acceptable? Or political gestures of any kind common place?
That’s not entertainment, it’s destruction. Destruction of common sense, morality, decency, and general entertainment.
Maybe it’s time there was a little censorship. I don’t normally agree with censorship, but I think if people can’t have the decency to act appropriate in situations like this, something must be done.
And you know what really ticks me off? If I was an entertainer, and I stood up after my performance on National Television, and started preaching about Christ, and Sin, I would have been run out of town. But it’s ok to act like a deranged sexual deviant, or attack religion, or endorse things that are illegal.
Does that make sense? Not to me.
So I guess I will close with this. If you are an entertainer, keep your kinks to the appropriate venue and to the society in general, wake up and stop supporting those who refuse.
~ Kev
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