video After Adam Lambert's thrust-tastic, overtly sexual performance at Sunday night's American Music Awards resulted in more than a thousand complaints, the first signs of a backlash are being seen. TVNewser reports Lambert's planned performance on ABC's Good Morning America has been canceled. (more...)

video The American Music Awards crowned Taylor Swift Artist of the Year over Michael Jackson (where was Kanye West for this one?) but these awards shows are never really about the awards. Instead, they'll be about Adam Lambert's hip thrusts, J-Lo's fall and a near nip-slip. Let's take a look at the AMA moments you'll be talking about today. (more...)

There was Britney with the snake. J Lo's Grammy dress. Madonna's various gender-bending and envelope-pushing over the years. Music awards shows have always featured big, sexy, diva-like moments, and maybe that's why we got such an eyeful from Lady Gaga and Adam Lambert tonight — where else to go but up? Or, rather, more? There's no question that Gaga — and Glambert too — stand firmly on Madge's muscled shoulders, but after pushing the envelope for so long it seems to have gotten pushed into something different. In this seen-it-all age of the meta, the dramatic, fearless, hyper-sexualized personas of Gaga and Glambert are less transgressive than reflective — two operatic baroque, characters less pushing the envelope than wearing it. Call it "Post-Sexy": Incorporating and heightening the conventions of a sex-charged culture, so as to move beyond it. (more...)