14 DAY TRIAL // Adam Lambert is one of Barbara Walters’ most influential people of 2009, as we also informed you a short while back. Having made the cut on the television personality’s list, Adam also agreed to do an interview with her, from which bits and pieces have already been revealed to the fans on the ABC official website.
Of the things Barbara and Lambert will discuss is whether he feels sorry for the performance that brought it all upon himself, namely the night of the American Music Awards 2009, when his dance routine was deemed inappropriate for young audiences or primetime television for that matter, despite the fact that his number closed the awards ceremony. As he stated from the very start, Adam is not ashamed or, for that matter, sorry.
He does, however, insist that people judging him on that performance alone are doing him a severe injustice because a single live gig can’t possibly be representative of what he stands for as an artist. He only wanted to be an entertainer and, since this was his first major live performance since off American Idol, literally his debut on the music scene, he was too nervous and got a bit carried away. Still, people should wait a bit more before passing judgment on him, Adam says.
“To be honest with you, I just, adrenaline is a funny, funny thing. And I got... I got really excited. You can’t plan everything – if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring. No. No regrets. I don’t think that, you can really... jump to conclusions about me as an artist based on one performance, that’s, that’s an ignorant thing to do,” Adam Lambert explains for Barbara Walters.
However, despite the initial backlash, ABC has finally had a change of heart and lifted the ban on Lambert that it would never acknowledge after several cancelations, by inviting to do an interview and perform on The View. Fox is also jumping in at the chance of getting a slice of the controversy pie by having Adam perform on So You Think You Can Dance, it has recently emerged.