Am I getting old or are music performances and songs getting totally out of control?
I just watched the American Music Awards today with some of my family and was shocked. Janet Jackson kicked it off with some good up-beat songs and the performance was good (with the exception of one crotch-grab), Daughtry gave a good, solid, clean rock performance and it went down-hill from there. We had to turn it off when Shakira came on and there were a spattering of good songs and performances throughout the show, but it was too much for me once Adam Lambert came on the stage at the end.
I’ll spare the readers the agony of watching the video, but below is a quote from taken from an article online that sums up the performance:
Before his performance, Lambert said that he wanted to break down a double standard that existed where female performers are often sexually provocative while men don’t do it that often.
There were also hostile comments online about the “American Idol” glam rocker who sang his new song “For Your Entertainment” on Sunday’s show with an elaborate, S&M-themed production. Lambert fondled a dancer, led another around on a leash, had a dancer briefly stick his head in Lambert’s crotch and kissed a man.
I guess if we had watched these performances back home in Seattle we would have been spared the agony of watching this garbage since they edited the west-coast performance due to the complaints of the performance. This re-affirms why we don’t get cable in our home. We are spared of watching this junk that way.
Grace for Grace 
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November 24, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Bro. Jones
No, it wasn’t just you. The most alarming thing was that Lady Gaga’s performance was among the most understated and least sleazy of the evening, and her act consisted of playing a flaming piano while wearing a flesh-toned bodysuit.
Couldn’t change the channel because Dad wanted to watch it, so I gave up and left the room.
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November 25, 2009 at 8:58 am
Ezra
If anyone enjoyed such a presentation, they themselves would be perverse. Such immorality is bound to come to those who despise the Word of the Lord, as St. Paul wrote to the Romans (chapter one). It is the result of a thankless heart which turns inward; since they despise the Creator, they then seek to satisfy itself with all that creation offers. Whenever lust is left to itself, it digs a deeper hole–and, like a drug, it takes greater events to bring about a “thrill.” That is true not only for those who participate, but also for those who observe and approve. What greater wickedness is there than the society that will not condemn the wickedness on display, but only approves.
All the more reason to give thanks to God–not that we applaud ourselves (as would a Pharisee), but that we submit ourselves to his Word and observe his law, for this was given to us as a result of his love. His love is magnified through Jesus, whose life redeems us from the empty way of life we now deplore.
Blessings in his holy name,
Ezra
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