ABC Reviews Televised Live Performers Due To Lambert's Antics

by: by Alex Dobuzinskis, Reuters | Billboard

Singer Adam Lambert's sexually charged performance at the American Music Awards has caused the Walt Disney co-owned ABC-TV to review the steps it takes in preparing for live broadcasts of performers, Disney's head of television said on Monday.

Lambert, the runner-up on this year's "American Idol," gave a controversial performance during ABC's broadcast of the American Music Awards on November 22, in which he simulated oral sex on-stage with a backup dancer, kissed a man and gave the middle finger to the audience.

ABC edited Lambert's performance during the west coast broadcast of the night-time awards show, and later canceled Lambert's scheduled November 25 appearance on its "Good Morning America" program.

Disney/ABC Television Group president Anne Sweeney told Reuters that in reaction to the Lambert performance, Disney was reviewing the steps it takes to vet live performances by getting assurances from artists that their stage shows will resemble their rehearsals, and using
contractual obligations to hold them to that.

"We certainly don't want to suppress artistry at any level, but we also have to be very cognizant of who our audience is," Sweeney said at the Reuters Media Summit on Monday.

She added that it was the right decision for ABC to cancel Lambert's scheduled performance on "Good Morning America," noting that many children watch the morning news show.

"We really had to take the decision very seriously and found that his performance was very unpredictable at night and (we) didn't know what to expect in the morning," she said.

Sade Will Release New Album On February 2010

Sade, the "quiet storm" R&B group featuring vocalist Sade Adu, has completed its long-awaited sixth studio album. Soldier of Love, the band's first collection of new material since 2000's Lover's Rock will be released February 8, 2010 worldwide on Epic.

Sade and her longtime bandmates including Stuart Matthewman, a.k.a. Cottonbelly, regrouped in a U.K. recording studio in June and were recording and mixing into October.

Though no details about Sade's new music have yet been revealed, one artist heard early versions of several songs: Maxwell, a fellow Sony recording artist and longtime friend and collaborator with Matthewman. The R&B singer sent a message to fans in March via his private Facebook page in which he indicated that he'd heard some of his labelmate's new recordings. "Trust me, it's so monolithic it'll shake you in your shoes!" he wrote.

Sade's 2000 release, Lovers Rock, sold 3,881,000 copies in the United States, and the prior album, 1992's Love Deluxe, sold 3,407,000. Since 1985's Diamond Life debut, Sade has sold nearly 17 million units in the U.S. alone according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Notes from Nathan: New Moon

t's a new moon and with new moons come new beginnings.  I was recently told that in order to move on, I will have to let go of a few things that may be hard to release.  People can be toxic.  Oh my goodness, I learned that at a recent event that I hosted.  It made me wonder just how bitter people are and how they will do anything in their power to rain on someone else's parade.  No more! I am tired of holding up the white flag playing truce and always the peacemaker.  This is for the birds!  I'm out of here.  As 2009 packs up and closes up shop, so am I.  I need new energy.  I need more success and the only way I will achieve it is to go after it HARD CORE.  Watch out world, Nathan Seven Scott is about to run 2010!  Along with the help of some true believers in me and my gifts.  There are people who want to see me succeed, and I thank all of you from the top of my heart.  Please continue to keep watch on me and support my endeavors.  I promise you won't be disappointed about what gets delivered in 2010.

I am excited to show you this amazing video.  Full of talent, full of color, full of energy.  These are the type of young adults that I will be coaching next year and I cannot wait!

C.R. Knight's Diary

Dear Diary -

I recently saw the movie PRECIOUS, the long awaited Lee Daniel's flick gone super-hyped by Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry.  Yeah that movie.  I saw it the second week with my friend Candace.  Candace is a little on the plus side right now, she is going through some emotional issues, but I digress.  I was all prepared with tissues ready to cry but I didn't shed a tear.  I so wanted to don't get me wrong but, I heard talk and abuse like that when I grew up so I guess that is why it didn't effect me.  And also, I knew it was made up.  But as we all know, art imitates life and vice versa.

A few weeks later, I decided that I wanted to read the book PUSH by Sapphire.  It was such a page turner.  Just to know that there are young women who are raped by the men in their lives.  It was astounding for me to just read those things.  A friend of mine told me that Lee Daniels is good friends with the author.  Now it all makes sense.  I love to see when black people put their minds together and make money.  BIG MONEY.

I will say this, that movie isn't going anywhere any time soon.  It will win an Oscar. Come on Oprah and Tyler know what they are doing.  This is a bit of a pissing game if you ask me or a "who's dick is bigger?" contest.  I love it!  They are going to show Hollywood on a HUGE level that black stories deserve to be told.

I was blown away when I saw this morbidly obese black girl on Oprah.  She is articulate, nothing at all what I thought.  I seriously thought that they had gone to some ghetto somewhere to pluck this delicate flower.  She is definitely going to win an Oscar now.  And I promise you she will not have that weight on for long.  With money comes a better way to eat and trainers and everything at her disposal. She would be a fool not to have some type of surgery to get that weight off.  We shall see, but I see a HUGE 2010 for Miss Gabourey Sidibe.  They are going to wisk her off to a fat farm and we will no longer recognize the soon to be Oscar winner.

Well Diary, I must say good bye for now.  I can't wait until our next meeting.

C.R. Knight