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"The Early Show," Lambert gaved a signed CD to a fan in the audience and rated a Lambert impersonator as an "11" out of 10. 8:24 a.m. When asked by a fan via web cam how he felt during his first "American Idol" performance in front of the judges, Lambert said, "I remember I sang Michal Jackson's "Black and White," and it kind of felt how I felt before the AMAs the other night. I had so much adrenaline, I almost over sang it."

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After the performance, his first since American Idol, Lambert said: "I'm hoping people were entertained. For those who weren't, maybe I'm not your cup of tea."

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"I'm sexual person, and maybe people didn't see that on American Idol," he says. "But now … they do. "

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Entertainment Weekly music reporter Michael Slezak wrote that Lambert's first major TV outing since the "American Idol" show "felt less like a genuine expression of his high-octane sexuality...and more like a carefully planned stab at dominating the post-AMA blogosphere/water-cooler discussion."

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"Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out," said Lambert, who publicly declared he was gay after American Idol ended in May. "We're in 2009; it's time to take risks, be a little more brave, time to open people's eyes and if it offends them, then maybe I'm not for them. My goal was not to piss people off, it was to promote freedom of expression and artistic freedom,"

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"Adrenaline is a crazy, crazy, crazy feeling. Some of the things I love most about performing is when you're up there and all of the sudden you just have these feelings, this rush that comes over you," he told CNN afterward. Entertainment Weekly music reporter Michael Slezak wrote that Lambert's first major TV outing since the American Idol show "felt less like a genuine expression of his high-octane sexuality ... and more like a carefully planned stab at dominating the post-AMA blogosphere/water-cooler discussion."

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"His face in the guy's stomach and the kiss was over the top for my 12 year-old. I didn't expect that from a guy who was on American Idol!" wrote N Smith on the Rolling Stone.com message board.

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