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Don’t fret, Glambert fans. 2009 American Idol runner up Adam Lambert says he has not toned down his theatrical makeup, nor his over-the-top attitude.

A story in the current issue of Entertainment Weekly suggests he had a “make-under” in the video for his second single Whataya Want From Me?, following his controversial appearance on the American Music Awards last November.

“I love when people read into stuff, it’s fun,” Lambert said Tuesday morning at a Toronto hair salon to promote his debut album, For Your Entertainment.

“It has all to do with the song. Whataya Want From Me? is emotional and vulnerable and is more sensitive. You can’t get up there in a glittery suit and with fancy eye makeup on, and be like grinding my pelvis around to that song. It doesn’t work.”

The 27-year-old openly gay singer says he just continues to be himself despite the AMA performance in which he kissed another male musician on stage, among other overtly sexual acts with both men and women.

“I don’t feel like what I did was wrong,” said Lambert, coasting on just two hours of sleep. “I just feel like the only reason why it was such a big deal and blown so out of proportion is because I’m a gay guy. We can watch a man and a woman kiss all over the place. Why can’t two men kiss? It’s a double standard ... Nobody really talks about (kissing the) women ’cause that’s not taboo.

“I just got excited and I was interpreting the lyrics of my song, which are frisky, and I didn’t think twice about it. I was like, ‘Oh, it’s a sexy, risqué little number. It’s 11 o’clock at night almost. It’s an awards show and people do this all the time on awards shows. Madonna did it. A lot of people have done it.”

After ABC received about 1,500 telephone complaints, Lambert’s planned subsequent performance on the network’s show, Good Morning America, was cancelled and CBS invited Lambert to perform instead on The Early Show, on the same date in New York City.

“I didn’t think it was a big deal and didn’t realize it was a big deal until after the fact, when people started griping about it,” said Lambert. “And I was a little bit bummed out because my intention wasn’t to upset anybody. It was just to kind of raise eyebrows. I was hoping that the reaction would be more along the lines of, ‘Oh, that Lambert. He’s so silly and over the top!’ And some people reacted that way. (But) there are people who are morally opposed to it, and I think that’s fine. Everybody has a right to their beliefs and their opinions, but that doesn’t mean that the FCC needs to punish those that don’t follow that moral code — ’cause it’s a free country.

“It was hard, I’m not going to lie. It was a little bit stressful. The ramifications of it hurt my feelings a little bit. But I got over it. I’m pretty resilient. You live, you learn. I think what I had to keep telling myself was, ‘You know what? I can’t change it now. Gotta move forward.’ I don’t like dwelling on anything. I like just moving forward. So I knew that that was my only choice, really.”

For Your Entertainment has sold 457,000 copies since its late-November release. That is below expectations, according to Entertainment Weekly, and Lambert admits the AMAs controversy might have hurt sales.

“It might have turned some people off. But, you know, I don’t regret it. I think it’s me. I’m being myself. And I think with as many people that might have been turned off, there are just as many people, I hope, that saw what I was doing and enjoyed it.”

Lambert has no definite tour plans as yet.

Lambert to moonlight on Red Carpet

Adam Lambert isn’t presenting or performing at Sunday night’s Grammy Awards in L.A., but he managed to talk Entertainment Tonight into making him a red-carpet fashion correspondent.

Lambert will be asking the usual “‘Who are you wearing kind?’ of stuff,” but said the reactions from the music stars to him should be priceless.

“I am excited,” Lambert said Tuesday in Toronto. “I’m a little apprehensive. I think the thing that’ll be interesting is to see the reaction of some artist going, ‘Is that the American Idol guy asking me who I’m wearing?’ That might be a little funny. But I think I like novel experiences. I like doing things that I’ve never done before. I like taking risks. And something like that is, ‘Why not? That sounds like fun. Cool.’”

As for who he hopes will win big at the Grammys, Lambert said he’s pulling for both Lady Gaga, who co-wrote one of the songs on his debut album For Your Entertainment, and Beyonce, of whom he’s a fan.

Lambert said it would have been fun to perform on the Grammys, but there was never any discussion about it.

“I’m kind of the new kid of the block,” he said. “There are a lot of amazing talented people that will be performing that night (who are) established. I’m new. So hopefully, eventually.”

Birthday plans

2009 American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert turns 28 on Friday and plans to celebrate with a private party at an L.A. bar with friends.

“It’s funny because a year ago on my birthday it was all just starting,” Lambert said Tuesday in Toronto. “I had gotten through a lot of the preliminary rounds at (American Idol) and it was, like, about to happen. And I didn’t know what was going to be. So looking back a year ago, it’s so weird.”

Lambert said his sudden fame has taught him an important lesson.

“Don’t take yourself too seriously,” he said. “Keep a light heart about it, and just kind of find the humour and the fun in it all — ’cause it’s very easy to get bogged down and be hard on yourself. I mean, everybody has an opinion. Everybody likes to make their opinions heard and they’re all over the Internet. And (there is) a lot of positive reinforcement, but there’s also a lot of negativity. Sometimes I read it, but for the most part I try to let it roll off my back.”

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