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So was the whole thing a carefully staged pop culture shock moment? Absolutely. “Adrenaline is crazy and sometimes things just happen,” Lambert told reporters after the show. ““We had this great dance number totally staged. It’s a sexy song about seduction and power and I was just doing the lyrics justice. My intention was not to try and create a controversy. But if a controversy ensues, then so be it.”
Okay, but did keyboardist Ratliff, of the band Mouthlike, know the kiss was coming? Supposedly not. “He just believes in the spirit of rock & roll, as do I. He’s a really cool open guy. There’s a quote from the movie Velvet Goldmine that we both get a kick out of: ‘Rock & roll is a prostitute — it should be tarted up.’ He believes in that the same way I do.”