Mary Lambert told MTV News that it was difficult to keep quiet
about American Idol alum Jennifer Hudson's surprise
performance at Sunday's Video Music Awards.
Hudson joined Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and guest vocalist
Lambert during their live performance of the gay marriage anthem Same
Love.
As Macklemore rapped, Hudson appeared from behind to sing the
song's chorus performed on the single by Lambert: “And I can't
change; even if I tried; even if I wanted to; my love she keeps me
warm.”
Slowly Lambert made her way to the stage's forefront and took
Hudson's hand.
“I'm not crying on Sundays,” they each belted out, a melodic
hook Lambert earlier explained was a reference to her difficulty in
reconciling being gay and Christian.
“That was cool,” Lambert
told MTV News. “In rehearsals, I was like, 'How can I not talk
about this? I have to keep my mouth shut.' It was really hard.
[Hudson's] a phenomenal singer and a phenomenal person, performer –
all of it.”
On the song's message, she added: “It's really incredible to be
a part of such an incredible social movement and to have the support
and to go around the world and say, 'What's up? I'm gay,' and have
everyone's support. That is really cool.”
The video for Same Love also won the VMA for Best Video
with a Social Message. (Watch
the video in our video library.)
(Related: Macklemore
says gay rights are human rights in accepting VMA award.)
Lambert earlier this week debuted the video to She Keeps Me
Warm, which she described as “the other side of the Same
Love story.” (Watch
the video in our video library.)