My step-son was 11 and constantly singing YMCA.
“Look, I don’t want to freak you out, but in case you get made fun of at school, YMCA is a gay anthem. No problem with that, but you should know.”
He was horrified, so he started singing “I Will Survive” instead. I just didn’t have the heart to tell him.
Where is he learning his songs from?
The fluoride in the tap water
Gay frogs probably
Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal…
Trump rallies?
He just needs to embrace them. I’m a straight dude, I love gay anthems. I made $20 one time by singing I Will Survive for karaoke at a crowded bowling alley, in front of my wife’s entire company. Whatever, can’t embarrass me. I love that song. Didn’t even need the karaoke screen.
Joke’s on them, I would have sang it for free. Any or all that I know. Diana Ross, Cyndi Lauper (I just saw her a couple months ago), The Weather Girls (I have an It’s Raining Men 12" single) and I will belt them all out with my own terrible choreography.
Maybe he’s singing the Cake version.
fast forward 10 years, he sits down to “tell you something important” and then is shocked when you already knew 😆
Good that you’re open-minded, he’ll probably need some support later in his life when he comes out.
The oracle has spoken
The more I read the funnier it gets
As for the idea that “Y.M.C.A. is “somehow a gay anthem,” Willis said that “is a false assumption based on the fact that my writing partner was gay, and some (not all) of Village People were gay, and that the first Village People album was totally about gay
“This assumption is also based on the fact that the YMCA was apparently being used as some sort of gay hangout and since one of the writers was gay and some of the Village People are gay, the song must be a message to gay people. To that I say once again, get your minds out of the gutter. It is not.
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I therefore wrote ‘Y.M.C.A.’ about the things I knew about the Y in the urban areas of San Francisco such as swimming, basketball, track, and cheap food and cheap rooms. And when I say, “hang out with all the boys” that is simply 1970s black slang for black guys hanging-out together for sports, gambling or whatever. There’s nothing gay about that.
“As a straight member of a gay band, I totally didn’t get the point of the gay song I wrote for my gay band”
I’m not gay I just like hanging out with the boys
I hate him saying “get your mind out of the gutter” as if even thinking about people who are gay is itself a perverted sexual act.
Gay people exist. Acknowledging this and discussing whether a piece of media is directed at them is not “mind in gutter” stuff.
I don’t want to go so far as to say this person is homophobic, but it sure does sound like some internalized homophobia, perhaps.
I can reluctantly believe that is true (despite the laughable first paragraph where he gives example after example about why such “assumptions” are reasonable) - but he’s old enough to know that once an artist puts art out into the world, their interpretation of it is no longer the only one.
The song IS a gay anthem even if it wasn’t written that way.
edit - they the
There could be some plausible deniability but contextually it doesn’t pass the sniff test
And we’re SURE this isn’t The Onion? How sure?
I mean, the title and situation is a lot more straightforward than the nuance behind his reasoning and the history of the band.
Offering young men ways to have a good time when they’re short on their dough sure as hell doesn’t sound straight.
Its not “a” gay anthem.
Its the gay anthem. FTFY.
“I Will Survive”?
Dancing Queen by Abba: “Fuck my drag, right?”
Jonny McGovern - Soccer Practice
Lol like Trump is actually going to pay you for using the song, it really is rubes all the way down
WOW! Not much in the news has shocked and surprised me as much as this article has.
Victor Willis says he will take legal action against any news organization that suggest “Y.M.C.A.” is a gay anthem beginning in January 2025
I’m really curious to know what legal action he intends to take. Doesn’t he have to show some sort of damages for any hope of not throwing his money away on frivolous lawsuits that will go nowhere?
He does, but it can also be things like reputation damage or “the fascists stopped paying for my song because they thought it was gay”.
Who the hell does he think he was making money from before? If not for the LGBTQ+ community, that song would just be some old 70s song. Welp, pulling it from my playlist.
I mean, Liberace sued for libel and won after a news outlet accused of him of being gay:
He says that, but he seems to really aggressively be sucking Trumps cock here.
Oh, honey. No.
I really thought all the Village People members were gay. Today I Learned:
“From 1978 until 1982, Willis was married to Phylicia Ayers-Allen (now Phylicia Rashad), whom he met during the run of The Wiz, and who later played Clair Huxtable on The Cosby Show”
Beard?
It’s not a gay anthem, it’s only coincidence that it’s played in nearly every gay pub I have been to, on every gay radio station, every gay pride event (with performers), and when my first boyfriend sucked my dick. People just like picking straws, man.
Way to destroy your legacy!
That tRump dance move is totally not gay either
Lmao what is the source of that gif
While it’s definitely a fairly gay video, it’s actually less gay than I remembered it being. In any case, it’s too late. Boykissers have long since claimed the song.
The segment from Can’t Stop The Music should also be submitted for evidence.
I’m kind of surprised that the YMCA dance wasn’t in the YMCA music video. I had always assumed that would have been where it started. I guess the dance came after.
As a boykisser, I can assure you that we’re rejecting it at high speed.
He’s using every brain cell he has to not find out a gay anthem isn’t a gay anthem because the entire writing staff is entirely gay and wrote the song for gay men explicitly, but because gay people use it as an anthem.
Totally not gay. Not gay at all.
Friendship with Village People’s YMCA is over. Chappell Roan’s Hot to Go is my new best friend.
