Gay Bar by Electric Six - Songfacts

Contents:

• GAY BAR
• IS Y.M.C.A. REALLY A GAY SONG? THE MEANG OF THE LYRICS
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• ? (THE GAY BAR SONG)

GAY BAR

Songfacts®:"Gay Bar" is a song about takg a girl to a gay bar, nuclear war, and beg a superstar. "I thought was funny, a straight guy wantg to take a girl to a gay bar, " he said on the Bleed To The Artist podst.

"This song had s orig a bar, but wasn't a gay bar. It me about when Tyler Spencer was one of his favore bars (not a gay bar): Gole Alley Royal Oak, Michigan. Gay bar.

IS Y.M.C.A. REALLY A GAY SONG? THE MEANG OF THE LYRICS

"Spencer cid to e his misheard lyric about takg a girl to a gay bar, pairg wh a track he had already wrten. "Gay Bar" dat to 1996, when Tyler Spencer rerd wh his band The Wildbunch, who released that year as the B-si of their first sgle, "I Lost Control (Of My Rock & Roll).

I wanna spend all your moneyAt the gay bar gay bar gay barThe outlandish vio was directed by Tom Kuntz and Mike Maguire, the same team that did the equally absurd vio for "Danger!

" It's set the Oval Office 1983, wh Tyler Spencer playg the role of a very gay Abraham Lln. "They had read a mor that Lln may have been gay or bisexual, " Dick Valente told Songfacts. "hey were extrapolatg gayns om Abraham Lln based on somethg they read.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

I want to take you to a gay bar. I want to take you to a gay bar, gay bar, gay bar. At the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar.

At the gay bar. Gay Bar Lyrics as wrten by Cory Mart Anthony Selph. Is at the same time the most famo gay anthem the history of mic and one of the bt known dis songs ever.

Composed practilly by chance by Village People and released 1978, the song quickly beme a huge succs, both the gay muny of the time and subsequently any ntext where you need a song to get people gog, be at a weddg, a nightclub or a the Village People ed to do their songs, YMCA’s lyrics nta several allns that n be easily noticed by a gay dience. Apparently was also an easy way for young homosexuals to meet other peers when you were new the cy, and this ed the entire homosexual muny to set up as a muny the years, Village People have often been asked if Y.

? (THE GAY BAR SONG)

’s lyrics explicly geared to double meangs that uld be weled by gay dienc.

And although the band were openly gay and tend to target that specific dience whenever they uld, lyrics’ thor and Village People founr Victor Willis means as a song about cln and social relatnships of young people new to the neighborhood. As he stat  this 2017 terview:“YMCA was not wrten to be a gay song bee of the simple fact I’m not gay.

I’m happy the gay muny adopted as their anthem, I have no qualms wh that.