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Contents:
- THE 10 GAYT SMHS SONGS, RANKED
- 10 GREAT GAY SONGS OM SLEATER-KNEY, THE SMHS, GEE MICHAEL AND MORE
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
THE 10 GAYT SMHS SONGS, RANKED
There are so many great gay tun that are eher love songs or cuts that are loud about beg proud. The followg list of 10 clus tracks that range om relatively unknown to gay bangers. * the smiths gay members *
In a statement to a Morrissey fan se, Te to You, the sger said over the weekend, “Unfortunately, I am not homosexual. Morrissey, now 54, also scrib how he was altogether unterted girls as a teenager, which seemed to nfirm that he was gay. What is wh Smhs fans and beg gay?
I have not been the Smhs muny for that long but I have noticed somethg weird: In nearly every ment sectn on geni I see people claimg that the song they are talkg about is fely about beg gay / a gay uple / an opprsed gay guy. I don't mean that a homophobic way but I feel like some guys are really overterpretg some lyrics. He lls himself a “prophet for the fourth genr, ” adms that he’s gay but adds that he’s also celibate.
And though would appear that his is largely a homosexual viewpot, he explas that ’s really not that simple. Although he is famoly celibate, the ontman's more suggtive early lyrics sparked speculatn that he was gay. In "Handsome Devil, " om the band's send mo, Morrissey proclaims, "A boy the bh/Is worth two the hand" (via Geni) ver of the Smhs' eponymo but album featur a cropped still of Joe Dallandro as a gay male prostute the Andy Warhol-produced 1968 movie "Flh.
10 GREAT GAY SONGS OM SLEATER-KNEY, THE SMHS, GEE MICHAEL AND MORE
In a Gay Tim article tled "The God That Failed, " Richard Smh hypothized that Morrissey drifted away om queer them once the Smhs found stratospheric succs. "Once beme clear that the Smhs were sted not for the origally tend die cultdom, but for stardom, a large lyril retreat and rethk was swiftly unrtaken, " Smh wrote, as quoted David Bret's "Morrissey: Sndal and Passn, " addg, "None-the-ls, whilst his songs then beme non-genr specific to a man, they still only stood up to a homosexual readg... Like anyone reasonably well-raised gay culture, I uld pick up the referenc, allns, and signs...
"Unfortunately, I am not homosexual, " he subsequently wrote a note posted on fanse Te to You (via The Guardian). The Smhs' sophomore album, "Meat is Murr, " ma a clear statement regardg Morrissey's stance on eatg animals.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
We all know the Smhs wrote an awful lot of songs that, whether or not was tentnal, sound pretty gay. ” Ok was surprisgly hard to put together, only bee I cid to orr them om least to most gay, and “angsty reprsn” is basilly the entire field we’re workg wh here. I also chose to select certa particularly strikg lyrics om each song to clu my analysis, but that don’t mean that they reprent the only gay subtext to be found.
I Keep Me HidnHate, Love and WarForce emotns to the foreBut not for me of urse, of urseI keep me hidnI’m a twenty-dig batn to unlockWh a past where to be touchedMeant to be mentalReprsg your feelgs is a fundamental gay experience. Also, remiscg about spendg time wh someone and placg extreme importance on those moments, even if nothg happened, is the epome of reprsed gay longg. Well this is te…and yet, ’s falseThe entire song referenc the speaker’s school days wh a mix of nostalgia and bterns, and I need hardly mentn the long list of works ntag subtextual and not-so-subtextual gayns at sendary schools.
That ntext, the ambiguy of state of this relatnship, and the sperate repetn of “to the back of your r” as the song fas out, mak this sound like an exprsn of nfed sire for an old, there’s a whole subgenre of Smhs songs about beg people’s rs, and they’re all gay. It has somethg to do wh the gays n’t drive meme, as this tumblr post lays out.