Mississippi teen puts untry twist on a gay anthem, shockg ‘Amerin Idol’ judg

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• RED SOX ARE G AN INIC GAY POP ANTHEM AS THEIR RALLYG CRY
• MISSISSIPPI TEEN PUTS UNTRY TWIST ON A GAY ANTHEM, SHOCKG ‘AMERIN IDOL’ JUDG

RED SOX ARE G AN INIC GAY POP ANTHEM AS THEIR RALLYG CRY

Before the Philli ed to celebrate an unexpected playoff n and before the Boston Red Sox dubbed the soundtrack of the 2021 season, “Dancg on My Own” was an anthem for pg girls and gays to cry and dance to. The song has also soundtracked endls pop culture moments about that weird triangle of longg, g of age, and fdg muny: Lena Dunham and Allison Wiliams danced to on “Girls” after a character fds out her lover is gay, Elle Fanng sgs to pe her small town the drama “Teen Spir, ” and a vio of a crowd New York Cy subway platform harmonizg to went viral 2019. It plays regularly a lot of Philly’s gay clubs, but some have also nnected the song’s theme of acute lonels to the experience of g out.

“Gay culture has always had to embody outsirship, ” Robyn told OUT magaze 2011.

“I thk ’s a song about beg on the outsi — very physilly — and if feels like a gay anthem then I take that as a super pliment. Calum Stt’s “Dancg on My Own” is like a homosexualized versn of a song a female artist origally put out. But that is fact what mak Stt’s rendn gay, i.

MISSISSIPPI TEEN PUTS UNTRY TWIST ON A GAY ANTHEM, SHOCKG ‘AMERIN IDOL’ JUDG

So wh that add dimensn, Stt’s “Dancg on My Own” almost be a lamentatn of gayns, so to speak.

For stance, spe beg gay himself, he experienced a backlash om a notable segment of the gay muny who felt like Stt didn’t do the origal jtice.