The Gay Bar, McDonald's, Ta Bell, the Gat of Hell, etc: The Are Electric Six's Plac of Intert - The Village Voice

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• GAY BAR
• ELECTRIC SIX: GAY BAR MEANG
• GAY BAR.ELECTRIC SIX LYRICS
• GAY BARELECTRIC SIXTRACK 8 ON FIRE  PRODUCED BYSTUART BRADBURY & DAMIEN MENDISMAY. 20, 20031 VIEWER48.6K VIEWS14 CONTRIBUTORSGAY BAR LYRICSGIRL!I WANNA TAKE YOU TO A GAY BARI WANNA TAKE YOU TO A GAY BARI WANNA TAKE YOU TO A GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BARLET'S START A WAR, START A NUCLEAR WARAT THE GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BARWOW!AT THE GAY BARNOW TELL ME DO YA, A DO YA HAVE ANY MONEY?I WANNA SPEND ALL YOUR MONEYAT THE GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BARI'VE GOT SOMETHG TO PUT YOUI'VE GOT SOMETHG TO PUT YOUI'VE GOT SOMETHG TO PUT YOUAT THE GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BARWOW!YOU'RE A SUPERSTAR, AT THE GAY BARYOU'RE A SUPERSTAR, AT THE GAY BARYEAH! YOU'RE A SUPERSTAR, AT THE GAY BARYOU'RE A SUPERSTAR, AT THE GAY BARSUPERSTARSUPER, SUPER, SUPERSTARYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE3EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
• GAY BAR08. ELECTRIC SIX LYRICS
• ELECTRIC SIX - GAY BAR CHE
• GAY BARELECTRIC SIX (FIRE) LYRICS
• THE GAY BAR, MCDONALD’S, TA BELL, THE GAT OF HELL, ETC: THE ARE ELECTRIC SIX’S PLAC OF INTERT
• GAY BAR

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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.

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Gay bar. "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!

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" 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. I want to take you to a gay bar.

GAY BARELECTRIC SIXTRACK 8 ON FIRE  PRODUCED BYSTUART BRADBURY & DAMIEN MENDISMAY. 20, 20031 VIEWER48.6K VIEWS14 CONTRIBUTORSGAY BAR LYRICSGIRL!I WANNA TAKE YOU TO A GAY BARI WANNA TAKE YOU TO A GAY BARI WANNA TAKE YOU TO A GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BARLET'S START A WAR, START A NUCLEAR WARAT THE GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BARWOW!AT THE GAY BARNOW TELL ME DO YA, A DO YA HAVE ANY MONEY?I WANNA SPEND ALL YOUR MONEYAT THE GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BARI'VE GOT SOMETHG TO PUT YOUI'VE GOT SOMETHG TO PUT YOUI'VE GOT SOMETHG TO PUT YOUAT THE GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BARWOW!YOU'RE A SUPERSTAR, AT THE GAY BARYOU'RE A SUPERSTAR, AT THE GAY BARYEAH! YOU'RE A SUPERSTAR, AT THE GAY BARYOU'RE A SUPERSTAR, AT THE GAY BARSUPERSTARSUPER, SUPER, SUPERSTARYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE3EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

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. Gay Bar Lyrics.

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I wanna take you to a gay bar,. I wanna take you to a gay bar, gay bar, gay bar.

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It is not herently homophobic, nor homophilic, at least not tryg to offer a msage meang. This song is basilly a bunch of nonsense about a uple people gog to a gay bar, for whatever reason, possibly they are closeted, who knows they are real anyway. The Lln referenc may be referrg to allegatns that Lln was gay, who knows.

We are all wners and superstars today, and nobody ever los, thanks to gay Abraham Lln! There's nothg wrong wh beg gay but plenty wrong wh W*R. Some people, on the right, still see the eeg of the slav as the first step onto the slippery slope that end up equaly for gays.

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As a money grabbg stutn that jt wants to spend your money on helpg lbians and gays and other perceived left wg .

I thk Dick Valente wants to take me to a gay bar, and I thk Beth is okay wh that. Its about how some people believe that print ln was gay and had many gay lovers.

THE GAY BAR, MCDONALD’S, TA BELL, THE GAT OF HELL, ETC: THE ARE ELECTRIC SIX’S PLAC OF INTERT

On a crisp Chelsea eveng, if you listen very closely, you will hear the words 'Take me to the gay bar' beg sung the distance.

Thanks to the Detro glam-rock-electronic-nceptual group Electric Six, the lyrics, along wh 'Fire the dis, fire the Ta Bell, ' have bee mon nearly 15 years ago, Electric Six has a loyal followg of macho bros and gay men alike. It tak time to realize that when eight or ne guys show up at your shows you have to talk to them otherwise they get mt be tertg to see meatheads sg along to "Gay Bar.

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I n't tell you how many tim they will e up to and be like, 'I'm not gay and all but I love "Gay Bar" -- not that I'm gay. GirlI want to take you to a gay barI want to take you to a gay barI want to take you to a gay bar, gay bar, gay barLet's start a warStart a nuclear warAt the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar.

WowAt the gay barNow tell me do yaDo ya have any money? I wanna spend all your moneyAt the gay bar, gay bar, gay barI've got somethg to put youI've got somethg to put youI've got somethg to put youAt the gay bar, gay bar, gay barHeyYou're a superstarAt the gay barYou're a superstarAt the gay barYeah, you're a superstarAt the gay barYou're a superstarAt the gay barSuperstar.

(Superstar)The song "Gay Bar" by Electric Six is chock full of sexual nuendos that are both playful and provotive. The song is sentially an vatn om the sger to take his partner to a gay bar.

The sger wants to start a war, a nuclear war, at the gay bar. This juxtaposn of the nvivialy of the gay bar wh the vastatn of war is both ironic and tentnally provotive. The lyrics ntue wh the sger wantg to spend all his partner's money at the gay bar.

The fal l of the song state that at the gay bar, the partner is a superstar. This le reprents a nod to the cultural signifince of gay bars as both a space of acceptance and celebratn of dividualy.

GirlThe speaker addrs a girl whom he wants to brg to a gay bar. I want to take you to a gay barThe speaker exprs his sire to take the girl to a gay 's start a warThe speaker suggts the ia of startg a nuclear war at the gay a nuclear warThe speaker repeats the ia of startg a nuclear war at the gay the gay bar, gay bar, gay barThe speaker emphasiz the lotn of the gay bar, repeatg three tell me do yaThe speaker asks the girl if she has any ya have any money?

I wanna spend all your moneyThe speaker exprs his tentn to spend all of the girl's money at the gay bar. I've got somethg to put youThe speaker impli that he has somethg to offer the girl at the gay speaker terjects a word to grab the girl's 're a superstarThe speaker pliments the girl, llg her a the gay barThe speaker emphasiz the lotn of the gay bar once, you're a superstarThe speaker repeats his pliment to the girl, llg her a superstar aga.

6K viewsGay Bar LyricsGirl! I wanna take you to a gay barI wanna take you to a gay barI wanna take you to a gay bar, gay bar, gay barLet's start a war, start a nuclear warAt the gay bar, gay bar, gay barWow! At the gay barNow tell me do ya, a do ya have any money?

I wanna spend all your moneyAt the gay bar, gay bar, gay barI've got somethg to put youI've got somethg to put youI've got somethg to put youAt the gay bar, gay bar, gay barWow! You're a superstar, at the gay barYou're a superstar, at the gay barYeah! You're a superstar, at the gay barYou're a superstar, at the gay barSuperstarSuper, super, superstarHow to Format Lyrics:Type out all lyrics, even repeatg song parts like the chosLyrics should be broken down to dividual lUse sectn hears above different song parts like [Verse], [Chos], alics (<i>lyric</i>) and bold (<b>lyric</b>) to distguish between different volists the same song partIf you don’t unrstand a lyric, e [?

]To learn more, check out our transcriptn gui or vis our transcribers fomAboutThis song b is unreviewedThe ia for this song me up om rrectly hearg the lyrics of DEVO’s “Girl U Want” as “’s jt a girl, ’s jt a girl at a gay bar” while the song was playg a nightclub. Gay Bar08. Electric Six LyricsJump to: Overall Meang | Le by Le MeangGirlI want to take you to a gay barI want to take you to a gay barI want to take you to a gay bar, gay bar, gay barLet's start a warStart a nuclear warAt the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar.

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Overall, the lyrics of "Gay Bar" n be seen as a mentary on societal expectatns of genr and power, as well as a playful subversn of tradnal mascule spac.