HAPPY PRIDE! How “Y.M.C.A.” Beme a Gay Anthem! | Now See Hear!

Contents:

• VICTOR GAY
• GAY PAREEROBERT PRTONTRACK 4 ON VICTOR/VICTORIA (MOTN PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) PRODUCED BYGEE FELTENSTETHE FILM’S OPENG NUMBER TRODUC TO CARROLL “TODDY” TODD (ROBERT PRTON), A HOMOSEXUAL BARET SGER WHO SGS A SONG WH D LYRICS ABOUT PARIS' HOMOSEXUAL… READ MORE 1 VIEWER5.2K VIEWS4 CONTRIBUTORSGAY PAREE LYRICS[TODDY]WHEN PEOPLE SPEAK OF GAY PAREETHEY THK THAT WHEN THEY SAY PAREE IS GAYTHEY MEAN THAT GAY PAREE IS GAY;IT IS! NOT THE WAY PAREEWAS GAY YTERDAY PAREE;IT MEANS TODAY THAT GAY PAREE IS "GAY!"NOT THAT GAY!THEY SAY PAREE HAS ALWAYS BEEN "THAT WAY!"ALONG THE BANKS OF THE SEEJT TAKE A WALK NOW AND THENYOU'LL MEET SOME TERTG MEN: GAY PAREE!ALONG THE RUE MALEEEACH EVENG 'ROUND ABOUT TENYOU'LL SEE TIME AND TIME AGA: GAY PAREE!IF YOU'VE A SOIREE TO SPAREGO TO THE FOLLI BERGERYOU'LL SEE SUCH GAIETY THEREC'T LA VIE!AROUND THE RUE S BEX-ARTSWHERE ALL THE BARETS SHOWS AREI MEAN, WELL, REALLY THOSE AREYOU'LL AGREEWHAT THEY MEAN WHEN THEY SAY "GAY PAREE"!YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKEDU FOUBOURG SAT HONOREWHERE ALL THE LNAIR PLAYIS ALSO, I'M SO GLAD TO SAY, GAY PAREE!THE RUE RIVOLI ARWHERE FANCY GOODS ARE DISPLAYEDTHERE'S ALSO PLENTY OF ROUGH TRA: GAY PAREE!AND ARRONDISSEMENT EIGHTTHE CHAMPS ELYSE I WOULD RATEPERHAPS THE ONE THG THAT'S STRAIGHT AS N BEAND AT THE CAFE LA PAIXIF YOU ARE HEADG THAT WAYTHEY DRK A TOAST EV'RY DAY AROUND THREE;THEY MAKE EACH MOMENT AS GAYAS LE QUATORZE OF JUILLET;THAT'S WHAT THEY MEAN WHEN THE SAY"GAY PAREE!"EMBEDCANCELHOW 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 FOMABOUTGENI ANNOTATN1 NTRIBUTORTHE FILM’S OPENG NUMBER TRODUC TO CARROLL “TODDY” TODD (ROBERT PRTON), A HOMOSEXUAL BARET SGER WHO SGS A SONG WH D LYRICS ABOUT PARIS' HOMOSEXUAL UNRGROUND SCENE.EXPAND +1SHAREASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌WHO PRODUCED “GAY PAREE” BY ROBERT PRTON?WHO WROTE “GAY PAREE” BY ROBERT PRTON?VICTOR/VICTORIA (MOTN PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) (1982)VAR ARTISTS2. CHERRY RIPE4. GAY PAREE10. LE JAZZ HOT!12. YOU AND ME14. CHIGO, ILLOIS15. THE SHADY DAME FROM SEVILLE25. CRAZY WORLD28. FALE/SHADY DAME OM SEVILLE (REPRISE)CREDSPRODUCED BYGEE FELTENSTEWRTEN BYHENRY MANCI & LLIE BRICSETAGSPOPMILSEXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE
• VILLAGE PEOPLE FOUNR VICTOR WILLIS ON WHY YMCA WASN’T A GAY SONG
• HAPPY PRIDE! HOW “Y.M.C.A.” BEME A GAY ANTHEM!
• THE GAY GORDONS
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

VICTOR GAY

It's implied that this is more of a ncealed kd of place to gather -the-closet gay young men so they n leave their worri and troubl behd and let loose. While the lyrics don't nta any specific gay referenc, the song beme a gay 1977, producers Jacqu Morali and Henri Belolo assembled a group signed to attract gay dienc while parodyg (some claimed explog) that same nstuency's stereotyp. Songwrers Phil Hurtt and Peter Whehead were tapped to pose songs wh gay unrpngs.

A mon misnceptn was that Village People were an all-gay troupe. Henri Belolo was not gay, but Jacqu Morali was, and the image nformed to his visn. The gay stereotype rol played well to the LGBT muny associated wh dis at the time, but lookg back, 's kd of ridiculo to thk that diss were "a gay thg" (nobody was havg spicns of, say, John Travolta).

The rrect way to make the C is to the left, so looks like a C to people facg song's -wrer, Victor Willis, sists this is not a "gay song, " wh the le "you n hang out wh all the boys" spired by his youth, when he would play basketball wh his iends at the YMCA.

GAY PAREEROBERT PRTONTRACK 4 ON VICTOR/VICTORIA (MOTN PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) PRODUCED BYGEE FELTENSTETHE FILM’S OPENG NUMBER TRODUC TO CARROLL “TODDY” TODD (ROBERT PRTON), A HOMOSEXUAL BARET SGER WHO SGS A SONG WH D LYRICS ABOUT PARIS' HOMOSEXUAL… READ MORE 1 VIEWER5.2K VIEWS4 CONTRIBUTORSGAY PAREE LYRICS[TODDY]WHEN PEOPLE SPEAK OF GAY PAREETHEY THK THAT WHEN THEY SAY PAREE IS GAYTHEY MEAN THAT GAY PAREE IS GAY;IT IS! NOT THE WAY PAREEWAS GAY YTERDAY PAREE;IT MEANS TODAY THAT GAY PAREE IS "GAY!"NOT THAT GAY!THEY SAY PAREE HAS ALWAYS BEEN "THAT WAY!"ALONG THE BANKS OF THE SEEJT TAKE A WALK NOW AND THENYOU'LL MEET SOME TERTG MEN: GAY PAREE!ALONG THE RUE MALEEEACH EVENG 'ROUND ABOUT TENYOU'LL SEE TIME AND TIME AGA: GAY PAREE!IF YOU'VE A SOIREE TO SPAREGO TO THE FOLLI BERGERYOU'LL SEE SUCH GAIETY THEREC'T LA VIE!AROUND THE RUE S BEX-ARTSWHERE ALL THE BARETS SHOWS AREI MEAN, WELL, REALLY THOSE AREYOU'LL AGREEWHAT THEY MEAN WHEN THEY SAY "GAY PAREE"!YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKEDU FOUBOURG SAT HONOREWHERE ALL THE LNAIR PLAYIS ALSO, I'M SO GLAD TO SAY, GAY PAREE!THE RUE RIVOLI ARWHERE FANCY GOODS ARE DISPLAYEDTHERE'S ALSO PLENTY OF ROUGH TRA: GAY PAREE!AND ARRONDISSEMENT EIGHTTHE CHAMPS ELYSE I WOULD RATEPERHAPS THE ONE THG THAT'S STRAIGHT AS N BEAND AT THE CAFE LA PAIXIF YOU ARE HEADG THAT WAYTHEY DRK A TOAST EV'RY DAY AROUND THREE;THEY MAKE EACH MOMENT AS GAYAS LE QUATORZE OF JUILLET;THAT'S WHAT THEY MEAN WHEN THE SAY"GAY PAREE!"EMBEDCANCELHOW 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 FOMABOUTGENI ANNOTATN1 NTRIBUTORTHE FILM’S OPENG NUMBER TRODUC TO CARROLL “TODDY” TODD (ROBERT PRTON), A HOMOSEXUAL BARET SGER WHO SGS A SONG WH D LYRICS ABOUT PARIS' HOMOSEXUAL UNRGROUND SCENE.EXPAND +1SHAREASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌WHO PRODUCED “GAY PAREE” BY ROBERT PRTON?WHO WROTE “GAY PAREE” BY ROBERT PRTON?VICTOR/VICTORIA (MOTN PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) (1982)VAR ARTISTS2. CHERRY RIPE4. GAY PAREE10. LE JAZZ HOT!12. YOU AND ME14. CHIGO, ILLOIS15. THE SHADY DAME FROM SEVILLE25. CRAZY WORLD28. FALE/SHADY DAME OM SEVILLE (REPRISE)CREDSPRODUCED BYGEE FELTENSTEWRTEN BYHENRY MANCI & LLIE BRICSETAGSPOPMILSEXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE

"I'm happy the gay muny adopted as their anthem, I have no qualms wh that. Pl, wh Jacqu beg gay, I had a lot of iends I worked out wh who were the adult-film dtry, and he was imprsed by meetg people he had seen the vios and magaz.

VILLAGE PEOPLE FOUNR VICTOR WILLIS ON WHY YMCA WASN’T A GAY SONG

" certaly has a gay orig. That's what Jacqu was thkg when he wrote , bee our first album [1977's Village People] was possibly the gayt album ever. We were a gay group.

So was the song wrten to celebrate gay men at the YMCA?

And gay people love . For Drag Race’s facto rint poser is also one of the most prolific out gay micians workg right now. That’s addn to workg on the mic for Hulu’s Love, Victor and Quibi’s Gayme Show.

HAPPY PRIDE! HOW “Y.M.C.A.” BEME A GAY ANTHEM!

But that song was apparently beg played at all the gay clubs the U.

“My Brother’s Gay” (Chase Dreams). And so we found that really funny, dog a One Republic/Amerina song for “My Brother’s Gay” to an over to-tuned dance song, where you n hardly hear any human his vols whatsoever. Where “BITE, ” which I wrote wh Troye and Allie X, was about maybe gog to a bathhoe for the first time (which at that pot, none of had been, we jt sort of let our imagatns n wild), “God, This Feels Good” was about gog to a gay bar for the first time.

THE GAY GORDONS

I thk I end up turng , like, 47 piec of ntent for Gayme Show, but each one of them were, you know, six, seven sends long.

We had worked on Gayme Show wh Vonzell [Solomon]. Meet Leland, the Composer Behd Your Favore Gay TV Hs. Love, Victor follows Victor Salazar (Michael Cimo) as he navigat beg gay while beg om a strict Latx, Catholic fay.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

In addn to well-known hs om Sam Smh and Tyler Glenn, season 2 clus eight origal sgs were -wrten and -produced by gay sger/songwrer Leland, who worked wh a variety of queer artists for the seri. Gay Paree Lyrics[TODDY]When people speak of Gay PareeThey thk that when they say Paree is gayThey mean that gay Paree is gay;It is! Not the way PareeWas gay yterday Paree;It means today that gay Paree is "Gay!

"Not that gay!

"Along the banks of the SeeJt take a walk now and thenYou'll meet some tertg men: Gay Paree!

Along the Rue MaleeEach eveng 'round about tenYou'll see time and time aga: Gay Paree! Around the Rue s Bex-ArtsWhere all the barets shows areI mean, well, really those areYou'll agreeWhat they mean when they say "Gay Paree"! Du Foubourg Sat HonoreWhere all the lnair playIs also, I'm so glad to say, Gay Paree!

The Rue Rivoli ArWhere fancy goods are displayedThere's also plenty of rough tra: Gay Paree! And arrondissement eightThe Champs Elyse I would ratePerhaps the one thg that's straight as n beAnd at the Cafe la PaixIf you are headg that wayThey drk a toast ev'ry day around three;They make each moment as gayAs Le Quatorze of Juillet;That's what they mean when the say"Gay Paree!