The Real Meang Behd Marv Gaye's 'What's Gog On'

Contents:

• IS Y.M.C.A. REALLY A GAY SONG? THE MEANG OF THE LYRICS
• IS ACTUALLY GAY? HERE’S THE TE MEANG OF THE SONG “YMCA”
• UR SO GAY
• GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
• BILLIE EILISH EXPLAS MEANG BEHD NEW SGLE ‘WISH YOU WERE GAY’
• THE REAL MEANG BEHD MARV GAYE'S 'WHAT'S GOG ON'
• 15 SONG LYRICS THAT DEFE BEG GAY AND SGLE

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

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.

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. Village People - YMCA OFFICIAL Mic Vio 1978This don’t exclu that the band played on the multiple terpretatns of the lyrics to wk at the gay muny. Also thanks to the official vio, which you n fd a song that n be terpreted a homosexual key, therefore, but that do not necsarily have to be meant wh this only man, there’s no need to feel downI said, young man, pick yourself off the groundI said, young man, ’e you’re a new townThere’s no need to be unhappyYoung man, there’s a place you n goI said, young man, when you’re short on your doughYou n stay there, and I’m sure you will fdMany ways to have a good timeIt’s fun to stay at the YMCAIt’s fun to stay at the YMCAThey have everythg for you men to enjoyYou n hang out wh all the boysIt’s fun to stay at the YMCAIt’s fun to stay at the YMCAYou n get yourself clean, you n have a good mealYou n do what ever you feelYoung man, are you listeng to me?

IS ACTUALLY GAY? HERE’S THE TE MEANG OF THE SONG “YMCA”

While some classics do appear on our list, others do not – sorry, Gloria Gaynor, Kylie Mogue, RuPl, Brney and Cher, we still adore you — here are 25 sential pri songs om the 1970s to today. Somewhat rctively lled the “Queen of Dis, ” the virtuosic, openly gay sger approached genr ( his performative and private liv) as a fluid, non-bary ncept a pre–Judh Butler era. Although seems most of Queen’s fans were cluels as to how openly gay and subversive ontman Freddie Mercury was – spe the unabashed swank of his stage prence – he also never really tried to hi .

UR SO GAY

Rodgers later told the Mail on Sunday that they wrote the track “bee of her gay followg, ” but fibbed a ltle to a sktish Ross. The lyrics e om the out-and-proud Brish punk rocker Tom Robson, who had a h of his own wh “Glad to be Gay. Much of Erasure’s disgraphy embodi not precisely celebratory gay pri but gay romantic realy – a ankns about the emotnal, if not overtly sexual, liv of gay men toward the end of the 20th century.

So when out Brish duo Andy Bell and Vce Clarke’s plative yet buoyant sgle beme a worldwi h gay-uniendly 1988, felt quietly revolutnary to anyone the know. Ontman had long been a whe-hot sex symbol, role mol and trendsetter for gay men and other LGBTQ dividuals across the world. The Bay Area gay punk pneers found a ht of mastream fame when they toured wh Green Day on their Dookie n 1994, but was their sexy lyrics and who-giv-a-fuck attu that enared them to a generatn of queer kids – before that term was even fashnable.

GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)

It’s difficult to pick one song that f them – wh songs like “Dick of Death, ” “Groovy Unrwear” or their classic ver of Prce’s “Jack You Off” – but we went wh one that seems to fy the ia of a gay “anthem” no matter how you thk of . We’re not jt gay and micians, ” Jon Goli told Rollg Stone last year before the release of their latt album, Que Contrary.

I thk, over time, some of them are ls specifilly gay than they were at first bee seemed like, when we had the chance that was really what we wanted to sg about and that was really unique. Ltle did she know that her wgirl blu would not only w her the Grammy for Bt Female Rock Vol Performance but would also yield an empowerg theme for the gay muny. As both voutly straight edge and proudly homosexual, their substance-ee stance ma them stand out a time when bars, clubs and other toxitg spac prised the few safe havens for LGBTQ people.

BILLIE EILISH EXPLAS MEANG BEHD NEW SGLE ‘WISH YOU WERE GAY’

When I me to the pot where I was actively gay took a b of time to get fortable and e out but I felt ready for whatever me my way. ” Although only a actn of the band’s succs Europe translated to the Uned Stat, “Take Your Mama” remas a staple gay bars across the untry. Butler later told The New York Tim that “Bld” relled “growg up a gay kid, my immediate fay and social group rejectg me, and askg why I was born to this suatn.

The tr would later make headl after the 2014 Grammy Awards, where their landmark performance of the song would soundtrack a mass weddg between 33 gay and straight upl.

” Sgg “No fay is safe when I sashay, ” he slks to a nference room and gyrat his hips for a room full of sus – a sly riposte to the legns of homophob who weaponize their fears agast LGBTQ people, om wh board rooms, Congrs, or out on the streets.

THE REAL MEANG BEHD MARV GAYE'S 'WHAT'S GOG ON'

In 1978, Village People, a dis band of six men liberately stylized as sexy macho gay characters, released s album Cis’. The gay muny also quickly adopted as an anthem, pecially sce the song proclaims that a “young man” n fd “everythg for you men to enjoy” and “many ways to have a good time” as they “hang out wh all the boys.

15 SONG LYRICS THAT DEFE BEG GAY AND SGLE

But Village People’s straight Black lead sger Victor Willis — who drsed as the group’s policeman and -wrote the song wh the band’s straight producer Henri Belolo and s gay producer Jacqu Morali — told News Corp Atralia 2017 that the song was actually spired by Willis’ youth spent watchg his iends playg basketball at a New York Cy YMCA. Randy Jon, who performed as Village People’s wboy, told Sp magaze 2008 that he helped spire Morali to create the song by takg the producer to a New York Cy YMCA gym the late 1970s and havg him meet gay porn mols who worked out there. “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.

We were a gay group, ” he said, notg that his band’s mic was often played  Black, Lat, and gay unrground clubs. When asked 2018 how the YMCA anizatn feels about the song and s gay associatn, YMCA media relatns manager Leah Pouw said (a b more enthiastilly than Dietz), “We at the YMCA celebrate the song.

“All the years later, the gay subtext is gone, and ’s a rah-rah crowd-pleaser for the baseball stadium crowd, ” Mto said, notg the song’s populary at sportg events. A rallyg song for the opprsed turns to a middle-of-the-road spir-lifter, maly bee the straights like to steal thgs om the gays, take away all the sry edge, and make their own. But even though “YMCA” n be terpreted as a subtle gay cisg bop or an upbeat memory of iends playg basketball at “the Y” (as the muny centers are now lled), an alternate possible meang emerg late the song.