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• ARE ELECTRIC CARS GAY, OR IS VCE VGHN AN IDT? OR, BOTH?BY BRETT BERKOCTOBER 11, 2010SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEUNIVERSAL PICTUR FOUND SELF ON THE RECEIVG END OF A STEAMG PILE OF PK RAGE THIS WEEK, WHEN BOTH THE SILVER FERRET, ANRSON COOPER, AND THE GAY AND LBIAN ALLIANCE AGAST DEFAMATN (GLAAD) TOOK TO TASK FOR A PEJORATIVE E OF THE WORD “GAY” THE TRAILER OF S UPG MOVIE THE DILEMMA. IN THE CLIP—AND, ONE SUPPOS, THE RRELATIVE MOVIE—A CHARACTER PLAYED BY BOX OFFICE-KRYPTONE VCE VGHN IS DISCSG NSUMER PERCEPTNS OF ELECTRIC RS AND SAYS “ELECTRIC RS ARE GAY.” HE THEN GO ON TO QUALIFY, PILG SULT ON JURY: “NOT HOMOSEXUAL GAY. BUT MY-PARENTS-ARE-CHAPERONG-THE-DANCE GAY.”SHUDR. AT A TIME WHEN NUMERO STARS, PSDO-STARS, AND NOT-FOR-PROF ANIZATNS LIKE THE GAY LBIAN STRAIGHT EDUTN NETWORK (GLSEN) ARE ATTEMPTG—SUCCSFULLY, STUDI SHOW —TO CHANGE KIDS’ BEHAVR WH REGARD TO G GAY AS A SYNONYM FOR LAME, UGLY, MORONIC, OR DISTASTEFUL, THE EXTRAORDARILY TENTNAL E OF THE TERM THIS WAY SEEMS NOT ONLY MEAN-SPIRED, DOUCHEY, AND SPERATE, BUT FORMIDABLY UN-FUNNY. (SORT OF LIKE VCE VGHN!) YET AS THE THOR OF A WEEKLY GAY R LUMN HERE AT , I N ALMOST HEAR THE HEAR MORONS-WHO-LOVE-TO-TENTNALLY-IGNORE-ALL-NTEXT ASKG SO HOW E YOU GET TO LL RS GAY, AND THE BLOWHARD BLOAT OM THE FRAT PACK DON’T? WELL, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE NEVER TAKEN SEMTICS OR BEEN MA TO UNRSTAND THE BASIC UNRPNGS OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT, I’LL EXPLA: ALL SPEECH IS NOT EQUAL. IT HAS DIFFERENT SHAS OF MEANG PENDG ON WHO IS SAYG , WHAT NDN AND SUATN IS BEG LIVERED, WHO IS THE TEND DIENCE, AND WHETHER OR NOT HAS OBJECTIVE HUMORO MER. WHEN I’M WRG ABOUT GAY RS—AND I ALWAYS AM—I’M TALKG JOCULARLY, FACETLY, AND FARCILLY ABOUT THEM ACTUALLY BEG GAY, AS , HOMOSEXUAL: HANDSOME, WELL-SIGNED, PREDATORY, PROMISCUO, VIRILE, MCULAR, AND/OR LIKELY TO BE THE LT OBJECT OF AN MALE, MAN-LOVG TOPHILE. IN THIS AME OF REFERENCE, LLG A R “GAY” IS NOT ONLY SPECIFIC, SARSTIC, OVERTLY NONSENSIL, AND ROOTED A PARTICULAR MUNY (ME, THE GAY ONE), ’S ALSO, GENERALLY, PLIMENTARY, AND (HOPEFULLY) IL. AN OVERHYPED, UNRPERFORMG, STRAIGHT ACTOR LLG ELECTRIC RS “GAY” SOLELY AS AN SULT, YET ANOTHER PATHETIC AND DOOMED BROMANCE FLICK, DON’T MEET ANY OF THE CRERIA. (PARTICULARLY WHEN HE’S PLAYG A CHARACTER WE’RE MEANT TO LIKE. IF HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A TOTAL A-HOLE, THE SUATN MIGHT BE DIFFERENT.)PERHAPS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY OF THIS, CREATG AND LIVERG SULTS FOR ELECTRIC RS, WHATEVER FORM, IS AN CREASGLY LAME AND OUTMOD PROPOSN. PRODUCTN RS LIKE THE NISSAN LEAF, CHEVY VOLT, FISKER KARMA, AND MY STALKG PARTNER THE TLA ROADSTER ARE ALREADY MOVG THE BAR OF NSUMER PERCEPTNS TOWARD THE POSIVE, PRACTIL, AND SPORTY, AND HOT AND HUNKY FUTURE VEHICL LIKE THE PORSCHE 918, AUDI E-TRON, AND JAGUAR C-X75 PROMISE TO NTUE THAT TREND. AS MY IEND JAMIE KMAN RECENTLY WROTE AS HIS (WNG) ENTRY A NEW YORK TIM BATE ON ELECTRIC VEHICL, “THE ADVANTAG [OF EVS] ARE HUGELY RELEVANT AND UNNIABLE.” HE WAS TALKG MALY ABOUT THEIR ENERGY EFFICIENCY PARED TO THE TERNALLY BTED. BUT ADD QUIET OPERATN, PROJECTED ENHANCEMENTS BATTERY RANGE AND TECHNOLOGY, AND STANT-ON POWER—ELECTRIC VEHICL LIVER ALL OF THEIR ACCELERATIVE THST THE MOMENT YOU H THE GAS—AND I’M NFINT WE’RE GOG TO BE JUMP-STARTG JOUL OF NSUMER NVERSNS THE NEXT FEW YEARS. THE GAYS ARE KNOWN AS EARLY ADOPTERS—WE PNEERED URBAN REVALIZATN, DIS, AND MANSPG, TO NAME JT A FEW MAJOR SOCIETAL NOVATNS—SO I’M GRABBG THIS ONE BACK OM MR. VGHN. I’D LIKE TO STATE FOR THE RERD: ELECTRIC RS ARE GAY. AS HOMOSEXUAL. AND THIS IS NO SULT; ’S A PK-AND-GREEN RALLYG CRY. SO WATCH THIS SPACE THE NEXT FEW MONTHS FOR MORE EXTENSIVE ELECTRIC-VEHICLE VERAGE.[HAT-TIP TO RAY WERT.]BRETT BERK WR GAILY ABOUT CULTURE, POLICS, AND RS FOR , AND IS THE THOR OF THE GAY UNCLE’S GUI TO PARENTG. VIS HIM AT OR FOLLOW HIM ON TWTER.MOST POPULARELON MK’S TWTER WANTED TO TELL TMP ABOUT A SEALED SEARCH WARRANT AND POTENTIALLY F--K UP JACK SMH’S CRIMAL INVTIGATNBY BS LEVTE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMBY JULIE MILLERRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHBRETT BERK
• GAY BARELECTRIC SIXTRACK 8 ON FIRE  PRODUCED BYSTUART BRADBURY & DAMIEN MENDISMAY. 20, 20031 VIEWER49.4K 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
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• ELECTRIC SIX - GAY BAR (VIO) LYRICS
• ELECTRIC SIX - GAY BAR
• ELECTRIC 6 - GAY BAR LYRICS

ARE ELECTRIC CARS GAY, OR IS VCE VGHN AN IDT? OR, BOTH?BY BRETT BERKOCTOBER 11, 2010SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEUNIVERSAL PICTUR FOUND SELF ON THE RECEIVG END OF A STEAMG PILE OF PK RAGE THIS WEEK, WHEN BOTH THE SILVER FERRET, ANRSON COOPER, AND THE GAY AND LBIAN ALLIANCE AGAST DEFAMATN (GLAAD) TOOK TO TASK FOR A PEJORATIVE E OF THE WORD “GAY” THE TRAILER OF S UPG MOVIE THE DILEMMA. IN THE CLIP—AND, ONE SUPPOS, THE RRELATIVE MOVIE—A CHARACTER PLAYED BY BOX OFFICE-KRYPTONE VCE VGHN IS DISCSG NSUMER PERCEPTNS OF ELECTRIC RS AND SAYS “ELECTRIC RS ARE GAY.” HE THEN GO ON TO QUALIFY, PILG SULT ON JURY: “NOT HOMOSEXUAL GAY. BUT MY-PARENTS-ARE-CHAPERONG-THE-DANCE GAY.”SHUDR. AT A TIME WHEN NUMERO STARS, PSDO-STARS, AND NOT-FOR-PROF ANIZATNS LIKE THE GAY LBIAN STRAIGHT EDUTN NETWORK (GLSEN) ARE ATTEMPTG—SUCCSFULLY, STUDI SHOW —TO CHANGE KIDS’ BEHAVR WH REGARD TO G GAY AS A SYNONYM FOR LAME, UGLY, MORONIC, OR DISTASTEFUL, THE EXTRAORDARILY TENTNAL E OF THE TERM THIS WAY SEEMS NOT ONLY MEAN-SPIRED, DOUCHEY, AND SPERATE, BUT FORMIDABLY UN-FUNNY. (SORT OF LIKE VCE VGHN!) YET AS THE THOR OF A WEEKLY GAY R LUMN HERE AT , I N ALMOST HEAR THE HEAR MORONS-WHO-LOVE-TO-TENTNALLY-IGNORE-ALL-NTEXT ASKG SO HOW E YOU GET TO LL RS GAY, AND THE BLOWHARD BLOAT OM THE FRAT PACK DON’T? WELL, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE NEVER TAKEN SEMTICS OR BEEN MA TO UNRSTAND THE BASIC UNRPNGS OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT, I’LL EXPLA: ALL SPEECH IS NOT EQUAL. IT HAS DIFFERENT SHAS OF MEANG PENDG ON WHO IS SAYG , WHAT NDN AND SUATN IS BEG LIVERED, WHO IS THE TEND DIENCE, AND WHETHER OR NOT HAS OBJECTIVE HUMORO MER. WHEN I’M WRG ABOUT GAY RS—AND I ALWAYS AM—I’M TALKG JOCULARLY, FACETLY, AND FARCILLY ABOUT THEM ACTUALLY BEG GAY, AS , HOMOSEXUAL: HANDSOME, WELL-SIGNED, PREDATORY, PROMISCUO, VIRILE, MCULAR, AND/OR LIKELY TO BE THE LT OBJECT OF AN MALE, MAN-LOVG TOPHILE. IN THIS AME OF REFERENCE, LLG A R “GAY” IS NOT ONLY SPECIFIC, SARSTIC, OVERTLY NONSENSIL, AND ROOTED A PARTICULAR MUNY (ME, THE GAY ONE), ’S ALSO, GENERALLY, PLIMENTARY, AND (HOPEFULLY) IL. AN OVERHYPED, UNRPERFORMG, STRAIGHT ACTOR LLG ELECTRIC RS “GAY” SOLELY AS AN SULT, YET ANOTHER PATHETIC AND DOOMED BROMANCE FLICK, DON’T MEET ANY OF THE CRERIA. (PARTICULARLY WHEN HE’S PLAYG A CHARACTER WE’RE MEANT TO LIKE. IF HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A TOTAL A-HOLE, THE SUATN MIGHT BE DIFFERENT.)PERHAPS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY OF THIS, CREATG AND LIVERG SULTS FOR ELECTRIC RS, WHATEVER FORM, IS AN CREASGLY LAME AND OUTMOD PROPOSN. PRODUCTN RS LIKE THE NISSAN LEAF, CHEVY VOLT, FISKER KARMA, AND MY STALKG PARTNER THE TLA ROADSTER ARE ALREADY MOVG THE BAR OF NSUMER PERCEPTNS TOWARD THE POSIVE, PRACTIL, AND SPORTY, AND HOT AND HUNKY FUTURE VEHICL LIKE THE PORSCHE 918, AUDI E-TRON, AND JAGUAR C-X75 PROMISE TO NTUE THAT TREND. AS MY IEND JAMIE KMAN RECENTLY WROTE AS HIS (WNG) ENTRY A NEW YORK TIM BATE ON ELECTRIC VEHICL, “THE ADVANTAG [OF EVS] ARE HUGELY RELEVANT AND UNNIABLE.” HE WAS TALKG MALY ABOUT THEIR ENERGY EFFICIENCY PARED TO THE TERNALLY BTED. BUT ADD QUIET OPERATN, PROJECTED ENHANCEMENTS BATTERY RANGE AND TECHNOLOGY, AND STANT-ON POWER—ELECTRIC VEHICL LIVER ALL OF THEIR ACCELERATIVE THST THE MOMENT YOU H THE GAS—AND I’M NFINT WE’RE GOG TO BE JUMP-STARTG JOUL OF NSUMER NVERSNS THE NEXT FEW YEARS. THE GAYS ARE KNOWN AS EARLY ADOPTERS—WE PNEERED URBAN REVALIZATN, DIS, AND MANSPG, TO NAME JT A FEW MAJOR SOCIETAL NOVATNS—SO I’M GRABBG THIS ONE BACK OM MR. VGHN. I’D LIKE TO STATE FOR THE RERD: ELECTRIC RS ARE GAY. AS HOMOSEXUAL. AND THIS IS NO SULT; ’S A PK-AND-GREEN RALLYG CRY. SO WATCH THIS SPACE THE NEXT FEW MONTHS FOR MORE EXTENSIVE ELECTRIC-VEHICLE VERAGE.[HAT-TIP TO RAY WERT.]BRETT BERK WR GAILY ABOUT CULTURE, POLICS, AND RS FOR , AND IS THE THOR OF THE GAY UNCLE’S GUI TO PARENTG. VIS HIM AT OR FOLLOW HIM ON TWTER.MOST POPULARELON MK’S TWTER WANTED TO TELL TMP ABOUT A SEALED SEARCH WARRANT AND POTENTIALLY F--K UP JACK SMH’S CRIMAL INVTIGATNBY BS LEVTE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMBY JULIE MILLERRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHBRETT BERK

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.

GAY BARELECTRIC SIXTRACK 8 ON FIRE  PRODUCED BYSTUART BRADBURY & DAMIEN MENDISMAY. 20, 20031 VIEWER49.4K 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

It me about when Tyler Spencer was one of his favore bars (not a gay bar): Gole Alley Royal Oak, Michigan. 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.

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"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).

ELECTRIC SIX - GAY BAR (VIO) LYRICS

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! " It's set the Oval Office 1983, wh Tyler Spencer playg the role of a very gay Abraham Lln.

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"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.

Universal Pictur found self on the receivg end of a steamg pile of Pk Rage this week, when both the Silver Ferret, Anrson Cooper, and the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) took to task for a pejorative e of the word “gay” the trailer of s upg movie The Dilemma. In the clip—and, one suppos, the rrelative movie—a character played by box office-Kryptone Vce Vghn is discsg nsumer perceptns of electric rs and says “electric rs are gay. ” He then go on to qualify, pilg sult on jury: “Not homosexual gay.

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But my-parents-are-chaperong-the-dance gay. At a time when numero stars, psdo-stars, and not-for-prof anizatns like the Gay Lbian Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN) are attemptg—succsfully, studi show —to change kids’ behavr wh regard to g gay as a synonym for lame, ugly, moronic, or distasteful, the extraordarily tentnal e of the term this way seems not only mean-spired, douchey, and sperate, but formidably un-funny. ) Yet as the thor of a weekly gay r lumn here at, I n almost hear the hear morons-who-love-to-tentnally-ignore-all-ntext askg So how e you get to ll rs gay, and the blowhard bloat om The Frat Pack don’t?

When I’m wrg about gay rs—and I always am—I’m talkg jocularly, facetly, and farcilly about them actually beg gay, as , homosexual: handsome, well-signed, predatory, promiscuo, virile, mcular, and/or likely to be the lt object of an male, man-lovg tophile.

In this ame of reference, llg a r “gay” is not only specific, sarstic, overtly nonsensil, and rooted a particular muny (me, the gay one), ’s also, generally, plimentary, and (hopefully) il. An overhyped, unrperformg, straight actor llg electric rs “gay” solely as an sult, yet another pathetic and doomed bromance flick, don’t meet any of the creria. The gays are known as early adopters—we pneered urban revalizatn, dis, and manspg, to name jt a few major societal novatns—so I’m grabbg this one back om Mr.