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Contents:
- COUNTRY RAD STATNS ARE PULLG THE SONG "GIRL CSH" BEE LISTENERS SAY IT "PROMOT A GAY AGENDA"
- RAD STATNS PULL LTLE BIG TOWN'S 'GIRL CSH' OVER COMPLATS OF SONG'S 'GAY AGENDA'
- ‘GIRLS’ GONE WRONG: WHO GETS TO MAKE A GAY LOVE SONG?
- WHY UNTRY STATNS ARE PULLG THE SONG GIRL CSH' (HT: THE GAY AGENDA)
COUNTRY RAD STATNS ARE PULLG THE SONG "GIRL CSH" BEE LISTENERS SAY IT "PROMOT A GAY AGENDA"
Rad Statns Pull Country Band's H Song Bee Of 'Gay Agenda' * girl crush is it a gay song *
The new sgle "Girl Csh" om Grammy-wng untry group Ltle Big Town has been pulled om many untry rad statns for angerg listeners who claim the song "promot a gay agenda. "You are jt promotg the gay agenda on your statn, " a Texas rad program director said she heard one ller say. It brgs up a lot of qutns about same-sex love, homophobia, heteronormativy, and jt what a girl csh is.
Functnally though, ’s often the “no homo” of straight women. It’s jt that a culture still teemg wh homophobia, many feel the need to nstantly clarify how totally straight they are wh phras like “girl csh”.
RAD STATNS PULL LTLE BIG TOWN'S 'GIRL CSH' OVER COMPLATS OF SONG'S 'GAY AGENDA'
“I’m not gay; I jt really like the cloth Victoria’s Secret talogu. As is, rad statns have been gettg plats about playg a “lbian” song and phg the gay agenda. Maybe “Girl Csh” will ch some people forward beg ls homophobic.
“To my surprise, after explag the song to more than a handful of people, every one of them rpond wh basilly the same thg: ‘You are jt promotg the gay agenda on your statn and I am changg the channel and never listeng to you ever aga!, '” TexMex wrote, gog on to expla that the plats ma his/her boss move the song back om medium to light rotatn. For Anti-Gay Legislatn. Acrdg to the Washgton Post, has been pulled om several rad markets across the natn, cludg one Boise where the director of the statn told prs that she heard om her listeners, that “sponsored the gay agenda”.
It mak one wonr what the “gay agenda” would look like Nashville. Liberal crics have noticed that untry mic is the middle of a gay moment, both wh the songs, and the scuttlebutt around Nashville (see the out Shane McAnally and Brandy Clark, or that le Kacey Mgrav’ “Follow Your Arrow“, which end up wng the Grammy).
‘GIRLS’ GONE WRONG: WHO GETS TO MAKE A GAY LOVE SONG?
“Girl Csh” ph a qutn wh a two-sid example: is phg a gay agenda, eher for those who worry that Nashville was the last safe place agast a cultural vasn or for those untry listeners who hope for cln a genre that has found them historilly problematic? Lookg at the gay potential for this kd of songwrg; the hope is for more gay potential and not ls, more sire.
I’m thkg about the documentary about the Lbian and Gay Roo Circu, Queens and Cowboys, recently released on Vio on Demand. It was before “Girl Csh” was released, but the potential of a gay roo band always appears and never que fully manifts. The movie mentned straight wboys playg the gay roo bee accs was easier — there is potential that the work is the work.
There are l “Girl Csh” that lend themselv to an explic queer readg, the homophobe om Boise is not wrong at pickg them out. Part of the ambiguy found the Ltle Big Town track is a kd of homosocialy, or iends same-genred groups who hang out together. There’s a sense sometim that the homosocial groups, pecially homosocial groups that feature men, have a sexual subtext, In recent untry mic, there are all kds of boys the woods, sgg about beg boys the woods, sometim wh women, but often not.
WHY UNTRY STATNS ARE PULLG THE SONG GIRL CSH' (HT: THE GAY AGENDA)
I don’t thk there was gay panic about this potential, but I also thk that there was a sense that the boys had to grow up.
There were reasons that a song that uld be nsired queer broke through at the same time that male homosocialy retreated. The enmhed works of sire and pleasure — between iendship and the potential of sexualy, this kd of game playg has fascated crics of homosocialy, who, om the ’70s onward have paid a lot of attentn to what men do together — often bee what men do together his a multu of ss by s blankns.
One of the ways that this song is ambiguo, is how revers bro-d masculi, how talks about women’s relatnship to women, possibly a sexual way but also possibly a way that reflects the failure of homosocial iendship.