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Fran</a></span></span></p></div><time data-ttid="ContentHearPublishDate" dateTime="2017-06-23T09:00:00-04:00" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ContentHearPublishDate-eIBicG iUEiRd ekhvDV dQlcNj">June 23, 2017</time></div></div><div class="SocialInsWrapper-hKMEXV ffgPVr social-ins social-ins--standard ContentHearAccredatnSocialIns-jorO fPzfaa ntent-hear__social-share"><ul data-ttid="socialInslist" class="SocialInsList-cHVTIA ivmblD social-ins__list"></ul></div></div></div><div class="ContentHearLeadAsset-hGbumP dDDxdb lead-asset ContentHearLeadAssetWrapper-hfXHEc Grck" data-ttid="ContentHearLeadAsset"><figure class="ContentHearLeadAssetContent-kOfYSG dRGWbI"><div class="ContentHearLeadAssetContentMedia-bLEIpi jjhWdS lead-asset__ntent__photo"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset ContentHearRponsiveAsset-bREgIb hONbnm"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hAEPwD"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ContentHearRponsiveAsset-bREgIb hONbnm rponsive-image"><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w, 1920w, 2240w" siz="100vw"/><img alt="This image may nta Clothg Apparel Human Person Hat and Sun Hat" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></picture></div></div></span><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE jCUnQr ptn ContentHearLeadAssetCaptn-hPWmSN eWQmYe"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd fEOCQm fNaHcW ptn__cred">Getty Imag</span></div></div></figure></div></div><asi class="PersistentAsiWrapper-VGrR oEIBz persistent-asi persistent-asi--align-left" style="posn:absolute;top:to;height:to" data-ttid="PersistentAsiWrapper"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jNgrSF sticky-box ContentHearPersistentAsi-fsnAmQ dFzKzm"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="SocialInsWrapper-hKMEXV ffgPVr social-ins social-ins--has-background ContentHearSocialIns-jzJiyg sDfbk social-ins--share"><ul data-ttid="socialInslist" class="SocialInsList-cHVTIA ivmblD social-ins__list"></ul></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></asi></hear></div><div data-attribute-verso-pattern="article-body" class="ArticlePageContentBackGround-cNiFNN kJkLmH article-body__ntent"><div class="ArticlePageChunksContent-etcMtP bwyLBj"><div data-ttid="ArticlePageChunks" class="ArticlePageChunks-fLyCVG eSsnKa"><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa XtZXd body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p><em>Wele to <a href=">Liftream</a>, where Teen Vogue's wrers take mic one step further and discs how the biggt and bt songs on your favore playlists turn to the soundtracks of our liv.</em></p><p>Most rock stars dance wh their hips, but <em>Voodoo</em>-era D’Angelo got down ass-first. He’s among the most sexualized black men ntemporary pop, but that’s hardly why he’s my favore mician.</p><p>D’Angelo’s mov were nothg short of outrageo on that first world tour of the new lennium, but the emotns munited felt more spirual than sexual. It’s bt ptured on a <a href=">YouTube upload</a> of his 2000 appearance at Brazil’s Free Jazz Ft, followg the release of his send full-length album.</p><figure data-ttid="IameEmbed" class="IameEmbedWrapper-sc-dRedg hZiq iame-embed"><div data-ttid="IameEmbedContaer" class="IameEmbedContaer-hptgUZ klnuGZ"><div class="IameEmbedAspectRatWrapper-hFVJps BKpgQ"><iame class="IameEmbedContent-cMdiev csnuAY IameEmbedContent lazyload" height="150" width="450" sandbox="allow-scripts" tle="Embedd Frame" data-src=" allow="toplay *; encrypted-media *; clipboard-wre; toplay; fullscreen; picture--picture"></iame></div></div></figure><p>In a f of hysteril passn, D would rnchily straddle his mic stand or lower himself to the ground and dry hump the stage. But once the shock value of wnsg this sexually-charged actn had passed, beme clear that D’Angelo was performg more for himself than the dience. His rponse to the The Soultronics was almost voluntary, pure gospel, as if he’d been ught by the holy ghost. Hangg over their every move, D’Angelo was full of ecstatic, obssive adoratn.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p>I feel that ecstasy when I sp D’Angelo’s mystic neo-soul masterpiece <em>Voodoo</em>. The album’s 13 tracks are the Holy Grail of R&B and hip-hop, a classic ntemporary rock album that dramatilly altered the athetic trajectory of black mic. In s serpente melodi and jerky, dub groov, I hear younger, more naive versns of myself. I grew up to this mic, so when I hear <em>Voodoo</em> I n’t help but thk how far I’ve e.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p>I found <em>Voodoo</em> six years back as an unrgrad hman livg the East Village. It did s work secret, perated my subnscns and subtly changed my relatnship to mic.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="o1uoua"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa XtZXd body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p><em>Voodoo</em> me to bear a greater weight wh time, rmg my thoughts and strengths as a gay <a href=">Lato-Amerin</a> negotiatg manhood. Wh time, I began to pick up on the album’s trici, s unrivaled micianship and unprecented productn techniqu.</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="azwjy"></div></div><p>I looked to D’Angelo and his bold, unpromisg songs as a way of ratnalizg the plexi and ntradictns that ma up my own inty. As a “straight-passg” gay man, I uldn’t relate to most of my sexually like-md peers. More challengg was the ntuo procs of “g out” that followed each new troductn I ma. I also had issu acknowledgg myself as a sexual beg. The predatory-like leerg of other men ma me feel impossibly vulnerable and profoundly unfortable.</p><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn jcPXra llout--has-top-borr" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Human Person Leisure Activi Electril Device Microphone Performer and Mil Instment" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE jCUnQr ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI jqCsaX asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd kdgRWC iXWezO ptn__text">Sger D'Angelo (born Michael Eugene Archer) performs on stage at the Aire Crown Theater, Chigo, Illois, April 4, 2000. (Photo by Pl Natk/Getty Imag)</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd fEOCQm fNaHcW ptn__cred">Pl Natk</span></div></figure></div><p>I image D’Angelo felt the siarly durg some of his darkt moments. “One time, I got mad when a female threw money at me onstage,” D’Angelo told <a href="><em>GQ</em></a> 2012, “And that ma me feel like f*cked-up, and I threw the money back at her.” In the months after <em>Voodoo</em>, his disfort beg viewed as a sex symbol grew to a bilatg prsn.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>Performg beme a source of great distrs for D’Angelo. He balked at the way the media sexually objectified his body, feared the world uldn’t see past his physil appearance to prehend the extent of his emotnal telligence and creative geni. It led to a 14-year hiat om mic, durg which time he overme oby, alholism, and the thls srn of tabloid journalism.</p><asi aria-hidn="te" class="PullQuoteEmbedWrapper-sc-EoVjf fRqnXU"><div class="PullQuoteDerativeBorr-sc-iUyOLj lhwIdf"></div><div class="PullQuoteEmbedContent-sc-kTcfhx eTKMwQ"><p>"I looked to D’Angelo and his bold, unpromisg songs as a way of ratnalizg the plexi and ntradictns that ma up my own inty."</p></div></asi><p>D’Angelo’s sex appeal h the world like an avalanche, obscurg the nuanc of his mil talent wh a near-ubiquo sire for his body. He shared his sexualy onstage bee the act of performance is eply timate, hardly different om makg love. It’s safe to say D’Angelo felt betrayed by the sexual hysteria of his fanbase, the way they bldly clung to each curve and sew of his imprsive mculature. He rpected himself and his craft too much to let the world tat .</p><p>Through D, I me to regnize my own sexual sire as an extensn of my spirual self, a means of actualizg fully and hontly. I learned I n prent myself as sexual man whout havg to receive or reciprote kd. I need to be sired for my md above my body.</p><figure data-ttid="IameEmbed" class="IameEmbedWrapper-sc-dRedg hZiq iame-embed"><div data-ttid="IameEmbedContaer" class="IameEmbedContaer-hptgUZ klnuGZ"><div class="IameEmbedAspectRatWrapper-hFVJps BKpgQ"><iame class="IameEmbedContent-cMdiev csnuAY IameEmbedContent lazyload" height="150" width="450" sandbox="allow-scripts" tle="Embedd Frame" data-src=" allow="toplay *; encrypted-media *; clipboard-wre; toplay; fullscreen; picture--picture"></iame></div></div></figure><p>D’Angelo turned me on to this new way of thkg, expand the possibili of what I uld look, sound and act like. His nfint swagger opened up new spac for untls other men of lor to prent themselv ls heteronormative ways. He was flamboyant but discreet, sensive yet virile, a publicly straight man unaaid to let another man squeeze and fondle his bulky ame.</p><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn syzW llout--has-top-borr" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Human Person Crowd Mil Instment and Mician" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE jCUnQr ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI jqCsaX asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd kdgRWC iXWezO ptn__text">2000 MTV Movie Awards held at Sony Pictur Culver Cy, June 3, 2000. Photos durg tapg of awards show featurg D'ANGELO performg "Devil's Pie." (Photo by Ken Hively/Los Angel Tim via Getty Imag)</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd fEOCQm fNaHcW ptn__cred">Ken Hively</span></div></figure></div><p>In the midst of an enthrallg, hellfire-and-brimstone rendn of “Sh, Damn, Motherf*cker,” durg his 2000 Free Jazz Ft set, D’Angelo leaps om the stage and embrac the dience. An attractive young man reach out to him wh a v, horned-up look his ey. Rather than retreat, D’Angelo squeez back, vlts over the dience barrier, and allows the touchy spectator and his buddy to hoist him onto their shoulrs and rry him around the crowd venue.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="ksm66"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa XtZXd body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>I admire D’Angelo’s sensivy to his art and his body, the humblens and pury of his tentns as a mician, the simultaneo openns and privatens of his sexualy. That vulnerabily is what ultimately spired my own evolutn. He refed to be a pigeonholed as a sexual spectacle, and as black man mic that’s simply unheard of. In fact, he might be the only male rock ‘n roll history to actively reject the female gaze.</p><p>D’Angelo tght me how to feel myself, gave me the assurance and self-nfince I need to fill the sho of the man I am today. I listened for the vibe, honed on the <em>Voodoo</em> attu, slowly sheddg whatever anxieti and social strs I had attached to the act of g out and livg as a gay man of lor.</p><p><strong>Related:</strong> <a href=">Selena Qutanilla's Legacy as a Mexin-Amerin Superstar</a></p><figure class="CneVioEmbedFigure-kCfJjN hdJOda e-vio-embed"><div data-ttid="script-ntaer"></div></figure></div></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 PaywallInleBarrierWhWrapperGrid-fyrGfS jyGBoi"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="body body__le-barrier article__body article__body--grid-margs"><div class="ntaer ntaer--body"><div class="ntaer--body-ner"><asi class="PaywallInleBarrierWrapper-iBnuqk lfXXa-D" data-ttid="PaywallInleBarrierWrapper"><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--paywall-le-barrier" role="prentatn" aria-live="pole" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot 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