'The Other Two': The Mic Vio for 'My Brother’s Gay' Was Inspired by One Directn and Christa Aguilera

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‘THE OTHER TWO’: THE MIC VIO FOR ‘MY BROTHER’S GAY’ WAS INSPIRED BY ONE DIRECTN AND CHRISTA AGUILERA
HOW THE OTHER TWO PERFECTLY CAPTURED THE LIFE CYCLE OF AN INTER SENSATNINSI TEEN POP STAR CHASE DREAMS’S VIRAL H “MY BROTHER’S GAY AND THAT’S OKAY!”—WHICH MIGHT BE SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE ALUMS CHRIS KELLY AND SARAH SCHNEIR’S BT SATIRIL WORK TO DATE.BY LRA BRADLEYJUNE 6, 2019COURTY OF COMEDY CENTRAL.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAS EMMY NOMATNS APPROACH, VANY FAIR’S HWD TEAM IS DIVG EP TO HOW SOME OF THIS SEASON’S GREATT SCEN AND CHARACTERS ME TOGETHER. YOU N READ MORE OF THE CLOSE LOOKS HERE.THE SCENE: CHASE OUTS CARY A MIC VIOIN S FIRST SEASON, COMEDY CENTRAL’S THE OTHER TWO PUT ONE OF S LEADS, DREW TARVER, THROUGH THE ULTIMATE WRGER: DIGGG UP OLD BABY PHOTOS AND MIDDLE-SCHOOL VIOS TO AIR ON NATNAL TELEVISN. THE SERI FOLLOWS TARVER’S ASPIRG ACTOR CHARACTER, CARY, AND HIS AIMLS SISTER, BROOKE (HELéNE YORKE), AS THEY TRY TO NAVIGATE THEIR TEENAGE BROTHER CHASE’S NEWFOUND FAME AS A MICIAN WHO GO BY CHASE DREAMS. THE EDY’S FOURTH EPISO IS ONE OF THE SHOW’S BT—AND ALL STARTS WH A MORTIFIED CARY LEARNG THAT CHASE’S NEWT MIC VIO FEATUR A SONG ALL ABOUT HIM, TLED “MY BROTHER’S GAY AND THAT’S OKAY!”IN THE VIO, CHASE (CASE WALKER) BELTS OUT WELL-MEANG, IF CLUELS, LYRICS ABOUT CARY’S SEXUALY WHILE POSG AMID A SEA OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND VIOS OM HIS BROTHER’S CHILDHOOD—CLUDG SEVERAL WHERE CARY SPORTS BLEACHED HAIR AND OSTED TIPS.“I’M GLAD THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE SEEN A WEIRD FAY PHOTO OF ME AND A SAND DUNE DAYTONA BEACH AND REAL FOOTAGE OF ME GRADUATG,” TARVER QUIPPED DURG A RECENT TERVIEW ABOUT THE SCENE. “I KD OF LEARNED THAT I DON’T LIKE TO REMISCE; I DON’T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS ABOUT ME.”“MY BROTHER’S GAY AND THAT’S OKAY!” STANTLY RELLS WOULD-BE ANTHEMS OF ALLYSHIP LIKE MACKLEMORE’S “SAME LOVE”—SONGS WHICH STRAIGHT SGERS ALIGN THEMSELV WH THE L.G.B.T.Q. MUNY WAYS THAT N FEEL MORE CYNIL THAN SCERE. IN CHASE’S SE, HIS HEART IS CLEARLY THE RIGHT PLACE; HIS LYRICS AND LIVERY DRIP WH EARNT LOVE AND ADMIRATN FOR HIS BROTHER. BUT HIS PUBLICISTS ARE ANOTHER STORY—AS WE SEE A SERI OF ANTIC MEETGS WHICH MEMBERS OF CHASE’S TEAM LIBERATE HOW THE VIO IS AFFECTG THEIR SH W’S REER.AS AMG AS THIS SEQUENCE IS, ’S ALSO A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF HOW THE OTHER TWO CREATORS CHRIS KELLY AND SARAH SCHNEIR MANAGE TO MAKE EVEN THE TIT THROWAWAY MOMENTS FEEL MEANGFUL. THE VIO SELF IS ONLY ABOUT 50 SENDS LONG—BUT ’S AN IA KELLY AND SCHNEIR HAD BEEN WORKG TOWARD SCE THEY FIRST PCHED THE SERI. THE SONG LOOMS LARGE OVER NOT ONLY THE EPISO, WHICH CENTERS ON S VIRAL RISE AND FALL, BUT ALSO THE SEASON AS A WHOLE, AS CARY NTU TO BEE FORTABLE HIS OWN SK AS AN OUT GAY MAN. (HIS ANGST OVER THE SONG PROV THAT CARY IS STILL NOT PLETELY FORTABLE WH THE ENTIRE WORLD KNOWG HIS SEXUALY.) TO PUT THE PIEC TOGETHER, KELLY AND SCHNEIR NEED TO ENSURE THAT BOTH THE SONG AND S IMPACT WOULD BE SIGNIFINT ENOUGH TO SEND CARY TO A PROPER TAILSP—AT LEAST UNTIL HE TRIUMPHANTLY MAK HIS PEACE WH .HOW IT CAME TOGETHERACRDG TO KELLY, HE AND SCHNEIR WROTE THE SONG’S LYRICS ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF—FASTER THAN UAL, HE SAID, “BEE WE ARE THE KG AND QUEEN OF OVERTHKG THGS.” SONGWRER BRETT “LELAND” MCLGHL MA THEIR JOB EASIER BY WRG A PARTICULARLY TCHY TRACK. “SOMETIM WE HAVE A HARD TIME EXPLAG WHAT WE’RE LOOKG FOR MILLY, JT BEE 'S NOT OUR LANGUAGE,” SCHNEIR SAID. BUT WH THIS SONG PARTICULAR, LELAND IMMEDIATELY NAILED WHAT THEY WANTED. “IT WAS PERFECT RIGHT AWAY,” KELLY SAID. “IT REALLY, REALLY MA LGH.”MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORDALTHOUGH KELLY AND SCHNEIR SAID THEY DIDN’T E ANY REAL SONGS FOR THEIR SATIRE’S LYRIL SPIRATN, THEY DID E A FEW VIOS AS VISUAL REFERENCE POTS—SPECIFILLY, “STORY OF MY LIFE” BY ONE DIRECTN AND “BETIFUL” BY CHRISTA AGUILERA. “THEY SOUND VERY EARNT AND STRIPPED DOWN, BUT ALSO NOSTALGIA-BASED,” SCHNEIR EXPLAED. THE ONE DIRECTN VIO WAS PARTICULARLY SPIRG BEE ALSO FEATURED HUGE, BLOWN-UP VERSNS OF THE BOY BAND’S REAL FAY PHOTOS. “WE TOOK THAT VISUAL AND THEN APPLIED TO OVER 1,000 PICTUR OF DREW TARVER,” SCHNEIR SAID. “REAL PICTUR OM HIS LIFE. TO HNT HIM.” (IN REALY, WAS MORE LIKE 70 PHOTOS, MANIPULATED TO LOOK LIKE 400.) THE ENTIRE VIO TOOK AROUND 40 TO 45 MUT TO SHOOT.TARVER WAS TASKED WH GATHERG THOSE PICTUR, ENLISTG A SLEW OF FAY MEMBERS, OLD CLASSMAT, AND ACQUATANC TO HELP. “I WAS JT LIKE, ‘I NEED LIKE, 20 PHOTOS OF ME OR PHOTOS OF ME OM WHEN I HAD BLEACHED BLON TIPS MY HAIR.’ AND PEOPLE WERE LIKE: ‘OH YEAH, YOU MEAN NOT THAT LONG AGO? BEE YOU ROCKED THE BLEACHED BLON TIPS FOR FOUR YEARS TOO LONG,’” HE SAID.AS EMBARRASSG AS THE PHOTO QUT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, TARVER’S STAR, YORKE, FOUND HERSELF A LTLE JEALO OF HIS FAY’S METICULO RERD-KEEPG. “I WAS LIKE, ‘I KNOW YOU’RE UPSET WH SEEG ALL THIS, BUT YOU HAVE CREDIBLE RERD OF YOUR AWKWARD YEARS!’” SHE SAID. ADD WALKER, “THE THG THAT REALLY MA ME EXCED [TO SHOOT THE MIC VIO] WAS HEARG THAT ALL OF DREW’S BABY PICTUR WERE GOG TO BE HUNG AROUND ME WHILE I WAS SGG.”OF THE SONG SELF, WALKER ADD, “IT’S A JOKE, BUT ’S ALSO VERY SCERE. CHASE LOV HIS BROTHER. THE WHOLE SONG IS ABOUT HOW HE’S PROUD OF HIM, AND HOW HE SUPPORTS HIM. IT WAS FUN PORTRAYG THAT, BUT ALSO KNOWG HOW FUNNY WAS.”PERHAPS THE BIGGT CHALLENGE WAS NOT FILMG THE SCENE SELF, BUT GRANTG SUFFICIENT WEIGHT. ALTHOUGH THIS MIC VIO IS JT ONE OF MANY P STOPS ALONG CHASE’S RI TO TERNATNAL SUPERSTARDOM, S RELEASE ALSO LNCH CARY’S SEASON-LONG JOURNEY TOWARD SELF-LOVE AND DISVERY. IN MANY WAYS, “MY BROTHER’S GAY” ENDS UP BEG MORE SIGNIFINT TO THE SGER’S BROTHER THAN THE SGER HIMSELF. BUT HOW DO YOU MAKE SURE SUCH A TY SCENE LIVERS THE RIGHT IMPACT?SCE KELLY AND SCHNEIR KNEW THEY ULD ONLY VOTE ABOUT 50 SENDS TO THE MIC VIO SELF, KELLY SAID, “WE TRIED TO FD OTHER WAYS TO MAKE SURE THAT FELT BIGGER, OR ROUND. EVEN IF YOU WEREN'T SEEG ”—LIKE WHEN A YOUNG BOY ASKS CARY, “ARE YOU THE KID OM THAT MIC VIO?,” OR WHEN A NEW STRA OF THE SONG PLAYS AS CARY WALKS TO HIS ROOM TO MASTURBATE. (TARVER, WHOSE CHARACTER VICTORLY MASTURBAT AFTER FALLY STANDG UP TO HIS TEASE OF A ROOMMATE, ADMS, “TRIUMPHANTLY MARCHG TO THE PUTER TO MASTURBATE IS A VERY FUNNY WAY TO HAVE A MOMENT—BUT I MEAN, THAT’S WHAT CHRIS AND SARAH ARE SO GOOD AT!”) LATER, A REMIX OF ANOTHER PREVLY UNHEARD PART OF THE SONG PLAYS THE BACKGROUND AT A NIGHTCLUB. IN THOSE SORTS OF WAYS, KELLY SAID, “WE TRY TO DOLE OUT MORE OF THE SONG.”MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORDTO YORKE, THE SONG IS A TTAMENT TO BOTH KELLY AND SCHNEIR’S ABILY TO BE SIMULTANEOLY RIDICULO AND THOUGHTFUL. AS SHE READ THE LYRICS TO “MY BROTHER’S GAY,” YORKE SAID, “I JT REMEMBER STG AT MY KCHEN ISLAND AND JT BEG LIKE, ‘THE CREDIBLY SMART PEOPLE MA SOMETHG SO SILLY AND SO DUMB AND N PULL WH SUCH APLOMB.’…IT’S ONE OF THOSE THGS WHERE THEY AL WH CARY’S HOMOSEXUALY WH SUCH XTERY.”AND THEN THERE’S THE BT JOKE OF THE EPISO: THE MIC VIO’S WILD RI THROUGH THE TER REACTN MACHE. IN LS THAN 12 HOURS, THE VIO IS NSIRED FE, THEN AN ABOMATN, THEN PURE MP—AND BASILLY EVERYTHG BETWEEN. CHASE’S LACKEYS ARE PARTICULARLY PANICKED AFTER THE A.V. CLUB ASSERTS THAT THEIR MIC VIO WAS “NO MOONLIGHT.” THAT, MORE THAN ANY ASPECT OF THE SONG, LENDS SOME VERISIU TO AN OVER-THE-TOP PLOT POT. “WE LIVE A WORLD WHERE EVERYONE N WEIGH ,” SCHNEIR REASONED. “WE CID WORKED BT FOR THIS VIO, BEE FELT LIKE ULD BE BOTH DIVISIVE AND BRG PEOPLE TOGETHER A WEIRD WAY.”MORE GREAT STORI OM VANY FAIR— EXCLIVE: YOUR FIRST LOOK AT STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER— HOW PATRICIA ARQUETTE BEME THE QUEEN OF PRTIGE TV— INSI THE TUMULTUO MAKG OF ANIMAL HOE— WHY ONCE UPON A TIME… HOLLYWOOD MARKS A TELLG SHIFT FOR QUENT TARANTO— FROM THE ARCHIVE: OUR VERY FIRST HOLLYWOOD ISSUE, FEATURG TOM HANKS, JULIA ROBERTS, DENZEL WASHGTON, AND MORE!LOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.LRA BRADLEY

THE "GAY BROTHER" SONG ON 'THE OTHER TWO' SHOWS EXACTLY WHY QUEERBAG IS DAMAGG

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