Friendship with Village People's YMCA is over. Chappell Roan's Hot to Go is my new best friend.
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2024
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I mean, Trump hate aside, I personally never thought of the song as gay. It has certainly such a wide appeal that it can be thought of as just a party song, surpassing whatever context may have provided inspiration for it. But reading the statement, I have to say that was a lot of words just to say it isn’t gay lol. And saying my wife will sue you for claiming something I wrote was gay sounds even sillier and like he’s trying to compensate for something.
Iconic EDM group Kernkraft 400 has denied their hit single Zombie Nation is a sporting anthem. "It's not played at sporting events. It just isn't."
News from a fever dream.
It's not a gay anthem, it's only coincidence that it's played in nearly every gay pub I have been to, on every gay radio station, every gay pride event (with performers), and when my first boyfriend sucked my dick. People just like picking straws, man.
Welp, now we know cultural anthems are one more thing people with MAGA brain rot don't understand.
Way to destroy your legacy!
Sadly, a legacy doesn't pay the bills.
This is sad. This makes me sad.
why would he do that?
he stands to make “several million dollars” due to Trump’s continued use of the song.
oh, right.
Ha. That implies that Trump would ever pay him anything.
He didn't even pay his lawyers, and he actually needs those.
Surely, Trump won’t stiff me with the bill.
I cried all the way to the bank
Liberace after winning a libel suit against a news paper calling him a homosexual
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TIL that Victor Willis of The Village People is a fascist.
He did dress as a cop. The clues were there.
"You have to understand, I'm set up to make millions from this song"
You'll come to find many people you would have never suspected are OK with fascism, when it makes them rich.
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My step-son was 11 and constantly singing YMCA.
"Look, I don't want to freak you out, but in case you get made fun of at school, YMCA is a gay anthem. No problem with that, but you should know."
He was horrified, so he started singing "I Will Survive" instead. I just didn't have the heart to tell him.
fast forward 10 years, he sits down to "tell you something important" and then is shocked when you already knew 😆
He just needs to embrace them. I'm a straight dude, I love gay anthems. I made $20 one time by singing I Will Survive for karaoke at a crowded bowling alley, in front of my wife's entire company. Whatever, can't embarrass me. I love that song. Didn't even need the karaoke screen.
Joke's on them, I would have sang it for free. Any or all that I know. Diana Ross, Cyndi Lauper (I just saw her a couple months ago), The Weather Girls (I have an It's Raining Men 12" single) and I will belt them all out with my own terrible choreography.
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Young Men's Christian Association?
Yes. If you weren't aware, the YMCA was a very common meeting/cruising place for gay men back in the day. The YMCA used to be known for providing cheap food and housing, so it attracted a lot of dudes to come stay there and some of them were gay. Gay bars weren't really a thing for the most part, so other places like the YMCA became the default. It's even more convenient if you already happen to live there.
As early as 1919, the YMCA was already a common cruising spot for both members of the US military and civilians. Some guy went up to FDR (Assistant Secretary of the Navy at the time) and was like "Want me to catch some of the gay dudes in the Navy?" When FDR approved, the Navy sent undercover twinks to the YMCA in Newport, Rhode Island to fuck a bunch dudes and report back like, "Yep, they were gay. I know because we fucked." Pretty shitty, since the result was a court-martial and some people ended up getting sent to naval prison or dishonorably discharged (a few were found not guilty). The investigators rarely expressed any objection to the sexual acts in their reports, either, so it's a little messed up that they'd get dudes in trouble for fucking by fucking them. I can still find an element of humor, though, in the fact that the US Navy was cool with sending specifically young, good-looking dudes to honeypot sailors into boning as a means of investigation all the way back in 1919. It was known as the Newport sex scandal if you want to read more.
Ah, the "good old days" before entrapment was established by case law. I would say our joke of a Supreme Court would like to overturn that too, but it'd apply way too often to their own hypocritical party. Although they would probably just make exceptions for their own party.
That's hilarious
undercover twinks
Lol
I enjoyed their latest album, “Bone to Be Wild”
Lol like Trump is actually going to pay you for using the song, it really is rubes all the way down
Idk seems kinda gay to me 🤷
Oh, honey. No.
The more I read the funnier it gets
As for the idea that “Y.M.C.A. is “somehow a gay anthem,” Willis said that “is a false assumption based on the fact that my writing partner was gay, and some (not all) of Village People were gay, and that the first Village People album was totally about gay
“This assumption is also based on the fact that the YMCA was apparently being used as some sort of gay hangout and since one of the writers was gay and some of the Village People are gay, the song must be a message to gay people. To that I say once again, get your minds out of the gutter. It is not.
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I therefore wrote ‘Y.M.C.A.’ about the things I knew about the Y in the urban areas of San Francisco such as swimming, basketball, track, and cheap food and cheap rooms. And when I say, “hang out with all the boys” that is simply 1970s black slang for black guys hanging-out together for sports, gambling or whatever. There’s nothing gay about that.
“As a straight member of a gay band, I totally didn’t get the point of the gay song I wrote for my gay band”
I'm not gay I just like hanging out with the boys
I hate him saying "get your mind out of the gutter" as if even thinking about people who are gay is itself a perverted sexual act.
Gay people exist. Acknowledging this and discussing whether a piece of media is directed at them is not "mind in gutter" stuff.
I don't want to go so far as to say this person is homophobic, but it sure does sound like some internalized homophobia, perhaps.
He knows the audience he’s playing to
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WOW! Not much in the news has shocked and surprised me as much as this article has.
Victor Willis says he will take legal action against any news organization that suggest "Y.M.C.A." is a gay anthem beginning in January 2025
I'm really curious to know what legal action he intends to take. Doesn't he have to show some sort of damages for any hope of not throwing his money away on frivolous lawsuits that will go nowhere?
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He says that, but he seems to really aggressively be sucking Trumps cock here.
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