"I'm not gay! I'm not gay!"
Posted on 12/06/2024 3:13:38 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
The Village People’s lyricist and lead singer has hit out at the “false assumption” that the band’s biggest hit, “YMCA,” is a “gay anthem.”
Victor Willis, who headed up the 1970s disco band and wrote the song with producer Jacques Morali, has taken to social media to insist that it was not written with the gay community in mind – and that those who suggest otherwise could soon face legal action.
“There’s been a lot of talk, especially of late, that Y.M.C.A. is somehow a gay anthem,” Willis, who wrote the lyrics for the 1978 hit, said on Facebook on Monday. “As I’ve said numerous times in the past, 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 life.
“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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Innocent its just an uplifting song for down in the dumps young men but these lines could be taken as anthemic of something else.
It’s fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
It’s fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
They have everything
For young men to enjoy
You can hang out with all the boys
I think the Village People performing YMCA at Trump’s inauguration would be really cool.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6365577668112?msockid=288619275ff462e6094f0a975ed163bb
That’s what I was thinking when I read that very gay paragraph.
Methinks he doth protest too much.
I used to work in religious broadcasting and one preacher talked about his job at the YMCA namely phone operator.
He would eavesdrop on conversations to figure which of the men were gay for the sake of the management.
By the time the Village People came along in the later 1970s the disco thing was old and embarrassing and not long for this world. The YMCA song with the hand gestures was ridiculous.
No respect for the dead? Let Disco remain dead and buried. Many were grateful when punk, new wave, the Police, etc came along.
the gay 1890’s was different than the gay 1990’ss
I thought the gay anthem was “It’s Raining Men”
The Knack killed Disco.
I was there for a conference.
A funny graffiti I read on the restroom wall at MIT...
B4IFU RU/18 QT(PI)... didn’t have a Pi sign on my keyboard.
Gayness never entered my head when I heard that song. YMCA was the place I took swimming lessons, which is why I still can’t swim to this day. In the 50’s, gayness wasn’t even mentioned, much less assumed.
As for Greenwich Village, father was a poet there while regular army and mother’s stories of the 30’s and 40’s were beat and eccentric, but nothing sexual. Well, except for the stripper who lived downstairs and left messages for all of her “friends” of what gifts she needed when she moved away. She lived with her mother, who spent the entire day sewing the snaps back on Rosie’s costumes while knowing little English except to be able to say, “My Rosie’s a good girl.” Mother’s stories were, indeed, wonderful.
When I was a kid, we went swimming at the Y. My dads brother came back from Korea, stayed at the Y. The same went from Moms brother from the same War. It was similar to a Hospice in Europe AFAIK back in the 50’s and 60’s. They tore it down and it is now an all athletic club. Pool, sauna, workout rooms, Basketball, volleyball, badminton and likely Pickleball now.
Gay meant FUNNY AND HAPPY, frickin’ fags ruin a great word, and a lot of lives in the world. Fags is a more descriptive word, unless you prefer queer, homo, or pervert.
Eh. I bet if two years ago you interviewed a thousand people on the street and asked them: “Is the YMCA song associated with the Gay Community?” the answers would probably fall into these categories by these contrived percentages:
YES - 78%
NO - 6%
DON’T KNOW - 16%
My whole life in which that song existed in, nearly every person understood it to be a “gay” anthem. Didn’t mean people didn’t tap their foot to it, dance to it, or even use their body to form the letters, but...yeah. It is just that, a “gay” anthem.
I don’t know if Trump even cares about that, he probably just understands people like the song even if they don’t subscribe or approve of the homosexual lifestyle, and that “Y-M-C-A” is a natural morph into “M-A-G-A”.
Now? To the everlasting teeth-gritting of those on the Left, if you asked people now “What do you know about this song?” the breakdown might be a little bit different, but you might have a category percentage of people that woulds say “Trump Song”.
At least that is how I read the whole thing.
To that I say once again, get your minds out of the gutter. It is not.
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So has he ever explained what it’s actually about?
I think he’s pulling our leg with his “it’s not gay” gambit. He just wants the money from normies playing the song.
It’s more of a gay ditty than a gay anthem. “Rocket Man” is more of a gay anthem.
It would be hilarious if it became The Trump Song. The lefties would grit their teeth down to the bone, lol
"I'm not gay! I'm not gay!"
No doubt they already are.
Leftists have stolen and appropriated so many things from our culture ranging from the rainbow to the word “gay”, that I appreciate anything taken from them that causes them angst!
Call it by its full name—the Young Men’s Christian Association.
Now “In The Navy”,on the other hand....
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