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Music, gay-wise
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 (July 17, 2016 at 10:00 pm)Spirian Wrote: Insults about my age and reading comprehension. Really? /sarcasm. You might want to read up on the definition of sarcasm. Just stating.
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July 17, 2016 at 11:12 pm
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2016 at 11:17 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
(July 17, 2016 at 9:57 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: Yet you did not provide an alternative. To what horrible music do you listen? An alternative? The alternative is not having music genres aimed specifically at people of certain sexual orientations. There is no "hetero-music", is there? As a heterosexual guy I'm free to listen to anything, from classical and folk, trough contemporary jazz and metal, to techno and J-pop. But apparently if someone is a homosexual man, they're obliged to love kitsch, theatricality and sequins, or at least that's the impression I get from sampling the kinds of music played in gay-clubs, or at gay events, like Pride parade, and listening to gay people talk about music. It seems reductive and rather dumb. I understand, that sub-cultures usually have certain kinds of music associated with them, but that's because they ARE reductive and dumb, they do mean to alienate people, as well as they're usually aimed at kids, who are stupid and haven't had the time to develop aesthetical taste. Having horrible kinds of music, like house, show-tunes, or whatever Madonna thinks she's doing associated with a particular sexuality can only alienate those homosexuals, who don't happen to have heavily impaired hearing and who consequently can't appreciate art purely on the basis of how glittery the artist's outfits are...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
Out Magazine did a poll of musicians and gay celebs in 2008 to rank the 100 Gayest Albums of All-Time.
The Top 10: 1. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie 2. The Smiths - The Smiths 3. Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman 4. Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls 5. Judy at Carnegie Hall - Judy Garland 6. The Queen is Dead - The Smiths 7. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John 8. The Immaculate Collection - Madonna 9. She's So Unusual - Cyndi Lauper 10. I Am a Bird Now - Antony & The Johnsons Here's a blog post with the full list
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July 18, 2016 at 3:45 am
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2016 at 3:51 am by Alex K.)
Meh, all that pop kitsch gay people are supposed to like?
It's not like there is a shortage of actually good gay-made music  Tschaikowsky, tragically gay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVnF3x44rvU Halford, legendarily gay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRjrzpa38-0 Thibaudet, gayer than Christmas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAtzmCGMNfI True story: I was walking around the East Village with a friend, looking for a place to have a beer that played bearable music. All clubs we came across played mainstream hip hop shite. We were about to give up hope, suddenly, there was a larger club blaring classic hardrock. We were like, ok, this is actually pretty good. Went inside, first thing we saw was a guy standing on the counter in a village people cop uniform getting a blowjob from gay tinkerbell. I consider the trope that gay people only like kitschy pop crap as debunked ever since.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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Love how Madona and Cher are somehow icons of the gay community, but Rob Halford doesn't get a mention.
(July 18, 2016 at 5:51 am)Cato Wrote: Love how Madona and Cher are somehow icons of the gay community, but Rob Halford doesn't get a mention. My point exactly 
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
RE: Music, gay-wise
July 18, 2016 at 6:17 am
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(July 18, 2016 at 5:51 am)Cato Wrote: Love how Madona and Cher are somehow icons of the gay community, but Rob Halford doesn't get a mention. To be fair - I wouldn't expect gay people to like certain music simply because the artist is gay. That would be almost equally as dumb, as raving over Madonna, Cher, Liza, or Celine, simply because they look like drag-queens...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
RE: Music, gay-wise
July 18, 2016 at 7:32 am
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(July 18, 2016 at 6:17 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote:(July 18, 2016 at 5:51 am)Cato Wrote: Love how Madona and Cher are somehow icons of the gay community, but Rob Halford doesn't get a mention. I wouldn't expect gay people or any other such heterogenous (hehe) group of people to preferentially like any particular type of music anyways, so this was just a welcome opportunity to post some cool gay musicians
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
 (July 17, 2016 at 9:22 pm)Maelstrom Wrote:(July 17, 2016 at 9:17 pm)Spirian Wrote: That's my entire point. The music takes on the persona of the subjective listener, but the music itself, has no sexuality. (July 17, 2016 at 9:57 pm)Maelstrom Wrote:(July 17, 2016 at 9:56 pm)Spirian Wrote: Yeah, we're done (July 17, 2016 at 10:01 pm)Maelstrom Wrote:(July 17, 2016 at 10:00 pm)Spirian Wrote: Insults about my age and reading comprehension. Really? /sarcasm. Your comment about my reading comprehension made no mention of sarcasm. It was when I responded to your insult that you used the "sarcasm" ploy (sarcastically I might add). Then, you conflate your own two responses in an attempt to backpedal, and then you top it off with yet another insult about my comprehension. So let me see if I have this right... Anyone who challenges you has a reading comprehension issue or some other "problem", yes? That's called an ad-hom pal. I know you know what that is  I don't want a flame war, sir. I want discussion. |
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