Gay bar song
Still, with the lyrics describing a secret bar hiding behind a green door where ‘a happy crowd’ play piano, smoke and ‘laugh a lot’, I can kind of see why people would imagine the song was about a queer bar. Nevermind that the song was written more than a decade before the film was made, or that the song’s writers were American and likely would never have even heard of a lesbian bar on the other side of the world.
GAY BAR SONG TV
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So, no word of a lie, this is how the rumour started: This song is almost certainly NOT about a lesbian bar, but I love how ridiculous and persistent the urban legend about it is that I had to include it on this list. Many people seem to believe that the band’s singer, Dick Valentine, dressed as Lincoln in order to represent what right-wing Americans view as the slippery slope from his act of freeing the slaves to the current increase in rights for the LGBTQ community.Īnd here was me thinking he did it to look cool….īONUS – the band recorded Gay Bar Part 2 and on their 2008 album Flashy (alas, it seems to have nothing to do with taking me to a gay bar OR putting things in me). My favourite relates to the multiple Abraham Lincolns dancing throughout. What I DID find, though, was a bunch of strange internet conspiracies about the song’s music video. And, so, I’m giving the band the benefit of the doubt. I wasn’t able to find any evidence to confirm or contradict my concerns.
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Was it celebrating or mocking queer culture? Tapping in to some illicit thrill many straight people feel when they pass through the doors of a queer bar? Or just embracing the fact that it’s the most fun place to be on a Saturday night?
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I was never really sure about the intention behind the song. You can’t create a list like this and NOT include the song that soundtracked many a mid-00s indie disco or school yard chant.īut I’ve got to admit that I almost didn’t add it to the list.