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    Village Individuals singer denies “YMCA” is a “homosexual anthem” as he defends Trump's use of track

    James EvendenBy James EvendenDecember 3, 20245 Mins Read
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    Village Individuals singer denies “YMCA” is a “homosexual anthem” as he defends Trump's use of track
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    Village Individuals’s “Y.M.C.A.” has served as Donald Trump’s go-to theme track for the final a number of years, to the purpose the place the president-elect even has his personal choreographed dance to accompany it. In a brand new Fb submit, Village Individuals founding member and songwriter Victor Willis defended Trump’s use of the track whereas additionally firmly denying any homosexual connotations that you could be come come to affiliate with the anthem over time.

    Willis stated he initially requested Trump to stop enjoying “Y.M.C.A.” at his occasions because the the complaints he acquired from followers turned a “nuisance to me.” Nonetheless, “the Trump marketing campaign knew they’d obtained a political use license from BMI and absent that license being terminated, they’d each proper to proceed utilizing ‘Y.M.C.A.’ And so they did.”

    Apart from, Willis defined, Trump “appears to genuinely like ‘Y.M.C.A.’ and he’s having a whole lot of enjoyable with it,” and “I merely didn’t have the center to forestall his continued use of my track within the face of so many artists withdrawing his use of their materials. So I advised my spouse to tell BMI to not withdraw the Trump marketing campaign political use license.”

    Willis additionally acknowledged the monetary profit, noting that he stands to make “a number of million {dollars}” attributable to Trump’s continued use of the track.

    As for the concept that “Y.M.C.A. is “by some means a homosexual anthem,” Willis stated that “is a false assumption based mostly on the truth that my writing associate was homosexual, and a few (not all) of Village Individuals had been homosexual, and that the primary Village Individuals album was completely about homosexual life.”

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    Willis continued:

    “This assumption can be based mostly on the truth that the YMCA was apparently getting used as some type of homosexual hangout and since one of many writers was homosexual and a number of the Village Individuals are homosexual, the track have to be a message to homosexual individuals. To that I say as soon as once more, get your minds out of the gutter. It isn’t.

    Sadly, when the President Elect began utilizing the track, individuals making an attempt to model the track as a homosexual anthem reached a fever pitch as many used it to say, oh, Trump don’t know the track is a homosexual anthem? This was completed in a way to try to disgrace the President Elect’s use of the track.

    As I said on quite a few events, I knew nothing in regards to the Y being a hang around for gays after I wrote the lyrics to ‘Y.M.C.A.’ and Jacques Morali (who was homosexual) by no means as soon as said such to me. In reality, Jacques by no means as soon as advised me learn how to write my lyrics in any other case I’d have stated to him, you don’t want me, why don’t you merely write the lyrics.

    I due to this fact wrote ‘Y.M.C.A.’ in regards to the issues I knew in regards to the Y within the city areas of San Francisco corresponding to swimming, basketball, observe, and low cost meals and low cost rooms. And after I say, “hang around with all of the boys” that’s merely Seventies black slang for black guys hanging-out collectively for sports activities, playing or no matter. There’s nothing homosexual about that.

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    So, to the extent that ‘Y.M.C.A.’ is taken into account a homosexual anthem based mostly on the truth that gays as soon as used sure YMCA’s for elicit exercise, the belief that the track alludes to that’s fully misguided.

    Due to this fact, since I wrote the lyrics and must know what the lyrics I wrote is admittedly about, come January 2025, my spouse will begin suing each information group that falsely refers to ‘Y.M.C.A.’, both of their headlines or alluded to within the base of the story, that ‘Y.M.C.A.’ is by some means a homosexual anthem as a result of such notion is predicated solely on the track’s lyrics alluding to elicit exercise for which it doesn’t. Nonetheless, I don’t thoughts that gays consider the track as their anthem.

    However you’d be hard-pressed to seek out ‘Y.M.C.A.’ on the play record at any homosexual membership, parade or different homosexual exercise in a manner that may counsel it’s by some means an anthem to the neighborhood apart from alluding to illicit exercise, which is defamatory, and damaging to the track. Nevertheless it stops in 2025.

    Nonetheless, you recognize the place you-will discover ‘Y.M.C.A.’? On the play record of virtually each marriage ceremony, bar mitzvah, sporting group, and the track is utilized in commercials and movement photos and merchandise worldwide.

    The true anthem is ‘Y.M.C.A.’s enchantment to individuals of all strips together with President Elect Trump. However the track shouldn’t be actually a homosexual anthem apart from sure individuals falsely suggesting that it’s. And this should cease as a result of it’s damaging to the track.”



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