The two biggest complaints about our Weekly Top Ten charts are on opposite spectrums. One commenter ranted this past week that are selections are too stereotypically gay. Not even a half hour after that was posted, someone else remarked that our countdown isn't nearly gay enough. Oy, what do you people want from us?
We'd like to consider Kaylah Marin a compromise, but she probably leans toward the gayer side. Her latest single "On The Floor (Oh Baby Please)" has been steadily climbing up the Billboard Dance charts with the help of remixes by Josh Harris and Rod Carrillo. The original version (listen here) is a perfect combination of pop and soul. It actually reminds me of Leona Lewis' "Bleeding Love", but with powerful, unique vocals akin to Ledisi or Macy Gray. What do you think? Does she deserve a spot in your eardrums?
– Dewitt
To listen to "On The Floor (Oh Baby Please)", follow the JUMP:
Love it!
This one’s going on my iPod. I’ll admit, I don’t venture far musically from artists I already like. But once I hear a song I like from an unknown artist I’m usually a fan of theirs from then on out.
I’m gay enough as it is, why would I need my music to be any more gay? Expand our musical horizons.
I think it’s funny how a big problem we talk about is being stereotyped by people, and yet here’s a classic example of how we’re doing it to our own community. If there’s one thing I noticed it’s that the only correlation that fits through gay culture is the propensity for guys to have sex with guys and women to have sex with women. Aside from that, music, fashion, hobbies, mannerisms, skills, jobs, values, all of these cover the spectrum in immense diversity. Why does a gay blog only have to cover stereotypical “gay” music? If this is a blog for all gays, and if all gays listen to lots of different music, then doesn’t gay music cover all of those different genres?
I think, what I want from you is to give me something interesting, something to think about. If you only mean to propel the gay stereotype, then I don’t think you’re doing your job.
Maybe this is a question to ask yourself and not us (because of course not all of us are going to be satisfied. Why? Because like I said, we’re as diverse as there are grains of sand). What point of view are you trying to get across, what message are you trying to send? I think that’s something you guys haven’t figured out yet.