Reply With QuoteOK gay members help me/us here. Is there gay music? I thought many artist were gay. Presumably they don't do go music for the general population?
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Apparantly, Sony BMG is ready to release a new gay music label: "Music With A Twist" which will be the home for gay entertainers only.
The Rootkitters say that this move is not so weird coz' Hip Hoppers also have their own labels.
They plan to launch the first act on National Gay Pride and they will also release Gay compilations after that event.
Ok, but who's going to buy those CD's without having to fear spyware and a major crash, mmmmh?
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OK gay members help me/us here. Is there gay music? I thought many artist were gay. Presumably they don't do go music for the general population?
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I think it's kind of a bizarre move on Sony's part and it brings up a barrage of questions. The biggest would be what criteria does an artist need to go through to prove they're gay (or gay enough) to be on the label. :roll:
We all know that there are and have been plenty of closeted musical artists. I think that even today, a new artist stands a better chance of popularity by keeping their sexual identity hidden...especially if they're trying for a solo career. So, I have to wonder what's Sony's intention of singling out the gay artist on a special label. Would an artist really want to choose to be on the label and does Sony think that gays and lesbians will be overjoyed at buying music that is supposedly geared for them? Perhaps there is the hope that an out gay artist will appeal to the mainstream (read: straight audience) in a similar way that Queer Eye For The Straight Guy and Will and Grace appeal to mainstream tv viewers.
As far as 'gay music', it's not at all similar or simple as hip hop appealing to 'hip-hoppers'. It's not that easy to identify a certain music category as exclusively 'gay' and believe me, in the mixed up, "no labels", pro-sexually-ambiguous, experimentive, 'no-such-thing-as-gay-culture' world of today's GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transexual) community, trying something like this is pointless. I don't think that SONY really has done their homework. The climate within present day gay circles seems to be a rebelling of all things 'gay' yet, at the same time, having the liberty to self-label what we think of as 'gay'.
Confusing?! You bet! Try being a 40-something and older gay male in today's gay community (or non-community)! :-? :lol:
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There has for a long time been a section in the music store called "gay music". An artist does not have to be gay but being gay does not qualify you as an artist in this genre. The music has to reflect some special struggle or be about gay life.
It would sort of be like creating a sub-section for Blackspoltation.
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Eddie, I didn't know that about record stores. I guess maybe because I shop mostly online.
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