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Gay Pop

Gay Pop

Some months ago JoJo Siwa brought out a song called Karma. She immediately courted controversy when she said that she had wanted to start a new genre of music called "Gay Pop". This was clearly controversial because music by LGBTQ+ artists, as well music that describes the experiences of LGBTQ+ people has existed for a long time. She did try to walk back these remarks, but I thought it would be fun to create a thread dedicated to Gay Pop. Here is her Karma video which started the controversy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZIm_2MgdeA

And here are a couple of relatively recent songs that I personally would consider to be Gay Pop:

Reneé Rapp - Not My Fault

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_kPDIXBCWQ

Chappell Roan - Red Wine Supernova

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS6ixn2berk

And hey because I'm bi, here's a Gay Pop song from while ago about bisexuality:

Rita Ora - Girls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExJmET8boVw

Anyone have any LGBTQ+ pop music that they want to add?

@Jynx

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@Ainjoule

First I have loved Jojo since Dance Moms!

I should check with my boys about gay pop. One is bi and the other is gay

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@Ainjoule ha! I did hear about that actually, lol.

I am sorry to say but I don't listen to a lot of gay pop! Or straight pop.... I am too busy listening to synthwave and hi-tech 😅

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Haha @Jynx ...I had to look up what synthwave was. Interesting.

I started listening to pop music ironically, now I just listen.

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@Ainjoule @Jynx

I have asked my gay son and this is what he said;

  • anything by Lady Gaga
  • anything by Chappel Roan
  • Hot to Go

So far that’s all I’ve got. Let’s make a Spotify playlist?

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Ugh I wish we could @Oaktree but our names would be attached right? The collaborative playlists I've made on there all have the profile of the person who added the song right there so bye bye anonymity. Same for youtube playlists I think. I wonder if there's some kind of work around... 🤔

@Ainjoule I can share some links to songs I like if you like, but it'll have to be a time when I'm not flitting between a million threads - feel free to remind me next week!!

Also lol that's happened to me... I think human brains literally just like the familiar 😅 or that's what I tell myself!

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@Jynx

Could Sane set up a Spotify account under the name of Sane?

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Hey @Oaktree

Thanks. My current Spotify name links back to too many socials so I probably shouldn't at the moment. But it was good idea. I will keep a list of songs and maybe we can put out the list later so that people can program their own Spotify playlists.

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@Oaktree I like your thinking.

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I think we could, yeah @Oaktree @Ainjoule

The hiccups with that is that because your profiles would be visible if we let you/anyone add songs, we wouldn't be able to just make a public playlist. Thus, the work of putting the playlist together would fall to us. I'm sure it wouldn't take up too much of our day, but I'd definitely have to run it by the team first!! We'd also have to pay for a Spotify account and I'm not sure that's a high priority for our budget 😅

The only other thing I could think of is if we made a free account with YouTube, and gave 'custodianship' of it to the Community Guides to curate? Again, this is all just brainstormy ideas and can't make any promises! But hey, if we're keen and the community is keen, we can make magic happen I'm sure 😉

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@Jynx

You can't create playlists on a free Spotify account? I must admit I have never tried. To be honest I like the idea of YouTube account more though because I enjoy watching the music videos, lol....but that is just a personal preference.

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