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Post by Bingo on Jan 17, 2013 18:45:12 GMT -8
The Huffington Post have included a slide show of Country musicians' references to Gay issues in their report of Carrie's re-affirmation of her views on marriage equality in the current "Allure" magazine. Much of the information in the slide show is similar to a longer Tulsa newspaper feature, which some of you may have seen when the earlier story was being debated a few months ago. However, the Huff have included a screening of the CYH performing "Ain't No Son" on Letterman - I think this is well worth seeing again, as it contains some really great music. For me, this was easily the best song the Hounds have recorded so far. I'll try to link to it direct, but if that doesn't work, it is number 11 in the slideshow embedded on the page. www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/16/carrie-underwood-gay-marriage-country-singer_n_2488967.html?utm_hp_ref=tw#slide=1783946The other slides are mainly interesting to me in that Jennifer Nettles seems no longer inhibited by her label's apparent reluctance to acknowledge her pre-Mainstream back story in the Gay-friendly clubs of Atlanta. (Though some may prefer Blake Shelton's desperate attempts to explain that bigoted-sounding jokes are not really bigoted at all.)
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Post by james on Jan 17, 2013 22:35:42 GMT -8
Thanks for that.
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Post by DCXMMXVI on Jan 30, 2013 13:00:21 GMT -8
"The Advocate," a lgbt magazine, interviewed the chicks back in '06 i believe. i think it was natalie who said that the lesbians are always drawn to martie. i thought that was hilarious! the interviewer also mentioned how lots of gay people (including myself) can easily view NRTMN as a gay-empowerment song. the chicks agreed. and about the blake shelton "bigoted jokes" thing, i might have to read up on that story. i love hateful jokes about most things and can agree with him. lets not forget the true purpose of telling jokes. they're not to preach hate, they're to make you laugh. for me, cruel, disturbing jokes are the funniest. i like anthony jeselnik and gilbert gottfried the most.
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Post by erik on Jan 30, 2013 19:06:26 GMT -8
Quote by ModernTomSawyer:
There's only one problem with that, however: Not only isn't everyone going to "get" the joke, but there just may be enough people who will interpret it as hate. It is a very fine line, and there's always that danger of crossing it (IMHO).
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