It would be one thing for us to be annoyed with country radio stations for banning an LGBT-themed song based on a bogus holier-than-thou attitude — we’ve seen that movie before, and the ending is so predictable.
But it’s another thing entirely for those stations to ban a straight country music song because they don’t quite understand the concept and think it’s gay.
Either way, it’s pretty ugly.
The song in question is “Girl Crush” sung by Little Big Town member Karen Fairchild, and the gist of it is a female longing to be a different girl so that she’d be the object of a man’s affection.
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Apparently that’s too complex of a thought for some country music fans.
Here’s the chorus:
I want to taste her lips
Yeah, ’cause they taste like you
I want to drown myself
In a bottle of her perfume
I want her long blonde hair
I want her magic touch
Yeah, ’cause maybe then
You’d want me just as much
“You are just promoting the gay agenda on your station and I am changing the channel and never listening to you ever again!!” one idiot from Texas wrote in to say.
In a recent interview, the band was asked, “Is it frustrating to you that here is your song – that is one of the Top 10 sellers for weeks and weeks and weeks – and people on the radio are still afraid to play it because they think it’s a lesbian song?”
Fairchild responded, “Just the fact that we’re still discussing that, number one, there’s so many problems with that whole issue.”
Here’s the jam, which if were drunk and doing whippets all night, maybe we could mistake for a lesbian love song:
h/t: GayStarNews
Alan down in Florida
In a nutshell what is wrong with country radio. If it’s not about a redneck blue collar man pining for a beautiful woman and drinking with or without her – they don’t get played.
jason smeds
All country songs are awful.
erasure25
He’s kinda hot! Dierks Bently came out in favor of the song and I love him even more!
jwtraveler
Once again proves how stupid bigotry and intolerance are.
Frank Smekar
Show your support for the band and download the song and show country radio they have their head up their ass by making it a top song.
jjose712
It seems this was a little exagerated. It’s true there were some complains and one station dropped the song, but in general terms the song is doing well, even in airplay
What i liked is the reaction of the band, not only defending their song, but saying i should not matter if it were a lesbian song.
Some country listeners are so used of songs about trucks and tractors, girls that are very country and songs about beer, who are unable to appreciate anything that’s about any other thing
Iver Frank Becklund
That chorus was completely taken out of context
Linda Jamieson
Love little big town love this song ð??ð??ð??
vive
I think it may ironically be so popular in part BECAUSE straight guys thought it was about girl-on-girl action.