LOGO Is Going to Premiere Kylie Minogue’s New Video Today. Big Whoop, We’ve Moved on to ‘Alejandro’
Kylie Minogue’s music video for “All The Lovers” will premiere on U.S. television today on the Viacom-owned LOGO channel, according to an email from the network’s publicist. That’s neat, and well deserved, and is at least one signal the television network launched for the gays is actually programming content they want to see. But this sort of unwarranted excitement (seriously, see all the crazy colors in the below email) about a music video premiere on domestic television is really just evidence of LOGO … still not getting it.
If you live in a household that gets the LOGO channel, you almost certainly live in a household that has Internet access. And thus, you can go on YouTube. And if you’re really that thrilled about Kylie releasing a new video, you’ve already seen it. Because it was available online a full week ago, and posted by plenty of sites, including this one. The gays have already moved on to that noxious Katy Perry’s “California Girls” — and, of course, Lady Gaga’s “Alejandro.”
The only way to get the gays excited about a music video premiere is actually to premiere it. Putting it on a cable network doesn’t count as its debut, not in this techno era. So maybe this is a small accomplishment now that MTV, LOGO’s cousin, no longer airs music videos. But raise your hand if you’re going to drop everything, run to your television at 7pm, and watch something you’ve already replayed eight times.
I loved the part where our Lady sucks on the rosary beads in a rubber nun outfit. Suck that Catholic Church!
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Is that an upside down cross on her crotch area?
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Alejandro sucks and rips off Madonna vids from Oh Father, American Life and Janet’s Rhythm Nation. GaGa is going to reach her expired by date soon b/c she’s not very original and the songs have NO meaning.
Kylie’s songs might be fun throwaway dance pop but at least they have words that make sense.
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Why is Kylie’s vid premiering only on LOGO? A segregation paradigm such as LOGO does not serve our interests. It simply panders to the concept that we gays are segregated and must remain segregated. Not good, folks.
Why doesn’t VH1 put it on? Or MTV? What are they afraid of? It also seems that male-male sensuality is being shut out of the mainstream in favor of female-female sensuality. The driving force behind this is sleazy straight guys and their bisexual female enablers.
Message to sleazy straight guys and their bisexual female enablers: fuck off.
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@jason:
It’s not some big conspiracy. MTV and VH1 play songs that are hits on the radio or are highly commericially successful in other ways. They play artists like Madonna, Gaga, Britney and Christina who are associated with the gay community. Kylie has never had commercial success in the US.
Kylie is on MTV and VH1 in Europe because she is successful there.
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If airing a 4 minute music video that was seen a week ago online is the best Logo can do then we are screwed when it comes to having a gay channel. When will Logo learn?
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it’s been done. another blond has already crossed boundaries, broken rules, pissed people off, pissed off the catholic church, made people love her, made people hate her. it’s been done. enough with all this gaga bullshit.
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Tommy,
But Kylie has had 2 top ten hits in the USA as well. She’s mainstream, not sidestream.
She ought to be getting mainstream play with her Lovers video, not just on stupid, marginal LOGO.
I suspect it’s because MTV and VH1 are homophobic towards male-male sensuality, VH1 in particular.
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Er, Tommy, Kylie had Locomotion and Can’t Get You Out Of My Head reach top 10 in the Billboard Hot 100.
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@jason:
2 Top 10 hits how many years ago? You can’t compare that to Madonna and Gaga. They play a video if the current song is a hit not because the singer had a hit many years ago. All the Lovers isn’t a hit on the radio or itunes.
It’s like saying Boy George is a huge star because he had hits years ago with CC. In fact, Boy George is bigger star than Kylie because he had more than 2 hits.
Get over this conspiracy stuff. I know it’s hard to accept but Kylie isn’t a big star in the US. No one cares. She played in small clubs on her last tour.
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at least now the few idiotic posters on here can stop complaining that Gaga only pushes girl-girl same sex sexiness :P
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Sam,
The question remains as to whether the music industry would allow a MALE singer to market himself as bisexual. To me, the answer is obviously ‘no’.
There is definitely a double standard in terms how females are allowed to market themselves as compared with males.
I maintain that women exploit double standards – such as the bisexual double standard – in order to get preferential treatment.
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Tommy,
The music channels play videos by new artists all the time. You don’t need to have had a hit – or even many hits – to get mainstream air time.
Therefore, it’s only fair that Kylie get mainstream exposure with her Lovers video.
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More nonsense from Queerty, while bashing Adam Lambert on another thread, you’re whining that gay artists aren’t being mainstream enough? You completely ignore that VH1 has given Adam the HUGE HONOR of being the first artist to be featured for an entire MONTH SOLO on their highly publicized inaugural “Posted” application roll out. Not GAGA, not Top 40 homophobe rappers, not trashy Kesha but fucking gay Adam Lambert.
Go ADAM, you will be iconic without the “help” of disingenuous LGBT haters and bloggers using you for hits.
Queerty is too busy pulling quotes out of Lambert interviews to hate on instead of actually RESEARCHING what he’s doing and the constant positive publicity he is giving LGBT people.
http://www.vh1.com/music/posted/adam-lambert/#fbid=QeZwEfnwa4v
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i love both singers and both videos. This proves that television is going the way of the 8 – track tape. I shut off the cable access years ago and don’t miss it at all.
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“Alejandro” is a very stylish video but I think “Bad Romance” video is her strongest with “Telephone” coming up second. I felt certain shots were too long and the edit cuts needed to be a lot quicker. I wasn’t really inspired by this video. This doesn’t change my view of her. She is still the best!
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agreed!