It’s hard to tell whether Chely Wright’s 50 percent drop in album sales has to do with her coming out or the quality of her new record, but Ricky Martin says he’s been hearing similar things from fans who are abandoning him now that he’s confirmed what everyone already knew. Coming out: The career suicide Rupert Everett warned us about!
“I wanted the world to understand that to love in the way I love is not revolutionary, it’s a natural thing, my nature made me this way,” Ricky tells the Brazilian magazine Veja. “Every gay is born gay. Social life is opposed to that nature and that’s where the conflicts start.” Folks who don’t seem to understand that — “many people” and some fans — relayed to Martin that they’re going to stop listening to his music.
Which begs the question: How do you get personal messages like “I don’t listen to fag music!” to a superstar like Ricky Martin? Do you tweet him? He reads those things? God, there goes my afternoon.
MM
Yes, Ricky reads tweets. He also answers some of the questions or comments tweets from fans by using Direct Messages:
http://twitter.com/ricky_martin
Gigi
I think Ricky will be A-OK!
Steve
To be fair, most pop stars don’t last much longer than a decade anyways… those who do are far and few between.
Alex Sarmiento
I thought that people couldn’t listen to “She Bangs” again because of William Hung. Huh.
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Ricky is wet:
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http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/Ricky/Martin/moja/elpepusoceps/20110116elpepspor_10/Tes
randy
OOO — what a threat. I won’t ever listen to your songs as long as you are gay.
That really puts us gays in our place, doesn’t it?
I guess it was perfectly okay to dream about him while you thought he was hetero, but now suddenly these people have to get all high and mighty over a song. What is it with these fanatics?
Harbo
I’ll listen to anything he sings. Ricky Martin is the hottest man on the planet. He’s got the moves, he’s got the voice. What he doesn’t have he doesn’t need. Hell, he’s got everything. I’ve always been a fan and I’ll stay a fan.
Adam
Now, seriously, how many heterosexual homophobe rocked out to she bangs in the first place? two?
Perhaps him coming out just made them confront their own sexuality, so they’ve returned to the comfort of Linkin Park or something.
Bill S
Hmmm. So. He’ll lose some of his stupider fans.
gomez
@Adam: some of us also listen to linkin park, believe it or not
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