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Eurodance Music considered gay?

ray104	Date: January 6, 2008 @ 5:45 PM I Have been listening to Lots of eurodance/pop-trance music from artist's like cascada, Ian van Dahl,lasgo. D.H.T,Fragma,Ashley Jade,DJ sammy,Elize and others. Whenever I am listening on a bus or out in public or with the window open. People Usually ask me what the Fuck I am am isstening to and stuff like that. Most of the other black people keep asking me "how can I listen to this stuff" and this is that shit the play in gay night clubs and crap like that. I mean why is this type of music considered "white" or "gay"/for Fags/Homosexuals/lesbians? despite the fact the performers are strait, extremely hot, or not white at all?
TigerTim	Date: January 6, 2008 @ 6:51 PM You're asking a question there that sums up our world.... "Ridiculous" Just tell those people to go and get a life and let you groove to whatever you want... Secondly, the more they critise, the more you 'piss' them off... Put the headphones (preferably on loud) to their ears.... They'll soon piss off and give you peace! Hope this helps!
rhthesinner	Date: January 6, 2008 @ 7:00 PM "I mean why is this type of music considered "white" or "gay"/for Fags/Homosexuals/lesbians? despite the fact the performers are strait, extremely hot, or not white at all?..." A bored 14yr old boy was checking out Emo Side Project's friends on myspace recently. He found it very amusing that a 41yr old gay man was a friend and a huge fan. What did this kid expect? That I should be listening to Barbra or Judy sing show tunes or Ethel Merman do disco between reruns of The Golden Girls? Music is a universal language. It speaks to people, regardless of age, culture or sexuality. The style of music you speak of, or "shit" as you so delicately put it, is played in straight and gay clubs. A lot of what passes for club culture these days and the current trends in club music has been influenced by gay people right from the start. I was dancing to eurodance in Heaven (the biggest gay club in Europe at the time) twenty odd years ago before it hit the "straight mainstream". Your statement which I've quoted is a generalisation to say the least. It might be considered as you say it is. But not all the performers are straight or black. The "extremely hot" comment is subjective and when talking about the music the artists produce, it's irrelevant too. There are as many differences/combinations in this eurodance genre as there are in any other. And none of these should dictate the audience criteria. I'm too tired to write an essay and am not as good at putting my point across as others are here. And anyway, The Golden Girls are on soon. It's the episode where Sophia breaks out of Shady Pines! "There's no business like show business ..."
GTOriginal	Date: January 6, 2008 @ 7:47 PM * Opens a beer and sits down to watch COPS *
leedsquietman	Date: January 6, 2008 @ 8:10 PM Who cares about what other people think? Society should be more tolerant it is supposed to be in this modern age, we keep seeing these pride parades and how cosmopolitan everyone is but really, this is just soundbites and videoclips, the majority of the population live in parochial towns and villages where 'gaybashing' is still an accepted way of life. I am not gay, I am happily married but love music by Elton John, Freddie Mercury, The Pet Shop Boys, K.D. Lang and plenty of others. When I listen to music, I listen to MUSIC. The lifestyles and backgrounds of those performers does not interest me one iota. If they are gay, I don't care if they sing or play music so well. And the private lives of consenting adults doesn't concern me. I know gay people and am friends with some, because of the fact that they are caring, funny, interesting people. Their private life is none of my concern and not a criteria to judge them by. There are gay men who drink beer, smoke, fart, watch the Sunday U.S. Football games and Cops btw - not all gay men camp it up with feather boas while watching Judy Garland or Liza Minelli you know !
evansorchid	Date: January 6, 2008 @ 10:42 PM I didn't know Elton was Gay......Freddie Mercury too......OMG.... Ya mean I can't tap my foot to Rocket Man any more..... ...and what about Bicycle Race? ...you don't suppose there's a subliminal message in their music that might turn me gay?... Bicycle Race, Bicycle Race, Bisexual Race Bisexual....Bisexual....Bisexual... I just want to ride my....... NO, it can't be... There's no place like home, there's no place like home.....
GTOriginal	Date: January 6, 2008 @ 10:53 PM Don't watch the Flintstones either, you may have yourself a gay old time...
TameasDust	Date: January 7, 2008 @ 8:48 AM I listen to eurodance a LOT ... as far as it being gay or this or that being gay ... It is usually stupid people who come up with those labels ... music is music and anyone can listen to whatever they like ... sides I make up my own mind about stuff. And for all those people who censor bugs bunny
GTOriginal	Date: January 7, 2008 @ 10:12 AM Ya know.... By definition, tolerance is the act of enduring or putting up with something one considers abnormal or wrong. You would think people would be more enlightened in the 21st Century...
zedsalt	Date: January 7, 2008 @ 10:46 AM In adding my voice to those explaining that it does sound a little silly to care about whether music "sounds Gay" or "sounds Caucasian", etc., I'd like to tell you about an asexual bud of mine. He had a girlfriend through high school and into college, because that was what he figured he was supposed to do, and he had sex with her, because that made her happy, and it felt good. Then when he noticed that the sort of music his band was doing was best received in the Gay bars and by the Gay clubhoppers, he started sleeping with men. I don't think he was overly concerned with "the scene"; it was just that he didn't care about sex beyond how it affected his relationships. Yeah, this really doesn't add anything to the discussion. I just thought it was interesting.
Tattoomom	Date: January 7, 2008 @ 11:01 AM I feel pretty oh so pretty...I feel pretty and witty and gaaaayyyy.
GTOriginal	Date: January 7, 2008 @ 11:28 AM OK I'm definately gonna regret dredging this up, but http://truth-or-dare.dmusic.com/music/comments/241638
GeneHilbert	Date: January 7, 2008 @ 11:33 AM
moam	Date: January 7, 2008 @ 1:20 PM its really sad that people have a fear of others looking at them as "gay". First of all, being gay is nothing bad, its a way of life...a different attraction. How is being gay insulting? And if you know that you aren't gay (like ray has clearly stated plenty of times with all of his 'i like little girls' posts) why should it matter what others think? Fuck, i've heard wearing your watch on your right hand means you're gay. That doesn't mean anything except that you wear your watch on your mother fucking right hand. I know I'm not gay, and worrying that others might think I am is no concern of mine. I can easily admit that I even listen to Ace of Base. Haha, fuckin' great music, but what music you listen to does not change your sexuality, period. Ace of Base for life, bitches.
Tattoomom	Date: January 7, 2008 @ 1:37 PM Here MOAM....
moam	Date: January 7, 2008 @ 1:39 PM Fuck that... Watch this music video... http://youtube.com/watch?v=KIVUGFsdNcw Both the singers are like the hottest bitches on the face of this planet. Seriously.
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ray104	Date: January 7, 2008 @ 2:13 PM I have an Ace of base CD I listen to it.
ShadowMom	Date: January 7, 2008 @ 2:28 PM I am so indie-oriented... I don't even know what Ace of Base is.
moam	Date: January 7, 2008 @ 2:30 PM click that link!! good song by a good group :
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ShadowMom	Date: January 7, 2008 @ 2:31 PM Only because I still can't stream here. Otherwise, I'd be forced to ignore you.
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BOWILLIE	Date: January 7, 2008 @ 2:40 PM past music history taught me a valuable lesson. in my youth..and others im sure..listening to elton john..freddy mercury..david bowie..i loved the music and still do..even before they came out* so the point was self evident. its about the music and not the orientation. and for those who minds it changed..that is prejudice ruling your mind.
Tattoomom	Date: January 7, 2008 @ 2:45 PM And let's NOT forget the God of Metal!!!
BOWILLIE	Date: January 7, 2008 @ 2:48 PM no pict..must be shy
Tattoomom	Date: January 7, 2008 @ 3:19 PM damn! it was there when I posted it a few minutes ago! That's weird...
Tattoomom	Date: January 7, 2008 @ 3:20 PM Maybe somebody just doesn't like Rob Halford....
rhthesinner	Date: January 7, 2008 @ 5:48 PM @ Rob Halford!
Israfel	Date: January 7, 2008 @ 7:59 PM You obviously do not know what you are talking about! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX_rNEPIgc8
Acumen	Date: January 8, 2008 @ 11:02 AM While someone can ignorantly describe music as being 'gay', mainly because they don't have any balls to admit that they like it themselves, there is music that I would describe as gay, either in context or in vibe. Madonna. Not really gay in context, but vibe wise, soooooo gay. The Hidden Cameras (band from Toronto) is explicitly gay in content, but the music itself is not campy. Its fun, and really good (I've seen them live, and you should too). They are kinda like The Gay Arcade Fire. When it comes to Eurodance, I like it when the music has some balls or sauce to it. Music can still rock and be gay at the same time. And I am gay, so I know
ChillinBuzz	Date: January 9, 2008 @ 6:44 AM it seems a large minority of people (whatever colour they are) consider music they don't like to be "gay", "crap", "shit" or whatever word fits the street slang at the time. and another thing, how would these people know that type of music is played in a gay club? hmm?
GTOriginal	Date: January 9, 2008 @ 12:19 PM Same way they know airplane & hospital food tastes like shit?
BlackMage	Date: January 9, 2008 @ 12:27 PM I can somehow conjure an image of music that could be considered "gay" but if I replace the word "gay" with "homosexual"... it get's quite complicated. There's just no way for me to think of music as homosexual. It just doesn't happen. People thinking that some music is gay is just what it is. Thoughts. Something you can pretty much completely ignore even if they try to shove them right at your face.
GeneHilbert	Date: January 9, 2008 @ 1:49 PM Relax don't do it - When you want to come.......
Distilled1	Date: January 9, 2008 @ 2:04 PM I love Hospital food is that what shit taste like
ChillinBuzz	Date: January 9, 2008 @ 6:55 PM It's not the music that's gay, this is the thing I don't get. See, music isn't a living thing, like a human, although it can be classed as intelligent, the actual concept of music has no brain. Nor is it a vegetable, although I've yet to meet a gay vegetable... So how can music be gay? Does a "gay" electronic tune go hanging out in bars looking for other "gay" electronic tunes? One can get so confused...
rhthesinner	Date: January 9, 2008 @ 6:59 PM On 7th Jan 2008, rhthesinner said: @ Rob Halford! Let me rephrase that...
GTOriginal	Date: January 9, 2008 @ 7:16 PM It's all in the definition... Some songs leave me feeling sad and depressed, while others leave me feeling cheerful bright and gay.
ChillinBuzz	Date: January 10, 2008 @ 7:18 AM I just realised my last comment implied human beings weren't living things... So am I right still?