TYT: Country Fans Really Don’t Like Gay People

[WhoIsNumberNone]

"Alana Lynn, a morning co-host on country music station 104.3 FM in Boise, Idaho, was excited to play Little Big Town’s latest single for her listeners. “Girl Crush,” a powerful ballad about a woman envious of her ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend, seemed destined to be a hit.

“I want to taste her lips, yeah cause they taste like you / I want to drown myself in a bottle of her perfume,” vocalist Karen Fairchild sings. “I want her long blond hair, I want her magic touch / Yeah cause maybe then, you’d want me just as much. . . I got a girl crush.”

Sure, it’s a provocative way to describe jealousy. But when Lynn played the song on the air, she didn’t anticipate that she would get furious phone calls and e-mails accusing “Girl Crush” of “promoting the gay agenda” and threats to boycott the station. The last time she heard this much outrage from listeners? “The Dixie Chicks’ President Bush comments,” Lynn recalls, referring to when the trio’s career imploded in 2003 after making critical statements about the president."

Read more here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/03/25/why-stations-are-pulling-little-big-towns-girl-crush-from-the-airwaves-and-what-that-says-about-country-radio-today/

[Jackpine Radical]

1. And then there"s this:

[Kalidurga]

2. Alana Lynn,

play the song over and over again until your listeners actually comprehend the lyrics. They should be ashamed anyway first for being wrong about the lyrics they aren't about the woman she is singing about they are about who she is really in love with, could be a woman but whatever it's probably a man. What they really should be ashamed about is wigging out over a song maybe expressing the feelings a gay person might have.

It's a beautiful song btw. A very sad song. If you listen to the meaning it's hard to not scream at her and tell her to dump the jerk and appreciate herself for who she is instead of wishing she was more like someone else.

[Dawson Leery]

3. The traditional country audience would have no problem living under the Third Reich.

[pauldp]

4. That's what happens when you believe in The Wishin' Boot

[bongo_x]

5. I can’t respect anyone who lumps people in groups...

I can’t respect anyone who judges people in groups. "Country fans"?