Cop from the Village People threatens to sue anyone who says “YMCA” is a gay anthem
Cop from the Village People threatens to sue anyone who says “YMCA” is a gay anthem
He is getting a lot of money from Donald Trump's use of the song, and he doesn't want anyone associating it with gay culture.
By Molly Sprayregen Tuesday, December 3, 2024
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Y.M.C.A co-writer Victor Willis says that starting in January, he will sue “each and every news organization that falsely refers to Y.M.C.A., either in their headlines or alluded to in the base of the story, that Y.M.C.A. is somehow a gay anthem.”
Willis, who is straight, co-wrote the song with the band’s straight producer Henri Belolo and its gay producer Jacques Morali. He has pushed back against the song’s identity as a gay anthem in the past, but the conversation around its meaning has reached new heights in the wake of Donald Trump’s obsession with playing the song at rallies and other events.
The band’s frontman claimed the hit dance song isn’t gay, but his gay bandmates remember things differently.
Many have mocked the president-elect – the leader of a viciously anti-LGBTQ+ party – for unwittingly using a song that so many consider a rallying cry for the LGBTQ+ community. But even he once called the 1978 hit the “gay national anthem,” saying that he loves to use it because it gets people up and moving.
In his recent post, Willis offered a lengthy explanation for why the song should not be seen as a gay anthem and also for his decision to embrace Trump’s use of it, a reversal from his 2020 request that Trump no longer use any Village People music.
The short version is the song’s renewed popularity is making Willis a lot of money.
He said he originally decided to ask Trump to stop using the song because the number of people complaining to him about it “had become a nuisance,” though his original request suggests discontent with Trump’s threats on the American people.
But Willis said he changed his mind because Trump is “having a lot of fun” with the song and he “didn’t have the heart” to stop him from using it.
He added, “Y.M.C.A. has benefited greatly from use by the President Elect. For example, Y.M.C.A. was stuck at #2 on the Billboard chart prior to the President Elect’s use. However, the song finally made it to #1 on a Billboard chart after over 45 years (and held on to #1 for two weeks) due to the President Elect’s use,” which he said has led to big “financial benefits.”
se my song.”
He then tried to tear down the notion that the song is a gay anthem, explaining that it is “damaging to the song” and when he wrote the lyrics he had no idea the Y was a gay hangout.
“And when I say, ‘hang out with all the boys’ that is simply 1970s black slang for black guys hanging-out together for sports, gambling or whatever. There’s nothing gay about that.”
He then claimed he doesn’t mind if gay people think of it as their anthem but said the “true anthem” is that it has “appeal to people of all strips including President Elect Trump.”
This is not the first time Willis has threatened to sue news outlets who claim the song is associated with the gay community.
In a September 2020 Facebook post, Willis wrote, “I will sue the next media organization, or anyone else, that falsely suggests Y.M.C.A. is somehow about illicit gay sex… Get your mind out of the gutter, please!” His post was likely an exaggeration as there’s no record of him actually suing anyone over it.
But as with his most recent post, he also contradicted himself then, saying, “I’m happy the gay community adopted it as their anthem. I have no qualms with that.”
Some of his bandmates, however, disagree with the song’s original intent.
Randy Jones, who performed as Village People’s cowboy, told Spin magazine in 2008 that he helped inspire Morali to create the song by taking the producer to a New York City YMCA gym in the late 1970s and having him meet gay adult actors who worked out there.
In fact, gay cultural critic Michael Musto believes that the song has been “straight-washed.”
“All these years later, the gay subtext is gone, and it’s a rah-rah crowd-pleaser for the baseball stadium crowd,” Musto said, noting the song’s popularity at sporting events. “It happens. A rallying song for the oppressed turns into a middle-of-the-road spirit-lifter, mainly because the straights like to steal things from the gays, take away all the scary edge, and make it their own.”
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What a crock of shit.
Silly fat fuck.
What else has Victor Willis done over the years but live off the back of this one song. It may have made him rich, but it certainly has not taught him to be truthful. He ' hung out with all the boys' and now claims it was not meant to have a gay theme when - girlfriend - did you ever see a more gay group of men singing about having sex at the sauna with other gay men .... I doubt it....
It was also the lead single on the album called ' CRUISING.' and that again has a strong gay meaning.
For 50 years the song YMCA has been known as a GAY ANTHUM and the words are quite crystal clear in their meanings of gay men meeting at the YMCA and ' having fun' which is EXACTLY what thousands did at the YMCA back in the 70's and 80's. Now claiming otherwise concerning the songs lyrics is pure bollocks.
It just comes down to where the money is coming from and how he will sell his fucking soul for money which is the cheapest and worst cop out there is.
What a sad fat fuck he is.
Isn't that called being a whore ?
YMCA WAS and ALWAYS WILL BE known by the LGBT communities as a GAY ANTHUM whether he likes it or not and if he choses to sue, he may find that hard under the circumstances and if he REALLY wants to go through the lyric and explain how they are NOT gay orientated, then be my guest, let's see what a Judge and Jury think of it and so funny he only comes out against it's gay theme AFTER Trump wants to use it more than 50 years after it's initial release, and where MONEY is involved. Not a word for 50 years until now.
Funny that...
He's just a sad fat fuck.
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Young man, there's no need to feel down, I said
Young man, pick yourself off the ground, I said
Young man, 'cause you're in a new town
There's no need to be unhappy
Young man, there's a place you can go, I said
Young man, when you're short on your dough you can
Stay there and I'm sure you will find
Many ways to have a good time
[Chorus]
It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
They have everything for young men to enjoy
You can hang out with all the boys
It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
You can get yourself clean, you can have a good meal
You can do whatever you feel
[Verse 2]
Young man, are you listening to me? I said
Young man, what do you want to be? I said
Young man, you can make real your dreams
But you've got to know this one thing
No man does it all by himself, I said
Young man, put your pride on the shelf
And just go there, to the Y.M.C.A.
I'm sure they can help you today
[Chorus]
It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
They have everything for young men to enjoy
You can hang out with all the boys
It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
You can get yourself clean, you can have a good meal
You can do whatever you feel
[Verse 3]
Young man, I was once in your shoes, I said
I was down and out with the blues, I felt
No man cared if I were alive
I felt the whole world was so jive
That's when someone came up to me and said
"Young man, take a walk up the street
It's a place there called the Y.M.C.A.
They can start you back on your way"
[Chorus]
It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
They have everything for young men to enjoy
You can hang out with all the boys
[Post-Chorus]
Y.M.C.A., it's fun to stay at the
Y.M.C.A.
Young man, young man, there's no need to feel down
Young man, young man, get yourself off the ground
Y.M.C.A., it's fun to stay at the
Y.M.C.A.
Young man, young man, are you listening to me?
Young man, young man, what do you wanna be?
Y.M.C.A., you'll find it at the
Y.M.C.A.
No man, no man does it all by himself
Young man, young man, put your pride on the shelf
Y.M.C.A. and just go to the
Y.M.C.A.
Young man, young man, I was once in your shoes
Young man, young man, I was down with the blues
Y.M.C.A., it's fun to stay at the
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