Wednesday, January 15, 2003
First Openly Gay Boy Band
I didn’t make this up. German’s and probably the world’s first ALL GAY BOY BAND, Marilyn’s Boys recently released their debut English single, ‘I Give You The Stars’.
What? ALL GAY BOY BAND? All Openly Gay? Did they put up an advertisement screaming: Fags Wanted. We promise to groom them to become Super Pop Stars...
But this is really exciting news (at least for the gay community who has lamented many closeted celebrities for refusing to support their rights) After all, it could meant commerical suicide. Look what’s happened to uncle Georgie after he was frisked out - flashing his bum to an undercover cop. Sir Elton, being the only person in our current civilization to hold two royal titles, only outed himself after he was confident. He was “in” for god damn so many years that when he finally come clean, he tries to keep us “entertained” by singing with supposedly bigoted homo hater, Eminem. Now ladies and gentlemen, what can be more controversial then that?
Yes, certainly uncertainty when you are talking about a celebrity who decides to tells the whole world that he or she is gay. The suspicious me has a strong hunch that a) either the Marilyn Boys are not gay and that they were only pretending and making people look at them or b) they are faggots in real life and they will start a trend called self outing. That’s revolutionary. Imagine gay artists coming out and speaking for gay rights or alternatively exploit the pink dollar . Non gay wannabes pretend to be gay by relating a gay sex experience then turns straight and sells autobiographies of their crooked turn straight soaps. Bisexual artists declare openly on national television that both their male and female fans stand equal chance to get hooked up with them. Yes. Pretty wild huh.
Back to Singapore, I believe it will still be a matter of time before we will allow Marilyn Boys to enter our shores. They will need to prove that they can sell like Pet Shop Boys at least. Meanwhile we are likely to be anal about that sort of thing. After all, we are an Asian society (purlese someone explain to me what we mean by that. Nation Party? When it comes to dollars and cents, values are thrown out of the window?) But questions raising the awareness and legitimacy of the gay people and their contribution to society, like how does it feel like to be gay, coming out, their partners and that sort of questions, you can forget that the media will ever ask. Repeat after me: We are an Asian society and at the end of the day, we must be pro family and pro birth... ...
What really really spooked me and jolt me out of my seat was not their sexual orientation (which they revealed in asian gay portal, fridae.com, that all of them being gay wasn’t the real issue. That’s clever reverse marketing tactic. Telling the whole world they are gay and yet insisting it doesn’t matter when they know that it sells. Huh?) but the artificiality and the pervasiveness of marketing that has created the manufactured boyband phenomenon.
I quote from fridae:
“The five HANDSOME, FASHIONABLE AND MUSCLE-TONED MEN were chosen by a jury at the end of a nationwide casting session which began with 1000 would-be stars at the Betty Ford Clinic, a nightclub in Hamburg's red light district.
Like most other any boy or girl group, the boys have been CAREFULLY SELECTED to fit to CERTAIN STEREOTYPES. Manager and producer Swen Gutknecht says the band was CONSCIOUSLY put together with five different types, which are also very INTERNATIONAL.”
What happened to the love for music? Given way to brawns, good-looks and politically correctness?
As if to tease the consumer, (meaning impressionable teenagers) , the band feels that they will be able to attract both male and female fans. Male of course, mainly the gay boys who can now openly fantasize. The straight guys who have a secret desire to watch these ultra more straight than bend faggots prance around the stage. They also further explained that it will be their unavailability which will make them more attractive (psychology marketing?) to the girls. Otherwise, being sweet guys they are (Ruan, one of the boys said) and hip and gay (yes the distinction is getting blurred), they could also offer tips on fashion and how to seduce the boys, converting these girls to becoming fag hags.
Openly gay is the new hip.
I didn’t make this up. German’s and probably the world’s first ALL GAY BOY BAND, Marilyn’s Boys recently released their debut English single, ‘I Give You The Stars’.
What? ALL GAY BOY BAND? All Openly Gay? Did they put up an advertisement screaming: Fags Wanted. We promise to groom them to become Super Pop Stars...
But this is really exciting news (at least for the gay community who has lamented many closeted celebrities for refusing to support their rights) After all, it could meant commerical suicide. Look what’s happened to uncle Georgie after he was frisked out - flashing his bum to an undercover cop. Sir Elton, being the only person in our current civilization to hold two royal titles, only outed himself after he was confident. He was “in” for god damn so many years that when he finally come clean, he tries to keep us “entertained” by singing with supposedly bigoted homo hater, Eminem. Now ladies and gentlemen, what can be more controversial then that?
Yes, certainly uncertainty when you are talking about a celebrity who decides to tells the whole world that he or she is gay. The suspicious me has a strong hunch that a) either the Marilyn Boys are not gay and that they were only pretending and making people look at them or b) they are faggots in real life and they will start a trend called self outing. That’s revolutionary. Imagine gay artists coming out and speaking for gay rights or alternatively exploit the pink dollar . Non gay wannabes pretend to be gay by relating a gay sex experience then turns straight and sells autobiographies of their crooked turn straight soaps. Bisexual artists declare openly on national television that both their male and female fans stand equal chance to get hooked up with them. Yes. Pretty wild huh.
Back to Singapore, I believe it will still be a matter of time before we will allow Marilyn Boys to enter our shores. They will need to prove that they can sell like Pet Shop Boys at least. Meanwhile we are likely to be anal about that sort of thing. After all, we are an Asian society (purlese someone explain to me what we mean by that. Nation Party? When it comes to dollars and cents, values are thrown out of the window?) But questions raising the awareness and legitimacy of the gay people and their contribution to society, like how does it feel like to be gay, coming out, their partners and that sort of questions, you can forget that the media will ever ask. Repeat after me: We are an Asian society and at the end of the day, we must be pro family and pro birth... ...
What really really spooked me and jolt me out of my seat was not their sexual orientation (which they revealed in asian gay portal, fridae.com, that all of them being gay wasn’t the real issue. That’s clever reverse marketing tactic. Telling the whole world they are gay and yet insisting it doesn’t matter when they know that it sells. Huh?) but the artificiality and the pervasiveness of marketing that has created the manufactured boyband phenomenon.
I quote from fridae:
“The five HANDSOME, FASHIONABLE AND MUSCLE-TONED MEN were chosen by a jury at the end of a nationwide casting session which began with 1000 would-be stars at the Betty Ford Clinic, a nightclub in Hamburg's red light district.
Like most other any boy or girl group, the boys have been CAREFULLY SELECTED to fit to CERTAIN STEREOTYPES. Manager and producer Swen Gutknecht says the band was CONSCIOUSLY put together with five different types, which are also very INTERNATIONAL.”
What happened to the love for music? Given way to brawns, good-looks and politically correctness?
As if to tease the consumer, (meaning impressionable teenagers) , the band feels that they will be able to attract both male and female fans. Male of course, mainly the gay boys who can now openly fantasize. The straight guys who have a secret desire to watch these ultra more straight than bend faggots prance around the stage. They also further explained that it will be their unavailability which will make them more attractive (psychology marketing?) to the girls. Otherwise, being sweet guys they are (Ruan, one of the boys said) and hip and gay (yes the distinction is getting blurred), they could also offer tips on fashion and how to seduce the boys, converting these girls to becoming fag hags.
Openly gay is the new hip.
