I read this to my wife who a) barely cares about lyrics and does not listen for any subtext in music, but b) was an adult in the 1970s when the VP were big, and she just laughed.
My cousin got married sometime in the '70s, and because she’d met her husband at a Y they picked “YMCA” as the song for their first dance. I managed to keep a mostly straight face.
Thank you for the explanation, everyone.
I barely care about lyrics and don’t listen for any subject in music. And i was a native kid in the 70s and didn’t recognize it to be a gay anthem then. But now I’m an adult, and that’s one of the more absurd statements I’ve heard.
Fortunately, we have a new gay anthem. That was never in any way inspired by YMCA.
But twenty bucks is twenty bucks.
Straight face
LOL I didn’t even intend that.
I think you just watched the world cup draw. It was indeed a whole cavalcade of WTF, from start to finish (the Village People performing for Trump wasn’t even the most WTF moment)
I watched a couple of British football discussion YouTubes about it (completely apolitical, just British blokes talking about footie) and they are all spent the first half of the show going “WTF the did I just watch! Seriously WTF!” Before they even started talking about who is playing who next summer
You are right. What I should have said is “you don’t have to say it was intended to be a gay anthem to acknowledge that that is what it actually was.”
With as much as he seems to like the song, you’d think that at some point he would’ve learned that it has a dance that goes with it that isn’t “jerking off two invisible dicks”.
Hey, cut the guy a break, he probably isn’t physically able to do anything more complex.
That inspired a peak SNL bit, too.
You don’t even have to move your legs! It’s not like his bone spurs are stopping him from making letters in the air with his arms.
Ah but can Trump spell YMCA?
Hmm. Good point. “Nobody is a better speller than Trump. So many beautiful letters in that word. I had a spelling bee champion come up to me the other day, a very high IQ individual, with tears in his eyes, and he said ‘Sir, you inspired me to start spelling, I hope someday I can spell as strongly as you’.”
The Wikipedia article on Trump’s “jerking off two invisible dicks” dance notes that Willis says he’s made several million dollars as a result of the song coming back into the Billboard charts after Trump started using it.
In the week prior to the 2024 U.S. presidential election, “Y.M.C.A.”, to which the Trump dance is frequently performed, appeared in the Billboard Hot Dance/Electronic chart for the first time in 47 years, rising to the number four spot shortly after the election and, according to songwriter Victor Willis, grossing “several million dollars” since Trump’s adoption of the tune.
I’d like to think that, if I were in his shoes, I’d be a big enough person to give that dirty money to charity (ideally one that supports a cause Trump hates), but considering that it’s probably the biggest payday he’s had since the Carter administration, I’m not sure I blame him for taking advantage of the situation.