New Country
Country singer Ty Herndon in honor of Pride Month has re-released his 1995 number one hit to replace the gender pronouns from being a song about a girl, to being a song about a boy. He said it always bothered him that he couldn’t truly sing the song about the person he wrote it about. After coming out in 2014, he wanted to share his experience with others, "When I go and speak to kids, I hear this all the time. They're like — especially the LGBT kids — 'We really want to like country music, but we don't think country music likes us.'".
Album of The Week
Transangleic Exodus - Ezra Furman (2018)
“We’re making time, we’re making progress
But progress towards what?”
“You still send me the occasional email
I got a dumb job working in retail
I miss you baby so bad, so bad”
This is a type of concept album, stemming from Ezra Furman’s coming out as queer and gender fluid. “The narrative thread is I’m in love with an angel, and a government is after us, and we have to leave home because angels are illegal, as is harbouring angels. The term ‘transangelic’ refers to the fact people become angels because they grow wings. They have an operation, and they’re transformed. And it causes panic because some people think it’s contagious, or it should just be outlawed. The album still works without the back story, though. What’s essential is the mood — paranoid, authoritarian, the way certain people are stigmatized. It’s a theme in American life right now, and other so-called democracies.”
Best New Track: First Time in a Gay Bar
“This is me staring with no intent to flirt”
A Sunday Kind of Love
“And my arms need someone
Someone to enfold
To keep me warm when Mondays
And Tuesdays grow cold”
Jobs
“My friends don’t need God
’Cause they all feel loved
And spend their Sundays sleeping in”
If I Could Write
“Said that I had changed
Tried to keep my eyes closed
I want you so bad
Then I awoke and it was so sad”
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