From: Manhunt Daily
"Steve Grand looks like this. One could argue that this has nothing to do with the semi-viral success of his “All American Boy” music video—which I somehow avoided watching until today due to laziness and a series of disparaging tweets from The Sword‘s Zachary Sire—but if one were to make such an argument, they would be horribly wrong and cloaked in so much naivety that they should probably seek professional help.
The gay blog circuit collectively dropped their panties for Grand’s practical ripoff of Lady Gaga‘s “Yoü and I“. The hysteria reached a point where I got an e-mail from someone I truly respect who dubbed him “the first gay country star”, and much as I tried to avoid it, I nearly lost my shit and threw my computer across the room.
Steve Grand is not the first openly gay man to sing country music. While he could be classified as the first gay country “star”, that would be setting the bar pretty low on the qualifications for stardom. The man has made one video with less than a million views (as of this post). He’s not even on a Rebecca Black level of fame.
Now, it might seem like I’m taking a lot of digs at Steve himself, but my bigger problem is the way the media treats openly-gay musicial artists as a whole. Take hip-hop for instance. Someone like Cazwell gets a lot of attention because he’s attractive and (usually) features hot guys in his video. Artists like Cakes Da Killa, LE1F, Zebra Katz and Mykki Blanco get attention, because they’re “hip”, “edgy” and possessing varying degrees of talent. Big Dipper and Rica Shay get attention (from me), because they have hairy butts. Yet, you don’t see the mainstream gay blogs covering someone like DaQuan, Kaoz, I.K.P. or anyone who isn't white, trendy or turning out over-sexed visuals with shirtless dudes.
Blogs will name Double Duchess and The Freaky Boiyz the “first openly gay rap group” without doing their research and realizing that Deep Dickollective had been doing this shit since 2000. Now, I’m a lazy ass blogger who’s human and makes mistakes, but that’s just plain ol’ ignorance. Google that shit before you make it your headline.
I’m getting way, way, way, way off topic here.
What I was trying to go for—before ranting and heading into TL;DR territory—is that gay men have been making country music for awhile now. We wrote about bearish singer Drake Jensen early last year, and surely, he’s not the first gay cowboy to pick up a microphone and sing about his feelings.
Whatever the case may be, I took some time this morning to reacquaint myself with Jensen’s work, even though he doesn't have a six pack, bulging biceps and a gay porn actor playing the love interest in his music videos… But does that eliminate my desire to sit on his face and feel those whiskers against my taint? Nope! I’d hit it.
And I think I've made my point. Gay media is superficial. We only write about people we wanna fuck."
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