Village People singer denies “YMCA” is a “gay anthem” as he defends Trump’s use of the song

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townspeople“YMCA” has served as Donald Trump’s theme song for the past few years, to the point that the president-elect even has his own choreographed dance to accompany it. In a new Facebook post, Village People founding member and songwriter Victor Willis defended Trump’s use of the song while firmly denying any gay connotations he may come to associate with the anthem throughout the year. the years.

Willis said he initially asked Trump to stop playing “YMCA” at his events because the complaints he received from fans became a “nuisance to me.” However, “the Trump campaign knew that they had obtained a political use license from BMI, and if that license was not terminated, they had every right to continue using ‘YMCA’ and they did.”

Furthermore, Willis explained, Trump “seems like he really likes ‘YMCA’ and is having a lot of fun with it” and “I just didn’t have the heart to stop him from continuing to use my song in front of so many artists.” withdrawing the use of their material. “So I told my wife to tell BMI not to pull the Trump campaign’s political use license.”

Willis also acknowledged the financial benefit, noting that he will make “several million dollars” from Trump’s continued use of the song.

As for the idea that “YMCA is” somehow a gay anthem, Willis said “it’s a false assumption based on the fact that my writing partner was gay, and some (not all) of the Village People were gay.” , and that the first The Village People album was totally about gay life.”

Willis continued:

“This assumption is also based on the fact that the YMCA was apparently being used as some sort of gay hangout and since one of the writers was gay and some members of the Village People are gay, the song must be a message to homosexuals. To that I say once again: get your minds out of the gutter. It is not.

Unfortunately, when the president-elect started using the song, people trying to brand it as a gay anthem reached a fever pitch when many used it to say, oh, Trump doesn’t know the song is a gay anthem? This was done to try to embarrass the president-elect’s use of the song.

As I’ve said on numerous occasions, I didn’t know anything about the Y being a gay hangout when I wrote the lyrics to ‘YMCA’ and Jacques Morali (who was gay) never told me. In fact, Jacques never told me how to write my lyrics, otherwise I would have said, “You don’t need me, why don’t you just write the lyrics?”

So, I wrote ‘YMCA’ about the things I knew about the Y in urban areas of San Francisco, like swimming, basketball, athletics, and cheap food and rooms. And when I say “hang out with all the boys,” that’s just ’70s black slang for black guys hanging out together to play sports or gamble or whatever. There’s nothing gay about that.

So to the extent that ‘YMCA’ is considered a gay anthem based on the fact that gays once used certain YMCAs to provoke activities, the assumption that the song alludes to that is completely erroneous.

So, since I wrote the lyrics and I should know what it’s really about, in January 2025, my wife will start suing any and all news organizations that falsely refer to ‘YMCA’, whether in its headlines or alluded to in The basis of the story is that ‘YMCA’ is in some way a gay anthem because such a notion is based solely on the song’s lyrics alluding to provoking an activity for which it does not. However, I don’t mind that gays consider the song their anthem.

But you would be hard-pressed to find ‘YMCA’ on the playlist of any gay club, parade or other gay activity in a way that suggests it is in any way an anthem for the community, other than alluding to illicit activities, which is defamatory. , and detrimental to the song. But it will stop in 2025.

However, do you know where you will find ‘YMCA’? It’s on the playlist at nearly every wedding, bar mitzvah, and sporting organization, and the song is used in commercials, movies, and products around the world.

The real anthem is the YMCA’s appeal to people from all walks of life, including President-elect Trump. But the song is not really a gay anthem, unless certain people falsely suggest that it is. And this must stop because it damages the song.”

Village People singer denies “YMCA” is a “gay anthem” as he defends Trump’s use of the song
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