If you’re out here telling people that the hit Village People jam YMCA is about gay sex, you should probably stop! YMCA lyricist and Village People lead vocalist Victor Willis just said that he’s going to start suing anyone who makes that apparently false connection.
The song has long been connected to gay sex by many members of the queer community. Its lyrics are all about hanging out with the boys, having everything that men can enjoy, and doing whatever you feel. So while it can be taken as an innocent and fun song, it’s pretty easy to see why a lot of men think it’s about cruising and orally servicing others at a men’s club.
Well, now Willis has officially had enough of the perverted misinterpretations. The song has recently been a frequent topic of conversation due to its connection to Trump rallies and I guess Willis just saw one too many people associate the song with “illicit gay sex,” so he decided to put his foot down. On Sunday, the artist took to Facebook to express his annoyance with the situation.
“But as I’ve said numerous times before (and this was proven in federal court), I wrote 100% of the lyrics to Y.M.C.A., so I ought to know what my song is about. Y.M.C.A. is one of the most iconic songs in the world,” Willis wrote. “I will not stand idle and allow it to be defamed. Therefore, I will sue the next media organization, or anyone else, that falsely suggests Y.M.C.A. is somehow about illicit gay sex.”
This isn’t the first time the Village People singer has commented on the song’s subject matter. In 2017, Willis, the only straight member of the original band, said that even though the song isn’t about men fucking, he was “happy” that the gay community connected to it.
“I wrote it about hanging out in urban neighborhoods in my youth,” Willis told news.com.au. “‘You can hang out with all the boys’ was a term about me and my friends playing basketball at the Y. But I wanted to write a song that could fit anyone’s lifestyle. I’m happy the gay community adopted it as their anthem, I have no qualms with that.”
So there you have it! Willis is happy that the gay community likes the song, but the tune is 100% not about gay sex. That’s right – the song that’s sung by a cowboy and a Tom of Finland-looking leather daddy is not about gay men fucking each other. It’s just about some men having fun in a completely non-sexual way. It has nothing to do with cruising for cock. It is in no way is connected to the idea of hooking up with random studs at a men’s club. It’s just a simple song about the YMCA that has nothing to do with getting your ass blasted in a gym’s locker room.
What do you think about the song? Does it make you think about sweaty men fucking at a YMCA? Have you ever hooked up with someone at the YMCA? Did you perform the YMCA dance as you climaxed? Sound off in the comments below.
Please change the heading, its not the Village People but one person from the Village People, Victor Willis. This the same person who once said
“My situation with Jacques was that we would write music and I would make my lyrics, which they call ‘double entendre’, which means that you can take it any way you want it. Gay people? If you liked it, fine! Straight people? If you liked it, fine! It doesn’t matter.
I hope though he has zero rights to the song You can’t stop the music” as he had nothing to do with it. It was written by Jacques in 1980 AFTER Willis left the band. He made a fortune out of the LGBT community and now wants to sue them after claiming his music was all written with a double entendre. So he either lied when making the music to become wealthy or he is homophobic as he can no longer claim his music to be double entendre when he threatens to sue people for saying it was about gay sex or lifestyles, making it not double entendre.
If the Village People don’t want folks to think that they are gay they should stop dressing up like 1970’s gay stereotypes.
And in the appropriate words of ‘joyless’ joy behar of ‘the view’, that ultra liberal bitch fest and rant, insult to your intelligence and waste of an hour of your valuable time that you can’t get back: “So what, who cares, move on”. Really this group was popular over 40 years ago and most of us haven’t thought of them or have heard their songs in years. As for a lawsuit, good luck to the plaintiffs. And why should these guys care if people think YMCA had gay innuendos: they made SHIT loads of money and had their 15 minutes or more of fame. Hopefully they invested their earnings wisely and are living well
What a joke! If peole want to think the song is about gay sex who cares? What a waste of a lawsuit.
Dude, you are welcome to say it’s about whatever you want to say it’s about. However, I don’t anyone who didn’t get a room overnight at the Y, when the YMCA still did that, that didn’t see men cruising and engaging in sex.
I love that
song no matter what it stands for or isn’t supposed to stand for. It is very suggestive no matter what anyone says. Yum!
I remember having a great old gay time at a YMCA in Birmingham, Alabama way before that song came out. I love the song because it transports me back to fond memories of
a fantastic experience. I wish I could repeat that good time about 50 more times. Wow!
I don’t see what the “problem” is. Long live The Village People and long live the YMCA.
It’s a gambit for attention. And how did Donnie Chump and the Republif**ks glom onto THIS song?!
Your really mature . NOT !