It was the song that started a pop music revolution. While musicians like Diana Ross had long took measures to subtly attract gay audiences, "Born This Way" proved that outright courting a queer audience could be commercially successful. And everyone from Katy Perry to Pink to Kesha to Taylor Swift to Macklemore took note, as a wave of pro-LGBTQ songs washed over the world's airwaves. Released at the turning point in mainstream opinions on queer people, "Born This Way" was the right song at the right time, bridging the gap between the closeted "anthems" of yore and today's over-the-head empowerment jams. "Born This Way" opened the gates for all pop musicians to, well, express themselves.
Er, Firework/WRWWR/RYG were released to radio before BTW, so no.
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Gaga is, for the record, very good at harnessing this message. Her new album, Born This Way, works the theme harder than ever, but now with an added commercial bonus: Her own superstar success starts to look like proof that radical self-expression works, that you can be celebrated and rewarded for it. That core idea has been so successful that nearly every other white woman toward the top of the charts has tried it on as well-- Ke$ha, Katy Perry, P!nk, all of them telling you to be yourself, bravely and heedlessly, No Matter What Anyone Says.
Pretty much the only song since BTW to be so openly pro-LGBT has been Same Love, right?
All of the other songs about 'loving yourself' have been just that - love yourself, whereas BTW and SL were specifically channeling the LGBT message. Am i wrong? I don't really have a point, I just thought it was interesting that the article singled out the other pop girls when their songs prior to BTW were non-LGBT specific and remained that way post-BTW.