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Do you contemplate your gay icon status much?
I can’t think of anything bad about being loved by people who can appreciate it. I think I’ve always been aware of my gay audience, and I’ve always been connected to it through clubbing and friends and just being a fan of house music since I was a little kid.
You clubbed with the gays as a kid?
I was always in clubs as a kid, so to me it’s an environment that I’ve always been in, so it wasn’t like, “Wow I have a gay audience,” it was more like “Of course.” I’d feel weird if I didn’t. I’ve always felt connected to the gay audience, I think, because there’s an element to the culture that you have had to think about or make up your mind about what it is to be an outsider because it’s naturally a part of who you are, and I think that that’s something I connect to on a human level very much because that’s what life is, you know? We all feel like outsiders sometimes, no matter who we are, and to me that’s a big part of being human—it’s something I always feel connected to when I write music. But I also feel like it’s really important for me to recognize my gay following in a less stereotypical way than when you’re this blonde female, like, icon pop star or whatever, because there are so many parts of gay culture that usually do not get recognized. I never expect people to like me just because they’re gay—I expect people to like me because of the music, and I think, I’m not criticizing people who appreciate me for being blonde and fabulous, I’m just saying that I don’t expect people to like me because of that, I just feel connected to the gay scene because of something else.
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