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Originally posted by Sam
Yeah, that's the thing that makes BTW a crossover... it's kind of social message, kind of general empowerment. But I think it's more on the empowerment side than it is trying to convey a strong and serious social message. It's just like "You're great! Superstar!" it doesn't really talk about the struggles of gay people, bullying, racism etc. She did all of those things outside of the song so looking retroactively it seems like more of a "social message" than it really is. Just my thoughts on it.
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And yet it's still a better gay rights song than the atrocity known as "Same Love," which does do those things. That obnoxious straight man capitalizing off of our struggles with his "yo, gay rights! ... but no homo!" crap.
But Adam Lambert's "Outlaws of Love" (about trying to find a place where a gay couple will be free to express their love / marriage equality song) and Madonna's "In this Life" (about the AIDS crisis) are the best examples of pop songs about gay social issues that I know of.
I don't think I want to write about gay rights for this round, even though it's the social "issue" I know most about; I've spent the past two years taking classes about the gay rights movement.
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