The Village People sported a whole catalogue of facial horticulture, to the point of cliché, in a bid to assert their collective homosexuality.
Monday, May 5, 2008
Great Moustaches in Rock: Village People
Apparently half, or at least two, of the Village People weren’t gay. One has to admire the putative heteros (with one exception) for not feeling threatened by a whole world thinking that they were homosexual at a time when same sex orientations were obscured even by some of the most flamboyant exponents of camp, by force of rampant homophobia.
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Moustaches aside, Village People had some undeniably catchy stuff (something of which I am reminded when the pop up on the iPod).
Living in London a decade ago, "Go West" was in some commercial (for some diary product, I believe). All I remember is a bunch of farmers on tractors in a verdent valley, grooving to the song.
Listen to songs like "Fire Island" (which is probably their gayest track with the unbeatable line: "Don´t go in the bushes someone might grab ya/GoGo in the bushes somebody might just grab ya") and then you forgot to mention their movie, where they had already jumped the shark.
Anyway, I always marvel at the great production of their songs. This is no throw-away disco, but tight and lusciously orchestrated white-boy funk.
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