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Years & Years: ‘It’s sad gay popstars don’t use male pronouns’
Years & Years frontman Olly Alexander has said its ‘sad’ gay popstars don’t use male pronouns in their songs.
The openly gay singer spoke to Digital Spy about the lyrics on the band’s debut album, Communion, ahead of its release on Friday (10 July).
‘It was important for me to get some male pronouns in some of the songs,’ he said.
‘So I did it for Real and Memo, and then one song on the deluxe. It is kind of sad to me that we don’t have gay popstars singing about men using a male pronoun, but that could change hopefully.’
Alexander said all the songs on the album were about ‘sex or relationships,’ the latter of which was unchartered territory gay musicians.
‘I’d like to hear a gay artist express their sexuality in a really open way,’ said Alexander.
‘That’s something I’ve sort of tried to do a little bit on this album, but to be able to talk about sex is possibly new for gay artists, so I’d like to see that in the mainstream.’
Years & Years topped the prestigious BBC Sound of 2015 poll in January and scored their first UK number one with King in March.
Watch the video for King below:
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Darren Wee
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