Dear Melissa Maerz, A Time/Warner Employee Who Dislikes The ‘Gay Lifestyle’.
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In Her review for ‘Entertainment Weekly’, Melissa Marez seems to have an issue with gay life. READ IT HERE.
I shall not argue her ‘points’, just the obvious judgmental and/or hate statements.
1. First just change every reference to gay or gay lifestyle to a reference to race and/or colour……..I’ll wait. It makes for quite judgmental statements when viewed form the ‘race’ angle.
2.
“Adam Lambert might be the only American Idol alum who considers purple eyeliner a daytime look…..
Reinforces view that men should not wear make-up. Not sure if Melissa usually writes about music, but their is a kinda large history of men in music wearing make-up. Not just the great early New York punk bands, but every artist that made 70′s music so brilliant in England raided his girlfriends make-up bag. So actually, many men consider any makeup ‘acceptable’.
3. So it’s hard to understand why it took him so long to make his big gay dance-club album……..
Not a straight dance club album, only for ‘gay clubs’? Why does she presume, because he is gay he only made this album for gay people, or it should or shall only be heard by gay people? Seems a very separatist view.
4. Even after he came out in 2009, the eighth-season runner-up didn’t stop flirting with the straight crowd, indulging in classic-rock guitars and gender-neutral pronouns on his debut, For Your Entertainment………….
He was always out. Remember FOX News showed a picture of him with his tongue half way down a mans throat? So I don’t really believe he can be accused of ‘lying or hiding’ from the straight world in a clever attempt into listening to his ‘gay music’. This whole view that music is made for one ‘type’ of person or music is gay is very limiting. And do ‘straight people’ only like ‘rock/love songs’? Her language is so judgmental of everyone involved as a audience.
5. But on Trespassing, he’s left the closet far behind — defending gay marriage (”Outlaws of Love”) and celebrating what happens when two consenting adults love each other enough to share their safe words (”Chokehold”).
Look, I could continue with a line by line dissection, but you get the idea. She ends with faint praise whilst bemoaning the fact he talks about gay life as if it is a normal thing that should be discussed in polite company. Why is she so angry about a gay man singing about his emotions? Why can she only view him a gay man and not just as a human being? Why does she credit the collaborators for all the success for the ‘terrific’ first half, but the complete album is a failure because he veers off into ‘gay laden emotion’? How are emotions gay, or defined by his sexuality?
Cheer up, Glammy. It’s nothing a little makeup remover can’t fix……
So much wrong with that can’t even begin………except it makes me mindful of this great writing from ‘Torch Song Trilogy’……
Try and imagine the world
the other way around.
Imagine every book, every magazine,
every tv show, every movie
was telling you you should be homosexual.
You know you’re not.
In the World According to Melissa Marez, it would seem there is no place for ‘a gay life’. Shame she believes the world should be so limited and spreads her views in a national magazine and website………..And a shame Time/Warner allows casual employees to express such repressive, antiquated and reductive views of the modern world.
AN EXAMPLE OF ‘ONLY GAY’ EMOTIONS ON FULL AND OPEN DISPLAY.
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I am literally worn out at the ignorance and cruelty that exists against LGBT fellow human beings that I find are not much different than myself, a straight mother and grandmother. This poor excuse for a reviewer just made my day with her ignorant, insensitive remarks that reflected on her own lack of character, not Adam’s. Of all people he never has a bad word to say about anyone, if anything,he encourages people to not judge each other, but find the similiarities, which for me are many. I don’t even think of Adam being gay or straight. He’s just an electric, talented man that has a beautiful, generous, loving spirit and has a voice and stage presence that connects like no other. I can understand not everyone having the same taste in music, but this was a personal smear with limited listening comprehension. On top of NC losing the Amendment One vote to the conservatives, it was a disheartening day except for Pres. Obama showing reaon and intelligence. He’ll get my vote. Adam just being himself says more than being on a soapbox. He’s a real man with more class in his little finger than 3/4s of the population. He’ll be a superstar..
What a homophobic review ,it would seem that there is no end to the bigoted and rather personal attack on Adam Lambert.Shocking that it would be allowed to go to press.. Is there no editor At EW to oversee what is written in this magazine?
I would hope that EW makes Melissa attend the film’ Bully’ in order to keep her job. Maybe a 500 word review of the film should appear in the magazine’s next issue with a full apology to Mr. Lambert.
Nothing short of the above ,would ever convince me to buy your rag again.
As I told another Glambert, while I am a fan, I usually think Glamnation goes off their nut about things that are NOT important.. or attack someone who doesn’t think Adam is God. So when ‘the usual suspects’ were bitching about EWs article, I pretty much ignored it.
A more rational Glambert tweeted about it and sent me a link.
I am mortified about what she wrote.
While I’m 49 and have no been in a club in years, gay or straight, clubs are the same. I have been in both and neither have a certain type of music that is ONLY played there. I admit I heard Madonna and “Tainted love” enough to want to throw up in gay clubs more than straight clubs but the music is the same… remixes and dance music so loud you can barely talk. lol
And the comments about Chokehold… honey, did you even LISTEN to the song??? Seriously?
To ‘laugh’ at the more heartfelt songs should be our clue about what type of person she is and how she wants Adam to fit in the gay stereotype box of fun, funky, happy upbeat music that you can dance to. After all, that’s all gay do.. fuck and dance, right?
Sorry but no.
I was more than nervous about Trespassing. I am not a huge fan of FYE, mostly because the dismal production on it. But Trespassing is amazing. It’s not his “Night at the Opera” but it is more of his “Play the Game” album.
I expect greater things from him in the next one. Less of working with other writers, more of his own craft.
Wow! I haven’t yet read the article but I have heard from fellow Glamberts that it is an article to avoid…the excerpts that you have quoted above are making me mad without even reading the rest. Adam can’t win can he? He’s either ‘too gay’ or ‘not gay enough’. He’s forever defined by his sexuality when he is a whole and beautiful human being with immense talent in music. It must be frustrating and disheartening for him at times. Thank goodness he has a huge, loyal, loving, and supportive fanbase who love him for his music talents AND his amazing self.
But why should he HAVE to make whatever a GAY DANCE ALBUM is?? Just because he’s gay? He’s only allowed to make one kind of music? Who says? She talks about “indulging in classic rock guitar” just to attract straight people? What THE FUCK? He cant just like rock guitar…. because he’s gay?? And what? Gay people only like electro-pop??? So clearly a gay person who uses rock guitar must be trying to get straight people to like him. And so what anyway? He’s not allowed to appeal to straight people, because he’s gay??? And we’re barely past the first couple of lines. This is all so incredibly, horribly homophobic it makes me want to vomit.