You are going along on your Christmas Holiday then WHAM! George Michael dies.
Don’t worry, I’m sure that tasteless joke is flooding the Internet. If you don’t get it you aren’t old enough.
Are all “journalists” today 20-something script-kiddies? I went to several “news” sites and they present an extremely sanitized version of his life and accomplishments. They are all talking about his tamer hits and the boy band bravado of “Wake Me Up Before You Go-go.” Nobody is talking about the sh*t storm created when he released “I Want Your Sex.” In a world of 24/7 Internet porn this may seem well below the radar, but, this song came out before Bill Clinton and Al Gore had yet to commit the election year scam of “the Information Super Highway making the world a Global Village.” That village just wouldn’t have a global village council.
No, when “I Want Your Sex” came out there was a massive amount of backlash. Many groups push for the removal of the line “not everybody does it but everybody should.” Those same groups also attempted to paint Mr. Micheal as Lucifer in the flesh, who we all now know to be Ted Cruz. A good many people believe this group of people conspired to force Mr. Micheal out of the closet in a very public and unflattering way crushing the hearts of many a tween girl with his posters on their walls.
It will be difficult for most people today to imagine the cultural climate of the pre Y2K era. Ellen DeGeneres had just come out the year before. In the same year as George Micheal’s arrest Will & Grace began to air on ABC. Many people refer to the people who grew up either literally or mentally while watching that show as “The Will & Grace Generation.”
Personally I mostly tuned out the “pop” music world about the time all of this happened. May be most of us did. The New Rock Alternative station Q101 mostly ruled the airwaves for the over 25 crowd so to many of us it appeared “the man” ended the career of someone they didn’t like. Oddly enough, a great many artists who openly fit the “non-traditional lifestyle” category rose to prominence. In a way, he took one for the team. At least from the little I know of social culture after that it appeared so. The great ostracisation (sp?) seemed to have chosen its victim then slithered back off into the darkness from whence it came.
2016 has been a really rough year for the music world.