The world has heard many songs about love and lust over the years, however, you may notice the lack of diversity in the lyrics. Years and Years’ frontman Olly Alexander has decided to speak out in support of gay musicians using the correct pronouns to express their sexuality.
“It is kind of sad to me that we don’t have gay popstars singing about men using a male pronoun,” Alexander said in an interview with Digital Spy. Their debut album Communion has two songs in which specific nouns are used. In both Real and Memo Alexander is clearly singing about a male.
He hopes this is something that will change in the future:
“I’d like to hear a gay artist express their sexuality in a really open way. 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… music does feel like it’s in a much more accepted, tolerant place; even with Miley Cyrus, when she doesn’t identify with either gender, and we’re getting used to these ideas of about non-binary gender, which is a good thing.”
Alexander encourages all of us to keep pushing for equality using social media. Since so many countries around the world have begun to recognise the rights of the LGBT community, there’s a good chance Alexander’s wish will come true. We certainly hope so.
Make sure you check out Years and Years at Splendour In The Grass, as well as their side shows in Sydney and Melbourne.