Janet’s true gay icon moment, Freddie Mercury’s biggest slay & more: Your weekly bop rewind
Queerty reader, put your records on; it’s finally the weekend.This week has kinda been music to our ears: Johnny Manuel dropped a killer R&B video, Saucy Santana and Trina dropped the voting song to end all voting songs, and Charlie Puth dropped something other than his pants (though we may still get a bit of that for the album roll-out, fingers crossed).In honor of Queer History Month, we’re gonna be taking a look back to each week in queer music all month long!
This week was a great spread, from an unintentional trans anthem in ’08 to a fruity little number back in ’55.From a queen who slays to Janet’s love for the gays, here’s your weekly bop rewind:With an legendary scat catchphrase that Rolling Stone once called “the most inspired rock lyric ever recorded,” Little Richard made his mark on rock & roll history.
Sixty-seven years later and those slamming keys still make you wanna shake something. Unbeknownst to most, the “Tutti Frutti” refrain we sing today is a far cry from the original lyrics.
Richard originally penned the chorus as “Tutti Frutti, good booty / If it don’t fit, don’t force it / You can grease it, make it easy.” In 1955.
