The spiciest hit of the ’90s, George Michael going bananas & more: Your weekly bop rewind
Putting together a weekly pop music column is all fun and games until the girls decide they don’t wanna drop anything!Musicians actually might be the only ones to hold anything back this week; Florida schools are making new Don’t Say Gay rules, Bette Midler went full mask-off TERF, and Olayemi Olurin went in on her transphobic co-anchors on air.On drier music weeks like this, we’ll be time-warping back to this week in gay music history to see what folks have been throwing it to throughout the years.
Sometimes, you’ve just got to play the classics.From a stack of ABBA covers to guidelines on being a lover, this is your bop rewind for this week!Donna was so wild to drop this kind of heat on a movie soundtrack, but her spot in Thank God It’s Friday was all the better for it.
It was as clear then as it is today just how hard the Queen of Disco hit with this one; “Last Dance” ended up earning songwriter Paul Jabara an Oscar, a Grammy, AND a Golden Globe, as well as getting Summer herself a well-deserved Grammy for R&B vocal.Michael’s solo debut Faith was a #1 hit single-making machine, and “Monkey” is no exception.
It would be another good decade before he officially came out as gay, but his heartthrob status was service enough to the gays as it was.Can you believe it’s been 26 years since the Spice Girls debuted?
