US Village People Singer Denies “Y.M.C.A.” Is a “Gay Anthem” As He Defends Trump’s Use of Song - Victor Willis says he will take legal action against any news organization that suggest "Y.M.C.A." is a gay anthem beginning in January 2025

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Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” has served as Donald Trump’s go-to theme song for the last several years, to the point where the president-elect even has his own choreographed dance to accompany it. In a new Facebook post, Village People founding member and songwriter Victor Willis defended Trump’s use of the song while also firmly denying any gay connotations that you may come come to associate with the anthem over the years.

Willis said he initially asked Trump to cease playing “Y.M.C.A.” at his events as the the complaints he received from fans became a “nuisance to me.” However, “the Trump campaign knew they had obtained a political use license from BMI and absent that license being terminated, they had every right to continue using ‘Y.M.C.A.’ And they did.”

Besides, Willis explained, Trump “seems to genuinely like ‘Y.M.C.A.’ and he’s having a lot of fun with it,” and “I simply didn’t have the heart to prevent his continued use of my song in the face of so many artists withdrawing his use of their material. So I told my wife to inform BMI to not withdraw the Trump campaign political use license.”

Willis also acknowledged the financial benefit, noting that he stands to make “several million dollars” due to Trump’s continued use of the song.

As for the idea that “Y.M.C.A. is “somehow a gay anthem,” Willis said that “is a false assumption based on the fact that my writing partner was gay, and some (not all) of Village People were gay, and that the first Village People album was totally about gay life.”

Willis continued:

“This assumption is also based on the fact that the YMCA was apparently being used as some sort of gay hangout and since one of the writers was gay and some of the Village People are gay, the song must be a message to gay people. To that I say once again, get your minds out of the gutter. It is not.

Sadly, when the President Elect started using the song, people attempting to brand the song as a gay anthem reached a fever pitch as many used it to say, oh, Trump don’t know the song is a gay anthem? This was done in a manner to attempt to shame the President Elect’s use of the song.

As I stated on numerous occasions, I knew nothing about the Y being a hang out for gays when I wrote the lyrics to ‘Y.M.C.A.’ and Jacques Morali (who was gay) never once stated such to me. In fact, Jacques never once told me how to write my lyrics otherwise I would have said to him, you don’t need me, why don’t you simply write the lyrics.

I therefore wrote ‘Y.M.C.A.’ about the things I knew about the Y in the urban areas of San Francisco such as swimming, basketball, track, and cheap food and cheap rooms. And when I say, “hang out with all the boys” that is simply 1970s black slang for black guys hanging-out together for sports, gambling or whatever. There’s nothing gay about that.

So, to the extent that ‘Y.M.C.A.’ is considered a gay anthem based on the fact that gays once used certain YMCA’s for elicit activity, the assumption that the song alludes to that is completely misguided.

Therefore, since I wrote the lyrics and ought to know what the lyrics I wrote is really about, come January 2025, my wife will start suing each and every news organization that falsely refers to ‘Y.M.C.A.’, either in their headlines or alluded to in the base of the story, that ‘Y.M.C.A.’ is somehow a gay anthem because such notion is based solely on the song’s lyrics alluding to elicit activity for which it does not. However, I don’t mind that gays think of the song as their anthem.

But you’d be hard-pressed to find ‘Y.M.C.A.’ on the play list at any gay club, parade or other gay activity in a way that would suggest it’s somehow an anthem to the community other than alluding to illicit activity, which is defamatory, and damaging to the song. But it stops in 2025.

However, you know where you-will find ‘Y.M.C.A.’? On the play list of almost every wedding, bar mitzvah, sporting organization, and the song is used in commercials and motion pictures and products worldwide.

The true anthem is ‘Y.M.C.A.’s appeal to people of all strips including President Elect Trump. But the song is not really a gay anthem other than certain people falsely suggesting that it is. And this must stop because it is damaging to the song.”

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[Positron]

Trump could have used "Macho Man" instead.

 

[The Last Stand]

Wanting to sue people because it's associated with gay people is the gayest thing yet.

 

[The Lawgiver]

I can't believe a stance this sensible is happening in 2024.

I'm just glad the village people have stayed consistent on the "our songs aren't about being fucking gay just because some of our members are gay" train well into the eternal current year. One of the trooned out watchowskis buckled to the clickbait claims about the matrix being about being trans to push that narrative for clout despite the two of them constantly pointing out it wasn't that for years post trooning whenever those kinds of articles came up.
"song about a guy telling a dude battling depression to go out and work out/find new friends at the YMCA" =/=gay despite how funny of a pop culture meme it is to claim that. Most sane people know the difference between reality and parody.

The real reason idpol people want to go after the village people is because they present positive male messaging, prove me fucking wrong you can't.

 

[Stoneheart]

his WIFE will sue you if you say he is gay.... not very convincing...

 

[urr13 account]

Gays have stolen many cultural touchstones and retroactively made them gay, it is time for straights to steal things from the fags.

 

[breadandcircuses]

I'm pretty sure the YMCA wasn't happy with the association.

In the Navy was used for recruitment for YEARS.

Also, of the Village People, only the Indian and the Leather Man were gay, I think.

Also Bruce Jenner was in the Village People movie...

 

[Pomniman]

Good for him, but the actual YMCA has had a reputation for being full of weird old faggots who go there just to creep on men in the showers since at least the 60s (nearly 20 years before the song came out) if not earlier from what I've read. It's not that it was intended for that purpose but that they crept in like the sorts of homeless perverts who jack off in public libraries.

 

[corto maltese]

One of the trooned out watchowskis buckled to the clickbait claims about the matrix being about being trans to push that narrative for clout despite the two of them constantly pointing out it wasn't that for years post trooning whenever those kinds of articles came up.

There's that sharp difference between being a macho man and deciding that you gotta pump yourself with hormones that really separates generations from one another. I remember back when people were saying that Neo was a parallel with Jesus in being 'The One', that interpretation's dead in the water now too.

 

[That Chris Guy]

I wish these faggots would stop trying to pollute good, old-fashioned disco. If you need a gay band, you have one - The Scissor Sisters.

They just desperately want their Gay Midas Touch to be real.

 

[Cybertonia]

Y.M.C.A is what my parents and grandparents thought that a gay anthem sounded like, but they still danced the stupid dance anyway at every wedding they ever went to.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

his WIFE will sue you if you say he is gay.... not very convincing...

But would she have standing from Canada?

 

[Kim]

It’s not the writers/ singers that give any song its status. At least not usually,

It’s how the song is received and perceived by the public,

Survey says: THE gay anthem.

I thought it was just about the YMCA. How is the song gay?

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

I thought it was just about the YMCA. How is the song gay?

It’s sung by a bunch of 30 year old men in stripper outfits who want to troll the local boys club for bussy.

 

[Kim]

It’s sung by a bunch of 30 year old men in stripper outfits who want to troll the local boys club for bussy.

This is the first time I've ever seen an image of the village people. Next thing you're gonna tell me is the "village" references a gay village.

I have lived under a rock.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

Huh.

From 1978 until 1982, Willis was married to Phylicia Ayers-Allen (now Phylicia Rashad), whom he met during the run of The Wiz, and who later played Clair Huxtable on The Cosby Show.

Well maybe he's not gay after all. If he is, Mrs. Huxtable is a pretty good get for a beard!

 

[Kulee Baba]

Y.M.C.A is what my parents and grandparents thought that a gay anthem sounded like, but they still danced the stupid dance anyway at every wedding they ever went to.

Pretty sure YMCA is the only universal fruity song that all Boomer Dads will dance to for a bit. After all there’s nothing zesty about moving your arm to form some letters.

There's that sharp difference between being a macho man and deciding that you gotta pump yourself with hormones that really separates generations from one another. I remember back when people were saying that Neo was a parallel with Jesus in being 'The One', that interpretation's dead in the water now too.

I once read a claim that the first draft had a cut character who was a man in the real world but a woman when in the Matrix. Might just be fan bullshit to always claim The Matrix was troon propaganda but I wouldn’t be surprised if the Wachowski Bros were always degenerate. They were watching anime in the early 90s way before that shit that cursed genre was even known by Americans.

 

[EepEep]

Interesting that his issue basically boils down to gay culture attempting to co-opt what he sees as a specifically intercity black experience.

I wonder if this will get any push back or if the YMCA song will mysteriously pitter out from the cultural zeitgeist because lefties don't want to choose between their favorite pets.

 

[The Lawgiver]

I remember back when people were saying that Neo was a parallel with Jesus in being 'The One', that interpretation's dead in the water now too.

That was literally the whole deal with NEO, the rest ofthe matrix movies before the unnecessary cashgrab sequel basically hammer the JESUS BUT IN THE FUTURE thing
They did a meta 4th wall joke about it in the cutscene of one of the licensed tie in games basically to say "yeah the jesus thing probably wouldn't be as fun to play as just fighting a giant agent smith so here you go" This was pre-trooning, of course.

Oh my god this video upload is almost 20 years old now holy fuck

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

That was literally the whole deal with NEO, the rest ofthe matrix movies before the unnecessary cashgrab sequel basically hammer the JESUS BUT IN THE FUTURE thing
They did a meta 4th wall joke about it in the cutscene of one of the licensed tie in games basically to say "yeah the jesus thing probably wouldn't be as fun to play as just fighting a giant agent smith so here you go" This was pre-trooning, of course.

Oh my god this video upload is almost 20 years old now holy fuck

Jesus has always been trans…

 

[corto maltese]

I once read a claim that the first draft had a cut character who was a man in the real world but a woman when in the Matrix. Might just be fan bullshit to always claim The Matrix was troon propaganda but I wouldn’t be surprised if the Wachowski Bros were always degenerate. They were watching anime in the early 90s way before that shit that cursed genre was even known by Americans.

I'd believe this, if only as a consideration of the sci-fi genre. Though I don't know if people in the 90s were trooning out specifically over anime as much? Feels like it was the last decade when people decided they didn't want to grow up and oh also cut their dicks off.

That was literally the whole deal with NEO, the rest ofthe matrix movies before the unnecessary cashgrab sequel basically hammer the JESUS BUT IN THE FUTURE thing
They did a meta 4th wall joke about it in the cutscene of one of the licensed tie in games basically to say "yeah the jesus thing probably wouldn't be as fun to play as just fighting a giant agent smith so here you go" This was pre-trooning, of course.

Damn, should've brought back the brothers for the sequel, they're much funnier.