Not to take away from the massive steps forward the United
States has made in accepting of the homosexual community, but k.d. lang came
out of the closet in 1992, during the very heart of her massively successful
career. And no one seemed to care.
lang is sorta weird for several reasons, none of which
include her sexual preference.
For one, she sings and plays pretty weird music. At the
time, however, it was popular to like country-ish pop, easy-listenin’ rock. It’s
why Bonnie Raitt sold about 10 billion albums and why Dwight Yoakum wound up so
popular that he became a part-time actor.
k.d. lang got popular by playing this moody country adult
contemporary that nobody that liked country listened to but everyone that was
pretty lame loved. There is no way this should have been popular. The only
explanation was that it happened in the 1990s and a lot of weird things
happened in music during the 1990s.
What also is weird is that the United States fully embraced
an openly gay celebrity. The same year she “came out of the closet,” lang’s
album, Ingénue, went double platinum. Double platinum. It was mega-popular.
Every one over the age of 30 bought this album. These are the same people that
20 years later are thumping their Bibles and bemoaning the rhetoric of same-sex marriage, basically
condemning the country as a modern Sodom. In fact, they did more for
normalizing homosexuality than anyone.
Plus, lang is
Canadian.
k.d. lang is extremely
popular and there’s no viable reason why she should be outside of the fact that
Americans love lesbian Canada pseudo-country contemporary adult pop music. Go
figure.
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