| Niamh. |
07-11-2019 11:32 AM |
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Originally Posted by Oliver_W
(Post 10390996)
Homophobic? Which do you think is more likely - that she was using the Irish definition, meaning "lazy person", in a song with an Irish band; or that she was randomly calling him a gayboy?
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I've never heard the definition of ****** to mean a lazy person tbf and I'm Irish. It means gay man over here same as everywhere else
Also Shane MCGowan hasn't even denied it means what it means :
The word was used by the character because it fitted with the way she would speak and with her character,” he said. “She is not supposed to be a nice person, or even a wholesome person. She is a woman of a certain generation at a certain time in history and she is down on her luck and desperate.”
He said the dialogue was “as accurate as I could make it but she is not intended to offend! She is just supposed to be an authentic character and not all characters in songs and stories are angels or even decent and respectable, sometimes characters in songs and stories have to be evil or nasty in order to tell the story effectively.”
The singer added that he did not want to get into an argument about the song and said he would have no problem with that word being bleeped out during radio airplay.
“If people don’t understand that I was trying to accurately portray the character as authentically as possible then I am absolutely fine with them bleeping the word but I don’t want to get into an argument,” he said.
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/m...song-1.3723622
Ontopic I do love the song though (I don't hate gay people) |
