Billie Eilish made headlines this week with the release of her new single "Wish You Were Gay," but not quite for the reasons she had hoped. While fans had hoped the song would be a queer anthem, they…
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Billie Eilish made headlines this week with the release of her new single “Wish You Were Gay,” but not quite for the reasons she had hoped. While fans had hoped the tuy vậy would be a queer anthem, they later found the tuy vậy to be offensive, with Eilish saying that she wished a boy who didn’t love her back was gay. “I can’t tell you how much I wish I didn’t wanna stay/ I just kinda wish you were gay,” she sings.
In a new interview with PopBuzz, Eilish responded lớn the significant backlash khổng lồ her song, saying that she felt there was a miscommunication going on about her intentions. “First off, I want to lớn be so clear that it’s so not supposed lớn be an insult,” Eilish said. “I feel lượt thích it’s been a little bit misinterpreted. I tried so hard khổng lồ not make it in any way offensive.”
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The main criticism of Eilish’s tuy vậy came from her LGBTQ fans saying that she was queerbaiting her audience with the song’s title và ultimately fetishizing gay men and using them as props in order to get a guy that she likes.
Eilish elaborated on what the meaning of the song was, saying that she was not supposed khổng lồ come off as the victim. “The whole idea of the tuy vậy is, it’s kind of a joke,” she said. “It’s kind of like ‘I’m an ass và you don’t love me. & you don’t love me because you don’t love me và that’s the only reason & I wish you didn’t love me because you didn’t love girls.’”
Going even further, Eilish said that the tuy nhiên could be switched around and the premise would still make sense. “It could be a girl interested in a girl and maybe that girl likes girls also but she doesn’t lượt thích her back,” Eilish said. “And then it’s lượt thích ‘Well damn. I wish you were straight!’ You know what I’m saying? It could be exactly the other way. I wish you were straight because you didn’t like me because you like boys.”