Source: www.theatlantic.com - Thursday, January 29, 2015
MCA The boys of Blink-182 are fighting. Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker say Tom Delonge doesn't want to be in the band; Delonge insists he does; the he-said/he-saids have unfolded on Facebook and in interviews . It’s all quite painful to watch, and not just because of the uncomfortable sight of grown men fighting, nor because this must be tough for the millennials out there for whom the pop-punk trio was the most important rock band of the '90s. The truly gutting thing about the situation is that—say it aint so—we might be witnessing the break-up of one of the greatest gay love stories in American culture. Okay, kidding. Tom Delonge, Mark Hoppus, and Travis Barker are not, as far as the public knows, gay. All of them have been married to women. But there have definitely been times when they pretended to be something other than strictly heterosexual. For example, this picture seems designed to invite speculation. MCA And there's this video, when Hoppus sings, “I’m gay / so what / don’t judge / my butt” — And this video, where Delonge, with remarkable quickness, riffs on Barker’s various tattoos: “That ghetto blaster is always playing homosexual music like Morrissey, Erasure. That bird you see on his left arm there—that bird symbolizes a man swishing through the clouds, coming down and sleeping with him.” This is all, of course, typically juvenile homophobic idiocy, an extension of the same shtick that led the band to sing about havi
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MCA The boys of Blink-182 are fighting. Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker say Tom Delonge doesn't want to be in the band; Delonge insists he does; the he-said/he-saids have unfolded on Facebook and in interviews . It’s all quite painful to watch, and not just because of the uncomfortable sight of grown men fighting, nor because this must be tough for the millennials out there for whom the pop-punk trio was the most important rock band of the '90s. The truly gutting thing about the situation is that—say it aint so—we might be witnessing the break-up of one of the greatest gay love stories in American culture. Okay, kidding. Tom Delonge, Mark Hoppus, and Travis Barker are not, as far as the public knows, gay. All of them have been married to women. But there have definitely been times when they pretended to be something other than strictly heterosexual. For example, this picture seems designed to invite speculation. MCA And there's this video, when Hoppus sings, “I’m gay / so what / don’t judge / my butt” — And this video, where Delonge, with remarkable quickness, riffs on Barker’s various tattoos: “That ghetto blaster is always playing homosexual music like Morrissey, Erasure. That bird you see on his left arm there—that bird symbolizes a man swishing through the clouds, coming down and sleeping with him.” This is all, of course, typically juvenile homophobic idiocy, an extension of the same shtick that led the band to sing about havifrom Top News on RSS Feeds http://ift.tt/1wF0wQZ
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