Same Love - Macklemore

[Ethan15]

I love this song I think there is so much meaning to it. Also the fact that a rapper as big as him supports homosexuals I think is great.
Do you like the song? And if so why?

[teen.jpg]

I love the song :)

[DarkHorse4eva]

I absolutely love it!

[Sugarrush]

I love the song. It's got an awesome meaning

[Tarannosaurus]

I love it! It's a great step forward when such a positive message is being shown in mainstream music :)

[Blood]

I actually love this song. (:

[conniption]

Am I the only one who doesn't like this song? The meaning is great and all, but I think the lyrics fall short.

[deadpie]

"macklemore is the most important could of been gay but wasn't rapper of the '10s"

A rich white kid who goes thrift shopping in Seattle and has some ideas about homosexuality and wants to share how much he can relate to gays with, "When I was in third grade I thought I was gay because I could draw". Wow! What an amazing insight into the lives of gay people! You know so much of our pain..

I mean when do the trans community get a song? What about asexual people? In fact, let's stop focusing on middle class american white people being gay. What about the black gay community? What about fucking Russia's views? The message he's putting through the song isn't actually controversial at all right now.

I mean if you really want to push the envelope with a song about why it's hard to live life gay, talk about suicide, drug abuse, extreme self hatred and self harm too. Why not talk about all these men that closet themselves so badly that they force themselves into relationships with women that completely destroy both of them later on?

I know I'm too cynical and I know he wants to "help" or whatever, but I don't buy it worth shit. Someone that used to be my friend once played this song for me simply because he thought i could "relate to it". Honestly I wanted to jump out of the car and puke. The song sucks complete ass and the message is weak.

[Syvelocin]

I really hate this song. Even before the pride festival played it so much over the course of the seven hours at the GSA booth that I could never again listen to it. I was gonna post before but didn't want to pop the blunt airbag so now this is finally making it to the cut.

What I'm finding now as the support of gay rights is crossing over into the majority it's becoming like every other marketing scheme. To be cool, you're gonna have to be gay-friendly otherwise you'll be torn down in a heartbeat. It's almost like it's the new organic food or something (people seem to make diet changes like that not because they completely care about where their food comes from, but because it's the hipster thing to do).

This has nothing to do with Macklemore specifically. Don't know the guy. I just can't stand songs like this too. Good on Mary Lambert, at least she is and has been gay and is singing about this from experience. But, shocker, just because I'm gay doesn't mean I want it to be displayed as such a huge issue in every piece of media I ingest. I'd much rather prefer a gender-neutral song written by a gay woman than a stale little dizzy that calls attention to homosexuality. I like my music like I like my Doctor Who. No characters ever talks about their sexuality specifically, and no attention is placed on the fact that two of the characters are bisexual and several couples throughout the series are gay. They are treated exactly like a heterosexual couple and this approach is really the only way homosexuality will ever be equal, and maybe some people don't want that by definition like some hypocritical feminists, but I definitely do.

Sadly, this issue is permeating everything, music, movies, and TV. People are going for that demographic now, and by doing so are sending really mixed signals.

[Southside]

The song itself is OK, but Macklemore is a poor excuse for a rapper. This is coming from someone who listens to nothing but rap music.

His flow is horrible, not really much lyricism..

[conniption]

"macklemore is the most important could of been gay but wasn't rapper of the '10s"

A rich white kid who goes thrift shopping in Seattle and has some ideas about homosexuality and wants to share how much he can relate to gays with, "When I was in third grade I thought I was gay because I could draw". Wow! What an amazing insight into the lives of gay people! You know so much of our pain..

I mean when do the trans community get a song? What about asexual people? In fact, let's stop focusing on middle class american white people being gay. What about the black gay community? What about fucking Russia's views? The message he's putting through the song isn't actually controversial at all right now.

I mean if you really want to push the envelope with a song about why it's hard to live life gay, talk about suicide, drug abuse, extreme self hatred and self harm too. Why not talk about all these men that closet themselves so badly that they force themselves into relationships with women that completely destroy both of them later on?

I know I'm too cynical and I know he wants to "help" or whatever, but I don't buy it worth shit. Someone that used to be my friend once played this song for me simply because he thought i could "relate to it". Honestly I wanted to jump out of the car and puke. The song sucks complete ass and the message is weak.

Thank you.