12/13/2004
Shears Energy
Gay group Scissor Sisters performed their hits "Comfortably Numb" and "Take Your Mama Out" on Saturday Night Live over the weekend in an episode that featured host Colin Farrell in a parade of remarkably uninspired skits. Has SNL lost it or what? Rather than present a ribald commentary on current events and play upon their celebrity host's soft spots as they used to do, SNL instead now seems to depend upon a disjointed series of schticky sight gags (cockroaches and crows?). I was disappointed, although the "key party" skit did amuse me.
Meanwhile, Scissor Sister Jake Shears speaks out on a variety of topics in a juicy interview with the Guardian.
On conformity: "I'm speaking in very general terms here, but you get a room full of urban gay professionals together in America in 2004 and you won't be able to tell the difference between them and a bunch of right-wing Republicans. A lot of the gay mainstream is so desperate to assimilate into straight culture that they've turned into their own high school principals, except with a spoonful of ketamine up their nose on the weekends."
On flamboyance: "In my teens I didn't know what I wanted to do with myself, so I did everything. For my high school gong show I sported a wig and belted out 'I Will Always Love You', calling myself 'Whip-Me Houston'. I won a broken down motorcycle."
On closet cases: "You know that trillion-selling singer who everyone has sat around for years wondering, 'is he or isn't he?' He is. Same with that blockbuster movie star who's been obsessively primping and pruning in front of the cameras since the mid-Eighties. If everyone who was gay in the entertainment industry came out, our world would instantly become a very different place."
"A Cut Above" [The Guardian]
Posted 2:36 PM EST by Andy Towle in Film & TV, Music | Permalink
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No one does K anymore.....
Posted by: Andy W | Dec 13, 2004 2:48:27 PM
Just because so many of us want the hot movie stars and pop stars to be gay, doesn't mean that they are. There's a lot of wishful thinking on our part. Get it together.
Posted by: Andy W | Dec 13, 2004 2:52:49 PM
Besides, Jake Shears is heinously ugly. I wouldn't F him with your dick....
Posted by: Andy W | Dec 13, 2004 2:53:57 PM
I'll take Babydaddy anyday. Yummy.
Posted by: Jeremy W | Dec 13, 2004 3:11:16 PM
OK - I am deft but who is the singer he is outing?!
Posted by: BenBowd | Dec 13, 2004 4:17:07 PM
he has nice abs in that picture, no?
Posted by: mark | Dec 13, 2004 4:21:13 PM
it is too bad abot snl....but at least the weekend update section is consistently funny.
as for li'l jack, love the sisters' cd, but after seeing him perform on snl, ill skip seeing the band live. yeeowch. can. you. say. off. key?
Posted by: cafegogo | Dec 13, 2004 4:21:23 PM
he may be ugly to some, but i'd take that stomach any day.
Posted by: bmw | Dec 13, 2004 7:23:42 PM
I thought they totally rocked on SNL and were far from off key...All I kept thinking during their exciting set was; only a few weeks ago, some chick whose album sold 3 million copies was lip synching. Man, as for the comments above, how fucking superficial. So, I guess the only way to attract a gay audience either live or to buy your Cd, you must look like a Sparta Guide Cover and have abs of steel. I used to be bummed out that the only gay guy (and out) who was in a band of the music I liked was, Bob Mould,(Sugar,Husker Du)hardly a looker, but an awesome songwriter and musician. It just seems like some of these gay guys are dellusional, in that if a hottie is gay (and out) than the power of association will then make them seem so much better in their life.
Posted by: Michael | Dec 14, 2004 12:02:38 PM
I heard that! Some Gays be really tryin HAAAAARRRRDDDD to be straight and such.
cool quote:
On conformity: "I'm speaking in very general terms here, but you get a room full of urban gay professionals together in America in 2004 and you won't be able to tell the difference between them and a bunch of right-wing Republicans. A lot of the gay mainstream is so desperate to assimilate into straight culture that they've turned into their own high school principals, except with a spoonful of ketamine up their nose on the weekends."
Posted by: visibleh20 | Dec 14, 2004 3:05:19 PM
f**k u andy w jake shears is gorgeous
better looking than you
Posted by: ilovejakeshears | Dec 19, 2004 12:48:23 PM
The Sisters rawk, and fags haven't had this kind of a role model since David Fucking Bowie (and he wasn't even gay)! As fo Jake himself, I'd eat a mile of his shit just to see where it came from.
Posted by: Patrick Lehman | Jan 3, 2005 9:49:44 PM
whoever says jake is a minger is just plain quere,hes the sexiest guy on the planet,check out the abs,and i'd f**k him anytime,anywhere!
u all just mingers,probaly horribly disfigured
Posted by: jakeshears4ever | Mar 30, 2005 2:55:12 PM
OMG! what are you on? Jake Shears Ugly! I think not he's the sexiest guy around, not only has he got a buff body but check out his soft pale blue eyes! Gorgeous, I'd Fuck him any day!
Posted by: JakeShearsTheFittestManAlive? IThinkSo! | Apr 15, 2005 8:46:38 PM
jake you are GORGEOUS FILTHY GORGEOUS stay sexy i love you xx kym
Posted by: kyomi | Aug 15, 2005 1:59:31 PM
jake you are GORGEOUS FILTHY GORGEOUS stay sexy i love you xx kym
Posted by: kyomi | Aug 15, 2005 2:00:46 PM