Tag Archives: Village People

Trump Dances Onstage With Village People [VIDEO]

The Independent reports: Donald Trump closed his pre-inauguration victory rally in Washington, D.C. with a live performance of “Y.M.C.A.” The president-elect hosted the “Make American Great Again Victory Rally” at Washington’s Capital One Arena on Sunday, less than 24 hours before Inauguration Day. As Trump ended his final speech before taking the White House for a second term, the band …

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Village People To Perform At Trump Inauguration Ball

The Daily Beast reports: The Village People will perform during Donald Trump inauguration celebrations, the band’s frontman Victor Willis announced on Monday. “We know this won’t make some of you happy to hear however we believe that music is to be performed without regard to politics,” Willis wrote in a Facebook post. The band’s hit songs “Y.M.C.A.” and “Macho Man” …

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Village People Lead Vocalist Again Vows To Sue Any News Outlet That Describes “YMCA” As A Gay Anthem

Village People lead vocalist Victor Willis writes: There’s been a lot of talk, especially of late, that Y.M.C.A. is somehow a gay anthem. As I’ve said numerous times in the past, that is a false assumption based on the fact that my writing partner was gay, and some (not all) of Village People were gay, and that the first Village …

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Village People May Perform At Trump’s Inauguration

The Daily Beast reports: The Village People responded with a firm “no” when asked to perform at President Trump’s first inauguration. They also declined to appear at Mar-a-Lago last New Year’s Eve. But the iconic group of the disco era is ready to at least consider playing President Trump’s inauguration and singing his campaign anthem Y.M.C.A. if asked. “We’re expecting …

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Huge Crowd Outside WH Trolls Trump With “YMCA”

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump played “YMCA” at a lot of his 2020 campaign rallies, to the point where the president’s dancing to the song became a meme among his supporters online. After news of his election loss broke, massive crowds of people took to the streets in a number of cities in celebration. Outside the White House, they played …

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Trump Tweets Two-Minute “YMCA” Dance Video

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump’s closing argument in his bid for presidential reelection appears to be a two-plus minute montage of dancing to The Village People’s YMCA. That’s it. That’s the tweet. Trump added his own message of “VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!” to a video credited to the self-described “Digital Graffiti” artist and Twitter user Som3thingwicked. Future historians will almost certainly …

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Village People Frontman Threatens To Sue Media Orgs “Or Anyone Else” Who Says “YMCA” Is About Gay Sex

Out Magazine reports: The heterosexual frontman for the Village People wants you to know the iconic song “YMCA” is not about illicit gay sex, warning he’s going to sue anyone who suggests otherwise. “I will sue the next media organization, or anyone else, that falsely suggests Y.M.C.A. is somehow about illicit gay sex,” Victor Willis warned via Facebook, later adding …

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Village People Gives Trump OK To Use Their Music

NBC News reports: Village People, the American disco group behind the hits “YMCA,” “Macho Man” and “In the Navy,” has given the go-ahead for President Donald Trump to plays its songs at events, despite being “inundated” with requests from fans urging the band to block the president’s use of the music. Trump most recently played Village People’s 1978 track “Macho …

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YMCA: Former Sheriff David Clarke Slinks Back To Twitter After Being Forced To Delete Threatening Tweets

CNN reports: Former Milwaukee Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr., a vocal surrogate for President Donald Trump on the campaign trail, was temporarily blocked from tweeting after Twitter users’ complaints alerted the company that three of his messages violated the terms of service, CNN has learned. Clarke was placed in read-only mode until he deleted three tweets that seemed to call …

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Man In Village People Drag Mocks “Buffoon” Dem House Rep For Wearing “Whacky” Cowboy Hat: “Look At Her”

Esquire reports: There are few more committed Big Hat Aficionados on the national political landscape than Sheriff David Clarke. The former Milwaukee sheriff has few rivals, apart from public lands freeloader Cliven Bundy—another inexplicably prominent figure in Our National Dialogue. So when Clarke saw a political rival in a big old western hat—and a bright red one, no less—the good …

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AUSTRALIA: Boy George Covers Village People’s YMCA In Pitch For Marriage Equality And It’s Great [VIDEO]

Australia’s Daily Telegraph reports: As a coach on The Voice, Boy George is encouraging his artists to find a new meaning when covering iconic pop songs and it seems the Culture Club front man has been taking his own advice. The ’80s pop icon has rerecorded the Village People classic YMCA in order to shine a light on issues important …

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Michelle Duggar Roller Skates To YMCA

Raw Story reports: The Duggar family is clearly not sulking around their aircraft carrier of a house and hanging their heads in despair after being dumped from TLC last week. E! Online reported Thursday that the reality-TV family posted a grainy cell phone video to their Facebook page this week of family matriarch Michelle Duggar roller skating to the Village …

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Musicless Music Video – YMCA

A popular YouTuber has been posting music videos with the music removed and sound effects added. Today’s target is Village People. In the background at the 40-second mark you can see the old Ramrod, where Al Pacino danced in Cruising.

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Columbia Law Review Students: D-O-M-A

The Village People classic meets activism in a parody that also teaches the Edie Windsor story. (Via Towleroad)

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Original Cop Sues Village People

Victor Willis, the original “cop” in Village People, is suing the band for $1.5M in royalties. Willis left the band in 1980 and was later arrested several times for drug possession. The village person penned the band’s most infectious hits — including “Y.M.C.A.,” “Macho Man,” “In the Navy,” and “Go West” — and deserves his fair share of the funky …

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Village Puppets

Terrifyingly amazing.

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Evening View – THE Village People

Maybe “party” makes “the” OK. But still.

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Village People Want To Know Y

“We are deeply dismayed by today’s announcement from the YMCA that they feel a name change and a rebranding are in order after 166 years. Some things remain iconic and while we admire the organization for the work they do, we still can’t help but wonder Y.” – Village People, responding the YMCA changing their name to “The Y.” UNRELATED …

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80’s Flashback

Village People, Sex Over The Phone, 1985. After a four album downward spiral that began with 1980’s Can’t Stop The Music, Village People’s ninth and final album scored a moderate hit with this tribute to two new phenomenons, commercial phone sex lines and safe sex. Ray Stephens made his only appearance as lead singer on this album, replacing Ray Simpson …

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Macho, Macho Yanks

The Yankees held their annual hazing of the rookies this weekend, forcing the newbies to dress as the Village People and parade around Boston. I watched it on the news, wondering if there might be a faint hint of homophobia in making the players dress as the most famous gay group of all time, but everybody seemed to be having …

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