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Years & Years: ‘It’s sad gay<\/a> popstars don’t use male<\/a> pronouns’<\/b><\/p>\n

Years & Years frontman Olly Alexander has said its ‘sad’ gay<\/a> popstars don’t use male<\/a> pronouns in their songs.<\/p>\n

The openly gay<\/a> singer spoke to  Digital Spy<\/a> about the lyrics on the band’s debut album, Communion, ahead of its release on Friday (10 July).<\/p>\n

‘It was important for me to get some male<\/a> pronouns in some of the songs,’ he said.<\/p>\n

‘So I did it for Real and Memo, and then one song on the deluxe. It is kind of sad to me that we don’t have gay<\/a> popstars singing about men<\/a> using a male<\/a> pronoun, but that could change hopefully.’<\/p>\n

Alexander said all the songs on the album were about ‘sex<\/a> or relationships,’ the latter of which was unchartered territory gay<\/a> musicians.<\/p>\n

‘I’d like to hear a gay<\/a> artist express their sexuality in a really open way,’ said Alexander.<\/p>\n

‘That’s something I’ve sort of tried to do a little bit on this album, but to be able to talk about sex<\/a> is possibly new for gay<\/a> artists, so I’d like to see that in the mainstream.’<\/p>\n

Years & Years topped the prestigious BBC Sound of 2015 poll in January and scored their first UK number one with King in March.<\/p>\n

Watch the video<\/a> for King below:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The post Years & Years: ‘It’s sad gay popstars don’t use male pronouns’<\/a> appeared first on Gay Star News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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