Village People Singer Victor Willis Says 'Y.M.C.A.' Isn't About Gay Sex | TMZ TV - video Dailymotion

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Victor jumped on TMZ's "2 Angry Men" podcast with Harvey and Mark Geragos, and admitted when he wrote the iconic song the lyrics were a double entendre -- straight people could interpret 'hangin' out with all the boys' as maybe playing hoops, while gay people could view it as gettin' down in various places at the facility.

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00:00There's nothing in my lyrics that says anything about that, about men having sex in the bathroom.

00:08That's Village People frontman Victor Willis correcting comedian Jim Jeffries for suggesting

00:13that the song YMCA was, um, basically a song about f***ing in the shower.

00:19Well Karen Willis demanded an apology.

00:21Karen Willis, who is the wife and manager of Victor Willis, who's the lead singer of

00:26He sent Jim a cease and desist and Victor has insisted that YMCA is not a gay anthem

00:33and that he said specifically not about gay sex.

00:37So Victor and Karen say that Jim apologized.

00:40They said that on our Two Angry Men podcast with Mark Harris and me.

00:43Karen approached him with it and he apologized and said he was going to correct it or whatever.

00:50Although that's not exactly what Jim told us when we spoke to him.

00:53He's saying he won't say it anymore but he didn't apologize for saying it the first time.

00:56In the meantime, Victor does acknowledge that YMCA is an anthem in the gay community.

01:01They can call it a gay anthem, it's an anthem period, it's an anthem to me, to a lot of people.

01:07And besides, what makes people say YMCA is about gay sex other than maybe the lyrics?

01:12They have everything for young men to enjoy.

01:16You can hang out with all the boys, you can do whatever you feel.

01:20Well, that was something that I credited myself on was writing songs with what was called a double entendre.

01:30Seems like more of a single entendre if that's even a thing.

01:33Well anyway, Victor's got the breakdown on who listens to the village people.

01:3860% of white women, 30% straight white men, and 10% of gay men.

01:48How does he know that?

01:49Do you have to like register like, I'm gay, and then you get the record?

01:52So thanks Victor Willis, you are quite adamant that YMCA is not about having sex in a bathroom.

01:59The words bathroom are not even in the song.

Village People Singer Victor Willis Says 'Y.M.C.A.' Isn't About Gay Sex | TMZ TV

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