Little Big Town’s “Girl Crush,” which is topping the country charts on iTunes and at #17 on Top Country Billboard, is irking some people. The racy lyrics are about jealousy by a female toward her ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend, implying that she wants her because she has him.
IJ Review covered the controversy,
Some think it “promotes the gay agenda,” according to The Washington Post:
“In recent weeks, multiple radio stations from coast to coast have been inundated with similar complaints about “Girl Crush,” forcing several to take it out of a regular rotation. (Sample comments heard by a Texas program director: “You are just promoting the gay agenda on your station and I am changing the channel and never listening to you ever again!!”)”
Bobby Bones, one of the nation’s leading country music radio hosts, was baffled by the backlash against the song, Taste Of Country reports.
Bones brought it up to Karen Fairchild, one of the band’s singers, when Little Big Town visited his show:
“’Is it frustrating to you that here is your song — that is one of the Top 10 sellers for weeks and weeks and weeks — and people on the radio are still afraid to play it because they think it’s a ‘lesbian song?’ he asked them. ‘It would drive me insane!’
‘Just the fact that we’re still discussing that, number one, there’s so many problems with that whole issue,’ Fairchild replied. But it’s clear that ‘the gay agenda’ is still a hot-button topic at country radio, whose audience tends to be more conservative than the wider culture.”
What do you think? Here are the lyrics, and watch the video and interview below.
“I want to taste her lips
Yeah, ’cause they taste like you
I want to drown myself
In a bottle of her perfume
I want her long blonde hair
I want her magic touch
Yeah, ’cause maybe then
You’d want me just as much
I got a girl crush”