‘Girls’ Gone Wrong: Who Gets to Make a Gay Love Song?

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The New York Times

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

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🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The Rita Ora track was positioned as a celebration of bisexuality, but struck a sour note with critics who found its lyrics problematic.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your problematic bisexual anthem of music news and criticism.
0:05.0	I'm your host Karen Gantz. is Laura we learned a lot how to do it like we do it like we wonder we just know we just
0:17.8	know I am one sided I'm up a mind it I'm 50-50 and I'm never gonna hide it you should know you should know
0:28.2	you should know
0:32.2	oh some that we've been in the boot, 68 Chevy, we're nothing to do.
0:34.8	In the summer he's, hushed up.
0:38.8	And last night, yeah, we got with the dude.
0:42.6	I saw him he was looking at you, so I said he'd be hush-love.
0:48.8	Sometimes I just want to kiss. Go, girls.
0:53.0	Red wine, I just want to kiss go, go, girls.
0:58.0	Sometimes I just want to kiss go go go
1:05.0	want to kiss go go go go
1:07.0	go go go you know I think and then I named it I put the lane in the kitchen then I laid with her all night
1:18.0	Oh no it her all night
1:20.0	Yeah, I'm the hunter and she's the, yeah, I'm the killer and the killer and the see you're all night.
1:28.0	We are all night.
1:30.0	Yeah.
1:31.0	All summer we've been in the blue.
1:33.0	60 h. heavy with nothing to do in the summer haze. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H So what we were just listening to is a song that came out a few days ago
1:48.8	although now it feels like perhaps a year it's called Girls and the main artist on it is Rita Ora and it's also
1:55.6	featuring BB rexa Charlie Xx and Cardi B and I have assembled a panel of
2:01.0	experts here to discuss it because the song kicked up a little bit of a
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