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21st Century Boy
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This song is just breathtakingly beautiful.
The song tells the story, remember when songs did that?, of a gay friend of Stewart’s who, rejected by his family after explaining that ‘he needed love like all the rest’, moved to New York where he ‘soon became the toast of the Great White Way’. But was cut down in his prime during a random mugging.
It’s not so much the subject matter (a true story, apparently) that gets me. It’s the astonishing performance itself, which in its fearless extravagance and beauty seems the perfect tribute to his fallen friend. It’s as if Stewart, the working class footballing lad and lady killer, is showing you with his drag queen gestures and shining androgyny what Georgie the show queen liberated in him.
The song tells the story, remember when songs did that?, of a gay friend of Stewart’s who, rejected by his family after explaining that ‘he needed love like all the rest’, moved to New York where he ‘soon became the toast of the Great White Way’. But was cut down in his prime during a random mugging.
It’s not so much the subject matter (a true story, apparently) that gets me. It’s the astonishing performance itself, which in its fearless extravagance and beauty seems the perfect tribute to his fallen friend. It’s as if Stewart, the working class footballing lad and lady killer, is showing you with his drag queen gestures and shining androgyny what Georgie the show queen liberated in him.
ugh why do I do this to myself ?
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