Interesting read...
http://popbitch.com/home/2015/03/13/...of-the-closet/
Quote:
“'If pop fans want to channel their frustrated carnal desires through pop paraphernalia, spending their money on music and merchandise even though they are inadvertently fuelling a market which encourages musicians to suppress their sexual identity, then that is what they’ll do – and there’s not a damn thing anyone can do to stop them'.”
This has been my argument for
so long. It's so tiresome to see many fangirls/guys rant on and on about the evils of the closet (which to this day of course exists) and yet continue to help it along by their own desperation to be involved to the max in their chosen boyband or act, buying/downloading every single track (sometimes multiple times to 'help' win competitions) every gig, unnecessary perfumes, beanbags, Easter Eggs, sandwich boxes, multi t-shirts, dolls, stationery, hairclips - with these group's faces and logos slapped across the front.
You can't have your cake and eat it. If you want to 'support' your chosen closeted boybander and feel aggrieved enough to want some justice, not just talk about it on your blogs, you have to
stop spending money on them like water and give the suits running the show behind the act a wakeup call.
You can be involved on a free or minimal-only basis. But that's an impossible ask as fandoms want the right to moan as well as the right to plaster their walls with every bit of merchandise. Taking a financial stand is the only way the likes of Cowell, Sony and the big PR companies and corps can be taken on by hitting them in the pocket.