"Was it wishful thinking," I mused. "Was the recent music video release, "All Night," a prelude to something more?"
It is no secret that I am a huge country music fan and have been a huge Brothers Obsorne fan ever since I saw their music video "Stay a Little Longer" that featured couples including a gay one. In mainstream country music it is very unusual for anything homoerotic to be featured. And while there have been country stars that have come out, those singers were frankly second or third rate ones who barely had a career prior to announcing they "batted for the same team". But the Brothers Osborne had me hooked and they have never disappointed as they poured out hit after hit and became a national force in the music industry.
The release of their recent album "Skeletons" had me intrigued. What was this all about? Little did I know that it was a prelude to the news that one of the brothers, T.J, would come out in a Time Magazine article to admit he is gay. One of the music videos "All Night" quite frankly had my gaydar going off the charts. It was homoerotic on so many levels and was so layered in intrigue as to what message was going to be offered later.
I thought that that first music video of theirs that I had seen five years ago was just a teaser and being inclusive in an industry that doesn't do much more than pay lipservice for gay artists (unless they strike it out on their own and take their production to independent labels); but here we have a huge national country star admitting that he's a gay man.
Kudos to T.J. You are quite the man as well as quite the performer.
Below are the three music videos mentioned above. First, "Stay a Little Longer" and followed by "All Night" and "Skeletons" (in your closet).
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