May be, you think that it is too late to write such a thing. As more than 2 and a half years passed. I remember the exact date when he declared that he was a happy gay or with his own words “fortunate homosexual man“, it was the 30.of March 2010, the day my Erasmus life began in Berlin. It was quite a cold and a horrible day for me and it was spiced up with these news. Don’t take me wrong. I was just disappointed. How can someone just do this for commercial reasons? I mean singing songs to women in a very romantic way. What kind of a torture is this one can bear?
I was listening to one of my favs of him : “Spanish Eyes” randomly yesterday, my shuffle chose that and it began ” I met a girl at the carnival in Rio de Janerio” and then continued that they danced, how he fell in love, how she disappeared and how he would search for her and would like to spend his life with her etc. All the romance he sings…And then a song even its name has a she, “She is all I’ve ever had”… EVEN look at the song that made him popular… un pasito pa’delante María, un dos tres un pasito pa’atras.. O’ the blame is on the language, sadly both his mother tongue and English make the gender distinction. If he was singing in Turkish, at least it wouldn’t be fooling oneself. I mean listening to all these songs from a man who is not really interested in girls makes your heart broken somehow. He just sings them in order to make money? I mean of course I can understand that, it is not easy to sing songs for a guy when you are a guy when we are still in a world that this cannot be accepted easily. Except that, if you are a girl may be. Girls being homosexual always gets some attention, no? You may remember there used to be this russian girl band t.A.T.u who claimed to be homosexual as well, and basing their songs on this fact and earning money this way. I guess you can only commercialize this when being a girl. Otherwise, if you’re a guy like Ricky, you still have to sing songs to girls…
