Little Big Town’s newest hit “Girl Crush” is being pulled from radio stations for what some refer to as inappropriate lyrics.
Boise, Idaho’s 104.3 country music station’s co-host, Alana Lynn, is revealing after she played the song for her listeners, she got an angry response from some and has decided to stop playing it.
The song is about a woman who is jealous of her ex’s new girlfriend and includes lyrics such as “I want to taste her lips, yeah cause they taste like you / I want to drown myself in a bottle of her perfume. I want her long blond hair, I want her magic touch / Yeah cause maybe then, you’d want me just as much. . . I got a girl crush.”
However, Lynn told Washington Post she got phone calls claiming the song is “promoting the gay agenda.” Some went as far as threaten to boycott the radio station if they didn’t stop playing the song.
The band has responded to this while talking to radio personality Bobby Jones – who asked about people calling it a “lesbian song” - with Karen Fairchild saying, “Just the fact that we’re still discussing that, number one, there’s so many problems with that whole issue.”
The song is selling about 25,000 copies a week and ranks No. 4 on iTunes, but it's suffering in radio rankings. Other stations than the one in Idaho have pulled it as well.
"Girl Crush," which isn't even about a lesbian relationship, was one the band fell in love with right away because of its "genius" lyrics. "It's a beautifully written song about jealousy,” said Fairchild.
"That’s just shocking to me, the close-mindedness of that, when that’s just not what the song was about. But what if it were? It’s just a greater issue of listening to a song for what it is," said Fairchild.
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