{"id":37307,"date":"2022-06-05T05:22:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T05:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/bowen-yang-on-singing-britney-spears-in-fire-island-movie\/"},"modified":"2022-06-05T05:22:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T05:22:09","slug":"bowen-yang-on-singing-britney-spears-in-fire-island-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/bowen-yang-on-singing-britney-spears-in-fire-island-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowen Yang on Singing Britney Spears in ‘Fire Island’ Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Matt Rogers, Bowen Yang, and Tom\u00e1s Matos form an unholy trinity.
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On the “queer music spectrum,” there are apparently two poles – Britney Spears and Tracy Chapman – or at least that was what Bowen Yang told Vanity Fair<\/em> in a June 3 interview. When asked about the musical moment at the end of his new film Fire Island<\/em>, in which his character gains confidence over the course of a karaoke performance, Yang revealed that his co-star (and writer and producer and Vulture profile subject) Joel Kim Booster let him choose what song he wanted to sing. Yang immediately wanted Britney Spears’s \u2026 Baby One More Time<\/em>\u2013Era single “Sometimes” because “it has to be a song that is somewhat campy and ironic, but also so earnest and pure.” \u201cIt is a song that I’ve always loved of hers that is summer – so light and airy and about just being vulnerable and the fear that sort of gets paired along with that,\u201d he said. His second choices of him? “Baby Can I Hold You,” by Tracy Chapman or the Carpenters.<\/p>\n

Yang getting his choice led to an even greater musical moment: a MUNA cover of the same song for the Hulu film’s soundtrack. Famed purveyors of queer joy MUNA are a fierce (said in a Project Runway<\/em> season-four Christian Siriano voice) choice for the Spears cover. MUNA transforms the song from a classic ’90s-style ballad into a dreamy, beat-driven, harmony-laden anthem. However, it must be said that the choice to skip the iconic ascending bridge is, while not outwardly homophobic, certainly a choice that will affect generations to come. MUNA are releasing their self-titled album on June 24, so we’ll hold out hope that the \u201cSometimes\u201d bridge shows up as an interlude.<\/p>\n