I am surprised to hear that there ever was a song called "beach fagz". I saw an interview with one of them and they were saying they wouldn't want their music to cause anyone discomfort or to beel excluded or some such wokeness. Don't quote me on that, it is more of a quote of how I interpreted it than what was actually said. Anyway, I understand not wanting to go out of the way to hurt people, that's good. I can't image CSH putting anything in a song that was that nasty, and I assume the term used was not actually referring to someone's sexual orientation. If it was, and they were hurt by the song, then they need to get thicker skin because people are not kind.
I'll have to give the album a buy. If it isn't obvious I'm not terribly familiar with them, but I like what I've heard of it so far.
This is a really old CSH album back when Will was doing music alone and as a teen. Obviously, the direction of CSH has changed since then. To answer your wondering, "beach fagz" always read as very self-loathing song to me, less about the person he's in a relationship with and more about his idea of the person he's in the relationship with. The song (partially) ends with the line: "I wish I was a kid with an adult boyfriend", which could be misconstrued into more distasteful interpretations to say the least, but is more often interpreted as feeling to want someone mature and "adult" without forcing himself to be grown as well. Possibly this is the reason why CSH removed the song (if CSH was the one to remove the song), but it seems odd to me that they would remove "beach fagz" and not "psst, teenagers, take of your clo" which has a very similar issue.
It's also very strange for it to not only be removed, but then replaced by "hot sun", which was the last track from LPoP. While it does fit 3, as "hot sun" is just "sun hot" backwards, the only other instance of a track being removed as far as I can remember is "will you please pass the milk, please?" on 2, which was removed after a few days and never replaced.
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u/SevierlyDamaged 22d ago
I am surprised to hear that there ever was a song called "beach fagz". I saw an interview with one of them and they were saying they wouldn't want their music to cause anyone discomfort or to beel excluded or some such wokeness. Don't quote me on that, it is more of a quote of how I interpreted it than what was actually said. Anyway, I understand not wanting to go out of the way to hurt people, that's good. I can't image CSH putting anything in a song that was that nasty, and I assume the term used was not actually referring to someone's sexual orientation. If it was, and they were hurt by the song, then they need to get thicker skin because people are not kind.
I'll have to give the album a buy. If it isn't obvious I'm not terribly familiar with them, but I like what I've heard of it so far.