#good omens as a queer story about queerness

[cobragardens]

In the first essay in this post Maya Gittelman articulates something that I think is really important: it's not just the gender(fuck) of the characters' coding that makes Good Omens a queer story, it's that the story is about queerness itself.

Gittelman's essay:

The thing is, this is the shit I’ve been waiting for my whole life.

Before I knew the words, I was impacted by how every epic romance, every classic adventure, every story I had access to and enjoyed was cishet. I needed to translate either the story or myself to find myself in it—every single time. I grew up in the oughts, in the days of the Tumblr fandoms you’re thinking of. I wrote about this a bit more in my essay on the first season of Our Flag Means Death last year, and that first line applies here—queer heartache has never felt this good.

I’ve been able to consume a lot of queer storytelling lately—mostly white cis m/m, but not exclusively and more than I’ve ever been able to in my life, because I’ve been searching for it for a long time. Yet as we know, there are a lot of mainstream stories with queer “rep” that at their core about what marginalized queer people have been cautioning around for generations—normalization. Assimilation. Respectability. See, we can be just like you. We too desire to marry, participate as cogs in the violent machine of imperialism. We too want the right to give you our service, our allegiance. We too want to join your armies. I certainly can enjoy plenty of that media, but I’m still desperate for queer storytelling that’s not sanitized, not flattened out to fit cishet beats, something that tells a good story that’s queer on every level. And that means we deserve to see queer characters who are messy, who hurt each other, because sometimes, love isn’t enough.

While Good Omens in some ways still white cis m/m, it’s also not entirely, and what works for me is that it actually delves into asking the damned question: What if this love is a threat, actually?

What if this love is something that does disrupt your norms, your ways of life? What if it’s an open danger to the systems you’re used to? What if this love could disrupt everything? What if it goes against God’s will and Satan’s too, what if it flies in the face of the ineffable plan?

What I’m saying is, I’ve wanted stories that let queer people be characters, with all the nuance and complexity that entails. Stories that are queer, intentionally, in both subtext and text, that aren’t asking an audience to justify their right to exist. Instead, they’re giving voice to the specifics of queer experience that don’t typically get mainstream care, multi-season tenderness. We deserve queer love stories that are wistful, epic, tragic not because they’re of the “same gender” but because the tangled truths of safety and trauma are inextricable from queer love. We deserve stories that are queer as subtext and text, metaphor and central plot and side plot too. We deserve queer stories that explore how queer love is infinite variety. We deserve genre stories that explore what immortality or something close to it does to pining, to longing, for wanting the one person in the universe you can’t have.

We deserve queer stories without homophobia that still explore the traumas of marginalized desire, in which neither party is truly the villain, just victims of the same system, at different stages of knowing it.

Show me what it looks like beyond the happily ever after, the will they/won’t they, the beats of a privileged cis white coming out. Breathe arcs of nuance and poetry and history into it. We deserve that epic romance, and we deserve to see how much it can hurt, because the depths of that wound evidence the ferocity of that love.

Growing up queer can feel monstrous, and I need to see that on screen. When you get preached at that people like you go to Hell for what you are and the ways you want, you start to relate to the demons. When you’re taught the truest, most joyful parts of you are unholy, it’s fair to ask—why should I respect the authority of a system that hates me for reasons I can’t control?

You learn to disguise your desire, and it changes you. It changes you to choke down your feelings, to deny them, to believe that they are sin. You learn to pour them into the hidden language of love that arises between you and whoever you’re lucky enough to share it with, so you don’t learn how to say them aloud. (Their arrangement, “little demonic miracle of my own,” the fourth alternative rendezvous. This is what queer love has looked like for millennia: something beautiful and true, despite, despite, despite.) Unlike those whose love has only ever been legal, permitted, “normal,” “holy”—your relationship is inescapably shaped by the threat behind it. You don’t get to see them as often as you like. You don’t get to talk, either to them or about them, because it might disturb the precious existence you have carved out together. You have to make up excuses, you can’t admit to anyone exactly why you can’t stop going back, and in this way you don’t always have to confront it yourself.

At the same time, that’s why queer love can be one of the most powerful forces in the universe—it saved the world last time, even if they didn’t call it that, yet. Aziraphale and Crowley don’t know so many details about each other’s lives and yet they know nearly everything important.

This is love—this natural state of slipping into the truth, until you awaken to it, inevitable and encompassing, all around you.

You might find yourself almost helpless to the magnetism. You can’t stop going back, finding your way to them, taking the risk, basking in the thrill of the comfort of their company.

And that’s why this finale, this story, this couple works so well for me—it’s queer in the telling, and while it always has been, this season literalized it on a new level and that matters.

#good omens #good omens meta #good omens as a queer story about queerness #christianity #ineffable husbands #the christian world is a dystopian horror #christianity is authoritarianism from the spirit outwards

[thebluemoo]

I'm so tired. And Frustrated.

I'm tired of characters needing to be "in love" every time they love each other. Especially when the media goes out of the way to make it clear that they love each other without ever trying to define that as "in love". They love each other. That is just as valuable. That is Just as worthy. They can be partners without romance. They can be partners without sex.

They Can Be Partners Without Romance.

I am so Sick of not only the idea that for some god forsaken reason, Every single queer relationship needs to be labeled and categorizable to "count" as explicitly queer, but the idea that it needs to be romantic. The notion that characters and stories cannot be queer until you get to see a kiss or people are declared "boyfriends" or something else like that. We are Woefully shy of queer representation on the whole— I'm not saying you can't interpret media however you like. Do what you want.

But I am so sick of characters that Clearly mirror aromantic stories or stories about queerness that just don't focus on romance be called "not good enough" or "homophobic". Not every story is about romance. Not every partnership is romantic.

That doesn't make them not queer. That doesn't make them not important. I can promise you, those of us who don't or can't center romance in our lives? We Are living a queer experience. We are antithetical to amatonormative allonormative expectations for how life "should" be lead.

We get to see ourselves in those stories you're calling "not queer enough". Queerness is complex and weird and Fucking Queer. It's not an analog of straightness or cisness. We're not playing opposite to straightness or cisness. We're not operating in the same Framework— that's what makes us so goddamn queer. We aren't easily definable, and when we try to force ourselves to find one definitive way to be queer, we leave community behind.

So yes. We need more queer stories. We need more queer stories of all kinds that are messy and weird and romantic and aromantic and trans and ace and nonbinary and all over the place because every single story about queerness is going to be different. And that's good.

#yes this is about good omens #but it's also about little women #and it's also about frozen #and it's about a hundred different ways and a hundred different times i've been told i'm erasing queer stories by seeing myself in them #queer stories deserve to be complicated #we deserve to be hard to define #but also we deserve to be seen #in every capacity that we can #I generally participate in a part of fandom that heavily partakes in shipping #For me one of the most important parts of the story is the characters and their relationships with each other #but I cannot fathom how people who also find that to be one of the most important parts of stories can be so Reductive about what that mean #good omens #aromantic #asexual #sorry for the big rant #I just cried my eyes out to the season finale of good omens and came on here to be excited about it #but almost everything i saw was about a very different takeaway than the one I had

[not-a-cheese-thief]

A while ago I read a comment that's really stuck in my mind, saying that Good Omens (season 2 included) was queer baiting, and the basis of their arguments, aside from the complete media illiteracy, came down to 2 things; they're not both "men", and their relationship isn't (or won't be, according to some sources) sexual.

Now, I'm not really a part of the fandom, so I don't know what the common understanding is around these fictional, non-human beings who don't experience gender. Perhaps this person was trying to argue that since the angels and demons never had gender to begin with, queerness and gender queerness can't exist for them. But my response to that would be that we the audience are human, living a cis het dominated world, and we are watching a love story about two non binary lovers (who, yes, happen to be played by men, and who, most of the time, exist in male presenting forms), and that makes it a queer story. Why would anyone think that one or more of the characters being non binary would make a ship queer baiting?

Sex isn't required to make something queer, by the fucking way. First off, asexuality and the ace spectrum are part of the LGBTQIA umbrella. It's in the damn initialism. Secondly, whether or not someone is ace, sex and sexuality is not fucking needed to make them queer. People are queer with or without sex. The act isn't what makes for queerness. Telling queer stories is important, and it's dangerous and stupid to say that all stories must contain sex or allusions to sex in order to prove that they're queer.

Queer love and community is beautiful and diverse, and that diversity has been missing from our screens for way too long. Hyper sexualized, cis gay men tend to make up most of the stories right now. That's what the media's been focused on. And while it's good that a part of the media and the audience is becoming more used to seeing gay sex and sexuality on screen, and that world is being explored, there's just so much more. There's more queer stories to tell. Many of which don't include sex.

So yeah, it hurt me to see people arguing that certain stories aren't really queer, because they were hoping to watch another cis gay couple fuck on screen.

#this may not make sense because i am very tired #but im also angry #we should celebrate queerness and queer stories in all forms #also there were fucking lesbians #goddammit #good omens #aziraphale #crowley #also maybe google the term “queerbaiting” before you throw it about #ineffable husbands

[queer-reader-07]

it is so vitally important to me that aziraphale and crowley not only love each other but choose to love each other.

i don’t want it to be fate. i don’t want it to be god’s will. i want it to be a conscious and continuous choice.

i want aziraphale choosing every day of his goddamn existence to love crowley and all that he is. i want aziraphale choosing to love crowley not in spite of being a demon, but because he is a demon. i want aziraphale choosing to love crowley’s curiosity and creative wonder. i want aziraphale choosing to love crowley’s love of plants and gardening.

i want crowley choosing to love aziraphale’s passion for books. i want crowley choosing to love aziraphale’s desire to do things the human way even if he could just miracle it. i want crowley choosing to love aziraphale’s angel-ness because it is a fundamental part of him.

i want aziraphale choosing to love everything about crowley and vise versa. and i want it to be a very conscious and intentional choice.

it being fate negates the entire point of the story. good omens is a love story between an angel and a demon, yes. but that’s not all that it is. it’s a story about two occult/ethereal beings who choose humanity over the great plan. two beings who choose the world over armageddon. and they make those choices because despite it all they have chosen to fall in love with the world and with humanity.

it only makes sense that they choose each other. that they choose their love. it being fate or god’s will ruins the foundational pillar of their relationship. that they choose each other over and over and over again. year after year, century after century, time and time again. they always choose. they choose the arrangement, they choose saving the other from harm, they choose lying to protect the other.

it is always a choice. and it better stay a choice or i am going to be so devastated.

#look i’m good with most anything for s3 #as long as they end up in the south downs & hug at least once i will be happy #but this is one thing that isn’t necessarily a need but more like a deep rooted desire that will break me if not met #like if it’s all ‘haha this was god’s plan all along’ i will be so upset #disappointed even #because neil can do better than that #he’s a better writer than that #not to mention it makes absolutely no sense in the context of the story #like i understand how it’s fun to play around with ‘they were made for each other’ #but i really want them to choose each other despite everything #because if i’m being honest it’s one of the things about aziracrow that feels fundamentally queer #to say ‘yeah fuck that’ to what the systems in power tell you you should act like #or who you should love and care for #and instead say ‘i choose this’ ‘i choose you’ to the people and things that actually fulfill you #that is powerful and that is foundational to queerness and queer liberation in my opinion #it’s not about fate or being made for whatever #it’s saying ‘i don’t care if it’s fate or the divine plan or not. it just is and you can’t change the fact that it simply /is/.’ #and maybe that’s just me #but it sure as hell makes sense in my mind #good omens #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #good omens 2 #ineffable wives #neil gaiman #good omens meta #aziracrow meta #gomens meta

[whoify]

throws rock at hornet nest. etc

#might elaborate might not. my mind will not be changed #the thesis here is not that gay people are boring but that simply making two men kiss does not an interesting story make #iwtv ESPECIALLY pissed me off like. okay so you just took all of the subtext that made it a meaningful story in the original and. got rid o #it? and created a story that spells out whats happening for you the entire time? that was good? that was a win for the queers? #wwdits is blatant queerbait yes you can queerbait with queer characters #good omens is good maybe i'd move it higher. i simply find the fans annoying so it's a little lower #ofmd is boring. hannibal is obviously peak tv. supernatural is in the dictionary next to queerbait but boy if it isn't a fun ride #house also obviously queerbait and crazy about it #milk post #okay i guess i did elaborate

[fleething]

i think it’s slightly funny how everyone on the former bird app is losing their minds about the fact that neil said that s3 “won’t be romantic” like that means he’s going to kill off either of the ineffable spouses when it probably just means that there won’t be a fucking ball scene like in s2 bc s3 is going to be too busy having an actual plot to do that

#once again this is not hate directed towards s2 #i love s2 #i would die for her #but her purpose was to make waves so we could get the “actual continuation of the story #which she did by making all us little queer ppl scream about the ineffable spouses for 6 months #and yes i understand that we’d all like more domestic content from the ineffable spouses #but let’s be real it probably won’t happen #s3 is probably going to be romantic in the same way s1 was #with maybe a cottage at the end of it #which is also something that was mentioned at some point yk #the point is #we’re going to be okay #they’re going to be okay #good omens #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable spouses

[azuremist]

I’m gonna say it. I’m gonna say it, and y’all are gonna be normal about it.

I don’t understand why the people behind Good Omens decided to make a universe where homophobia and transphobia doesn’t exist, while ALSO unnecessarily writing in Aziraphale facing fatphobic bigotry multiple times.

Why do only skinny queer people get an escapist story where they’re not being reminded of their own oppression?

#be normal about this fucking post or i swear to Fucking God. #aziraphale #good omens #good omens 2 #fatphobia #fat liberation #idk i’ll tag this more in the morning maybe #also if you’re gonna have one or the other #at least queerphobia has. actual relevance to the themes of the story #given that it’s all about religion and the ineffable lovers’ queer relationship #so. #what’s the deal #azure does a thing

[shysquiggles]

GOOD OMENS SPOILERS !!!!

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Okay but I genuinely can't get over how important it was for Crowley to kiss Aziraphale. Like it was so important.

Yes, of course, important from the real-world perspective: after countless years of queer-coding in TV shows and then inevitably being greeted by judgement and disgust from others as well as the people who have worked on the show (looking at you, BBC Sherlock). I'm pretty sure tumblr users from back a good 10 years ago (myself included) have come flooding back to tumblr following these canon kisses because we're so used to being gaslight into thinking two same-sex characters in a TV show will never express their love on-screen. This show, alongside OFMD, is attracting the same mainstream demographic as those other shows and making our main characters kiss. Because, no matter how queer the relationship was in those shows back in 2015(ish), it wouldn't be accepted as canon unless there was a kiss.

BUT putting that aside, it was SO important in the universe of Good Omens too. For these characters to truly demonstrate where they each are in their heads, and where they want to be.

This was the first kiss, possibly ever, where a demon and an angel kiss. I kept thinking we never saw Beelzebub and Gabriel kiss, despite canonically running away together. They are a couple. And at first, I was like, okay great, this is the writer's making sure that the first kiss we see IS between Aziraphale and Crowley. The show is pretty much their relationship through time, it's good to make them the focus point. But it's not just that, not at all.

Gabriel and Beelzebub experience and demonstrate their love and their joy at the end through singing. Stereotypically, this is very much what angels are known for. People literally use the phrase, "voice of an angel". It's kind of an angel's thing -and seeing as all demons have been angels at some point or another, it makes sense.

But Crowley and Aziraphale's experience of love, of witnessing it and seeing it themselves, is always through humans. Their expression of love is always so human (acts of service, eating food together, quality time) Their relationship isn't heavenly, nor is it hellish. It's human.

Crowley choosing to declare his love and then kiss Aziraphale is so innately human, and is something that neither demons nor angels ever do. It is truly showing that he has left behind any demonic or heavenly desire and simply wishes to exist in his human life with Aziraphale. It furthers his expression of wanting Aziraphale to stay with him, for them, where they can just be themselves. To be an "us".

It's not an angelic or a demonic act, to kiss someone. It's human.

#good omens #good omens spoilers #ofmd #david tennant #good omens 2 #good omens s2 spoilers #crowley #Aziraphale #This show has left me an obsessed wreck #I genuinely can't stop thinking about it #And genuinely the trauma of how much judgement there was for loving shows and ships back in 2015 has left me so skeptical to ship anything #I just love how much everyone in the community and in the production of the show itself love this and love the relationship too #It makes me so happy to have such a good romantic story for a queer couple in mainstream media #I informed my girlfriend that I lost a pint of blood and multiple limbs from this show a couple of days ago #I think I've lost at least another 3 pints

[jaymber]

I'm just gonna-

Even if you don't count what's happening between the protagonists as romance cause you don't care about stories, just visuals, at least STOP erasing trans and non-binary identities!

#bro can't you wait! #you got this awesome story and all you think about is: 'if they don't fuuck nasty it's not queer' #'boohoo those two enbies in love don't kiss so this isn't lgbt+' could you stop erasing the T from the community for 2 seconds??? #good omens #go #discourse #i'm so pissed! #came for reading y'all essays on this new season not reading death threats sent to the author cause you want everything all at once

[a-metal-jelly-bean]

oh god oh fuck

#i told a friend about wrightworth (she is very much into romance) #and she asked me 'why do you only watch gay things?' #i told her in the past about killing eve and good omens #so i managed to deflect it by saying that i simply enjoy the story and have watched many series that didnt feature romance #or featured straight romance #shes not homophobic but shes cishet and im NOT out to anyone #and am not in the sutuation where i can safely out myself #i dont know if she bought it or not #its not necessary to be queer to enjoy these shows obv #so i might just be overthinking #but oh god i think i might ha e messed up #i want to die

[theemmtropy]

I'd just like to point out that Good Omens 2 has actually good representation when it comes to queerness. Not only are the non-humans free from any Earthly gender and sexuality structures, but we also get canonically gay and nonbinary humans, and they are just as important as any other humans that Crowley and Aziraphale protect.

#maggie and nina being the b plot love story and no one making a fuss about it was just so nice #and then that shop owner brought up his partner and Aziraphale easily used they/them pronouns #just made me all warm and fuzzy inside #good omens #good omens s2 spoilers #favorite shows #my stuff #queer #queer representation

[grison-in-space]

Also if you think the angel Aziraphale has ever heard the song "Take Me to Church" without being consumed by enormous, contradictory, and incompatible feelings you have another think coming let me tell you that. Not sure he can figure out what they are, mind, but there are definitely little gears turning away in there.

#good omens #no spoilers I'm just punch drunk and making wild connections tonight #something something something the song exists in a tradition of queer defiance of spiritual abuse #that is very much in keeping with the best of Good Omens fandom #which hey pulling things full circle was my very first queer fandom #and therefore while the canon particularly the book is very important to me #I'm equally and maybe more indebted to the fandom #which showed me how to be an adult as well as how to be queer #as I can see happening again in the modern version #PARTICULARLY THOSE BITS OF IT THAT AREN'T TOTALLY FIXATED ON WHAT EXACT FORM QUEERNESS TAKES #because holy hell you dipshit kids I'm out here sketching out what that video and those lyrics meant to me and I'm *asexual* #and yet still I find great meaning in stories about transcendent experience of queer sex despite being totally uninterested in sex itself #because queerness is a broader experience than amatonormative expression of sex for the sake of fuck #and I therefore resonate with lots of very queer stories that don't look completely like mine #blah blah blah human condition. fuck!

[maximus-gluteus]

nothing to see here

#ok plz i wanna rant about how the new season of good omens is making me lose faith in humanity #girl tell me how ive trudged through 4 episodes of this season and i still dont know what the damn hell is going onnnnnn #every time i think we're getting somewhere with the 'story' the show slams the brakes to let me know that there're gay people on screen #does the coffee shop chick ever apologize to the record store chick bc i cant staaaand their romance. #like record store lady. girl. this isnt banter shes just straight up dissing your passion and life's work. #im scared to finish the season bc i just KNOW theyre gonna pull the whole 'i made u leave ur toxic partner now date me immediately' trope #ok so story beats aside my other gripe is how contrived the queer representation is in this show #i am a bi woman! my reaction to seeing wlw on screen should be 'yay! im happy theyre together' and not 'ugh this shit again?' #and also with az and crowley! what happened to their chemistry from the first season??? #like on the one hand the whole 'bickering like an old married couple' schtick is lovely. but. theyre just faffing about most of the time! #remember the first season? when these characters had agency? and a semblance of intuition? #i am convinced that the majority of the characters in this season couldnt find their way out of a paper bag #i get theres a whole memory loss plot device thing happening. but it feels like Gabriel's cluelessness is like fucking infectious or smthn #i feel like an idiot for assuming that the characters i knew from the first season will be just as competent in this season. they arent! #i hated the whole 'continued' story in the wwii era. i feel like it was a pathetic ploy at giving mark gatiss more needless screentime #did they think people would find the nazi zombies amusing or something? why are we playing this off as a joke? #just admit you dont know what to do with the story and move onnnnnnnn #im gonna finish the season bc i feel like im owed the scene of david tennant sucking face with michael sheen. #itll be like reparations for having to slough through the rest of this nothing burger of a story jesuuuuuussss #ok rant over #good omens critical

[queer-reader-07]

queer characters are allowed to die in media. and it isn’t inherently A Problem or homophobic when they do.

i understand that it hurts seeing queer people die in shows and books and movies, especially if you’re queer and you saw yourself in those characters.

but the thing is, if you want better queer rep in media you have to be ok with queer characters being treated the same way cishet characters are treated. and that means letting them die sometimes.

Bury Your Gays is a problem, I’m not going to pretend like it’s not. but Bury Your Gays isn’t synonymous with every death of a queer character that happens. you’re allowed to be hurt and devastated by a character death, but i don’t think it’s fair to act like that character death is part of some wider issue just because that character is part of a minority group.

not every queer story is sunshine and rainbows with a happily ever after. some queer stories are violent, some are devastating, and people die in some of them. and that is OK.

if we act like queer people can’t die in media we’re contributing to the othering of our community. it’s saying “queer people are this special group you can’t ever do a bad thing to in media because if you do it’s homophobic.” which is not a true statement.

we can’t act like every death of a queer character is homophobic or has capital I Implications about the writer’s opinions on queer people. if we keep pushing that specific narrative queer stories are going to be stifled. writers need to be able to tell the stories they want, even if that includes a queer person dying. and acting like they can’t is doing more harm than good.

you can dislike a writer’s decision, you can stop watching a show because of that decision. that is OK. but you don’t get to go around saying the writer is homophobic because they did something you didn’t like to a character you loved.

#i’m open to discussion on this but if you’re gonna just tell me i’m wrong because i’m wrong with nothing else to say plz leave #i think the main idea here is that people are too quick to conflate ‘this personally upset me’ with ‘this is problematic’ #which leads to an inaccurate view of how media works #something isn’t problematic just because you didn’t like the decision the writer made #cuz the thing is: it’s not about you #the writer didn’t write this show for you specifically #they wrote the story they wanted to tell and if you don’t like it that is OK #not every show or book is for everyone #and something isn’t bad just because you didn’t like it #you don’t have to moralize your dislike of something #it’s OK to say ‘i don’t like this cuz this decision upset me’ or ‘the vibes were off’ #that’s fine. you don’t have to justify it with some moral reasoning. you’re allow to dislike something just because #and when you do make a point to moralize your dislikes you inevitably fall into the trap of unfairly depicting something as inherently bad #ofmd isn’t inherently bad because you disliked the s2 finale #good omens isn’t bad because you wished neil had kept them together #you don’t have to like everything about a show/book/etc to recognize that it has merit and could be enjoyed by other people #queer media #queer shows #queer representation #ofmd #good omens #meta #long post

[hellonoblesky]

PRAYING for a genere analysis presentation or something so I have an excuse to talk to my entire class on my opinions on queer shows in the media from the perspective of a person who adores horror and isn’t rlly fond of media that’s predominantly gentle/soft/fluffy with Hannibal as my main example of queer media I actually felt like. Resonated with me

#turtledove yells into the abyss #Like be so fr I LOVE a slow decay of morals and a psychological horror and and GAY PEOPLE WJO ARE FUCKED IN THE HEAD!!!! #I love seeing queer media get popular but so little of it actually like. Resonates with me Yk? #Like as much as I love ofm d and g omens like it takes me a long time to even get around to watching them #bc they feel so Gentle #and that is NOT a bad thing!!! Media where the queer ppl are happy and joyful with a fleshed out character and story are so so good!! #But GOD. There is something so special about the worst people you know making each other worse Yk?

[musicrunsthroughmysoul]

I want to tell everyone in the Good Omens fandom who ships AziraCrow to try listening to "The Promise" by Tracy Chapman and maybe you'll calm down. 😊

#crystal visions of lilies in the valley #Good Omens #and by 'calm down' I mean as it pertains to waiting for S3. just listen to the song. you'll get it. :') #this is also shamelessly just my attempt to get people to listen to other Tracy Chapman songs besides the usual ''Fast Car''... #I mean yeah it's a queer anthem or whatever but as a queer woman herself TRACY HAS OTHER SONGS that are just as worthy!!!! 🥺 #I just wish people would give the REST of her discography a chance because...well I've listened to up to 'Telling Stories' and I adore all #of her albums up to 'Telling Stories' although 'Matters of the Heart' is a bit of a miss for me. but the rest of them are PERFECTION! #and it just saddens me to think that people have limited themselves to ''Fast Car'' off her FIRST ALBUM and ''Give Me One Reason'' #even though ''Give Me One Reason'' is on her 4th album ('New Beginning' which also has ''The Promise'') so that's a bit more adventurous! #anyway yeah sorry I have Opinions on Tracy Chapman's music & it's mostly 'why the fuck doesn't anyone ever talk about the rest of her songs #(& in case you're wondering what my favorite Tracy Chapman album is? it's 'Telling Stories.' which is one of my fave albums OF ALL-TIME.) #video #Youtube