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"I Wish I Was Queer So I Could Get Chicks"
Single by Bloodhound Gang
from the album One Fierce Beer Coaster
ReleasedSeptember 8, 1997
Recorded1996
Length3:49
Label
Songwriter(s)Jimmy Pop
Producer(s)Jimmy Pop
Bloodhound Gang singles chronology
"Fire Water Burn"
(1997) 		"I Wish I Was Queer So I Could Get Chicks"
(1997) 		"Why's Everybody Always Pickin' On Me?"
(1997)

"I Wish I Was Queer So I Could Get Chicks" is the second single from Bloodhound Gang's album One Fierce Beer Coaster.

The satirical song is entirely about the belief that girls only like gay men. The lyrics reference the stereotype that gay men are often better looking and more sensitive than heterosexual men, enjoy the band Depeche Mode and avant garde ballet, and how Jimmy Pop, the band's singer, wishes that he could be a homosexual to be more successful with women.

The album version is recorded in the band's trademark rap-metal style. An alternate version was recorded as a b-side, featuring a crooning vocal over Nashville country/lounge backing.

Music video

The music video starts out with Jimmy Pop, who is playing a gay talk-show host named Dirk Ramrod, and his co-host, Lewis, who is played by bassist Evil Jared Hasselhoff discussing their special guest for the day, Lupus Thunder and DJ Q-Ball from Bloodhound Gang. The video then becomes a montage of some of Dirk and Lewis's (Jimmy and Jared's) favorite (nastiest) moments off the show, leaving DJ Q-Ball and Lupus disgusted and slightly amused until the video ends with Jimmy Pop and Evil Jared saying, "Come again, if ya got the balls!"

Reception

Writing in The Advocate (a leading US magazine for gay readers), Barry Walters described the song as "annoying" but admitted the band's stereotypes of homosexuals were somewhat accurate, "especially the Depeche Mode part".[1]

Charts

Chart performance for "I Wish I Was Queer So I Could Get Chicks"
Chart (1997) Peak
position
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[2] 32

References

  1. ^ Rock's Gay Wanna-bes. 18 March 1997. p. 70. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ^ "Bloodhound Gang – I Wish I Was Queer So I Could Get Chicks". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved December 5, 2020.



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