Sabrina Carpenter: “I don’t think pop music would exist if it wasn’t for the queer community”
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Sabrina Carpenter: “I don’t think pop music would exist if it wasn’t for the queer community”
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…is she calling the Beatles gay?
History lessons from this girl is up the with the most bizarre stuff I’ve seen this year.
Pop music is just whatever is currently Popular.
Had some bad PR recently?
Rally the gay community behind you.
A lot of things wouldn’t exist but for the gay community. We are trend setters.
edit: you can downvote me but know I’m laughing at how wrong you are (and you know it)
Can someone clarify. Wasn’t Little Richard rumored to be not straight?
If that’s true then Sabrina might be onto something.
Pop music has always existed in all walks of life for all types of people. What she’s describing is a particularly very narrow world of pop music that she inhabits. A type that dominates modern pop.
“Rich Lady Discovers There’s Queer People Everywhere. Is Shocked.”
I feel like her understanding of what pop music is is very limited. Obviously certain genres of pop have been influenced by the queer community. But not all of it.
Stupid people speaking with authority because they are popular is fucking over the world.
She is such an insufferable twat waffle
I’m really getting tired of her schtick to be honest. You’re veered too hard into the lazy make gaze trope to be taken seriously by anyone at this point
The queer community has always been part of the fabric of the rest of the community, whether anyone wants to admit it or not. What point is she trying to make? This just sounds like empty pandering.
Queer baiting again?damn is her Coachella sht not performing well?
Reminds me of the stupid thing jojo siwa said
Because it’s 2026 and most people refuse to read past a headline, here’s the full context:
Marc: What would you say is the importance of a queer audience to pop stars in 2026? As a gay man, I have to ask you that question.
Sabrina: I don’t think pop music would exist if it wasn’t for the queer community. I don’t think some of our greatest pop stars would exist if it wasn’t for the queer community. I feel so deeply connected. I mean, some of my greatest friends and collaborators and artists that I know are a part of the queer community or are just so celebratory of it, and I feel like my tour would’ve been a lot less fun if it wasn’t for them. I feel so connected and grateful to be able to have them be a part of my journey, to be a part of the world.
It’s long past the time when anyone should pay attention to the opinions of celebrities.
Honestly, I hate when people talk about music this way. I’m not saying the Queer community hasn’t added value to pop music because of course they have. But music, even pop music, didn’t just magically appear. The history of music is pretty layered because everyone takes inspiration from another person. “Pop” music exists because of many, many people throughout history, not just the queer community.
I’m pretty sure it would. If for whatever reason the gay gene or whatever biological mechanism makes people gay never evolved I’m 100% sure the genre of pop music would still exist. The history of pop music would be different, but pop music as a genre would inevitably evolve as humans only appreciate a certain number of sound configurations.
It’s irrefutable. Fuck all the ignorant bigots in these comments.
Posturing for “the Gays” street cred. Next she will “come out” as pansexual or some shit like that…it’s all BS artifice.
What the…? Sorry, but statements like that is why many people ended up hating progressivism and its cultural manifestations. Yeah girl, the queer community has represented a part, but not the whole of it. Those are just things she says to look good, and I bet most (if not all) of the pop celebrities would say the same shit.
I stand by this
In the 2000s if you even hinted at liking nsync or backstreet Boys.. You’d be called gay…
So I thank the pioneers who stuck to their guns
Ah I can’t wait to hear Reddit’s opinion on pop music and gay people.
Two things they are very knowledgeable about.
Of course it would. “Pop” is short for “popular”. The current *trends* may be different without queer influence, but they would simply be replaced by something else.
I agree with her 💯.
Let’s look at just the genres of rock and Edm. Little Richard was a huge influence on Elvis and most early rock artists. He was pretty gay. Also, there is zero doubt Edm was influenced by the gay club scene and disco.
Thank you Sabrina
Yeah, pop is gay.
Pop music wouldn’t exist without Michael Jackson
It’s times like this where I wish I was famous to call shit like this out.
ITT: people reading the headline and jumping straight to the comments
Abba and Eurovision for sure
I mean Pop Music literally just means Popular Music, but there is a subsection of Pop (mainly with strong female icons/divas) that the queer community very much helped to establish. People like Madonna, Cher, Brittany, Taylor, and other prolific Pop figures all have massive queer followings so I get where Sabrina is going with this but I think ‘Pop’ is too broad of a term music wise to fully accredit this. Queer people have also helped support other areas of media but I wouldn’t say they are a sole reason for it still being around outside of like drag, ballroom culture or something to that extent that truly did blossom and come out of an explicitly gay place and time.