“On a sliding scale of sexuality I’d place myself around 80-20, but I definitely prefer men to women,” the 51-year-old musician says. “I had sex with, and enjoyed sex with, women until I met someone that I fell in love with, and who is now my boyfriend. That’s the only real news in the last 12 years, but when it’s a slow news day I get dragged out of some closet again.”
I’m going to file this under sour grapes since Out of Time was the first compact disc I ever owned. I’d have traded the shiny (and large) compact disc player I got with it for a role model growing up. The 90’s were rough – yo. The Kinsey Scale has been published since 1948 and has over time become the de facto standard for measuring the scope of human sexuality. Stipe’s 80% claim places him somewhere between a ‘Kinsey 4’ and a ‘Kinsey 5’. Michael Stipe Is 80% Gay [The Advocate]
Well let’s go back a ways for today’s FBF, shall we? Back to the greatest decade in American history, the 1970s. The 60s were serious business and by the 70s American music fans were looking for a break from songs about politics and social problems. This created a huge market for the peddalers of bubble gum pop. The results were not always the most profound music, but there was a sense of fun that was missing in the 1960s. Here are a couple of samples.