Lauryn Hill may be headed to jail for tax evasion and facing eviction from her New Jersey mansion, but the multi Grammy Award-winning artist has found herself in an even more despicable place: the big gay doghouse.
Hill took to Tumblr this week to defend some offensive anti-gay lyrics in her newest track, “Neurotic Society“. In it, the singer lists reasons why she believes society is crumbling around her, comparing “social transvestism,” “drag queens,” and “girl men” to “pimps”, “pushers,” and “serial criminals.”
“Neurotic Society is a song about people not being, or not being able to be, who and what they truly are, due to the current social construct,” Hill writes. Sounds good so far, right?
She continues:
“The world we live in now is, in many
ways, an abhorrent distortion, an accumulation of generations and
generations of response to negative stimuli.
Many don’t even have a
concept of what normal is, by virtue of having lived afraid, ashamed, as
victims of abuse, or inadequately handled for so long. I believe in
coming up from under that fear and allowing the psyche/soul to truly
heal.
I understand that healing is a process, but I also believe that it
is our responsibility to seriously care for ourselves, so that we can
extend that level of concern for others and positively affect our
environment.”
“Everyone has a right to their own beliefs,” she continues. “Although I do not necessarily agree with what everyone says or does, I do believe in everyone’s right to protest.”
Right. You have fun protesting from a jail cell, honey!
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