Little Big Town Responds After 'Girl Crush' Was Pulled From Radios due to 'Gay Agenda'
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Karen Fairchild and her bandmates get support from pop radios and fellow country musicians like Dierks Bentley after country radios yanked off their song.

AceShowbiz - Little Big Town addressed controversies regarding their single "Girl Crush" about a woman who is jealous of her ex's new girlfriend. The group broke their silence after numerous country radios across the country pulled the song following complaints about "gay agenda" in the lyrics.

The lyrics are, "I want to taste her lips, yeah cause they taste like you/ I want to drown myself in a bottle of her perfume/ I want her long blond hair, I want her magic touch/ Yeah cause maybe then, you'd want me just as much ... I got a girl crush."

"The fact that country music is built on heartache songs and jealousy songs, this is like a modern day version of 'Jolene', and people just need to listen to it," the band's singer Karen Fairchild said in an interview with country radio host Bobby Bones.

"I will speak out against my own industry right now and say this is a bunch of crap," Bones said. "It shouldn't even matter if it's a lesbian song!"

He was not the only supporting the country band as "radio stations have been posting photos of themselves in their Girl Crush hats. Pop stations are spinning it out of curiosity," guitarist Jimi Westbrook said in a separate chat with USA Today.

"The great thing is that whatever brought people to listen to the song, they're connecting with it," he continued. "If you love something, you should speak up about it more. Because if you don't, the voice of the person complaining will be louder than yours."

Support also came from fellow country star Dierks Bentley. "When I heard that song, I never even thought about it being about a girl crush or a lesbian [romance]. And when I thought about it that way, I liked it even more," he told The Huffington Post.

"I have so much respect for Little Big Town and [producer] Jay Joyce ... to take chances like that and keep the genre going and moving, it requires bold artists. The song being pulled is probably one of the best things that could happen to them," he went on. "Like when Garth Brooks' 'The Thunder Rolls' got banned from CMT for being too edgy."

He also likened it to Miranda Lambert's song, "She's always cutting songs that are a little edgier, like 'Gunpowder & Lead,' about shooting down this guy who's getting out of jail for beating you up, you know? You keep pushing down that wall and eventually the fans will demand it and push for those changes."

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