Are these lyrics gay?

Does it matter?

If he actually would be than congrats for your accidantal comming out

And if he is hetero than its ok too

because why should you care? You are not him

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It's unheard of for kpop idols to express same-sex love

You ever heard of Holland?

I don't know the song but I reading the lyrics makes 'boy' sounds like an interjection. Like when someone says 'boy is it hot in here !'

But Idk, english isn't my first language.

It’s most likely some lines kept from the original demo. That’s what I’ll guess.

But I think if people want to interpret it in certain way they should do it. Art is always up for interpretation. Regardless of the original intent.

And we will never hear the original intent if it was LGBT anyway. So interpret away I say!

I'm pretty sure he wants the person to tell him "boy, I can't let you go" and it could be a boy or a girl.

I don't know who is he talking to, a boy or a girl, but he is telling them to say to him that they can't let him go.

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hmmm I don't think so? Because he writes his own raps, but you could be right. I think people can see it however they want. Like with GIDLE's song Oh my god, where they sing about a girl. Some see it as lesbian, some don't.

Even when you write your stuff some hook lines are often kept from the original demo because it flows better.

Lyrics are words, they don't have a sexual preference. The true discussion is two-fold, it's the intent that the writer had behind the words, and it's the way the listener interprets them.

For the writer's intent, it's hard to say unless they actually tell us.

For the listener's interpretation, that's a heavily personal thing and can vary from listener to listener. Take from it whatever you want to take from it, because that's how you feel.

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I don't know the song but I reading the lyrics makes 'boy' sounds like an interjection. Like when someone says 'boy is it hot in here !'

But Idk, english isn't my first language.

I guess there are multiple interpretations but that's actually the one I thought initially, and I'm a native English speaker. 'Boy' is often used as an interjection/exclamation in English without referring to an actual boy, and 'man' can also be used like that too. Because Ateez and some other groups have been consistently praised for using gender neutral language in their songs to be inclusive, why would Hongjoong really use it in the gendered way like he's referring to someone else?

On the other hand, maybe 'boy' is actually referring to himself? Like, "tell me baby, 'boy, I can't let you go' ", so he wants them to tell him that. In that case, the listener is still neutral, which is consistent with how they usually operate.

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Hongjoong actually wrote a song for their new album, the song is called All about you, and in that song he included the word "girl"

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oh okay . I feel my interpretation is still the second theory I mentioned because of the specific context, though