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Fast Car

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A song discussed as having lesbian themes and romanticism, with a cover by Luke Combs that is criticized as strange given the original's queer subtext.

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"When I asked him where even learned the lyrics he said it was his ex's favourite song and she taught him. Sometimes he sings it to remember the times they had together. After that he started tearing up and shaking talking about how much he missed her and how his life feels empty without her (they br"
Just saw my friend cry for the first time last night · u/fastbus2018 · ↑175 · 2024-03-17
"The success of Luke Combs' "Fast Car" cover spawned a ton of idiotic discourse about gatekeeping Black Queer music or how Tracy Chapman was unfairly barred from country (never even a part of it to begin with)."
Leave country music alone. My culture is not your costume. · u/Cherry_Alert · ↑166 · 2024-02-14
"all of the romanticism of that song comes from that song comes from the pretence that the singer is a wlw. a fat white man singing about how his daddy drinks too much is just pathetic also the whole premise about wanting to skip yr small town where nobody understands you is such a big lesbian cliche"
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