Macho, Macho Man

Village People - "Macho Man" (1978) - Casablanca Records

Hello Friends,

If listening to The Village People doesn't put you in a good mood, you're incapable of being in a good mood!

Clocking in at under 28 minutes, Macho Man is the Village People's second album and like all their classic records was produced by French disco wunderkind, Jacques Morali.

Side One contains the title track blending seamlessly into the epic (gay) anthem, "I Am What I Am". 

To be honest, it sounds amazing.  

If Tiki T. and I were adults in 1978 we probably would have hated The Village People and pretty much all of disco with every fiber of our beings.  But listening to this manufactured, overproduced, hyper-sexualized dance music over 30 years later is a real sonic treat!  

Side Two continues the party with "Key West", a disco medley of "Just A Gigolo"/"I Ain't Got Nobody" & "Sodom & Gomorrah".

From those song titles, to the cover art and the lyrics throughout, this might be the most overtly and outwardly gay record in our record collection!  Our main question is, how the hell did anyone not immediately realize that The Village People were a collective of (mostly) gay guys catering specifically to a predominantly gay audience?  

Even Disneyland Records released a parody called "Macho Duck" just a year later!  We're going to assume that the Donald Duck had no idea of exactly what he was parodying at the time!  

Man, can you imagine a gay Donald Duck?

RATING: 4 every man wants to be a macho man to have the kind of body always in demand out of 5