One Direction’s Liam Payne officially dropped his debut album LP1 on Friday, but not everyone’s happy about it.
Payne has received blowback for the tenth track on the album, “Both Ways,” which details a sexual encounter with a man and two women. Some fans feel it fetishizes bisexuality in the lyrics:
Lovin’ the way that she’s turning you on
Switching the lanes like a Bugatti Sport
Nothing but luck that she got me involved, yeah.
Payne is being accused of perpetuating passé stereotypes often attached bisexual people, particularly bisexual women. Many have taken to Twitter to voice their annoyance using the hashtag #liampayneisoverparty.
my sexuality is not your fuccking fetish, I'm disgusted how straight people still think bi women (and bi people in general) are only worth your sex fantasies, fucck off if you still support him after this #liampayneisoverparty pic.twitter.com/5XZJtNBi1c
— ? (@eternallyjinmin) December 6, 2019
https://twitter.com/Ietgomp4/status/1203003269452189696
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Stop sexualizing bi people!! We aren't your toys, honey. #liampayneisoverparty pic.twitter.com/oqzjGsDz9x
— mac (@BeaXtra) December 7, 2019
I am a bisexual woman, I want to be accepted For being bi, not fetishized! #liampayneisoverparty?
— Rachel ?? (@anotherJewess) December 7, 2019
https://twitter.com/ciaraellen_/status/1203326667760001024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1203326667760001024&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.teenvogue.com%2Fstory%2Ffans-accuse-liam-payne-fetishizing-bisexuality-new-song-both-ways
https://twitter.com/annabellehnet/status/1203128537139613696
#liampayneisoverparty we don’t stan men using bisexual women as objects for their pleasure. bisexuals wanting threesomes is the worst fucking stereotype stop being so biphobic my god
— bisexual of the day / blm and acab (@bioftheday) December 7, 2019
it’s okay he was my least favorite member anyway #liampayneisoverparty pic.twitter.com/zRUvmI9viF
— ? (@jjangbbinzz) December 7, 2019
Even Tyler Oakley got into the #liampayneisoverparty, tweeting: “bitch, i warned y’all years ago! lmao.”
bitch, i warned y'all years ago! lmao #liampayneisoverparty pic.twitter.com/uGYZI0oD4L
— tyler oakley // schedule pinned (@tyleroakley) December 6, 2019
Payne has yet to address the controversy. On Friday, he performed a surprise concert at London’s Omeara Nightclub. Afterwards, he thanked fans for supporting his album, writing: “Blown away by this reaction already! Thanks to everyone that’s picked up the album so far, your support doesn’t go unnoticed.”
Blown away by this reaction already! Thanks to everyone that’s picked up the album so far, your support doesn’t go unnoticed ?? #LP1 pic.twitter.com/G7SpF0SdVG
— Liam (@LiamPayne) December 6, 2019
Josh447
Does anyone else here consistently almost every time, have their comments go into moderation review mode and not get printed, and then you have to copy paste and submit again to possibly go into moderation mode again, and then maybe the third time the comment actually gets printed? Could it be to get extra clicks? It’s been this way for what seems like forever and is quite annoying. This is the only click site that does this. This is my third attempt at posting this comment.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Of course my reply to your comment about moderation was moderated!!!
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PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Absolutely it’s maddening! I can never figure out which words trigger the moderation mode. Some of the words on a Gay site are actually inane. Such as. P*enis. or c*ock.
However I give Queerty kudos for still allowing you to post without having to use a Facebook or Google account. I have been posting here pretty much since the sites inception on ’05 and it’s pretty much the only site that still doesn’t require all your posts to be monitored by those companies. And the ability to alter your post for five minutes after is absolutely unheard of….
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Josh447
Uhg! Thx for your feedback PLAYS.
The words in my content in my comments are always benign but I still go through this headache every time unless the comment is under say three sentences then it seems to be just fine. But something of any length seems to get jammed. I did quite a long post last night but after 4 attempts I just gave up. Really not sure what the problem is but again thanks for verifying I’m not the only one.
RIGay
YES!!! Meanwhile, “HotSoccerMoms” who want to share a link so you can earn up to $5000 a week working from home gets through every time.
Catholicslutbox
Dude is a known homophobe. Why you’ll acting all surprised?
GymMan456
Oh – I didn’t think we had moderators at all. Those recurrent spam ads had me think so. And i have not experienced to be sent to any moderation wait.
Heywood Jablowme
This is what happens when you need more than One Direction!
Donston
I don’t mean to sound misogynistic, but a lot of the issues bi/pan/fluid identifying cis women complain about come off as rather shallow. They already represent the majority of the “lgbtq community”. Women in general already dominate sexual and identity politics, which forces men, no matter where they fall on the overall spectrum, to fall in line. Cis women already have a ton of privilege compared to the rest of the “queer community”. While most bi identifying women don’t have legit relationships beyond cis males, or they eventually move on to and stick with cis males. (Yeah, I went there). Most bi identifying women don’t even give a shit about being “fetishized”. This is mostly a social media thing.
So, many men find women getting it on hot. Hell, a lot of women find men getting it on hot and are starting to aggressively fetishize male homo behaviors. (I’ve encountered more than a handful of those women). Yet, there’s not much griping about that. We don’t even see much social media outrage around “queer males” who fetishize “straight” guys or men who persistently indulge bi behaviors, and place those guys on pedestals and view them as superior. That is pretty wide spread. Yes, the lyrics are douche-y. But they’re not anything beyond douche-y and juvenile. I also refuse to care about this since most “gay media” and social media just chose to ignore all his other problematic sh*t from before. Yet, as soon as he sings about finding girls getting it on hot it becomes all about identity politics and victim-hood.
Donston
Having said all this, I do find bi identities and bi behaviors often presented as overly sexualized and fetishized, and there is a lot of trying to appeal to straight/overall hetero-leaning people. But a lot of that is the fault of bi identifying people.
rustyiam
Another boring long winded post and if that wasn’t enough you had to then post more!
Hussain-TheCanadian
Hey hey hey I enjoy reading Donston’s posts, stay in your lane rusty, want me to send you a colouring book??
UlfRaynor
This is the second time I’m actually gonna agree with you Donston.
This is just pure sex shaming.
My husband is bi and before we met had several threesome (and moresomes) with other gay, bi men and women.
I’m not even going to get into how many str8, bi and gay men I’ve had sex with (both singularly and in groups)
There is absolutely nothing wrong with two or more people enjoying sex together.
Josh447
ULFRAYNOR,
Are you a man or woman?
Doctor Benway
Aaaaaah, social medias, never loose an occasion to get scandalized…
The lyrics are douchy and clichés but not more than the rest of hip-hop or rnb songs who sexualized women. And Liam has maybe some questionable friends but I don’t really think he is homophobic, he never said anything homophobic (liking family values doesn’t make him homophobic, not very clever maybe).
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Hey Queerts, how’s about ya just stop posting any threads about this smcubag??
This is the repugnant little puke who defended that disgusting filthy abhorrent hilbilly Phil Robinson who likened Gay sex to beastility. Payne tweeted out supporting Robinson’s “family values”
We are not pathetic panting puppets who are supposed to gush over a noxious puke just because he is hot…..
UlfRaynor
Yeah, he looked so homophobic helping Tom Daley get a Christmas tree for his home to put up for his and Dustin Lance Blacks little boy Robbie.
You’d think a big homophobic bigot like him wouldn’t spend so much time being besties with a married same sex couple.
judysdad
The state of the perpetually offended.
RIGay
Honestly… I don’t think I ever cared about this person, or if I did, I stopped a LOOONG time ago.
Donston
I will admit that he’s the best looking of the bunch. Too bad he’s the most basic and problematic and corny.
brandon47240
HOLY JESUS CHRIST. People need to calm the hell down already. Jesus he mentioned something turned him on. HOW DARE HE!!! Ooooo he mentioned he likes blond hair……… STOP FETISHIZING MY HAIR
Toofie
Every day is a new twitter outrage. It’s gotten so silly, sillier for article on these nothings.
GymMan456
Wow – how he opened shipping containers of worms.
I have absolutely no other feelings than disgust for these offended persons.
They dare call his lyrics for fetishism. That’s just degradation and discrimination, and a denial of his sexuality.
Further they behave as they have some kind of copyright to bisexuality, which I find very surprising.
How could they even get this idea that they solely shall control the way bisexuality is expressed?
They show tyranny and fascist behavior. Not sexy at all.
Yooper
It must be exhausting to live in a state of eternal offendedness.
michel_banen
It’s just a line in a song that obviously has to be taken as some fantasy lyrics. People get offended so easily these days. If the lyrics were “I cut a tree to built a fire” some enviromental activists would have been offfended.
GentlemanCaller
“People” are pissed? What–six professional outrage-fetishists on Twitter looked really hard and found something they could be Deeply OffendedTM by? Stop this nonsense.
Chris
Honestly, who gives a flying füçk. I’m gay and if someone came out with a song about a gay three way I wouldn’t be offended and scream “being gay does equate to three ways” (well, ok….sometimes when you find the right third, but still). Everyone needs to get over themselves. Good lord.
justgeo
Too much $$$ on Ink I don’t care what kinda fluids he is looking for. Go take an acid bath first!!!