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Article: Welcome to Woop Woop. (original soundtrack)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- April 14, 1998
- Author:
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Various artists, original sound track (Universal)
What is it with gay men and women cover versions? We dance all night to taste-questionable disco interpretations of musical evergreens and current hits. We buy albums like k.d.lang's Drag that are chock-full of oldies. We swoon when Babs and Bette diva-tize standards. And we fill the sound tracks of our movies with contemporized show tunes, camp classics, and tragic homo anthems. We love to hear straight culture rewritten the gay way.
Stephan Elliott's new film, Welcome to Woop Woop, isn't exactly a queer movie. But as a follow up to his 1994 hit comedy, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, ...