Melissa Etheridge: Comes To Our Window

LGBTQ&A

Jeffrey Masters

Society & Culture

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The iconic singer talks about how not being publicly out affected her songwriting, never hiding her sexuality from those in the music industry, and what it was like to go back and listen to her 30-year-old demos. (Melissa Etheridge's new album One Way Out is available now.) LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters and produced by The Advocate magazine, in partnership with GLAAD. Come find us on Twitter @lgbtqpod.

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:07.0	Hi, Dad. This is your official podcast debut.
0:11.0	Are you excited?
0:12.0	I am. I am very excited.
0:14.0	Okay, amazing. So when I was doing research for my interview with Melissa Etheridge,
0:18.0	I found a text that you sent to me. Let me pull it up.
0:21.6	This is dated March 28th, 2020.
0:25.0	It says,
0:25.9	Do I recall hearing that you love Melissa Etheridge?
0:28.9	I just heard an incredible song from her called Like the Way I Do.
0:33.4	And then it goes on to say,
0:34.8	It's got the most incredible rock beat in a driving song that just doesn't quit.
0:40.2	I had to look it up, exclamation point.
0:42.2	Do you know it?
0:43.1	And then I said, yes, I love her.
0:45.0	That's one of her classics, for sure, exclamation point.
0:47.9	It's been a bit, but do you remember this text?
0:50.7	When you read the text, I was like, oh my goodness, that is that song.
0:54.0	Because it goes on forever, I was just telling you.
0:56.0	But in a car and I turn it up and everything like this, now I can recall that.
1:01.0	It's such a big song of hers, and I loved it.
1:03.0	I just loved it, yes.
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