History HoYay / Music

*** Eminem loves to represent himself and Dre as ''the'' iconic slash pairings from fandom history. In the video for "Without Me", and in the lyrics of numerous songs from ''Music/TheEminemShow'' onwards, they're represented as ComicBook/{{Batman}} and Robin (famously, so gay that [[UsefulNotes/ComicsCode they caused a moral panic]]). In the video for "We Made You", they dress as [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Kirk and Spock]] (the pairing that created the term 'slash'). In the 2022 Super Bowl promo, Eminem is shown crafting rhymes in midair in a Series/{{Sherlock}}-esque mind-palace before ditching it at a text from Dre (which he [[{{Gasp}} bugs out]] about), implying Johnlock.

* Pick a Johnny's Jimusho BoyBand. Any one. They roll around all over each other in music videos, they feed each other, they dance on rainbows, they dress up as gay cowboys in spandex, kiss each other, cross dress in skimpy skirts for each-others birthdays, sleep together, go on vacations together where no one can see what they do, are intimately familiar with the size of each other's [[IncrediblyLamePun juniors]]...

-->'''Q Magazine:''' Dom, you’ve been hit by Matt’s flying guitars before. What measures do you take to protect yourself from his ‘theatrics’?
-->'''Dom:''' My reflexes have become a lot quicker. I had stitches in my eye once after he cut it. And a tetanus injection…

* Music/{{Rush}} has Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee. Been friends since junior high, extremely affectionate and goofy around one another. There are pictures of Geddy attempting to kiss Alex on the cheek (and getting rejected, but still), of Geddy sitting on Alex's lap... yeeeah.

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* Music/{{Coldplay}}'s Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland (pictured atop this page) fit this trope to a T. [[http://i35.tinypic.com/wbw07m.jpg They've kissed many times.]] [[http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb122/Frimples04/qawardsboards28ho0.jpg Many, many times.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVVfMFS3mgc Heart Attack]] by Korean girl group [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/LOONA LOONA]] was received as a lesbian love story. LOONA's 10th member, Chuu, pines over LOONA's 9th member, Yves. In the video, she does everything she can think of to get Yves' attention. She takes photos of her, listens to her song, copies her dance moves, and gives her increasingly larger apples to try to win her affection. While all this happens, she sings very lovey-dovey lyrics, such as "this must be what falling in love is / dipped you inside my white heart, made it red." To put the cherry on top of this very gay cake, the description of the video explicitly states that Chuu is in love with Yves.

* The music video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HasaQvHCv4w Dancing in the Street]]" with David Bowie and Mick Jagger.

** It is quite arguable that EveryoneIsBi applies, whether it's just their being the UrExample of VisualKei FanService (having themselves invented Visual Kei), or that one or more members were/are bisexual for real. Yoshiki/hide, Yoshiki/Toshi, Taiji/Yoshiki, Taiji/hide, Taiji/Pata, Pata/hide, Pata/Heath, and hide/Heath are all arguable to various degrees. If you're writing FanFic, you might even find yourself doing a LoveDodecahedron or an {{orgy}}. [[GroupieBrigade And of course they all like girls too.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Maybe they're doing it for fans?]]

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* Music/OneDirection is full of this trope. A lot of fans think that Harry and Louis are romantically involved,due to the high level of Bromance between them. Although this pairing (known as [[PortmanteauCoupleName Larry Stylinson]] by some fans) is the most popular, all of the band members have been shipped with each other at some point or another. This results in a whole range of different [=OTPs=] that shippers support: Zayn/Niall, Zayn/Liam, Niall/Liam, Zayn/Harry, Harry/Niall, Liam/Louis, etc.

** While speaking of Gorillaz... It's [[http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Gorillaz+Visits+Fuse+TV+3VMErpY33Jml.jpg incredibly]] [[http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Gorillaz+Visits+Fuse+TV+DEe-0m3xgIHl.jpg hard]] [[http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Gorillaz+Visits+Fuse+TV+xL3yFbqtOvhl.jpg to]] [[http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Gorillaz+Visits+Fuse+TV+M6m5NXoToKVl.jpg see]] [[http://i37.tinypic.com/xdwhnp.jpg these]] [[http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3o6xlWuJu1qbmdoyo1_400.jpg photos]] of Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn and not think HoYay. Not for you? Then we have [[http://i35.tinypic.com/288114.jpg this]] and [[http://i34.tinypic.com/2u7oa52.jpg this]]. It doesn't help that they're not even [[FaceOfTheBand Faces Of The Band]], and have conversations like those:

* The All-American Rejects' music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxUATkpMQ8A Give You Hell]] plays out like a break-up between Tyson Ritter and... [[TalkingToHimself Tyson Ritter]].

* Music/SnowPatrol's Gary Lightbody often unashamedly flirts with bandmates (usually Johnny or Colm) during concerts.

** Not to mention that John was probably bisexual anyway. He had a brief affair with their manager, Brian Epstein, who was gay and partly hired the Beatles because he was so enamored with John. They took a trip to Spain together, were Brian gave John a hand-job.

** Music/JohnLennon wrote the song "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away", supposedly about the fact that Brian Epstein was homosexual (at the time, homosexuality was a crime in the U.K.). However, some people interpret the song as having subtext about Epstein having romantic feelings for Lennon.

** On a similar note, "Oh! Darling," in which the singer desperately begs his darling not to leave him, declares that he'll never make it alone, and laments not being needed anymore, seems more likely to have been borne from the pain and sense of rejection Paul felt when he was replaced as John's partner by Yoko rather than his relationship (and by the time of the recording, new marriage) with Linda.
** Could be considered petty, but in the song "Goodbye" Paul Mccartney sings "Far away my lover sings a lonely song and calls me to his side". Emphasis on the his, naturally. He wrote the song for Mary Hopkin I believe, so that would be why, but it's a little interesting that he either is forgetting to change the lyric or is just singing it straight. Then again there are a lot of instances of men singing songs from a female point of view.

** And they're, well, ''named Queen''.

*** Yoko Ono even said that she thought John had been in love with Paul at some point. Also according to her, the people who worked at Apple Studios referred to Paul as "Lennon's Princess." [[http://community.livejournal.com/johnheartpaul/1620402.html#cutid1 Their body language in pictures can suggest something between them, too.]] And face it, the break up of the Beatles largely seemed to be due to a huge love square between Yoko, John, Paul and Linda.

*** There's also that the fandoms ship name [[PortmanteauCoupleName McLennon]] was apprently coined by John himself on a [[https://78.media.tumblr.com/bf0f5cef832aac6a4ea482aa219d4735/tumblr_o7phy3Yssf1rutgtno1_500.jpg comical postcard featuring two men running off toghether after a wedding, complete with the spurned bride in the background]], wich he sent to Ringo [[https://78.media.tumblr.com/330742dbe5a4f82094a798b146eebf9d/tumblr_o7phy3Yssf1rutgtno2_500.jpg and signed 'the McLennon']].