Victor Willis, Village People lead singer, dies at 74
Trump on "YMCA": "It became a 'monster' hit, again, 30 years after its original launch" ("YMCA" was released 48 years ago ... )
Rick Havoc60He actually hates music. And has no pets. That should tell you everything.
Randy Herman43Fascinating that Trump is so fixated on this ancient gay anthem
Canadian Zingbot38This song is forever ruined for me. Can't hear it without a mental image of Trump's giraffes jerk dance moves.
Mitch King30For those he hates: a tweet celebrating their death. For those he likes: a tweet celebrating himself and how grateful and lucky the deceased were to have crossed paths with him.
Murph Wellington25Taking credit for the popularity of YMCA is demented
Charlie Shain19Also, I think he still hasn’t figured out what that song is about.
Ian Miles Schlong18Trump is a demented child molester who has serious cognitive problems. He cannot be trusted to lead the nation. Impeach and euthanize today.
Zoe 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈8He really is one of those people who think if he's heard of it for the first time it must be new
Paul Arnheim-Projekt5TY @atrupar.com! This isn't an obituary. The tasteless and repulsive #orangeDecibyte cares only about itself. It even abuses someone's death to indulge its narcissism. Getting the release date of YMCA wrong is the least of its errors. #Boycott the men's #FIFAWorldcup and #resist to #saveDemocracy!
Vandy, C.A.5I’m less concerned that the guy whose dementia makes him think it’s 1982 doesn’t know when that song came out does he know it’s a gay anthem about guys hooking up at the local christian men’s club? has he listened to the lyrics (I know he can’t read)
Anu4Nothing says “rest in peace” quite like bragging about your own crowd sizes in the middle of a eulogy.
scarylawyerguy.bsky.social4Would not at all shock me if Trump orders flags to be flown at half staff 🙃
Tex Ramone3so this is how I'm finding out that Victor Willis of The Village People died reminder that Willis initially objected to Trump using YMCA in 2020, but after the incident generated a bunch of royalty money for him, Willis backtracked and said he didn't have a problem with it anymore
MB3It was a gay anthem which trump still refuses to believe. He just turned the death of the maga guy from the Village People into a story about himself.
2ndborn.bsky.social2Trump and his gay anthems... Does he know that Victor is Black?
Nana Kim2Being unmoored in time and space is a deficit common in dementia patients Expect it to get worse. There is no cure.
Victor Willis, the lead singer of the 1970’s disco group Village People and co-writer of “Y.M.C.A” and “Macho Man,” has died at 74
Stretch Cunningham26It's unfortunate his very last chapter in life was to perform at Trump's pre-inauguration rally.
F'Arte Moreno10Sorry, but this man ruined his legacy by choosing to associate with trump YMCA, and Macho Man were wedding staples no matter what ethnicity or race, but now it’s a MAGA anthem
Ursa Minor9This guy insisted to his last breath that YMCA is not a gay anthem and it's just about guys hanging out with their buds
LeDonne Essential7He was a MAGA chud. Dude performed the song at Trump's pre-inauguration rally in January 2025.
Lee Kayfabe5Sad how they ruined everyone's memory of them.
Mike Billips5RIP. One way I am able to amaze my younger friends is by relating to them the fact that the Village People were super popular when I was in high school for at least a year before we found out they were gay. That’s how closeted and clueless rural America was in the ‘70s.
Philippe Auclair25National day of mourning decreed by Trump?
geesejuggler.bsky.social6Feels fitting that he held out until the end of Pride
Love, Brandon B. 🏳️🌈6So can the Village People be gay again? jw
Genial Black Man5Trump is having him buried on his golf course next to his ex-wife
adrian5trump’s going to request flags lowered to half-mast
Zak Wolf (a.k.a. Sam Valentino)4Oh, man! I still remember at Anthro New England 2018 when I dressed my Big Bad Wolf fursuit like a sea captain (for the con's "To the Sea" theme and went around playing my 45 of "In the Navy!"
Patrick Stuart Sutcliffe4So… now is as good a time as any for a deep dive into the complicated queer history of the Village People
🇨🇩 we love you people of drc 🇨🇩4people are in the quotes acting like just because this dude performed for trump, trump is magically somehow not still racist af and will "honor" him 😑
David Darmofal4I'm sorry to hear of his passing. Great songs. The gay subtext completely flew over my head as a kid.
The Dude of Some 🇺🇦3🎶Yeah he's six feet under, on the way to the morgue, just stiff as a board, because he's D.E.A.D. He won't sing again because he's D.E.A.D.🎶
Victor Willis, lead singer and last remaining original member of The Village People just died. Of course Trump is making it all about himself.
Aaron Woofter730 years? YMCA was released in 1996? Time for your nappy poo old man
NJTrainDelays630 years? Try 47 you senile dotard
BlueMonkeyBoy5Randy Jones is still alive, he was the original "Cowboy" character of Village People.
Niels 💙 Resist! 🐸✊️ Never bend the knee! 🚫👑2Did JD visit Victor Willis?
Agora016191Victor initially told Trump not to use his song. The propaganda never stops.
Victor Willis, co-founder and lead singer of the Village People, has died. Willis also co-wrote many of the group's classic hits, including "Y.M.C.A.," which was added to the National Recording Registry in 2020.
PBS News22He often performed hits like "In the Navy" and "Macho Man" in a police uniform or a naval officer's outfit. The group's music remains a staple at proms, weddings and LGBTQ marches, among others. More recently, their songs have become a staple at President Donald Trump's rallies.
olehippynudist.bsky.social2I never really cared for the village people Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Bad Company, Forgiener, Fleetwood Mac, Black Sabbath, Linda Rodstad To many great artists to get wrapped up in a one hit wonder like the village people
HIGH DESERT JAZZ1Talk about turncoat. To go from eternal, all time, top of the heap, GAY ANTHEM to letting that homophobic, racist rapist use it as his rallying cry for hate, bigotry and evil. How did he ever look his gay brothers and sisters in the eye again?!?
2change.bsky.social1Trump must be really sad. the lead singer of his favorite gay song. 😞
Singer Victor Willis, front man of disco group the Village People, has died at age 74. Willis co-wrote many of the group's biggest hits, including "YMCA" and "In the Navy." https://cnn.it/4p2kgkL
Lady Liberty5It’s a shame his music was co-opted by pedophile who dances like a hand job
Elo2Wait until Trump finds out that a black man wrote his favorite song!
We’re All Underreacting2Breaking: America 250 fair headliner drops out
The Original Raven Storm🌬️2Magats and the orange plague's cult members are the only ones who care 🤨.
Andygriscom.bsky.social1Will be the first Village Person to lay in state.
Jasper J. Jaspers1Eerie coincidence that he dies right as Pride Month ends
Trump: Village People singer Victor Willis is dead at 74. He was a great and happy guy who loved that I used his groups song, YMCA, at my Rallies. It became a “monster” hit, again, 30 years after its original launch
the tomato from upstairs18...And you ignored all his cease and desist efforts because he actually doesn't like you.
The Man from Urkle14And here’s betting trump never paid him a penny
Free7Always got to be something about himself.
Christina the Liberal Texan6also it's been 50 years not 30.
Serendipity5I am speechless ..how this guy can make the death of someone and make it all about himself
Emil3How come he always have to say how big a crowd there were. Does he think people doubt it? 🤔
Trump Mourns Village People Singer While Taking Credit for Making ‘YMCA’ a Hit Again. It's always about Trump - even the death of another person. Trump is a cancer! www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...
Melissa Mermaid 2The song became a hit in 1978 ... So it's nearly 50 years ago, not 30. But he's rarely accurate. It just depends on how easily he can utilize Norman Peale's Neuro Linguistic programming techniques to convince the willfully ignorant. And Cohn's mob techniques to steal food off our tables.
Tom Shafer2He always has to make it about himself.🤬
Rbtec2Correction: Trump is simply a tumor. The cancer is the GOP.
Only one of many. 2He still doesn’t realize that we laugh at him dancing to it. He’s made it a mockery. It used to be a standard at weddings. I never hear it anymore.
Lead singer and founding member of the Village People, Victor Willis, has died at the age of 74. The band and Willis's wife announced he had died of a "short but aggressive illness" on Tuesday, June 30th. people.com/victor-willi...
Je Suis Pen Monster1He could have gone out as a musical legend but he just had to soil his and the band's legacy by denying the gayness, and sucking up to the orange boil.
Linda Oswald1Some good music in the 70's. May he rest in peace.🙏
ScruffyR (NO LISTS!)1So will they be singing MCA now? While they were more of a flash in the pan group they did get us up & dancing. RIP
RIP Victor Willis — the man who wrote YMCA, performed it at Trump's inauguration, insisted it wasn't a gay anthem, and died on his 75th birthday. The song lives on, still playing at rallies, still meaning exactly what everyone thinks it means. Rest well. www.bbc.com/news/article...
recyclotronix.bsky.social3These pricks played at Trumps inauguration. They’re all dead to me.
No Wingnuts Allowed2I mean, come on, "The Village People"? Gives it right away.
Howard A. Smith PhD2It's called the "intentional fallacy." RIP Victor, but your song was never about what you wrote. It was always about what we heard.
Victor Willis, the lead singer of the 1970’s disco-group Village People, has died, his team say. He was 74.
prosseco-greens.bsky.social7Oh that’s the dude that said the YMCA wasn’t a gay pride anthem, after 4 decades of it being a gay pride anthem right?
PaulJOrlando6People really don’t want to play at that stupid fair, do they?
Which Witch R U 🏳️🌈1He left the group to try a solo career, which failed, so then rejoined the group when trump started using their gay anthem, which he then insisted wasn’t a gay anthem after literal decades of it being a gay anthem 🥴 Tots and pears.
President Donald Trump eulogized Victor Willis, the founding lead singer of the Village People and co-writer of disco anthems including "YMCA," "Macho Man" and "In the Navy," by boasting about his own popularity.
Ms HummingWay1"Many singers and groups wanted to get on board"❓🤣 (I've only heard abt the ones who have sued him.) I turn the sound down, if I know he's going to make an entrance (and dance 🙄). I'm always sorry, if I hear any part of the song -- bc it sticks in the head. Good "in the day", but not now. 😁
Daytona Slim1MAGA loves disco but hates black folks and gay people… Kinda sums up MAGA as a whole.
We F’ing Told You So 🏳️🌈1Because he only care about himself. Always, everything is all about him.
Victor Willis, lead singer of the disco group Village People whose hit "YMCA" became a fixture at rallies for US President Donald Trump, has died, his spouse said in a Facebook post. He was 74. 📸 Kevin Winter / Getty / AFP
TheBossRoss 🧶4Victor Willis founded Village People & co-wrote all of their hits. He was a successful musical & play performer, incl in the original Broadway production of The Wiz. He battled & beat long-term drug addiction, was married twice & died a day before his 75th birthday. Not everything is about Trump.
elruben.bsky.social1Rest in Peace Victor Willis