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Culture Club Encore Tour at Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Sunday 11 December 2016. Culture Club headlined the show after support bands Wa Wa Nee, Pseudo Echo, Eurogliders and Real Life performed their sets. Photo Ros O'Gorman

Culture Club Encore Tour at Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Sunday 11 December 2016. Culture Club headlined the show after support bands Wa Wa Nee, Pseudo Echo, Eurogliders and Real Life performed their sets. Photo Ros O'Gorman

Boy George Covers Village People

by Roger Wink, VVN Music on June 22, 2017

in News

The song YMCA is a novelty, a crowd pleaser and a great piece of nostalgia, but nobody ever said it was a great ballad until now.

Boy George has covered the song for a campaign by the YMCA Australia to raise awareness of “issues young people are facing today” and brings in a chorus of teens to sing along on the piece.

The campaign, called “Why Not?”, addresses subjects as diverse as same sex marriage and lack of jobs for youth.

It’s 2017 and some Australians still can’t marry the person they love…Why Not?

When there are no jobs for a career you’ve spend years studying for…Why Not?

No one is screaming that one in four young Australians has a mental health condition…Why Not?

Boy George told the Guardian Australia that he didn’t want to simply remake the song. He wanted to reimagine it. “I thought I would give it a give a jazzy tone – but not too much Ethel Merman.”

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