Thanks to everyone for the millions of tweets I got about this new LeAnn Rimes interview. I always enjoy being included in the LeAnn Loop(y). Anyway, yes, LeAnn gave a new interview to PrideSource, which is basically supposed to be naked pandering to a gay audience so they will hopefully pick up her stupid “dance” album, Dance Like You Don’t Give A…. You can read the full piece here, and here are some highlights:
Going to gay clubs, performing to gay crowds: “Yeah, it’s so much more fun to me, and it’s also kind of selfish – you go there and have all these sweet men who are like, “We love you!”… It’s different when you go into a place with thousands of gay men. The one thing I think we have in common is non-judgment. The last thing you wanna do is be judged. And the last thing I wanna be is judged, especially when I’m performing, so for me the most freeing experience was that.”
Gay men love Eddie? “Yes. I’ve always said that Eddie and I are a gay man’s wet dream. I sing, you can look at him, and it’s perfect.”
Whether Eddie ever gets hit on when she brings him to gay clubs: “I don’t think that’s ever happened, but I’ve definitely watched him get looked up and down in every way, shape or form … so yeah, basically hit on. It’s hysterical seeing these guys freak out over him. For me, I laugh so hard, because Eddie is really pretty cool about it all, but sometimes he can be shy and uncomfortable, and I love to see him in that element. It’s completely not his element, but he knows how to work it.”
She honestly thinks the VH1 show will shut down criticism: “With the new show on VH1, and these eight episodes that we filmed, you really do get to see the story that is us and not some soap opera that people have made up because it sells magazines. And it’s hard to sit back and not be combative about it, but there’s so much and only so many times you can say, ‘That’s a lie,’ because it all is. To be able to take control of it in a way and laugh about it, which we do, has become very much a coping mechanism. So, with the show, the tide is turning, thank goodness, and it makes it harder for people to go, ‘Oh my god, they’re horrible people,’ but to maybe stop and think for a minute. I’m hoping with the show the conversation will turn back to music, because we’re like, ‘OK, chapter closed.’
The third party: “I think my whole life is really just a misconception. Like I said, we have been drug through so much and portrayed whatever way they (the press) feel works for them that week – and also, there has been a third party (Brandi Glanville, Cibrian’s ex-wife) – and so, the whole thing is a misconception. But the good thing about the show is all of these misconceptions kind of just crumble.”
First: “Eddie and I are a gay man’s wet dream. I sing, you can look at him, and it’s perfect.” I think that statement just caused a lot of gay and straight people to vom a little bit. That’s always a bad sign too – when the gay community isn’t even interested in a cute guy with dimples anymore. I feel like gay men look at Eddie and think, “Sleazy hot mess. Trouble.”
As for LeAnn’s near-constant talking point that the VH1 show is really changing everybody’s misperceptions and how everything the tabloids say about her marriage is made of lies, blah, blah, blah… she’s an idiot. I was going to make some lengthy argument about it, but why put in the effort? You know she’s an idiot. I know she’s an idiot. Eddie knows she’s an idiot. Let’s all move on.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
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