and I can't change. Even if I tried, Even if I wanted to... my love my love my love she keeps me warm.

The message of this song is undoubtedly great, and that it is having an impact is impressive. However, I find the song itself is merely good, and it is being overplayed to death on KEXP.

Marry me, both of you.

"You deserve to go to a church... to be under the counsel of a pastor... Everyone deserves that with another human being."

Ugh. Gays and straights should be able to get married by the state just the same, but no one "deserves" to be married in a church or by a pastor. Continuing to conflate religious marriage and civil marriage doesn't help the cause.

@4 So the fact that Ben extemporaneousness idolizes a wedding in a church, you feel the need to attack. Haters always trying to hate.

@5: governments force churches to marry gay couples?

Marriage equality and the status of sexual minorities aside, this track is weak, self-righteous garbage. The beat sounds like Vanessa Carlton with a loop pedal and the MC's delivery is beyond smug. Whoever doubted for a second that white affluent Seattlite hiphop heads didn't support same-sex marriage? Who among us was really hurting for another radio-friendly unit-mover with the title repeated in the chorus? Naturally, most hiphop out of Seattle tends to mimic this "too-serious-and-topical-for-funk-and-soul" sound and it's going to relegate the 206 style to KEXP and local shelves.

Is it really that incredible for a musician to make a statement for human rights? I thought that was pretty common....was Lady Gaga on the cover of the Stranger? Lol Glad M supports equal rights....but Freddy Mercury was actually gay and wrote about first hand experiences 40 years ago. Elton John, George Michael, Boy George....Kesha released a song in 2010 supoorting gay rights and Katy Perry made her hit "Firework" into a video in support of homosexuals. Taylor Swift tackles the issue of bullying in "Mean"....

Seems to me like the Stranger and Mack are jumping on a moving train that even Pres. Obama is already on....

Love the message....but attacking a rap industry hell bent on pussy, bitches, blunts, and guns?

Heck, even Mack writes "Jump niggas cause they thought I was a pawn" in the song "Kings".... Does that make him racist? A hypocrite? Hmmmm

@9: The line you reference in "Kings" is written by and recorded by Pearl Nelson, of Champagne Champagne. Both he and Thomas Gray appear on that track, along with Buffalo Madonna.

Don't make claims of racism or hypocrisy that are untrue.

"We having a Ho-Down, you hoe's down?" from the song "And We Danced" by Macklemore

Macklemore feels it is cool to trash women.

I don't feel any credibility here.

@11 That song is blatantly satirical. Do some research next time before you copy and paste lyrics from a song you clearly don't understand. Even if it weren't satirical that is weak evidence, a single line among hundreds of insightful stanzas that Macklemore has written.

Every one of the above comments is addressed by Macklemore himself (and/or Mizell) in the above interview. Read. Damnit. Read.

Sportsvideo - Same Love is directed, in large part, towards the hip hop community. Elton John, George Michael, Katy Perry, etc. do not fall into this genre. Comparing apples to oranges is meaningless.

Also...

"Seems to me like the Stranger and Mack are jumping on a moving train that even Pres. Obama is already on...."

Read the article. Or better yet, listen to the song. Macklemore didn't wake up one morning and decide it'd be profitable and trendy to support gay rights. Clearly, this is an issue that hits home for him. If this song helps open the minds (and hearts) of others, why aimlessly criticize?

Sportsvideo - Same Love is directed, in large part, towards the hip hop community. Elton John, George Michael, Katy Perry, etc. do not fall into this genre. Comparing apples to oranges is meaningless.

Also...

"Seems to me like the Stranger and Mack are jumping on a moving train that even Pres. Obama is already on...."

Read the article. Or better yet, listen to the song. Macklemore didn't wake up one morning and decide it'd be profitable and trendy to support gay rights. Clearly, this is an issue that hits home for him. If this song helps open the minds (and hearts) of others, why aimlessly criticize?