Setelah One Direction memutuskan untuk bubar, masing-masing personelnya memilih jalannya sendiri untuk mempertahankan eksistensinya di dunia hiburan. Ada yang main film, ada yang berkolaborasi dengan musisi lain, dan ada pula yang rutin merilis single.
Salah satu mantan personel One Direction yang produktif merilis single adalah Liam Payne. Belum lama ini, ia merilis single Both Ways. Bukannya mendapat apresiasi positif, lagu ini malah menuai banyak kecaman dari warganet, terutama dari para aktivis LGBT. Memangnya ada apa sih?
Liam Payne Berbicara Tentang Biseksual di Lirik Lagunya
Dalam lagu barunya, Liam Payne menceritakan tentang hubungan biseksual. Lirik ini menuai banyak komentar negatif karena warganet menganggap Payne salah kaprah tentang konsep biseksual. Dalam lirik lagunya, Payne menuliskan “Never too many hands all on your body” dan lirik ini banyak dikritik.
Sebab, dari penggambaran Payne, biseksual merupakan hubungan seksual dengan pasangan lebih dari satu orang (terlihat dari lirik yang memiliki arti ‘jangan pernah terlalu banyak tangan di tubuhmu’). Hal ini dibantah oleh salah seorang warganet yang menuliskan kalau biseksual nggak identik dengan threesome.
Sebelum lirik lagu ini rilis, Liam Payne memang sudah mendapat banyak kecaman dari warganet karena dianggap sebagai homofobia. Hal ini disimpulkan dari pernyataan Payne yang enggan mempertemukan anaknya dengan Harry Styles setelah Harry Styles tampil ke publik dengan pakaiannya yang sangat berbeda dari saat masih bergabung dengan One Direction.
“Aku tak ingin anakku diasuh oleh seseorang yang pakaiannya saja aku tak mengerti apa maksudnya,” ungkap Payne.
Meski tak menyebutkan nama, tapi warganet berasumsi kalau ia sedang menyindir Harry Styles mengingat beberapa bulan terakhir Harry Styles tampil dengan gaya berpakaian yang berbeda.
Sebenarnya bagaimana lirik lagu Both Ways tersebut? Simak yuk!
Both Ways
My girl, she like it both ways
She like the way it all taste
Couple more, we'll call it foreplay
No, no, I don't discriminate
Bring it back to my place
Yeah, she like it both ways
Girl I can feel it, oh yeah, I can feel what you want, yeah
Like that you're different, yeah, do what you want
I won't judge, I won't judge
Lovin' the way that she's turning you on
Switching the lanes like a Bugatti Sport
Nothing but luck that she got me involved, yeah
Flipping that body, go head, I go tails
Sharing that body like it's our last meal
One and a two and a three, that's for real
She said we're young and we're stupid
She said, "Come on, boy let's do this"
Make every day my birthday
Let's celebrate, like oh my gosh
She do things you won't believe
My girl, she like it both ways
She like the way it all taste
Couple more, we'll call it foreplay
No, no, I don't discriminate
Bring it back to my place
Yeah, she like it both ways (Both ways)
Both ways, both ways (Both ways)
Four in the morning
Yeah, who else you wanna invite?
Never too many hands all on your body
And mine, you're all mine
Lovin' the way that she's turning you on
Switching the lanes like a Bugatti Sport
Nothing but luck that she got me involved, yeah
Flipping that body, go head, I go tails
Sharing that body like it's our last meal
One and a two and a three, that's for real
She said we're young (We're young) and we're stupid
She said, "Come on, watch me while we do this"
Make every day my birthday
Let's celebrate, like oh my gosh
She do things you won't believe
My girl, she like it both ways (Both ways)
She like the way it all taste (The way it all taste)
Couple more, we'll call it foreplay
No, no, I don't discriminate
Bring it back to my place
Yeah, she like it both ways (Both ways)
Both ways, both ways (Both ways)
Make every day my birthday
Let's celebrate, like oh my gosh
She do things you won't believe
My girl, she like it both ways (Both ways)
She like the way it all taste (She like the way it all taste)
Couple more, we'll call it foreplay
No, no, I don't discriminate
Bring it back to my place
Yeah, she like it both ways (Both ways)
Both ways, both ways
(Said bring it back to my place, yeah, she like it both ways)
(Both ways)
Both ways, both ways
(I said bring it back to my place, yeah, she like it both ways)
Both ways, both ways