It was more than a one hit wonder from this group. Let us call it a one album wonder. The lead singer has made a career even if everyone assumes his name is something else. He has gone from pop to other formats and everything in between. ALL of you know the group name. In his new adopted hometown our closeted singer is known as someone who is not very discreet about his same sex relationships but they really wish he would be because the conservative circles in which he travels like discretion.
Hootie and the blowfish
ReplyDeleteOmg Darius Rucker! Great guess...never thought he was straight.
DeleteNashville the adopted town
If this is Darius Rucker of Hootie: At the height of their popularity during that first album, a friend of mine's brother got invited on their tour bus with a bunch of their friends and had a great time partying and joking and singing and nothing nasty happened and my friend's brother said they were all a great bunch of down-to-earth guys.
ReplyDeleteDarius Rucker?
ReplyDeleteWow great one Mhb! Black and gay in country music, still a decent sized star though and more respected there than rock and pop fans gave to Hootie and the Blowfish
ReplyDeleteI loved Cracked Rear View!! Didn’t see that one!
ReplyDeleteWow good guess!
ReplyDeleteI had heard rumors about DR a long time ago. Had completely forgotten about it!
ReplyDeleteNashville rivals Hollywood for the closeted gay population.Which is completely understandable imo. A lot of their fan base is not very broad minded in that respect.
ReplyDeleteI went to college with these guys. They played our local bars for years before they went on Letterman and became the sort of BonJovi hometown heroes of sleepy southern college towns, with R.E.M. being perhaps the first for the SEC but they were much more edgy. Darius could pull any girl from our all-night bars, and did. But none of the relationships lasted very long. They do a lot of charity, and no one around here would give a rip. Nashville and his newfound audience, well, I can't speak for that.
ReplyDelete"I'm tangled up and blue
I only wanna be with you..."
I never, EVER, would have came up with Darius Rucker on my own.
ReplyDeleteBut yes. He'll always be "Hootie" to me. Well done, MHB.
All he's doing is loving them the best that he can.
ReplyDeleteThought this was Mark McGrath
ReplyDeleteUnknown agreed. I would have probably liked it if it wasn't so over exposed.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't have guessed Hootie. my first thought was "the calling" and Alex Band. But the "another name" clue didn't really fit.
Awww...Hootie....You coulda fooled me! Now Mark McGrath I could see but the clues don't fit.
ReplyDeleteHis Darius please live the real you.... if people embraced HATBF they sure as hell should you
ReplyDeleteGod that album made me wanna put hot pokers in my ears....
Gotta be Hootie!
ReplyDeleteDDonna Tarttty I know someone who had the very same experience with them. While some wanted nothing but illegalities, Hootie and Friends were a cool hang.
ReplyDeleteHootie like the peen? That's hot.
ReplyDelete+1 Unknown, I hated Cracked Rear View from day one. I especially loath Darius Rucker’s monotone style of singing.
ReplyDeleteSo this is what Hootie was blowing
ReplyDeleteDarius can sing. Beautiful voice.
ReplyDeleteDarius is married and has three kids.
ReplyDeleteRight @BMW. And to a white woman. I've seen their pictures in kneepads back in the day.Thought he was a clean cut guy so according to your typical MTO reader, he is gay.
DeleteI remember an interview where Darius said that there is no Hootie and that's not his name. XD
ReplyDeleteHarry Wayne Casey of KC and The Sunshine Band. Played the Republican National Convention Gala.
ReplyDeleteC'mon, how many dozens of closeted stars still work successfully in Nashville? That town protects their own.
ReplyDeleteHarry Styles! Lol
ReplyDelete@bmw, well Bradley Cooper is married with a kid too. That doesn't mean anything.
ReplyDeleteWho has Bradley Cooper married? Did he dump the yachting beard?
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