Don’t lie, you waited to belt out the female vocal hook every time. If you don’t know who Mary Lambert is, you better take a listen.
Everyone knows and loves the song "Same Love" by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.
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But few people realize the female vocalist on that track, lesbian singer-songwriter Mary Lambert, helped write it.
The second the song played through my computer speakers, I knew this was why I had never been able to kill myself through the years of my mental illness. I knew this is why I was still alive: This was the song that was so important, my God. I wanted to write a chorus that was poignant and honest; genuine. I really tried to not be gay at points in my life, but I was (and am) at a point where I refuse to apologize about my identity. I am not sorry about my gayness. I am not sorry I'm a Christian, either, though that's far less persecuted than my gayness, which is ironically, instigated by the Christian community. "Not crying on Sundays" was a huge lyric for me to write. I cried and cried in church for a year, believing that I was going to Hell, trying to reconcile "the demons". At some point, it became absurd.
This week she released a full version titled "She Keeps Me Warm."
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