Get Out! GAY Magazine – Issue 300 – January 24, 2017

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BY EILEEN SHAPIRO CELEBRITY CORRESPONDENT Michael Musto “I Got Ur Back” I was stalking Facebook the other night and couldn’t help but notice a pair of familiar eyeglasses and a flamboyant bow tie, accompanying a rather funny post: “Oh, My Gay God!!! I’m now officially a recording artist, on Trax Records!!!” Written and produced by Tyler Stone on Trax Records, it’s a song that is hard to dismiss from one’s consciousness. Once again, I defied temptation and emailed Musto for an interview at 2 a.m., because the song said I could. I felt immediately compelled to listen to world-famous journalist Michael Musto’s brand-new single, “I Got Ur Back.” To my sonically particular, surprised palette, I was completely obsessed and in love with it, and couldn’t resist playing it again and again. The highly charged, upbeat, reggae-flavored, popinfused, soulful, worldly tune is quite identifiable to New York’s nightlife Messiah, and to those who know him, as it makes reference to deadlines, bicycles and late hours. It’s also possibly the first song ever to sing praise to Ubers. Photo by Erzen Krivca Michael, so beyond journalism you are now a movie star as well as a pop recording artist? I had a band in the ‘80s called The Must, and we did Motown cover songs, and I used to sing in revues called Downtown Dukes and Divas at the Limelight that Gabriel Rotello put on. It is in my background. Even before that, at Columbia College, I joined the glee club, because there was a free trip to Mexico. Somehow I got in. I just love the song! Isn’t it cute? Photo by Kenny Kenny Yes! It’s got a little bit of a reggae feeling to it. Now you’re a rock star, a movie star, a writer… Everything. I mean, it’s all intertwined, because it was on the “Vampire” movie that Screamin Rachael and I were singing “I Love the Nightlife.” It didn’t make it into the move, but Rachael said, “Oh, you have a good voice. I should do you as a recording artist on Trax Records.” So she hooked me up with Tyler Stone, and he wrote and produced the song based on an idea that I had.
I heard that you were the surprise star of that movie. I was a main star. It was pretty much my movie. That’s what I heard from Eric, the writer/director. I walked away with it. But, everybody was good. They were all very good. I channeled Frank N. Furter from “Rocky Horror.” That was my inspiration. So what do you hope will happen with your new smash single? I want that Grammy Award. Or at least an MTV VMA. I’ll take anything. How did the actual song come to be created? Tyler Stone asked what I would like to do a song about. One of my ideas was something like, “I’ve got your back,” about being there for somebody, sort of like Rihanna’s “Umbrella” song. He then took that idea, and he totally wrote it. He put a reggae flavor to it. It’s kind of reggae, pop, R&B, it’s everything mixed together. There was one line where he wrote something about a taxi, a bike and a train, and I added Uber into the ad-lib. This has to be the first pop song that has Uber in it. It’s really time that somebody took note of it. It’s a bizarre phenomenon. It’s very me, because in the song they talk about deadlines, my bicycle...it’s very personalized. At first I was thinking about doing something where I dished on New York nightlife, but that would be too cute and inside. It would only appeal to some people, whereas I wanted to make something broader in scope where it was just like a pop song that everybody could like. This recording had to take some time and effort going into the studio and all. I did a single in the ‘80s with Cindy Bullens, who transitioned, and he’s now Cidny, a Grammynominated artist. Back then she was Cindy, and she wrote a song called “Jimmy Give Me Your Love.” In the ‘80s she produced me and my band singing that song, and we did a video for it. It wasn’t released as a single; it was released as a video. This is really my first single. We were asked to sing “I Love the Nightlife” by the director of the “Vampire” movie. So we were together on the beach at Coney Island singing, and it sounded really good. When Rachael said I should do a recording on Trax Records, I told her to hook me up with Tyler Stone. I actually got Tyler Stone his contract for his band on Trax Records when Rachael was looking for artists. I ended up in Tyler’s Brooklyn apartment, which became the recording studio. I felt very comfortable with him, and I learned the song right there on the spot. I just sang bits of it, background and everything. Tyler loved it. He kept playing it. I put it on my playlist. It’s so infectious. It is, but I wish it were longer. You kind of have to keep playing it over and over. It should be longer. I’m sure we’ll have an extended play. Richard Johnson from “The Post” loved it. Visit getoutmag.com to read the full interview. Photo by Brian Christopher Cummings
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