One of the most compelling, honest, heartfelt, emotional interviews I've heard. I'm a 62 yr old gay return missionary who left the church right after my mission. Convert at 19, on mission a year later. Mega respect for Tyler. Great job!
These interviews always make me feel less alone in my experiences. Thank you for producing them and creating this community John! Thanks for being so candid and open Tyler!
Thank you for a really interesting interview. I can't wait to go on listening on the third part. John Dehlin you are doing such a great job - I love your interviewing technique, you are bringing up the toughest questions with such grace and respect. I am a big fan of yours and of the work you are doing.
Tyler seems like a great guy. I'm a senior who loves a lot of today's best pop music--Arcade Fire, Killers, Coldplay--and I've been a fan of Neon Trees since "Animal." I never guessed that Tyler is gay until "Songs I Can't Listen To," but it matters NOT. In fact, it makes him more appealing.
Thank you for sharing your journey! The crowed always responds to your authenticity. Prince was soft spoken off stage. If people read his lyrics he was not saying what it sound like. lol. I think he was playful that way. It helps to have a band around you that gets your reinvention process. He was real discerning about who he worked with. It's easy to forget what you want or are really about in church or any group setting.
Animal, Sleeping with a Friend, Everybody Talks, and 1983 are all good ones from Neon Trees and then the whole Tyler Glenn album Excommunication is really good.
girls and boys in school is one of my favorite songs from Neon Trees and thats a super sexual song. It actually has a feel that Tyler is going back to with his new album.
So. It was always quite apparent to me when Neon Trees had music videos that the lead singer was gay. I had been around enough gay people to just see it in the way he carried himself. The feminine vibe, the way he lip synced his songs, and his attire in the music videos. All this was just to say that Neon Trees was never a “gay” band to me. The band I listen to that would actually get that title would have been “Orgy”. Punk Statik Paranoia and Candyass are both really good albums.
Tyler's struggle with his sexuality is very interesting and touching, but the touring stuff is a massive snooze. BTW who the hell thought putting you on a tour with Offspring was a good idea?
1:53:33 💔💔💔 “I feel like I was told my whole life that everyone hates me because I’m gay, or hates my sexual orientation… but I realized, that the person who hated it most, was me. I hated myself. It was me that sabotaged it a lot. And, the beautiful life lesson is I think there are a lot of really good people out there that DO have LOVE. I think coming out is important because it continues to not only add to the conversation, that we are not these weirdos- we are just people- and you have friends and family that are also gay and struggling. The time is ‘now’ to stop that [struggle].”❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹
One of the most compelling, honest, heartfelt, emotional interviews I've heard. I'm a 62 yr old gay return missionary who left the church right after my mission. Convert at 19, on mission a year later. Mega respect for Tyler. Great job!
These interviews always make me feel less alone in my experiences. Thank you for producing them and creating this community John! Thanks for being so candid and open Tyler!
I love you Tyler Glenn. So real, true and raw. You're an amazing human!
As I listen to you I keep thinking about the chapters to my unwritten book about my experiences as a Mormon and out of the church.
Thank you for a really interesting interview. I can't wait to go on listening on the third part. John Dehlin you are doing such a great job - I love your interviewing technique, you are bringing up the toughest questions with such grace and respect. I am a big fan of yours and of the work you are doing.
Tyler seems like a great guy. I'm a senior who loves a lot of today's best pop music--Arcade Fire, Killers, Coldplay--and I've been a fan of Neon Trees since "Animal." I never guessed that Tyler is gay until "Songs I Can't Listen To," but it matters NOT. In fact, it makes him more appealing.
Neon trees is one of my fav bands
Thank you for sharing your journey! The crowed always responds to your authenticity. Prince was soft spoken off stage. If people read his lyrics he was not saying what it sound like. lol. I think he was playful that way. It helps to have a band around you that gets your reinvention process. He was real discerning about who he worked with. It's easy to forget what you want or are really about in church or any group setting.
Woo this is amazing!!!
Animal, Sleeping with a Friend, Everybody Talks, and 1983 are all good ones from Neon Trees and then the whole Tyler Glenn album Excommunication is really good.
girls and boys in school is one of my favorite songs from Neon Trees and thats a super sexual song. It actually has a feel that Tyler is going back to with his new album.
anyone know whatever happened to the other two guys in elaine's old band another statistic?
Luman Walters they’re still playing together! They go by Noble Bodies now
Great
The Offspring are big! I think of them as pop-punk, not as hardcore as a lot of punk
Tyler should have played the freedy mercury of queen in bohemian rhapsody
So. It was always quite apparent to me when Neon Trees had music videos that the lead singer was gay. I had been around enough gay people to just see it in the way he carried himself. The feminine vibe, the way he lip synced his songs, and his attire in the music videos.
All this was just to say that Neon Trees was never a “gay” band to me. The band I listen to that would actually get that title would have been “Orgy”. Punk Statik Paranoia and Candyass are both really good albums.
Jared Leto is secular Jesus. John I hope you know who he is now. Haha. Just kidding.
Tyler's struggle with his sexuality is very interesting and touching, but the touring stuff is a massive snooze. BTW who the hell thought putting you on a tour with Offspring was a good idea?
This whole interview has been absolutely fascinating.
1:53:33 💔💔💔 “I feel like I was told my whole life that everyone hates me because I’m gay, or hates my sexual orientation… but I realized, that the person who hated it most, was me. I hated myself. It was me that sabotaged it a lot. And, the beautiful life lesson is I think there are a lot of really good people out there that DO have LOVE. I think coming out is important because it continues to not only add to the conversation, that we are not these weirdos- we are just people- and you have friends and family that are also gay and struggling. The time is ‘now’ to stop that [struggle].”❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹