Singer Mary Lambert performed Saturday
at the 129th annual HRC San Francisco Bay Area Gala, where
she told attendees that she was “overwhelmed” by the positive
response to Same Love, the hit gay marriage anthem she
collaborated on with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.
“So I got to go around the whole
country for like this last year just telling everyone how gay I was,”
Lambert told the crowd. “And instead of getting hate mail, I got
like, went double platinum. So, like, that's pretty cool. I've felt
just overwhelmed with society, I think, and finding that people are
sometimes, you know, not only met your expectations but rise above
that And the fact that the song took off and took this life of its
own. And to be a part of that and to have written that hook and
have, like, you know, people of all ages, of every kind of
demographic singing this song at the top of their lungs is like
crazy.”
Lambert went on to perform an acoustic
version of She Keeps Me Warm, which she has described as the
other side of Same Love. (The video is embedded on this page.
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