Do you have any memories of hearing “Fancy” at a gay bar yourself? Is that what you’re referring to?įor your gay fans, hearing “Fancy” at a gay bar after midnight was sort of just another day. There was a whole drag explosion because of the song. But it just increased a lot by the time “Fancy” got out, and then the clothes changed and all that kind of stuff. I don’t have any reason to think that I had a big gay following before that, but I think I did. If I wasn’t sure, I was “definitely” sure after I released “Fancy,” yes. But with “Fancy,” is that when you knew you were a gay icon? It’s been 30 years since “Fancy” was released, and by the time it was released in 1990, you already had a fairly devoted LGBTQ following. So you went there expecting to be noticed as Reba. It was fun just to pop in and kind of make a little surprise appearance and then leave. They were rippin’ the plastic off the record cover and I was signin’ some. No! Ha! We just popped in to visit the record department and sign a few albums. When you go to Walmart like you did to show your Twitter followers the “Rumor Has It” vinyl – well, first of all, do you always go out to Walmart looking like yourself? Of course it was the last setup of the day because she had worked two hours on all this hair and then, of course, we had it underneath that little scarf and the hat.
She did my clothes, my hair, and it was her idea to do the rip-off inspired by the Barbra Streisand photoshop album cover. I don’t remember much about the photoshoot except (that) it was Sandi Spika who did my clothes and my hair back in the, oh, late ’80s and ’90s, and then all the way up until I went to do “Annie Get Your Gun” in 2001. What do you remember about the photoshoot and that whole look for the “Rumor Has It” cover?