Let's be honest: I can't really come up with a good excuse for why we're posting this video of the world's first all-bear synth-disco "boy" band. But we promise you won't be able to look away.
BearForce1 To Take Charts By Big Gay Storm
4:20 PM on Thu Aug 16 2007
By Choire
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i'll tell you WTF... each other, thats what.
woof?
I can't tell if this a new "Sweatin' to the Oldies" or a Mentos commercial.
First, Perez posted it, then you, is Out.com on vaca?
"Look! It's those four New York Jets fans pretending to be a gay boy-band! They did it on a dare! Someone owes 'em a cold keg of Pabst Blue Ribbon!"
Was fifth member Richard Karn sick on the day of the shoot or something?
Bears are so hot right now!
Kind of old for the appellation "boy."
Dear God please don't ever put me in prison in the Phillipines.
A train wreck, car crash, and natural disaster all rolled into one. I can't stop watching!
Which one's Giuliani?
Props to them for putting "Respectable" in there -- I'm all about the S/A/W classics.
momo!
you are so god damn talented.
@guitarsnob: So glad I wasn't the only one to think that.
I hope that in future videos they take on personalities (à la Village People): the Grizzly Bear, the Polar Bear, the Panda ... and the Care Bear? (Would love, er, hate (?) to see that outfit!
I think you meant to say "to TOP Charts"
O teehee!
Wait - isn't that Andrew Sullivan's church choir?
One of those guys was definitely not a bear.
@leMaldeTete:
You just know they'll hit BOTTOM soon.
ugh.
Wow. My eyes just melted and fell out of my skull.
That said, I'm sure these guys aren't "bear" enough for some bears. They're too "skinny."
@gaycurmudgeon: of course. it's summer.
@foldedleaf: See above.
I'ts just another recruitment ad for the Air Force.
OK Go + Tom Collichio x Vince Clarke = Bear Force One!!!
Who needs them when you've got Les Savy Fav and LCD Soundsystem.
@foldedleaf: They are not bear enough for chasers either.
@gonzosmom: "YVAN EHT NIOOOOOOOOOJ"
So worth it for the Teddy Bear at the end! But why not four teddy bears in matching colored wife beaters? I guess the shot their budget wad on all those "water features".
PS: Colbert should put those guys on the Threatdown!
Is that Jann Wenner in the pink shirt?
clever name. why aren't they wearing pilot hats?
You know if they were for real, we'd have seen that bearpaw tattoo stickin' out someplace...
some of the bears i know are complaining that they're not 'bearish' enough. and that they're 'too gay.'
that's the dumpster for you--never satisfied
All I'm sayin' is that I can out-dance, out-sing and out-bear these guys with five of my hairy knuckles taped to my furry ass-cheek. Also, I know the entire treadmill sequence in the "Stand Back" video BY HEART. Where's my youtube video? [and don't try to tell me that my xtube video counts, b/c it doesn't!]
When they were wearing the different colored polo shirts, all I could think of was our treasured weekly Fire Island report.
As bizarre as that was, it was indeed difficult to look away.
I can't wait for the VH1 special.
Though, I did like them better in the 1960s (before Stonewall) when they had those big beehives and wore maribou and crepe-de-chine.
@gaycurmudgeon: you are SO right
Don't you lose bear cred when you wax?
I actually know these guys from Amsterdam. they aren't so much bears as leather girls, but that really doesn't work in a pun like band name. i used to tell them to call themselves ManBand. But honestly, i always thought they were joking about this. literally, this is like the 9th different configuration of guys. they have been working on this single since: 1999. and they totally take this completely seriously. its funny cause its sad!
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