David Bowie mentioned this song in an interview and called it “brilliant.”

A closet big enough for the whole world to live in....

Song was WAAAAY ahead of its time; much like Living Colour: telling us the tales of the unheard and the unrecognized in such a hardcore and artistic matter 😘🤌

Living Colour never really got the notice they deserved.

I remember when this 'came out' LOL. It should have been a hit !

As for the discussion about who is and isn't "bi" and what it has to do with this song....well first of all this song was written by Vernon Reid (guitarist) and Will Calhoun (drummer), not Corey Glover (singer) and Doug Wimbish (bass player). Vernon Reid has said that the inspiration for this song was a girlfriend he dated who was bisexual and that that "led to some interesting situations". I can't remember if it was before or after Stain was released that Living Colour opened for Guns and Roses and took Axl Rose to task for his homophobic comments from the stage. This song, like most of the lyrics on Stain, deals with confusion as it goes back and forth between embracing and shunning bisexuality, denying it's legitimacy and then implying that everyone is bisexual. This is a realistic portrayal of what goes on in many people's minds.

Wow... why is it that I knew nothing of this song's existence until now? How many hard rock bands at the time were brave enough to tackle the subject of sexuality so blatantly? And an all black band, no less? My respect for these guys goes up even further. It seems that a lot of their songs touch on issues that very few artists of their genre wouldn't even consider touching. Oh, and why am I not surprised that there's an argument going on below me? I knew this song would be a troll magnet.

I was working in a auto factory when this song came out. I loved Living Colour. I bought every album. This is the catchiest song on the album. I kept singing it on the line while my father was down the line accidentally listening to GNR. I left in his portable tape player. He dug them.

"Stain" is a very underrated album,def a badass album a lot more heavier than their other albums but still got that killer LC sound

I'm a proud bisexual man 💓💜💙

This band was truly ahead of it's time.

I can attest that this is true about my husband. Everybody wanted him. I'm the one who got him. It was worth the effort.

This song was way ahead of it's time. When I first heard this song.. I thought there would no way the music industry would promote this song . Today this song would be no 1 in the Billboard Charts.

Living Colour were ahead of their time

This is the most important band in human history.

THE BAND,THE RECORD,THE TRACK,THE SOUND.ALL PERFECT.

Truly underrated band. In the late 80s early 90s they opened for the stones on the steel wheels tour. These guys are kick ass musicians. Great track! Glad to hear this subject is being brought out into the light Bi this group. Rock out....😜

Living Colour is the truth! Raw creativity and passionate songs about freedom and justice.

This band is the definition of diversity

Great tune!!! Doug's bass sounds so cool in this song!

These guys are awesome musicians

It's incredible that the conversation about commodification of sexuality still hasn't hit the mainstream even in 2024 when this song spells it out pretty plainly. Hell of a song, I'll definitely have this on repeat for weeks

im 23 and been bi for less than a year and i love it, i've never felt so comfortable in my own skin and my confidence has grown alot, its FUCKING GREAT :D

An ode to the bisexuality!!!!!!!!!!!!

@esteban0321 Never knew this song was out. The fact that they were Black males doing this song was even wilder to comprehend during this time frame. Hell, how many songs by males out today will even touch that topic unless it is strictly girl on girl. Wow!

i am Bi and I am coming out in 2012 i am glad to be Bi :D

Straight, and love this song. It was pushing the boundries.

This was a brave song, for the time, and for the type of music.

That guitar and bass go *_sooooo_* unbelievably hard I feel like they opened up a wormhole in space-time🤯

The very very sad truth is most people don't know this song because this song killed their career. Homophobia was still kinda accepted then. Progress had been made but we sure as fuck weren't where we are now. Nowadays people look back on this and rightfully praise them for it and give them credit for being way ahead of their time, but we just weren't there yet. In fact, most don't look back on this fondly, rather they just discover it because it got no airplay at the time - I saw this video once, and even that was on a Much Music show that aired at midnight and would just that once play a banned video and have a panel discuss it (thankfully, I recorded it since I'm a fan). Aside from that, I never ever saw or heard the song on any video or radio station. It was like no one would touch it. Especially in hard rock, at the time anything dude on dude was considered point and laugh funny at best, or disgusting at worst. (Chick on chick though, wow, so progressive... NO I'm just trying to find my keys...) There unfortunately was still that stigma attached to anything gay. Not proud to admit it but way back then as a high school teenager, I didn't hate gays at all but I certainly couldn't risk anyone thinking I liked dudes, THE HORROR, so I wasn't doing anything to make people aware of this song. Sadly, I'm sure there was a lot of that. The few of us that heard this song and enjoyed this song and had it in our playlist (for me that was a VHS cassette full of rock videos) enjoyed it to ourselves. While it never played on radio or tv and there was no internet yet to speak of. And sadly, Living Colour virtually disappeared. Thankfully, I've grown since then. And thankfully, so have a lot of people. Kudos Living Colour, for doing this at a time where most wouldn't have, and indeed didn't. It may seem like nothing today but it was a bold move back then.

Doug Wimbush = Legend

fucking amazing! Why weren't these guys "double amplified?" This sounds awesome!

I'm a bisexual guy and I like this song.

Wild that I had no idea this song existed until now.

I can't believe they came out with this song in the late '80's. It seems kind of brave for a major recording band to put something like this out.

I'm a heterosexual guy and I love this song.

Heard this song for the first time yesterday. Great stuff. That Bass!

thank you not only god but also jesus for this song

I had the album via CD. This song was way ahead of it's time. You play this song on the radio today. It will chart. Being a hit? I don't know.

30 years ahead of its time.

I like this video. Like "living color" to be this open. Realized that was about time (early 90s) that all the music videos turned into sexuality.

love this song forever 💖 😘 😉

@HOPPERFZR Gay=Being attracted only to the same sex. Bisexual = Being attracted to both sexes. Not the same. what's so confusing about that?

this is my anthem now

Wil’s bass playing in this song is epic 💁‍♀️

my music, my brothers.....music for free and nice people..i love you livin colours

I went to a high school dance with a girl who was a bit out of my league in terms of sexual experience. I put this song on a mixtape of songs to listen to while we were going place to place. At the end of the night this song came on and she started laughing and started rocking out. She then took advantage of me. It was a great night.

Flawless

I'm ashamed to admit I'm only now finding out about their catalog of outstanding music - like so many others, I forgot about them after "Cult Of Personality" wasn't on MTV any more... I'd like to think I've grown a bit since then. :\

Bi the way... I'm trouble!

About 30 years ahead of their time...

I WISH this is what be bi was like!

HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS SONG

respect an tolerance great song !!

The main riff of this song is really good

I first heard these guys in the eighties man. They rocked. Black or white wasn't an issue for me then. Still isn't. They still rock.

I don't care what anyone else says, I still love this band.

Soo ahead of it's time!!❤️‍🔥🤘

Some of these young 'uns really believe they invented the wheel. How many of us grew up multicultural, listening to dope bands like LC knowing all kinds of folks across so many cultures and subcultures and it was natural, not a trend to perform on social media. 😅 I still have my copy of "Stain" on cassette with the red case. Living Color and Fishbone were my sh*t back in the day along with Joi. ❤

This song makes me vibe sooo hard every time i hear it! 🤯

Man i wish the "Everybody loves you when you're bi" was true, because all i hear is "You are only faking", "It's just a phase", "You're just straight/gay", gimme a break and let me enjoy every gender

# 13 best song of all times... and I'm not House !

🇧🇷🇧🇷 Minha adolescência. Bom rever!

That bass tone... I remember seeing this on Much Music back in "the day". Pretty sure the CD is still at my parents place... I have to find it next time I'm there.

This song reached 49 in the first (year only) JJJ hottest 100. This was one of my favourite songs of the year.

This video is so 90s and this track is so good

Back in the 1990s they did an acoustic version of this song on a Dutch Radio show called 2 Meter Sessies. I taped it and listened to it a lot!!!

iam straight and i think this is timeless

3 :11 stankiest bass tone in rock history. Phwang!

I thought the lyrics were 'if you're buying" at first. A litte club tune. Free drinks are great.

Im not Bi , but I love this song and the Video :-)

Awesome band. Awesome album. Awesome song. I remember the album was banned in an Asian country specifically because of this song. The response from the band was that at it was personally significant to at least two of the band members. They didn't say which ones. Still, as someone who came out just before this album's release, I was so happy to find this on it. Thanks, guys! I agree with the people who say this band did not get the recognition it deserves. They ROCK!!!

The chorus is accurate 😎

I always thought the lyrics were meant to say "everybody wants you when you are close" XD

This album still kicks ass

@flufftastical I understand your point, but i think the message is not "bis sleep around for fun" but indeed "everybody love's you when you're bi". And everybody can. Not everybody but a lot of people. What you do with that love is up to you or any person who's bi, for that matter. Or anyone else.

Pedazo de Bandaza!

Oberyn Martel's theme song...

When I heard that the band who did the song "Cult of Personality" did a song called "Bi," this... was not what I expected.

This bassline is so filthy 🤘

I never knew there wasa video for this song.

i'm going to cover this song and make it new wave/synth punk

this song is so fucking goofy and just slightly... off in the way it approaches its subject matter, it is brazen and completely absurd in how it talks about sexuality, in short, damn near perfect, easily one of the best things the nineties produced.

I haven't come out and I want my mom to listen to this song

Living colour é d+ pow , quen disse q negro num gosta de rock , quando eu ouço o som deles eu me encho de orgulho de ser negro

I really like Stain, and this is my favorite song on it. It's sad that they re-recorded the solos for several songs on the CD - the originals from my cassette are better. E v e r y s i n g l e t i m e I hear this song on my CD, and the others with different solos, the newer solo grates on my ears. I'm glad the video exists so I can hear it properly. With a little research, it seems I might have lucked onto a rare "alternate version" when I bought the cassette, but sadly I threw it away when the CD came out. Burned! What I think of as the "originals" on cassette are so much better. I know, I'm ranting, but I say again, e v e r y s i n g l e t i m e...

Korra, Asami Sato, Luz Noceda, Momo Yaoyorozu, Luna Loud, Sarah Lance, Kaldur'ahm, Enid, Princess Bubblegum, Ramona Flowers, Rosa Diaz, Harley Quinn, Glimmer, Byleth, Jack Harkness, Dio Brando, and Charlie Magne in a nutshell.

I just saw Vernon Ried out on Staten Island,NYC I think he lives there but he is like the coolest cat nice guy and takes time too shoot the shit with ya,I always tell that "Stain" rocks no matter how much bad reviews and sales it got shame really.Anyway loved this vid since the first time I heard it when it first came out the CD had that red plastic instead of the clear ones most have

There’s needs to be a Sara Lance and John Constantine scene off them both walking into a club together and just digging it with this playing in The Arrowverse

This what the Village People really wanted to say. In the Navy :)

... a closet for the whole world to live in:-)

My theme song. 💜

no need to wait, you can do it right now

The official anthem of Korra, Asami Sato, Luna Loud, Akko Kagari, Katsuki Bakugou, Kyouka Jirou, Rosa Diaz, Sarah Lance, Dennis Rodman, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Dio Brando

I'm bi and he ain't wrong...

(1994) 💜💜💜💜😉😉😊😊😘

be high convince them to bi

04. Bi --------------------------------------------------- [Music by Living Colour Lyrics by Calhoun, Reid] ----------------------------------------------- Ouw! Ouw! People If they choose you Then they want you to decide But you'd rather relax Kick back Enjoy the ride There's A catagory If you're straight or gay You're a wild card gambler If you like it both ways Everybody wants you When you're bi Looking at the girls And Eyeing all the guys Everybody loves you When you're bi But the tension And the passion's Double amplified Ouw My lover told me Well That she's bi I Wanted to scream There were tears in my eyes She said Baby Baby Don't you cry 'Cause the one I am with You've been seeing On the side Whoa Everybody wants you When you're bi Eating with the girls And Laughing with the guys Everybody loves you When you're bi But the tension And the passion's Double amplified [Just a little bit of greatness from the Universal 3rd of 6 String Vernon Reid] Everybody Wants you When you're bi Feeling all the girls (Mmm) And Touching all the guys Well Everybody loves you When you're bi Well a friend Of a friend Of a friend Told me Everybody's messed up With their sexuality Well a friend of A friend of A friend told Me I need a closet Big enough to Live in A closet for The whole world To live in I want a closet Big enough to Live in A closet for the whole World to live in Everybody wants you When you're bi Loving all the girls And Loving all the guys Everybody needs you When you're bi But the tension And the passion's Double amplified Everybody wants you (That's right) Everybody needs you (Um-hum) Everybody likes you (I'll bet) Everybody loves you Ho Everybody Yeah Everybody Everybody Come on now Everybody (Not me) Everybody Whoo Everybody Yeah Everybody Come on now Everybody Well Everybody loves You Bi-iiiiii Licking all the girls Bi-iiii Licking all the guys Everybody's Phucked up With their sexuality You like it Both ways Like it Both ways Bi-iiiiii (¿Who's dat! I'm gonna do dat! Hold dee door!?)

Living Colour - Bi Ouw! Ouw! People If they choose you Then they want you to decide But you'd rather relax Kick back Enjoy the ride There's A catagory If you're straight or gay You're a wild card gambler If you like it both ways Everybody wants you When you're bi Looking at the girls And Eyeing all the guys Everybody loves you When you're bi But the tension And the passion's Double amplified Ouw My lover told me Well That she's bi I Wanted to scream There were tears in my eyes She said Baby Baby Don't you cry 'Cause the one I am with You've been seeing On the side Whoa Everybody wants you When you're bi Eating with the girls And Laughing with the guys Everybody loves you When you're bi But the tension And the passion's Double amplified [Just a little bit of greatness from the Universal 3rd of 6 String Vernon Reid] Everybody Wants you When you're bi Feeling all the girls (Mmm) And Touching all the guys Well Everybody loves you When you're bi Well a friend Of a friend Of a friend Told me Everybody's messed up With their sexuality Well a friend of A friend of A friend told Me I need a closet Big enough to Live in A closet for The whole world To live in I want a closet Big enough to Live in A closet for the whole World to live in Everybody wants you When you're bi Loving all the girls And Loving all the guys Everybody needs you When you're bi But the tension And the passion's Double amplified Everybody wants you (That's right) Everybody needs you (Um-hum) Everybody likes you (I'll bet) Everybody loves you Ho Everybody Yeah Everybody Everybody Come on now Everybody (Not me) Everybody Whoo Everybody Yeah Everybody Come on now Everybody Well Everybody loves You Bi-iiiiii Licking all the girls Bi-iiii Licking all the guys Everybody's Phucked up With their sexuality You like it Both ways Like it Both ways Bi-iiiiii (¿Who's dat! I'm gonna do dat! Hold dee door!?)

I wish they would blast music like this everywhere instead of the annoying Reggaeton