Jul 31, 2026 · 13 min · 11 segments
Damin Tyler began his new era in June by releasing breezy new summer song about gay love called "Real Man." The song presents a wholesome, wistful experience of young love that makes no effort to…
Um, so anyway, I wanted to talk today about a, uh, I don't think this is the first single really, but it's the first single in a long time by a young singer-songwriter from here in New York named Damon Tyler, and the song is called Real Man.
It came out last month.
It was a Pride Month release, and, uh, it's a, a gay little song about gay love.
[laughs] Should we listen to a little bit of it?
It sounded like I was doing slurs, and I didn't mean it to sound that way.
[laughs]
[laughs]
Um, yeah.
No slur.
N- that w-
[laughs]
Positivity only.
I was just being supportive.
[laughs]
All right.
Uh, so here's a little bit of Real Man.
[gentle music]
All I want is him tonight.
Even if it's just this time.
This is the perfect song to play i- from the passenger seat of a car of your crush, and you're, you're a young adult, maybe a teen, and then you look at them.
You play it.
You're, you're like, "Oh, I really wanted to play this song," and then you look at them, and, and then you hope that they, they look back, but they-
They just understand implicitly.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Um, so anyway, I wanted to talk today about a, uh, I don't think this is the first single really, but it's the first single in a long time by a young singer-songwriter from here in New York named Damon Tyler, and the song is called Real Man.
It came out last month.
It was a Pride Month release, and, uh, it's a, a gay little song about gay love.
[laughs] Should we listen to a little bit of it?
It sounded like I was doing slurs, and I didn't mean it to sound that way.
[laughs]
[laughs]
Um, yeah.
No slur.
N- that w-
[laughs]
Positivity only.
I was just being supportive.
[laughs]
All right.
Uh, so here's a little bit of Real Man.
[gentle music]
All I want is him tonight.
Even if it's just this time.
This is the perfect song to play i- from the passenger seat of a car of your crush, and you're, you're a young adult, maybe a teen, and then you look at them.
You play it.
You're, you're like, "Oh, I really wanted to play this song," and then you look at them, and, and then you hope that they, they look back, but they-
They just understand implicitly.
Exactly.
Yeah.
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