Hindsight is 20/20. In retrospect, certain things should have been obvious, like how moving to California would be a mistake, the "twist" in The Sixth Sense, or George Michael's sexuality. It's quite obvious now that he's gay as a lark but according to his interview with The Advocate in January of 1999, he didn't consider himself gay gay until he was 27, well after his Wham! days. As I listened to a Wham! CD the other day I wondered... should it have been obvious back then that he was Greek in the true sense of the word? Were there lyrical clues that we could've picked up on, thereby bringing innocent pre-teen fantasies of marriage and wild sex to an untimely end?

It seems so.

The dances with dudes starts at 19.
Dear Mummy, Dear Daddy,
Now I'm nineteen as you see,
I'm handsome, tall, and strong.
So what the hell gives you the right to look at me,
As if to say "Hell, what went wrong?"

George didn't come out to his parents until immediately after his first boyfriend, Brazilian designer Anselmo Feleppa, died from AIDS in 1993. However, it seems they already suspected as much since George, one of the world's biggest sex symbols, hadn't had a girlfriend for years.

Identity crisis.
When I look in your eyes,
My meter starts to rise
and I become confused.

Said George, "I would choose men that were completely unavailable or who were similarly confused sexually." Love is confusing enough without the added complication of trying to figure out which gender you're meant to love. But I think that if his meter was rising, that would be a fairly good indication.

Thandie says: I " " get it.
I may not have a job,
But I have a good time,
With the boys that I meet "down on the line"

Anti-straight sentiment.
See me, single and free
No tears, no fears, what I want to be.
One, two, take a look at you
Death by matrimony!

Message to a man.
I was happy with the kisses she gave me
It is just that happy was all she made me
Happy that was until I saw you

He came dangerously close to outing himself with this one.
Like a prisoner who has his own key
But I can't escape until you love me
I just go from day to day
Knowing all about the other boys

Crazy to love a woman? Only if you're gay.
You're getting what you want
Girl, it ain't just me
No matter how you cry
I'm not giving any love away
Do you think I'm crazy

He was done pretending and dancing in that way.
Though it's easy to pretend
I know you're not a fool

So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you

Like the fact that you're a gay man?
I never have the guts to let you look inside
I don't think you'd appreciate the things that I hide

Only in 14 states.
Wanna take you, wanna make you
But they tell me it's a crime!

Okay, I think this is enough proof.
I spend my nights down on the wharf
In unlit alleyways

Clearly, these are the lyrics of a homosexual man. I don't know how we were so oblivious. I guess at 13, we're just too naive. Or masters of denial.