Are we not ready just yet?

A young Brittish soul singer Sam Smith recently won 4 Grammy Awards with his album  "In Lonely Hour" that came out last year.

>by the way he is a year younger than me and wins 4 Grammys...hmmm, what have I achieved in my life so far? ....just saying<

Anyway, during his speech he thanked the man who broke his heart and inspired the songs on his album.

He thanked a man, not a woman.

Those songs are about a heart broken man, who is being cheated on and still missing the other person.

To be honest, they are quite easy to relate to. 

At some point of our lives, we were and possibly will be brokenhearted and Smith has a pretty accurate way of putting it into a song.

I personally really like them.

But that´s not the point. 

Let´s focus on a different issue.

The point is that the song is written and sang by a man who is trying to fall out of love with another man. 

Yet, in none of those music video do we get to see a same-sex relationship.

There is always a heterosexual couple dealing with the issues the singer sings about and possibly went through.

Now...why is that?

Why is it that we don´t see a homosexual couple?

Did the marketing people did a research on what do people prefer to see in the clips so that it would make the most money?

Is the music industry standardising the images confirm to the stereotyped gender roles?

Is it because a homosexual relationships in music clips are a tabboo?

Or is it because as a society we are just not ready yet to see a music video of a same-sex couple?

We have actors openly stating their homosexuality such as Jodie Foster, Ian McKellen or Ellen Page.

Singers like Elton John, Mika and Sam Smith.

Award-winning films about homosexual relationship like "Blue is the warmest colour".

Why then, do we see heterosexual couples in Sam Smith´s songs?

Is it just me, or does it really not make sense?