hmmmm…
I guess you can't really fit B52s into a specific category, and obviously this little selection from his Ipod can't be seen as representing his musical influences. I have to disagree with the approach the AV interviewer takes in trying to read into the fact that he has a 5th Dimension song on his Ipod as being…

Pretty gay
I don't feel embarassed to say
His choice of tunes is pretty gay
And I don't mean gay in a derogatory way
Gay is gay is gay is gay

Man under the Stairs
If all he had ever done in his career was the "man underneath the stairs" and his ingenious rendition of "Rocket Man" on Letterman (albeit the cringe factor of the latter is massive), he could have died knowing that his life hadn't been for naught.