2024-06-20
29 分钟With Billie Eilish’s Lunch in the charts and queer female artists winning big at this year’s Grammy awards, Chanté Joseph speaks to the queer music writers Charis McGowan and Sean B O’Neill about the trend for authentic and sexually explicit queer female pop music, and how we got here
This is the Guardian.
Queer female pop is having its moment.
2024 Grammys.
Queer women, drop the mic.
Billie Eilish won Song of the Year.
Boy Genius won three Grammys.
Isn't it so nice to see queer women winning?
I want to know how we got here and what it means to be a queer pop icon in 2024.
You're listening to Pop Culture with me, Shantae Joseph for the Gu.
Did you know that there is a genre called gay pop?
When I first signed with Columbia, I said, I want to start a new genre of music.
And they said, what do you mean?
And I said, well, it's called gay pop.
And they were like, what's that?
And I was like, it's like K pop, right?
But it's gay pop.
And it was started by Jojo siwa.
Yes, the 21 year old child star who shot to fame on Dance Moms, a reality TV show about kid dances.
But the part she says I'm late.
On, I'm not even laid on.