AE: Wow, you’re going to start a dyke riot when they find out where you are!AE: It’s going to be pandemonium! AFTERELLEN.COM IS A PROPERTY OF LESBIAN NATION, LLC. But we also have to like loosen our assholes and understand that there’s a lot of different people to include under one label. In a way where I knew it was something bigger than myself.AE: That’s awesome! You’re grappling with the thought that maybe your gender itself wasn’t right.
It totally gives me hope because it was so effortless, they didn’t even need to have language for this because it was based on feelings.Platonic Review: A Webseries Celebrating Messy Millennial LivesUnpacking Everything Going On with the Ellen DeGeneres ControversiesThe Last of Us Part II: Lesbian Love and Complex Ethical QuestionsAfterEllen Podcast: Sapphic Cinema with Netflix, Hulu and Prime Video That’s a common experience in lesbian culture.KP: The language back then was if you weren’t traditionally feminine people would call you *a man*. I will never forget that titty bounce Instagram you posted a couple weeks ago. I’ve seen you in other interviews describe yourself as gay but I don’t think I’ve ever heard you use the word lesbian and I was wondering if you could talk about that.KP: What a great question. After that, the pace increased by almost a million streams a day.The aftermath of that breakout became the inspiration for her first full-length record, At the time she wrote "1950," during a stint in college, Straus had been fielding meetings with record labels for almost half her life, but that didn't mean she was necessarily ready for the spotlight. Not new territory for mainstream pop, but King Princess’ heady lesbian lyrics, casually circling the … King Princess Comes To Terms With Her Rapid Success On 'Cheap Queen' Mikaela Straus had a breakout hit last year as King Princess. Not necessarily. here she is.....King Princess - 1950 Straus was inspired by those contradictions — love, its presence or absence, its ability to be expressed or not — after reading "I was so compelled by the story," Straus says. I think that everyone and everything is going to get better though.AE: I asked AE readers to contribute some questions today and the one that I thought was the funniest was one of the first things I got and that is, what inspires your bizarre social media presence?KP: What inspires my bizarre social media presence?
"I've noticed," she continues, "And what I'm so proud of about this record is that, when I listen back, I feel like my gender queerness is just woven into the tapestry of the music. What happened is that people listened — the first week after its release, "1950" reached a million streams. Vince M. Aung/Courtesy of the artist Are you going to be in the parade?KP: You bet that when I’m done performing, I’m going to be throwing down among the people. And I also think there’s a long history in lesbian culture of women who don’t feel comfortable in our bodies, as you were saying, the idea of the ‘right’ body or the idea of not fitting into the mold of what a woman ‘should’ be. It's not about my gender queerness, it just is. KP: I will say, of all histories, of all media I connect most to lesbian media. It's sad, but there is a moment of empowerment within it where I realize and recognize that regardless of how I'm going to be treated in public with you by men, I'm not going to act that way towards you. Here, she talks to BAZAAR.com about becoming a rising queer icon and what her music means to her. KP: It’s also just about money too. Here, the singer, songwriter and producer talks to PORTER about life in lockdown, finding her own style and why she is a passionate advocate for the transgender and Black Lives Matter movements. Lesbian is a word a lot of people don’t want to touch.
I love easy gay shit as much as I love serious gay shit and I love that, I love different types of femininity and masculinity displayed. "It popped into my head that 'playing 1950' could be a metaphor for unrequited love. What does Pride mean to you? "I wrote ['1950'] with the idea of unrequited love and how queer people, even when you're allowed to be romantic with people in public — even when there's not an imminent safety threat — there's still this repercussive trauma from our history that bleeds into how we treat each other in public spaces," she says.ICYMI!!! It was so all-encompassing. King Princess: I grew up in New York, and it’s such an entity in the city I grew up in. And if you identify as gay it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a bad lesbian.AE: I hear what you’re saying. ""If you think I'm going to act like those boys," she sings on the track, "I'd never. It's ironic that the song that put her in this bind addresses the same fears. I'm bored of that."
"People are trying to understand [queer music] as though it's a subgenre within the music community, like people are setting out to make queer art. © 2020 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.AfterEllen: So you’re performing at San Diego Pride. "It was cool because I could be like 'I'm going to record a f****** crazy guitar solo' and he'd be like 'Yeah, here's the right amp for that,' " she says.That describes both the person and the music she makes.When Straus says she was "asked to be public," a lot of the misgivings she had in the midst of her accelerating fame stemmed from concerns of the privacy of her romantic life. "Straus wrote 40 songs over the last year, cataloguing her experience navigating the music industry as well as "a catastrophic break-up," although originally many of the tracks were love notes rather than anthems for heartache. My band and I are going to get to be able to enjoy Pride after. "It was really important to me to write about what happened," Mikaela Straus, the musician known as Straus' debut single, "1950," dropped in February 2018 with little-to-no promotion from her label. Singer/songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist King Princess performed at Royale on Friday, January 25th.
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