Four Queer Musicians Who Rock Their Identities

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  1. boys will be girls by awfultune. Awfultune's real name is Layla Eden. She is a trans woman and this song is about her struggle discovering her gender. She starts the song with how she thinks like a woman but sounds like a man, and how she has always been like that. She then thinks back to when she used to look in the mirror and realized that she was trans so she wrote all her songs to work through her feelings but never got to sing them. She talks about how if someone is trans they should not even think about belonging to this world but then says "you belong in this world" to remind the listeners that their identities are valid and that they do belong no matter how much others tell them otherwise.
  1. Boys Will Be Bugs by Cavetown. Cavetown's real name is Robin Skinner and he is a trans man, and this song is about him realizing he does not fit in with masculine stereotypes. The masculine standard is incredibly toxic, and he recognizes he just wants to be a gentle boy. He repeats ideals from toxic masculinity throughout the song, such as boys should not feel or express their emotions or cry, or that boys should be physically rough, punching walls and playing karate, and then says that that isn't him because he just wants to play with bugs because they understand him.
  1. girls by girl in red. Girl in red's name is actually Marie and she is a queer singer, who seeks to be the gay musician to others that she never had as a kid. This particular song is about how pretty she finds girls and the conflicts that arise from her queerness. She says she has been hiding her feelings about girls for so long because she is afraid of how people will react so she pushes everyone away instead. The chorus is her saying how "they're" so pretty and that she's talking about girls not boys, and the song goes into her saying that she should not be feeling this way and she should just be into a guy, but he is not her type and that will not change because her queer feelings are not a phase. She says it is not like she gets to choose who she loves.
  1. Samantha by chloe moriondo. Chloe moriondo is a queer singer who started posting YouTube videos of her singing in 2016 and grew as a relatively famous queer singer since then. Samantha is a song where she declares her love for her friend Samantha. She says she has been friends with Samantha since the fifth grade and Samantha continues to have a large effect on what she does, like that Samantha was the reason she dyed her hair blue. She says the song is cliche but that she thinks about Samantha all the time and she cannot find the words to describe her. I love this song because it's just about pure queer love without being tainted by anxiety or oppression; it is just how she feels about Samantha, and I think that is really beautiful.


Where to find the lyrics:

https://genius.com/Awfultune-boys-will-be-girls-lyrics

https://genius.com/Cavetown-boys-will-be-bugs-lyrics

https://genius.com/Chloe-moriondo-samantha-lyrics

https://genius.com/Girl-in-red-girls-lyrics

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