Pynk was a love letter to all things feminine, and in the stripped-back, hot and heavy funk of Make Me Feel, and its accompanying video, Janelle acknowledged there was more than one way to get off, thank you very much. Lil Nas X - Montero (Call Me By Your Name)ĭuring the campaign for her Dirty Computer album in 2018, Janelle was uncompromising in her discussion of sexuality and gender. The first song in which Pale Waves frontwoman Heather Baron-Gracie opened up about her sexuality, She's My Religion mixes obviously religious iconography with lyrics that are soul-bearing in their honesty about the light and dark shades that make up the intricacies of real relationships, whether they be straight or queer.
Baby Queen - Colours Of YouĮspecially written for Netflix's Heartstopper series (which itself contained a series of brilliantly queer-focused pop hits that experienced a massive uplift in the UK) Baby Queen's delicate ode to the relationship of characters Nick (Kit Connor) and Charlie (Joe Locke) will melt your heart, instead of stopping it. In our interview with Dove earlier this year, she spoke about the need to make authentic music as a queer artist - and how Boyfriend is inspired by queer-coded villains and femme fatales of Old Hollywood. One of the biggest breakout hits of the year, Dove Cameron's first-ever UK Top 10 single is a menacing, sinister tune indebted to the likes of Lana Del Rey, all about Dove telling her same-sex love interest that "I can be a better boyfriend than him." Imagine if Shania Twain's That Don't Impress Me Much and Lady Gaga's Born This Way met in a dark alleyway and decided to go clubbing and you're just scratching the surface of Rina's poptastic new single, This Hell.Ī turbo-charged banger, the song is, in Rina's own words, "dedicated to community and love in a time where the world seems hellish." If Hell is this fun, sign us up! Dove Cameron - Boyfriend But while those songs have a much-deserved place in our hearts, minds and dancefloors, we take a look at some other popular LGBTQ+ themed tracks from recent years. When you think of LGBTQ+ anthems, old-school bangers by glamorous pop divas might come to mind.
June is Pride Month – a global celebration of the LGBTQ+ community and its culture – a reminder not only of how far we've come and the distance we must still travel on the road to true equality.