Results for: love is a lie
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Playlist: That Love Was a Lie
We’re kicking off today’s festivities with a super neutral, super chill playlist of breakup songs. Is love a lie?? I mean, you tell us.
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Playlist: This Love Is Not A Lie, But It’s Complicated
I believe that love is real, but I’m definitely not looking at it through big, gay rose-colored glasses!
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Fletcher’s Music Video for ‘Pretending’ Has Big Sapphic Crush Feelings — and Girls Kissing
The music video for “Pretending” has been released and it has the Fletcher signatures: girls kissing and lots and lots of gay yearning.
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JoJo Siwa’s ‘Karma’ Music Video Recap: Lesbian Lothario Lost at Sea
JoJo Siwa is going on a deep sea adventure with Karma, who is a bitch, in her very lesbian music video full of sea life and rhinestone-centric eye makeuP!
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Three Songs for Three Heartbreaks
I was in love, then I wasn’t. One night, after a big fight. I got on my bike to make the short trek home and a song came to me.
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Sorry Straights, These Karaoke Songs Belong to the Lesbians
Look, who else is holding on to relationships for too long in the way that we queers are? Who else “got somebody here but I want you” the way we do?
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“Age of Pleasure” Has a Track For Each Summer Sexy Mood
It feels like fingertips brushing down a jaw or a back; pure seduction.
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Kehlani’s New Album “Blue Water Road” Is a Sensual Exploration of Self
Sensuality is the overarching theme of the album, even in songs that are not explicitly about romantic entanglements. You can find it in bass lines, or just the overall vibe.
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MUNA Songs Ranked by Their Song-of-the-Summer Potential
MUNA knows how to make a song of the season, and I’m here to encourage you to find your song of the summer from their new album.
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23 of the Best Songs by Queer Artists in 2022
Some of these are technically not lead singles from the albums they came from, but songs that I felt were just as good as those that got more shine.
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10 of the Best Queer Albums of 2023
I keep thinking about this wild abundance of art from people who have such little time to think about making art and who have to put a lot on the line to do this work in the first place. I’m not sure we’re deserving of what they’ve given, but I’m grateful we get to receive it.
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Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” Is an Unapologetic Dedication to Blackness and Queerness
I’ve grown to see sampling, when done well, as a love language, a way to remain connected to our history and communicate with the musical innovators who shaped, and continue to breathe life into, our culture.
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Playlist: Let’s Have a Middle School Dance Party
I asked queer adults to choose songs with the most middle school dance vibes, and the results smell like Axe bodyspray and taste like gum. Plus, read the real, true story of me kind of rudely rejecting a boy before my own 8th grade dance!
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Playlist: My Favorite Anti-Cop, Pro-Black Songs for the Revolution
These past few weeks I’ve been drawn to music that is anti-cop, anti-establishment, and/or pro-black. These songs span genre but mostly lie somewhere between punk and hip hop. They embody either my rage or my love for the unwavering strength, resilience, and spirit of black people.
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Dykes and Their Emotional Support Albums
I can’t help but wonder: What is each dyke stereotype of your past listening to during COVID lockdowns?
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Somebody Loves You Baby: When Patti LaBelle Taught Me Black Femme Desire
After the song’s gentle teasing passes, Patti exclaims, “it’s me,” the somebody who loves you. I think of the women I have loved, despite the ways we have hurt each other.
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Queer Your Ears: Ten of the Best Albums Released by Queer and Trans Artists in 2021
Mental health was a major theme this year lyrically, as were some of the topics that can never be approached too many times — being gay, being in love, breaking up, struggling with identity, struggling with adulthood, struggling with self-sabotage.
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Anishinaabe/Cree Artist Jayli Wolf on What Her New Single Says About the Sixties Scoop
Jayli Wolf talks about the video for her new single “Child of the Government” drawing from her family’s experiences of the Sixties Scoop, as well as how her bisexual identity impacts her relationships and career.
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MALLRAT Is for Millennials Who Miss Emo & Their New Album Is the Balm We All Need
Emo is less of a genre than it is a state of mind. For MALLRAT, a queer and emotional three-piece band, it’s also a spiritual release, a community-builder, and a comfort.
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Every Fiona Apple Song, Ranked by Existential Despair
“Every single verse of this is like getting clocked in the side of the head with a Yankee candle.”
(Now including new, fresh rankings from “Fetch the Bolt Cutters”!)