Absolutely wild that any of these songs and ideas made it past the gates at the time and, looking back, delivering an art record to Caroline / EMI Records when I was signed to make fuckboy party music was a big flex.
Didn’t work. And I’d do it all over again the exact same way.
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Def one of my favorite babies, and represented me taking back my career and life from the major label deal that was ruining both at the time. Always grateful for where this one took me.
I was still on cable TV every week when that record came out and I had been for over half a decade at that point. It was super weird because I had all of these huge opportunities but was struggling just to live each day and also survive the insanely unpleasant experience of having no privacy in early addiction recovery. It sucked. And that ultimately had a lot to do with me blowing the thing up. It was not my most graceful moment, but I would save myself again a thousand times over.
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“Growing up queer for me had its ups and downs. I felt very different from other kids my age. I didn’t share any of the same interests as other boys my age. I preferred dance over sports, I preferred reading about Greek mythology over comic books. ‘Death Becomes Her’ was my favorite movie from age 7 on, so when I realized I was gay I felt even more alienated. At school, I would get picked on by a lot of the other kids. Through elementary school I was picked on for not being good at ‘boy stuff.’ In Middle School, I really embraced my feminine androgynous side in my fashion sense and self expression, and in High School I refused to hide who I was. I was slammed into lockers, called ‘faggot’, threatened, and ridiculed almost every time I spoke in class. But I had one thing that can really make a difference in a queer kid’s life: A supportive family.” – Jinkx Monsoon
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JINKX MONSOON x LOGAN LYNN for Q-Blog (2012)
(Photo by Jose A. Guzman Colon // Note: Q-Blog is no longer around but you can still read our whole chat HERE)
