I’m screaming about the blow up doll from my music video’s devastating cameo on tonight’s episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race. She really followed her dreams and it paid off.
Watch doll’s first starring role from last summer’s sex bop on the Kill Rock Stars YouTube channel below. 🖤
I released my 10th album this week and next year will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of the 1st one. Wild stuff.
I can’t ever tell if I am the hero or the villain of this story, so I usually land on: I am both. People are assholes and I’m one of them. Unlike most of you though, my entire humiliating human journey is on record. Every dark thought I had as a teenager is literally downloadable on iTunes, a quarter of a century later. It’s horrifying and liberating all at once, and has always felt this way to me. I made bedfellows with overexposure early on in my career because I had to as a result of my writing, not because I understood what that would actually mean 25 years down the road.
I’ve been writing songs about what’s happening in my life at any given time since I was a child, and began recording and releasing those songs professionally when I was 17 — still very much a child. Life was all the way off the rails for me back then, and so is everything I did and wrote during that time.
My discography exists in two parts: 1998-2008 sounds like drugs and violence because everything around me was drugs and violence. 2009-now sounds like a person putting things back together after all the drugs and violence. I do my best to stay compassionate with myself about the lot of it, and I am ultimately glad it all exists — but it’s so incredibly hard to look at, in parts. I was a very sad, unwell person for many years, and that comes through loud and clear in all of those tracks from before.
My songs have never been about answers, and they still aren’t. Even now, as a happy, well person, I am all questions and nothing else. It has been this way for as long as I can remember. These albums are just a reflecting pool; kinda hard to make out, quite like the years.
Some of you have been with me this whole time, others have joined at points along the way, and many of you are just getting here now. However you found me and my songs, and however long you have been around, I hope you all know how much it means to me that you are here.
And for anyone about to dig into my back catalog: Apologies in advance. It was the 90s and I was freebasing cocaine.
Super excited to be part of this year’s #OUT100 Livestream event, happening next Thursday (11/18) at 8pm ET on Out.com/Out100Live and Out Magazine’s Facebook and Twitter accounts!
OMG EastSiders was just nominated for 8 DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS, including Digital Drama Series, Writing, Supporting Actor, Guest Performer, Costume Design, Makeup and Casting!
I’m so proud that I got to be part of this amazing show this season. Thank you all for watching and downloading the songs from the soundtrack — And if you haven’t already, go stream season 4 on Netflix right now!!! 🏆
Thanks to everyone who tuned in for today’s Elliott Smith: Heaven Adores You livestream. It was great to celebrate this man’s life and music with you all.
For the dreams come true category: After my GRAMMYs looks made their way onto a couple of best dressed lists, I booked a Gucci editorial spread for a magazine that I can’t talk about yet, but the shoot is in 3 weeks and they sent me a TON of stuff today!
I’m so excited I am literally screaming in the living room as I open each box. Thank you for your vision, Alessandro Michele! This is wild. 😍