Singer Hayley Kiyoko misses the mark in a meandering directorial debut packed with groan-inducing dialogue On 26 June 2015, the US supreme court finally declared gay marriage legal nationwide. Two days later, singer-songwriter and former Disney Channel alum Hayley Kiyoko effectively came out to the world with her debut single, Girls Like Girls. âGirls like girls like boys do, nothing new,â she sang with triumphant bluntness. Its accompanying music video, featuring a Sapphic teen romance, spread fast and wild across Tumblr, a website defined by its intensely nostalgic aesthetics, where style and identity formation merged for many queer teens. Today, the music video has 163m views on YouTube. Kiyoko, now engaged to former The Bachelor contestant Becca Tilley, has since been hailed the âlesbian Jesusâ by fans. Queer expressions in pop music, from King Princess to Chappell Roan to Reneé Rapp, have become far more common in the decade since the music video was released, but Kiyoko still seems to inspire one of the most dedicated, and specifically Sapphic, audience in queer pop music today. Unlike her more sardonic peers, Kiyoko carries forward the neoliberal optimism of the Oba
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Singer Hayley Kiyoko misses the mark in a meandering directorial debut packed with groan-inducing dialogue On 26 June 2015, the US supreme court finally declared gay marriage legal nationwide. Two days later, singer-songwriter and former…
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