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February 18, 2019 10:56 PM   Subscribe

Sir Babygirl - Haunted House, Sir Babygirl - Everyone is a Bad Friend
Sir Babygirl, born Kelsie Hogue, has an evil plan. It starts with memes: Her Instagram [insta] is a mood board of early 2000s nostalgia and bisexuality – a grinning Yzma from The Emperor’s New Groove joking about period blood, Reese Witherspoon from Legally Blonde reading a textbook labeled “Flirting W/ Girls: 101.” “I was like, I’m going to get a following that way, and then it will cross over to my music,” she says. “I’m very calculated.” MTV
“I wanted my name to be the resume, the cover letter,” Kelsie Hogue says of her creative alias Sir Babygirl, and it certainly does that, conveying the playful pop vitality and subversion of gender that Hogue’s music, and identity, embody.

Throughout her debut Crush On Me there’s an immediately tangible theatricality and high-octane charisma. “Sir Babygirl is just like a blown up, exaggerated version of certain aspects of me,” Hogue expresses. “I think of Sir Babygirl as like a gay clown”, a caricature that aptly sums up the innate fusion of astute humour and melodrama within her music. “Clowns are incredible because they’re so, so broken and sad and are constantly working through that to find resilience and that’s a huge thing for me,” she muses, “using humour as a form of healing and resilience as opposed to deprecation.” Bristol In Stereo
The production on Crush On Me is dinky and claustrophobic, but it’s full of sharp melodic turns. The whole thing sounds synthetic, even the washes of guitar that occasionally poke through the mix. Hogue sings with fire and immediacy and no polish at all. It’s a vision of DIY music that can only exist when we can all do things on our laptops that would’ve cost thousands in studios a decade or two ago. Once upon a time, people had to choose between making raw and weird and immediate music on guitars with friends, or making slick and expensive and catchy music on synthesizers in studios. But that’s over now, and there’s nothing to stop someone like Hogue from bending pop music into her own image. Stereogum
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posted by cult_url_bias (5 comments total) 9 users marked this as a favorite
 
Lyrics are a bit too goopy for me, but that's me these days. The production and instrumentation is some wonderful pop sugar, though. I'll bite.
posted by Going To Maine at 11:15 PM on February 18, 2019


I learned about her on Bandcamp Daily and immediately preordered the record. I've been listening to it a lot lately, and i love it!

And not just that, all of my favorite records in 2019 - thus far - were made by LGBT artists, as the new Girlpool [Stereogum] [Bandcamp] and Black Dresses album [Bandcamp] are also extremely my thing.

Musically speaking, it's been a good year so far.
posted by bigendian at 2:47 AM on February 19, 2019 [3 favorites]


That video and this artist (and a few other recent astists popping up) are everything teenage me had wished existed and I'm so happy they're here now - even if I had to wait till I was thirty!
posted by wellifyouinsist at 3:03 PM on February 19, 2019


That was...delightful!
posted by lhauser at 7:29 PM on February 19, 2019


That was fun. I placed a hold on the album at the library.
posted by Margalo Epps at 10:13 PM on February 19, 2019


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