I like my music to be a kind of utility, productive and helpful.

June 26, 2023 5:53 AM

Happy Pride Month! It was the song Same Love that launched Mary Lambert [Wikipedia] into the stratosphere. The spoken word poet pivoted her career toward music, landing Secrets on top of the US Dance charts. Her most recent album, 2021's Grief Creature [Bandcamp] took five years, as she explains to Front Row Live in an interview about the album [19m]. The Advocate talked to her shortly before the album's release.

Lambert's most recent project is the Netflix animated film Arlo The Alligator Boy [2m, trailer, made me cry], with an accompanying song Follow Me Home.

Even more recently, she spoke with Elizabeth Vargas about her life [46m, audio only] in a very open conversation about being queer, religion, alcohol, and all sorts of other things.

Thanks so much to snusmumrik for suggesting her!

posted by hippybear (2 comments total)

the song Same Love

Ten years later and that song still makes me cry
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 6:40 AM on June 26, 2023 [3 favorites]

She’s the best! Thank you hippybear for all these wonderful posts!
posted by ellieBOA at 9:10 AM on June 26, 2023