I was performing at a bar for 15 people and my video hits 500,000 views

June 7, 2023 5:13 AM

Happy Pride Month! I can't say I was familiar with Hayley Kiyoko before the primroses were over mentioned her name, but apparently everyone else knows about her. If, like me, you need a primer, Hayley summarizes her career [15m] for them, with an accompanying article. If you want to get a bit deeper and less formal, Quitters Podcast spent over an hour talking to her about her career and her life and outlook. But the real news is, she just published her first book [Publishers Weekly]!

As a bonus, here's a fan-shot video of Hayley's Panorama Tour in Paris from a couple of months ago. [1h16m]

posted by hippybear (5 comments total)

Hayley Kiyoko, aka Lesbian Jesus! 🩷
posted by ellieBOA at 5:23 AM on June 7, 2023

loving these posts hippybear! you're helping me update my queer music catalogue, which has been pretty focused on the 90s/early 2000s for quite some time now
posted by cubby at 6:30 AM on June 7, 2023

I'm helping me update my own queer music catalogue. The AskMe community offered up a ton of suggestions and I'm learning along with everyone else for quite a few of these. If I were doing this on my own it would be mostly white women with guitars in coffeehouses.
posted by hippybear at 6:33 AM on June 7, 2023

I am ahead on this one day! The local LGBTQ film festival used her song Demons for their pre-show festival ad one year, and by the end of the weekend it was stuck in my head pretty good so I bought the EP.
posted by mersen at 6:54 AM on June 7, 2023

Labeled the “Lesbian Jesus” of Pop Music, Hayley Kiyoko Continues to Represent the LGBTQ+ Community Through Art [Shondaland]
posted by ellieBOA at 6:44 AM on June 13, 2023