These LGBTQ Artists Are Pioneers In The Music Industry

Perfume Genius Says What He Feels Through His Songs

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Mike Hadreas, also known as Perfume Genius, got personal on his first two albums with songs about abuse, violence, and suicide. His said of his third album In Shape, “There are a lot of songs about youth and young love, especially in relation to gayness; I wanted to make sacred the other side of that.”

His album Too Bright touched on themes such as gay panic and the feeling that gay people are simply tolerated by society. He speaks of things that others in the LGBTQ community feel and experience on a daily basis. Still, he’s said in interviews he’s still a bit insecure about fully expressing himself in public.

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