Electronic pop song "What I Want" sees MUNA claiming autonomy over what they want, including queer desire. DIY Mag described it as "an ode to the frustration felt when you’ve been a restricted version of yourself for far too long." - x
Silk Chiffon — Muna feat. Phoebe Bridgers // But I’m a Cheerleader (1999)
dir. Ally Pankiw // dir. Jamie Babbit
“it’s been about seven years now since muna started playing music together. we were three queers at a fratty university and we bonded over things like having t*rrented the gay cult film “but i’m a cheerleader” in the privacy of our childhood bedrooms. today we’re putting out a new song “silk chiffon” and a video for it where we got to inhabit the colorful, twisted, tender world of that movie and the characters in it. silk is an innocent love song. it’s not a love story where somebody dies or gets betrayed at the end. it’s a song to which you can skip through sprinklers or have your first kiss with someone new.” - Katie
If you think of things as a sine wave - we are capable of such hurt and awful fear and hopelessness as human beings, but as deep down as we can get, the inverse has to also always be true. It's like a mathematical balance - as much as we’re able to experience bad and ugliness and pain, we can experience that amount of joy.
JULIEN BAKER — “Hardline”
Say my own name in the mirror
And when nobody appears
Say it's not so cut and dry
Oh, it isn't black and white
What if it's all black, baby?
All the time
“I think of myself more as a producer than a musician. My favourite thing to do is write 15 versions of the same song and then fuck them up in the studio, because if I try to make the song into something interesting just on guitar, I get so wrapped up in it that I give up. I’ll be like, ‘Oh, whatever – that just sounds like this other thing’. (...) I’ll never let myself plagiarise or do something that sounds exactly like something else, so I guess I just trust in that process. And for that reason, I take longer than most people to make stuff, because I’ll write a song and then six months later, it’s super-different. The song Kyoto was a fucking ballad! I just like writing stuff and then fucking it up." - Phoebe Bridgers