I’m thinking more about music this year. Defined as “a form of art that uses sound organized in time, music is also a form of entertainment that puts beats together in a way that people like, find interesting, and move to”.
Songs with sexual themes- spanning the subvert to overt, creepy to normative to queer delicious- are everywhere. I’m loving recent conversations in community about tunes that for multiple reasons we’re hearing differently. As we queer our ears, hearts, minds, and relationships, we choose new pleasure activism anthems and reject others. We unlearn/relearn social systems and the layers of oppression and lift up the liberatory power of art. I’ll list titles here mentioned throughout the month. Feel free to email me your thoughts, favorites, rhythmic nemeses.
Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Hello mid 80s risky creativity. I love knowing music like Relax shaped who I am today even if by osmosis.
Every Breath You Take by The Police
Why the holy hell is this a celebrated song? And have I never thought about the predatory WSCP overtones until last night as a group of us celebrated Roe v Wade all radical like and said WTF